Hello everyone and welcome to CommanderCast Episode 299! 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 bad tribes. Two in fact, but first they want to talk about how people hear their Magic news. Then they discuss the best ways to round out a bad tribe with some key ideas. Then they go into discussing two tribes they feel needs some love. 

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

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CommanderCast Episode 299

Posted: Oct. 30, 2017

Intros:

Adam

Mark

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Community:

Where do you go to get your Magic news?

• YouTube
  • StarCityGames – Split Second
• Twitter
  • Blake Rasmussen
  • MaRo
  • “STATEMENT ON IXALAN DOUBLE-FACED CARDS CARD STOCK”
• Gathering Magic
• MTGSalvation

…And then we got off-topic.  Again.

Strategy:  

How to make a bad tribe work in EDH, starring: Centaurs & Cephalids

Add to creature pool by changing types

• Changelings
  • Chameleon Colossus
  • Shapesharer

• Shapeshifters/Clones
  • Metallic Mimic
  • Riptide Shapeshifter
  • Stunt Double

• Mistforms
  • Mistform Skyreaver
  • Mistform Warchief
• Other
  • Mirror of the Forebears

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    Close enough for a bad pun.

  • Mutavault
  • Riptide Replicator
  • Volrath’s Laboratory

Manipulate creature type

• Ameboid Changeling
• Arcane Adaptation
• Artificial Evolution
• Conspiracy
• Faces of the Past
• Standardize
• Trickery Charm
• Unnatural Selection
• Xenograft

Generic “creature type matters” goodstuff

• Adaptive Automaton
• Belbe’s Portal
• Brass Herald
• Coat of Arms
• Cryptic Gateway
• Call to the Kindred
• Door of Destinies
• Heirloom Blade
• Herald’s Horn
• Kindred Summons (as well as the other Kindred cards: boon, discovery, charge, dominance)
• Kinship mechanic
  • Sensation Gorger
  • Wolf-Skull Shaman
• Obelisk of Urd
• Pillar of Origins
• Riptide Chronologist
• Urza’s Incubator
• Crown of Ascension
• Wings of Velis Vel
• An-Zerrin Ruins
• Distant Melody
• Mana Echoes
• Peer Pressure
• Rivals’ Duel
• Roar of the Crowd
• Extinction
• Tsabo’s Decree
• Vanquisher’s Banner

Utility lands

• Cavern of Souls
• Path of Ancestry
• Unclaimed Territory

Technology:

Centaur

• Commanders
  • Karador, Ghost Chieftain
  • Seton, Krosan Protector
  • Stonebrow, Krosan Hero
• Centaurs
  • Burning-Tree Shaman
  • Call of the Conclave
  • Centaur Chieftain
  • Centaur Glade
  • Centaur Healer
  • Centaur Omenreader
  • Centaur Rootcaster
  • Centaur Vinecrasher
  • Courser of Kruphix
  • Courser’s Accord
  • Dowsing Shaman
  • Fated intervention
  • Ghor Clan Savage
  • Loaming Shaman
  • Nylea’s Disciple
  • Phantom Centaur
  • Pheres-Band Raiders
  • Pheres-band Tromper
  • Pheres-Band Warchief
  • Possessed Centaur
  • Returned Centaur
  • Scab-clan Charger
  • Spellbane Centaur
  • Stonehoof Chieftain
  • Vitu-Ghazi Guildmage

Cephalids

• Commanders
  • Aboshan, Cephalid Emperor
  • Llawan, Cephalid Empress
• Creatures
  • Callous Oppressor
  • Cephalid Broker
  • Cephalid Constable
  • Cephalid Illusionist
  • Cephalid Looter
  • Cephalid Retainer
  • Cephalid Sage
  • Cephalid Scout
  • Cephalid Vandal (possible self mill)

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!