Hello everyone and welcome to CommanderCast Episode 251! We’re your weekly source for Community, Strategy, and Technology, hosted on MTGcast.com and our homesite, CommanderCast.com! We’re recording this on June 23rd, 2016. This week William, Calvin, Clay, and Mark bring you the first Monthly Patron’s Choice! Three people who have donated $3 or more are having their chance to make us talk about three topics of their choice! Want to know what the topics are?!?! Well….
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CommanderCast Episode 251
Posted: June 23rd, 2016
Favorite Commanders:
William – Kaalia of the Vast (New Kaalia List!)
Calvin – Ashling the Pilgrim
Clay – Chandra, Fire of Kaladesh, Trostani, Selesnya’s Voice
Mark – Angus MacKenzie
Community: Is it okay to run Praetor’s Grasp, Extract or Grinning Totem and other cards that lobotomize cards?
Sadistic Sacrament, Bitter Ordeal, Cranial Extraction, Praetor’s Grasp, Jester’s Cap, Slaughter Games, Infinite Obliteration, Denying Wind, Extract, Hide//Seek, Supreme Inquisitor
Strategy: Three Ways to Build a Commander
Three (or more) ways to build decks around the same general. I would choose something competitive and popular, like say {ANIMAR}, and give suggestions on how to build him based on the five player archetypes: Timmy, Johnny, Spike, Vorthos and Melvin
Technology: Top Fogs
RED FOGS: Impulsive Maneuvers, Glacial Crevasses
BLUE FOGS” Energy Field, Statecraft, Well-Laid Plans
William: Kami of False Hope/Spore Frog, Moment’s Peace, Dawn Charm
Calvin: has got nothing this week. Don’t hate; it happens to all of us sometimes.
Clay: Arachnogenesis, Moon Mist, Constant Mists
Mark: Darkness, Gossamer Chains, Frontline Strategist
“Fogs” that are not Fogs: [/card]Flash Foliage[/card], Curtain of Light, Dazzling Beauty
Honorable Mention for worst card with the most badass Trapper Keeper art: Indestructible Aura http://magiccards.info/scans/en/lg/190.jpg
Outtro/Contacts:
Guests:
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William – Email: Wiehernandez(at)gmail(dot)com // twitter: (at)Blueram1409
Calvin – Email: captainredzone(at)gmail(dot)com // twitter: (at)CaptainRedZone
Clay – Email: EDHPanda(at)gmail(dot)com // twitter: (at)EDHPanda // Stream on Twitch: Pandalpaca (on twitter as (at)Pandalpaca)
Mark – Email: mahlerma(at)gmail(dot)com
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