CommanderCast Ep 182 – Born of the Gods Review
January 11, 2015
Hello everyone and welcome to Commandercast Episode 182! We’re your weekly source for Community, Strategy, and Technology, hosted on MTGcast.com and our homesite: Commandercast.com! After letting it Dangle out for the holiday season, we’re finally back with a live(ish) show! It’s that time of the year again!! time for another Set Review Show! This week William, Mark, and Clay are joined by Tom from MTGRadio to discuss the second set from the Theros block, Born of the Gods!
We go over the pros and cons of the set, cards from it we still see played a year after it’s release, and talk about Tiny Leader! (That last part got talked about so much a good chunk of it had to be cut for future dangly bit episodes)
All this and more await you with just the click of the Ib!!!
Commandercast Episode 182
Jan 8, 2015
Guests:
Tom – MTGRadio, Commander streamer
Favorite Commanders This Week:
Tom – Thromok the Insatiable
Mark – Barrin, Master Wizard
Inspiration: Aaron’s totally-better-than-mine Barrin, Master Wizard deck & his end of the year article on The General Zone.
Clay – Brimaz, King of Oreskos
William – Prime Speaker Zeganna
News:
Spoiler/Preview episode next week
Holidays
Ohayocon
Community: The Last of Mediocrity
Supposedly this set helped convince R&D figure out the two-set block paradigm. Was Born of the Gods as bad as it was billed?
Strategy: More Gods, Heroes, and Monsters
Ephara
Phenax
Mogis
Xenagos
Karametra
Brimaz (the Kitty Kat King, Mufasa, King of Oreos)
Tromokratis
Technology: Our favorite cards from Born of the Gods
#HOMEVERSION
William: Kiora, the Crashing Wave, Archetype of Imagination, Fated Retribution, Ghostblade Eidolon, Gild, Plea for Guidance, Spirit of the Labyrinth, Whelming Wave,
Mark: Perplexing Chimera, Satyr Wayfinder, God-Favored General, Vortex Elemental
Clay: Astral Cornucopia (the Porn Horn), Chromanticore, Herald of Torment, Searing Blood, Unravel the AEther, Charging Badger, Courser of Kruphix
Tom: Archetype of Courage,Champion of Stray Souls, Eidolon of Countless Battles
CALVIN’S MICRO-MINUTE
Outtro/Contacts:
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You’ve convinced me to give Mogis, and Ephara a chance as generals. Can Tom point me to a decklist for inspiration?
http://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/03-01-15-hxT-ephara-god-of-the-polis/
Here’s ephara.
I don’t have a solid mogis list
Many thanks, Cap’n.
As much as folks might complain about Ephara and Xenagos being creature bound, neither is as bad as the prime god Nylea. And frankly the effects of those two lesser gods have much more punch to them. Maybe if they hadn’t put all the interesting effects on Nylea’s bow….
I love Xenegos, Springleaf Drum, Satyr Wayfinder, Raised by Wolves, Kiora, Karametra, Herald of Torment, are cards i love from this set and William hurt my feelings because Fated Return which is like my favorite card from Born