Hello everyone and welcome to the real CommanderCast Episode 279! 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 and believe me when I say…. this is one of those sleeping dogs they should have let lie. So this week’s deck idea is spellslingers. That’s a deck that relies primarily on casting spells as a win condition over playing permanents. So… what’s the catch? Well they guys are doing it in white… Yeah…
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CommanderCast Episode 279
Posted: April 17, 2017
Intros:
Adam
Mark
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Community:
Strategy:
What is a spellslinging deck?
- A deck that relies primarily on casting spells as opposed to committing permanents to the field.
Why is white normally bad at spellslinging decks?
- No storm
- No real win cons
- No spell-centric commanders
How can “spells matter” work in white?
- Concentrate on reactive spells
- Concentrate permanents on ones that trigger off spells being cast
- Combat tricks
- Token spells
Commander
- Elesh norn, grand cenobite
- Heliod, god of the sun
- Linvala keeper of silence
- Celestial Kiran
- Oyobi, Who Split the Heavens
- Thalia, Heretic Cathar
- Eight-and-a-Half-Tails
Technology:
Win con
- Aetherflux reservoir
- Charge Across the Araba & Plow Through Reito
- Reverse the Sands
- Sphinx-bone wand
- Storm Herd
- Yosei, the Morning Star (maybe build this instead).
Spell triggers
Angel’s feather & Staff of the sun magus
Cost reduction
Prowess
Arcane
Probably don’t play Arcane spells, but…
Spells
Counters
Denial
- Abeyance
- Peace Talks
- Orim’s Chant / Silence
- Dawn Charm / Rebuff the Wicked
- Gilded Light
- Hallowed Moonlight
Combat Denial
- Moment of Silence
- Change of Heart
- Blaze of Glory / Valor Made Real
- Weird blocking effects that probably aren’t worth playing:
Damage Deflection
- Comeuppance / Divine deflection / Shining Shoal
- Hallow
- Blood of the Martyr
- Temper
- Harsh Justice
- Mirror Strike
- Turn the Tables
Tokens
- Join forces
- Benevolent offering
- Decree of justice
- Deploy to the front
- Entreat the angels
- Gideon’s phalanx
- Increasing devotion
- Spirit Bonds
- Secure the wastes
- Sram’s expertise
- White sun’s zenith
Removal (aside from the obvious ones)
- Crib swap
- Declaration in stone
- Descend upon the sinful
- Hour of reckoning
- Martial coup
- Phyrexian rebirth
- Swift reckoning
- Saltblast
- Soul Nova
- Soulscour
Outtro/Contacts:
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