Hello everyone and welcome to CommanderCast Episode 295! 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 to talk about Rakdos! One of the lesser played color combinations of Magic gets some much needed love. BUT First… some recent spoilers from the next set has our guys doing a double take because they are some what reminiscent of a certain cycle of cards.

So if you’re down with that all you have to do is click the IB!!!

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CommanderCast Episode 295

Posted: August 28, 2017

Intros:

Adam

Mark

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Community:

• New Ixalan spoilers
  • Bishop of Rebirth
  • Walk the Plank
  • Unclaimed Territory
  • Burning Sun’s Avatar

• Witnessing emerging format staples?? (from: EDHREC’s “Top Cards” list)
  • Sun Titan
  • Solemn Simulacrum
  • Chromatic Lantern
  • Cyclonic Rift
  • Vandalblast
  • Anguished Unmaking/Utter End/Beast Within
  • Phyrexian Metamorph

• New upcoming staples
  • Mirage Mirror
  • Aetherflux Reservoir
  • Da’ Gearhulks
  • Demon of dark schemes
  • Ramunap excavator
  • Winding constrictor
  • Disallow
  • Lifecrafter’s bestiary
  • Metallic mimic
  • Panharmonicon
  • Paradox engine
  • Throne of the god-pharaoh

Strategy:  

Rakdos

• Uncategorized (=shitty)
  • Axelrod Gunnarson
  • Lady Orca
  • Barktooth Warbeard
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  • Pavel Maliki
  • Boris Devilboon

• Group Slug
  • Kaervek the Merciless
  • Mogis, God of Slaughter
  • Vial Smasher the Fierce

• Tribal
  • Bladewing the Risen
  • Kolaghan, the Storm’s Fury
  • Neheb, the Worthy
  • Rohgahh of Kher Keep
  • Wort, Boggart Auntie

• Aggro
  • Exava, Rakdos Blood Witch
  • Dragonlord Kolaghan
  • Olivia, Mobilized for War
  • Rakdos, Lord of Riots

• Recursion
  • Grenzo, Dungeon Warden
  • Tymaret, the Murder King

• Control
  • Lyzolda, the Blood Witch
  • Malfegor
  • Olivia Voldaren
  • Rakdos the Defiler
  • Tor Wauki
  • Tsabo Tavoc
  • Daretti Iconoclast
  • The Scorpion God

Technology:

Favorite Rakdos Cards

• Adam Traas – Backlash, Burnt offering, Rakdos charm, Skull rend

• Mark – Kulrath Knight, Deathbringer Thoctar, Din of the Fireherd

Outtro/Contacts:

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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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