Hello everyone and welcome to the real CommanderCast Episode 278! We’re your weekly source for Community, Strategy, and Technology, hosted on MTGcast.com and our homesite: CommanderCast.com! The guys are back this week. Mark and Adam go over Office Color Deck ideas. This week we heard your cries for artifacts. You wanted to see a Deck that used those lovely metal items, creatures, and bobbles. So what’sthe catch? Well they guys are doing it in black… Yeah…

And all you have to do is click the IB!!!

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CommanderCast Episode 278

Posted: April 10, 2017

Intros:

Adam

Mark

Check out our YouTube channel and Rachel’s “Alpha Project.”

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Community:

More Amonkhet Spoilers! (definitely not brief)

Gods, Cartouches, and Cats, oh my!

Plus: Why aren’t there more Sphinxes in the Egyptian set? Is Wither going to be a thing again?

Strategy:  

Why is black normally bad at artifact decks?

• Fewer artifact synergies
• Fewer artifact matters cards

How to avoid generic black good stuff (Put down the Exsanguinate!)

How can artifacts matter be in black?

• Tutors make combos easier to assemble

• Rely on the few synergies that exist

Strategies:

Combo (eggs)

Stax

Commander

Geth, lord of the vault

Sidisi, undead vizier

King Macar, the gold-cursed

(*See also: Rival’s Duel Ep: 78 – King Macar Edition & Commanderin’ Ep: 73)

Technology:

Generic artifact matters

Liquimetal coating

Mycosynth lattice

Station combo

(Module combo?)

Benefit from sacs

• Sac triggers
  • Disciple of the vault
  • Marionette master
  • Moriok rigger
  • Sly requisitioner
• Sac outlets
  • Extruder
  • Arcbound Ravager
  • Defiant salvager
  • Herald of anguish
  • Ironclad revolutionary
  • Metalwork colossus
  • Salvage titan
  • Syndicate trafficker
  • Yawgmoth demon

Discard

• • Urborg Syphon-Mage
  • Sadistic Hypnotist

Removal

• Battle at the bridge
• Gate to phyrexia
• Gild
• Irradiate
• Parasitic implant
• Tidy conclusion
• Underhanded designs
• Executioner’s Capsule
• Noxious gearhulk

Recursion

• Beacon of unrest
• Fortuitous find
• Moriok scavenger
• Scrounge
• Skeleton shard
• Resourceful return
• Whip of Erebos

Artifact matters

• Black coven vampires
• Dhund operative
• Fen hauler
• Flesh grafter
• Foundry screecher
• Glaze fiend
• Guardian beast
• Mephitic ooze
• Nim devourer
• Nim grotesque
• Nim lasher
• Nim shambler
• Nim shrieker
• Painsmith
• Phylactery lich
• Cranial plating
  • Lashwrithe
  • Nightmare Lash
• Salvage slasher
• Vermiculos
• Xenic poltergeist

Ramp

• Priest of yawgmoth
• Soldevi adnate
• Solemn simulacrum
• Mycosynth wellspring

Card draw

• Morbid curiosity
• Reprocess
• Mind stone
• Moriok Replica
• Hedron archive

King Macar

• station combo
• Icy and winter orb and paradox engine
• Puppet strings
• Springleaf drum
• Staff of domination
• Umbral mantle

Vehicles

• Aethersphere harvester
• Aradara express
• Ballista charger
• Bomat bazaar charger
• Consulate dreadnought
• Cultivators caravan
• Daredevil dragster
• Demolition stomper
• Fleetwheel cruiser
• Heart of kiran
• Irontread crusher
• Mobile garrison
• Ovalchase dragster
• Renegade freighter
• Sky skiff
• Sovereign, consul flagship
• Smugglers copter
• Untethered express

Outtro/Contacts:

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

Rachel – Email: wiehernandez(at)gmail(dot)com // twitter: (at)Blueram1409

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

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

Adam – (at)squire9999 // (at)thetrinisphere

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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!

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