Hello everyone and welcome to CommanderCast Episode 285! 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 going over a few spoilers for the upcoming set, Hour of Devastation! Then after that we move into a discussion on Cycling. You see some old mechanics of Magic have a tendency to show up in newer sets. This leads to certain ones building up enough cards to eventually make a Commander deck with that was a few cards short. Plus Mark really just wants to build this deck and where else better to discuss it than here. 

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CommanderCast Episode 285

Posted: June 5, 2017

Intros:

Adam

Mark

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Community:

• Leaks in general
  • How do we feel about this?

• Spoilers
  • Nicol Bolas, God Pharaoh
  • Samut, the Tested
  • Bontu’s Last Reckoning

Strategy:  

• History of Cycling
  • Introduced in Urza’s Saga, all were for (2)
  • Onslaught added other costs and had additional effects and cards that triggered off of cycling
  • Scourge added land cycling
  • Came back in Time Spiral
  • Future Sight added non-mana cycling and type-cycling
  • Alara block had “mega-cycling” and basic landcycling

Complimentary Cycling mechanics:

“Whenever you draw a card” triggers:

• Chasm Skulker
• Hoofprints of the Stag
• Lorescale Coatl
• Niv Mizzet, the Firemind
• Psychosis Crawler

“Discard a card” triggers:

• Confessor
• Pitchstone Wall
• Spirit Cairn
• Telekinetic Bonds
• Wharf Infiltrator

Semi-looting (discard/draw) effects:

• Disciple of Deceit
• Key to the City

“…shuffles his or her graveyard into his or her library”:

• Cranial Archive
• Day’s Undoing
• Elixir of Immortality
• Gaea’s Blessing
• Krosan Reclamation
• Learn from the Past
• Loaming Shaman
• Memory’s Journey
• Mnemonic Nexus
• Primal Command
• Put Away
• Reminisce
• Repopulate
• Time Reversal
• Time Spiral
  • Oh yeah, and Eldrazi Titans seem good in this respect…

Threshold:

• Battlefield Scrounger
• Cabal Ritual
• Centaur Chieftain
• Cephalid Sage
• Chlorophant
• Cleansing Meditation
• Crashing Centaur
• Far Wanderings
• Grizzly Fate
• Hunting Grounds
• Kirtar’s Wrath
• Krosan Beast
• Krosan Restorer
• Nut Collector
• Reborn Hero
• Stitch Together

Delirium:

• Angel of Deliverance
• Descend upon the Sinful
• Inexorable Blob
• Scour the Laboratory
• Soul Swallower
• To the Slaughter
• Traverse the Ulvenwald

Spell Mastery:

• Animist’s Awakening
• Dark Dabbling
• Dark Petition
• Gideon’s Phalanx
• Necromantic Summons
• Talent of the Telepath

Transmute:

• Clutch of the Undercity
• Dimir House Guard
• Muddle the Mixture
• Tolaria West

Technology:

Entourage: Cycling deck tech

• Commander
  • Ravos, Soultender and Thrasios, Triton Hero
• Win con
  • Drake haven
  • Faith of the devoted
  • Living death/Living end
• Facilitators
  • Curator of mysteries
  • Fluctuator
  • New perspectives
• Archfiend of Ifnir
• Astral Slide
• Horror of the Broken Lands &Stoic Champion
• Shadowstorm Vizier
• Shefet Monitor
• Ancient Excavation
• Krosan Tusker
• Dragon Wings
• Invigorating Boon
• Shadow of the Grave

Land talk

• All the cycling lands (even the colored mana cyclers?)

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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