CommanderCast Ep 298 – The Price of Boredom is Eternal Vigilance
October 23, 2017
Hello everyone and welcome to CommanderCast! We’re your weekly source for Community, Strategy, and Technology, hosted on MTGcast.com and our homesite: CommanderCast.com! This week Mark and Adam talk about one of MTG’s oldest evergreen effects, Vigilance! It’s time to stay at the ready! But First they have to go over one of the latest ways to play as they go over Explorers of Ixalan!
So if you’re down with that all you have to do is click the IB!!!
CommanderCast Episode 298
Posted: Oct. 23, 2017
Intros:
Adam
Mark
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Community:
Explorers of Ixalan
- WotC product announcement
- Video from the mothership: “Exploring Explorers of Ixalan”
Strategy:
Pseudo vigilance
- Alpha – Serra angel
Actual vigilance
- Champions of Kamigawa
- 9th edition – oracle update
702.20. Vigilance
- 702.20a Vigilance is a static ability that modifies the rules for the declare attackers step.
- 702.20b Attacking doesn’t cause creatures with vigilance to tap. (See rule 508, “Declare Attackers Step.”)
- 702.20c Multiple instances of vigilance on the same creature are redundant.
Things to do with Vigilance (nearly as exciting as doing your taxes).
- Convoke
- Activated abilities
- Block stuff. Yay.
Technology:
Vigilance tech. I almost fell asleep while writing this.
Giving your team vigilance:
- Akroma’s Memorial
- Always Watching
- Angelic field marshal
- Angelic Skirmisher
- Arcum’s Sleigh
- Collective effort
- Concerted Effort
- Gate Hound
- Johan (super-secret O.P. tech)
- Oathsworn Giant
- Odric, Lunarch Marshal
Pseudo-Vigilance effects
Stuff you can do when you don’t need to untap:
Stuff you can do with your untapped dudes & dudettes:
- Aboshan, Cephalid Emperor
- Weight of Conscience
- Burn at the Stake
- Crackleburr
- Cryptic Gateway
- Devout invocation
- Diversionary Tactics
- Earthcraft
- Gallows at willow hill
- Gaze of Justice
- Glare of subdual
- Grand Architect
- Hand of justice
- Mossbridge Troll
- Nullmage shepherd
- Tradewind Rider
- Sandsower
- Skirsdag High Priest
- Skyward Eye Prophets
- Symbiotic deployment
Tribal(ish) shenanigans:
- Aven Wind Guide
- Captain of the Watch
- Embodiment of Insight
- Faces of the Past
- Herald of Dromoka
- Mobilization
- Paragon of New Dawns
- Pheres-Band Warchief
- Sensor Splicer
- Synchronous Sliver
- Sight of the Scalelords
Dudes what got vigilance:
- Adarkar Valkyrie
- Akroma
- Angelic field marshal
- Angel of invention
- Angel of condemnation
- Archangel avacyn
- Bishop of rebirth
- Bull Ceradon
- Cataclysmic Gearhulk
- Circle of elders
- Elesh norn, grand cenobite
- Godsire
- Herald of the host
- Kalemne’s captain
- Konda, Lord of Eiganjo
- Luminate primordial
- Majestic myriarch
- Razia, boros archangel
- Ruric thar, the unbowed
- Scorned villager
- Sentinel of the eternal watch
- Skysnare spider
- Soul of theros
- Steward of valeron
- Sun titan
Also ran:
- Heliod, God of the Sun
- Serra Paladin
- Beacon Behemoth
- Cairn Wanderer
- Jaddi Lifestrider
- Majestic Myriarch
- Steppe Glider
- Maraxus of Keld
- Maze Sentinel
- Soulflayer
- Altar Golem
- Appeal // Authority
- Piety Charm
- Shared Discovery
- Betrothed of Fire
- Brave the Sands
- Dragon Scales
- Gleam of Authority
- Intangible Virtue
- Marshaling the Troops
- Nature’s Way
- Serra’s Blessing
- Triclopean Sight
- Harmony of Nature
- Hold the Gates
- Marshaling Cry
- Season of the Witch
- Stamina
- Breaking Wave
- Builder’s Blessing
- Castle
- Koskun Falls
- Ocular Halo
- Sword of the Paruns
- Total War
- Engineered Might
Outtro/Contacts:
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