Hello everyone and welcome to CommanderCast Episode! This week is a black tie affair with Mark and Adam as the guys do a CommanderCast Award Show. With 26 different product releases this year, the guys are going from There Beyond Death to Commander Collection: Green and giving out Awards on all the things we got this year. What card won Most Over Hyped? Which tribe got the most love and support? In a year full of unexpected hardships, what was the Most Rage-Inducing Act from WotC? Which mechanic won Biggest Swing and A Miss? Find out today on part 1 of our Awards Show!

All that, plus our usual interstitial fodder, and all you have to do is Click the IB!!!

1st Annual CommanderCast Awards

Posted: December 21, 2020

Intros: 

Adam

Mark 

Keep up with the conversation on Facebook & Twitter.

Sets that came out this year:

1. Theros Beyond Death
2. Secret Lair Drop Series: Year of the Rat
3. Secret Lair Drop Series: Theros Stargazing
4. Unsanctioned
5. Secret Lair Drop Series: International Women’s Day
6. Secret Lair Drop Series: Thalia – Beyond the Helvault
7. Mystery Booster Retail Edition
8. Challenger Decks 2020
9. Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths
10. Commander 2020
11. Secret Lair Drop Series: The Godzilla Lands
12. Secret Lair Drop Series: Summer Superdrop
13. Secret Lair: Ultimate Edition
14. Signature Spellbook: Chandra
15. Core Set 2021
16. Jumpstart
17. Double Masters
18. Secret Lair Drop Series: Prime Slime
19. Secret Lair Drop Series: Every Dog Has Its Day
20. Zendikar Rising
21. Zendikar Rising Expeditions
22. Zendikar Rising Commander Decks
23. Secret Lair Drop Series: Extra Life 2020
24. Commander Legends
25. Secret Lair Drop Series: Secretversary
26. Commander Collection: Green

The Categories 

Best new trend from WotC

• Mystery booster reprints
• Charity Secret Lair drops
• Modular double-faced cards
• WINNER: *White can finally start drawing cards again*
• Return of the Partner mechanic 
• Bringing back mana burn (Yurlok)

Biggest swing-and-a-miss

• The Party mechanic in ZR
• Kaervek the Spiteful
• WINNER: *Companion mechanic*
• Mutate mechanic 
• Lutri, the Spellchaser

Most Raging-Inducing Act By WotC

• Commander is now a draft set
• WINNER: *You got some Walking Dead in my Magic*
• Godzilla cards
• Bajillion-dollar Fetch Land Secret Lairs

Most forgettable product

• Jumpstart 
• Secret Lair Drop Series: The Godzilla Lands
• Commander 2020
• Signature Spellbook: Chandra
• WINNER: *Unsanctioned*

Tribes that got most love this year

• Beasts
• Dogs & Cats
• Oozes
• WINNER: *Pirates*
• Sharks

Most Over-Hyped Card

• WINNER: *Jeweled Lotus*
• Chromatic Orrery
• Lithoform Engine
• Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy
• Opposition Agent

Most Underrated New Card

• WINNER: *Teferi’s Ageless Insight*
• Shiny Impetus
• Nyx Lotus
• Shadowspear
• Witch of the Moors

Interstitial fodder, part 1

• Alan Moore’s Saga of the Swamp Thing
• Adrenaline OD

Outtro/Contacts:

CommanderCast  – Email: commandercast(at)gmail(dot)com // twitter: (at)CommanderCast

Calvin – Email: captainredzone(at)gmail(dot)com  // twitter: (at)CaptainRedZone

Mark – Email: mahlerma(at)gmail(dot)com

Adam – (at)squire9999

Be sure to check out our CommanderCast Facebook page. 

And a big thanks to everyone here at the CommanderCast Network. We’ll see you next week with more community, strategy, and technology. Until then, LET’S GET IT!

*Musical transitions shamelessly borrowed from the following ‘60s TV shows:

• Thunderbirds
• Hawaii Five-O
• Batman
• The Green Hornet
• My Favorite Martian
• The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
• The Munsters
• The Addams Family