Hello everyone and welcome to CommanderCast Episode 311! This week, in celebration of Magic reaching 25 years of age, Mark and Adam are going over some of the cards they enjoy starting from Alpha reaching to Alliance.

So pull up your rocking chairs and click the IB!!!

CommanderCast Episode 311

Posted: March 12

Intros:

Adam

Mark

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Community

The Proxy Debate, revisited: Is Magic a game or an investment?

Worth reading: “How to Spot a Fake $1,000 Magic: The Gathering Card”

Strategy

25 years of M:tG strategy: Battlecruiser Magic (the zen strategy of no-strategy).

What the perfect game of Magic looks like in my head

Technology:

Two favorite cards from each set:

• *No new cards (worth talking about) from 4th thru Tenth Edition.

Alpha/Beta/Unlimited/Revised

• Adam
  • Serra Angel
  • Air Elemental
  • Sengir Vampire
  • Shivan Dragon
  • Craw Wurm
  • Swords to Plowshares
  • Counterspell
  • Dark Ritual
  • Lightning Bolt
  • Giant Growth
• Mark
  • Raging River
  • Force of Nature

Arabian Nights

• Adam
  • Metamorphosis
  • Oubliette
• Mark
  • Guardian Beast
  • City of Brass

Antiquities

• Adam
  • Urza tron
  • Hurkyl’s Recall
• Mark
  • Tawnos’s Coffin
  • Ashnod’s Altar

Legends

• Adam
  • Greed
  • Sylvan Library
    • Bonus: (Kobolds of Kher Keep tokens)
• Mark
  • Rasputin Dreamweaver
  • Land Tax

The Dark

• Adam
  • Maze of Ith
  • Gaea’s Touch
• Mark
  • City of Shadows
  • Ashes to Ashes

Fallen Empires

• Adam
  • Initiates of the Ebon Hand
  • Soul Exchange
• Mark
  • Homarid Spawning Bed
  • Breeding Pit

Homelands

• Adam
  • Sengir Autocrat
  • Merchant Scroll
• Mark
  • Giant Oyster
  • Primal Order

Ice Age

• Adam
  • Mystic Remora
  • Snow-covered basics
• Mark
  • Orcish Lumberjack
  • Necropotence

Alliances

• Adam
  • Arcane denial
  • Elvish spirit guide
• Mark
  • Kjeldoran Outpost
  • Lim-Dul’s Vault

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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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!