CommanderCast Ep 291 – I’d Tap That
July 24, 2017
Hello everyone and welcome to CommanderCast Episode 291! We’re your weekly source for Community, Strategy, and Technology, hosted on MTGcast.com and our homesite: CommanderCast.com! This week Mark and Adam think your cards are sexy. So sexy, in fact, they’re going to tap that. They’re going to tap it so hard your creature isn’t gonna be able to move until your next upkeep, baby! Basically, they’re going to be going over how to build and play a Stacks deck. I hope you got on some warm underwear to help keep your Winter Orbs safe or you might end up suffering from some blue… mana… I can’t do this anymore….
So if you’re down with that all you have to do is click the IB!!!
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CommanderCast Episode 291
Posted: July 24, 2017
Intros:
Adam
Mark
Shoutouts:
Snow Covered Lands and Commander Cookout podcasts on CommanderSociety.com
Keep up with the conversation on Facebook & Twitter.
Community:
- Commander 2017 news and speculation
“The Line”: What’s the line between playable and unplayable in EDH?
“Unplayable”
- Vanilla creatures (maybe French Vanilla)
- Strict upgrades (Dark Banishing to Murder one is obviously better)
- Creatures played mostly/only for efficiency’s sake (Tarmogoyfs, Wild Nacatls, Kird Apes)
- Most combat tricks (Giant Growth = sad face)
- Most life gain spells (Let’s be honest, people…)
Not worth the card slot = one-time use cards lead to card disadvantage over the long term.
Strategy:
Tappin’ Commanders and Tappin’ strats
Are we just playing stax? YEEAAAH we are.
Also: Vigilance is pretty good (the keyword, not the card. The card is total shit.)

Waaah… nobody loves me…
Technology:
What cards work best in a “tappin’ things down” deck?
- Make stuff enter tapped
- Tap things down
- Aether Shockwave
- Aetherstorm Roc
- Amber Prison
- Angel’s Trumpet
- Blinding Light
- Blustersquall
- Breaching Leviathan
- Citadel Siege
- Cryptic Command
- Dawnglare Invoker
- Deluge
- Elder Deep-Fiend
- Ensnare with Stasis
- Frost Titan
- Giant Oyster (super secret tech)
- Guardian of Tazeem
- Gulf Squid
- Icefall Regent
- Icy Manipulator
- Ivory Giant
- Kytheon’s Irregulars
- Mana Short / Piracy / Drain Power
- Mishra’s Helix
- Niblis of Frost
- Retreat to Coralhelm
- Sand Squid
- Sentinel of Eternal Watch
- Sleep
- Tangle Wire
- Thoughtweft Gambit
- Thundercloud Elemental
- Tidal Force
- Topplegeist
- Value from tapping
- No Untap
Outtro/Contacts:
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