Hello everyone and welcome to CommanderCast Episode 308! We’re your weekly source for Community, Strategy, and Technology, hosted on CommanderSociety.com and our homesite: CommanderCast.com! This week Mark and Adam are feeling the love and want to share it with you! So prepare yourself for the biggest hug you’ve ever had as we talk about Group Hug! Hope your body is ready because you’re about to get hugged so hard someone might just call CPS.

So spread those arms and click the IB!!!

CommanderCast Episode 308

Posted: February 12

Intros:

Adam

Mark

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Community

Why would you want to hug a group?  Aren’t you supposed to crush your enemies and see them driven before you?

Strategy

How to hug a group.

Group hug

Group hug commanders

• Kynaios and Tiro of Meletis
• Zedruu the Greathearted
• Karona, False God
• Selvala, Explorer Returned
• Braids, Conjurer Adept
• Edric, Spymaster of Trest
• Phelddagrif
• Questing Phelddagrif
• Ith, High Arcanist
• Nin, the Pain Artist
• Kami of the Crescent Moon
• Gahiji, Honored One

Technology:

Best mass-hugging tech, by category

• “Hunted” cycle
• “Monger” cycle
• “Oath” cycle
• “Offering” cycle from Commander 2014
• “Tempting Offer” cycle

Giving out resources:

Cards

• Dictate of Kruphix
• Font of Mythos
• Forced Fruition
• Heartwood Storyteller
• Howling Mine
• Jace Beleren
• Mikokoro, Center of the Sea
• Mind Aglow
• Prosperity
• Temple Bell
• Walking Archive
• Well of Knowledge

Mana

• Collective Voyage
• Dream Halls
• Benthic Explorers
• Blinkmoth Urn
• Chaos Moon
• Eladamri’s Vineyard
• Magus of the Vineyard
• Mana Cache
• Mana Flare
• Overabundance
• Shizuko, Caller of Autumn
• Spectral Searchlight
• The Great Aurora
• Wild Evocation
• Zhur-Taa Ancient
• Upwelling
• Veteran Explorer
• Ghirapur Orrery
• Heartbeat of Spring
• Rites of Flourishing

Dudes

• Alliance of Arms
• Tempting Wurm
• Show and Tell
• Gate to the AEther
• Saproling Cluster
• Endbringer’s Revel
• Aluren
• Kamahl’s Summons
• Liege of the Hollows
• Vernal Equinox
• Plague of Vermin
• Hunted Wumpus

Giving out life/mitigating damage:

• Maze of Ith

One-offs

• Tidal Influence
• Excavation
• Land’s Edge
• Infinite Hourglass
• Ice Cave
• Brawl
• Shoving Match
• Crescendo of War

Outtro/Contacts:

CommanderCast  – Email: commandercast(at)gmail(dot)com // twitter: (at)CommanderCast

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!