Hello everyone and welcome to Commandercast Episode 196! We’re your weekly source for Community, Strategy, and Technology, hosted on MTGcast.com and our homesite: Commandercast.com! We’re recording this on April 23rd, 2015.

This week, to wrap up Red Month, William, Calvin, Mark, and Aaron talk about playing Aggro! the guys discuss the ideas of spreading damage vs focused damage, ways to get away with being the aggro player, and a few personal favorite cards we like to play when we plan to head into the red zone! Plus, we discuss a few underrated legends you may want to give a shot next time you’re building for assault!

All this and more await with the click of an IB

Commandercast Episode 197

April 23rd, 2015

Guests:

Favorite Commanders This Week:

Aaron –  Wort, the Raidmother

Calvin – Keranos, God of Storms

Mark – Eron the Relentless (Commander ’95!)

William – Atarka!!!!!!

News:

Community Ban Poll

RED MONTH

Mythic Clique

FNM Path to Exile – July

Community: The Damage Sharing Program

Aaron’s article proposes re-discussing “spreading the love”.  So let’s do that!

Strategy:  Playing around removal and threats

Just how far do you go to keep yourself from overextending or avoiding removal?

Technology:  You Never Saw Them Coming

We’ll discuss lesser known or less popular commander options for aggressive decks

(Food for thought: Sean Patchen’s “Life After Combo – A Commander’s View of Competitive Aggro” on Legit MTG)

William – Gahiji, Honored One

Calvin – Dong Zhou, the Tyrant, Lieutenant Kirtar

Mark – Sygg, River Cutthroat,

Aaron – Akuta, Born of Ash

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Outtro/Contacts:

William – Email: wiehernandez(at)gmail(dot)com // twitter: (at)blueram1409

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

Clay – Twitter: (at)edhpanda // Reddit: /u/EDHPanda // Cockatrice: Remillo

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

Aaron – Email: unclelanddrops(at)gmail(dot)com // Twitter: (at)UncleLanddrops

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