Hello everyone and welcome to the real CommanderCast Episode 281! We’re your weekly source for Community, Strategy, and Technology, hosted on MTGcast.com and our homesite: CommanderCast.com! This week Mark and Adam are over  the Off Color Deck ideas an moving on…. to just straight hating a color. I’m talking about straight hating a color  (looking at you island lovers out there ). But first the guys go over some recent news about the banned list.

All this and more and all you have to do is click the IB!!!

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CommanderCast Episode 281

Posted: May 1, 2017

Intros:

Adam

Mark

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

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Community:

Ban list update

• Protean hulk – unbanned
• Leovold, Emmisary of Trest – banned

Next week: What’s your favorite aspect of Magic’s history?

Worth listening: Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy, ep. 252: The History of Magic: The Gathering, where author Titus Chalk discusses his new book Generation Decks: The Unofficial History of Gaming Phenomenon Magic: The Gathering.

Strategy:  

What is color hate?

Should you play?

• Feels targeted
• Do you sideboard?
• Is there a lot of variance in opponents?
• You are weak to a limited color palette or strats

Our opinions on the applicability of color hate, should you play these cards.

If you play color hate, what kind should you play?

Three categories

• Direct pain or gain from colors
• Land type hate
• Protection from color

Choosing the best ones

• Best to play is not completely dead in hand otherwise
• Better if effects many players
• Better if you choose the color
• Better if able to change the text or type (i.e, Sleight of Mind or Distorting Lens)
• Better if against all colors except one (i.e., Inundate)

Color hate

• Abomination/phyrexian reaper
• Irini sengir
• King crab
• Lifebane zombie
• Eastern/western/northern/southern paladin or just play Pentarch Paladin
• Mindsparker
• Tropical storm
• Witchstalker
• Reign of terror
• Dystopia
• Nature’s ruin/perish
• Flooded woodlands
• Hibernation
• Heat wave
• Llawan, cephalid Empress
• Nature’s wrath
• Riptide
• Thelon’s curse
• Anarchy
• Crackdown
• Omen of fire
• flyamarid/metathran transport
• Sea kings’ blessing
• Heaven’s gate
• Dwarven song
• Breaching leviathan
• Inundate
• Essence filter
• Exile
• Ivory giant
• Mass calcify

Land type hate

• Conversion
• Flashfires
• [card]Stench of evil[/card]
• False dawn
• Hall of gemstones
• [card]Naked singularity[/card]
• Reality twist
• Acid rain
• Lifetap
• Tourach’s chant
• Withering gaze
• Angry mob
• Drought
• Karma
• Roots of life
• Stern judge
• Thelon’s chant
• Royal decree
• Baleful stare
• Glaciers
• Graceful Antelope & Cyclopean Tomb
• Lifeblood
• Sanctimony
• Boil
• Boiling seas
• Ruination
• Trailblazer’s Boots
• Carpet of flowers
• Choke
• Curse of marit lage
• Monsoon
• Scald
• Thoughtleech
• Tsunami
• typhoon

Technology:

Adam’s – spinal villain, jovial evil+Alliance of arms, volcanic eruption, Cinder cloud

Mark’s – All is Dust, Kormus Bell/Quicksilver Fountain, Deepwood Elder/Gaea’s Liege

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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