Hello everyone and welcome to CommanderCast Episode 319! This week, the celebration of Magic reaching 25 years of age continues with Mark and Adam going over some of the cards they enjoy from Coldsnap to Future Sight.

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

CommanderCast Episode 319

Posted: May 21

Intros:

Adam

Mark

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Community

“The Spirit of the Format” – in different formats  (‘cuz it’s “shifted” week! Get it?)

We heart…

• • Obscure crap!
    • Atlas Obscura
    • Weird N.J. – yes, other states are weird, too, but not like New Jersey.
      • Mark recommends “The Fantastical Former Farmhouse of Route 9”
    • Cryptocartography
  • Old – and preferably bad – things! (Like Krull)
    • Worth Listening to: I Saw That Years Ago
      • Ep 28: Krull
      • 
      • On Mark’s request list: The Beastmaster
      • Bloodsport
  • Reviving old – and preferably bad – things!
    • Bill and Ted 3 is officially happening
  • Games!
    • King of Tokyo – *bonus*: it’s a Richard Garfield game
    • Takenoko
    • Photosynthesis
    • The Captain is Dead

Strategy

25 years of M:tG strategy:

Favorite “futureshifted” mechanics/keywords/weird shit we wish would return to Magic

Keywords:

*Precedent!: Delve originated in Time Spiral block and returned in Khans block.

• Absorb – Lymph Sliver
• Aura Swap – Arcanum Wings
• Fateseal – Spin into Myth
• Fortify – Darksteel Garrison
• Frenzy – Frenzy Sliver
• Grandeur – Baru, Fist of Krosa and Korlash, Heir to Blackblade, et al.
• Gravestorm – Bitter Ordeal
• Poisonous – Snake Cult Initiation, [card]Virulent Sliver
• Transfigure – Fleshwrither
• Typecycling – Homing Sliver, Vedalken Æthermage

Weird shit:

*Precedent!: new Magus cards still pop up in sets, from time to time; also Contraptions.

• Permanent man-lands – Dryad Arbor
• Old mechanics on new card types
  • Tap enchantments – Witch’s Mist, Second Wind
  • Morph artifacts, enchantments, lands – Whetwheel, Lumithread Field, Zoetic Cavern
  • Transmute lands – Tolaria West
• Copy lands – Vesuva
• Adding creature types – Boldwyr Intimidator
• Inverting the color pie – Harmonize, Dream Artist (among others)
• Zero-toughness creatures – Force of Savagery
• Zero-mana Instants with “You lose the game if” clauses – Pact of Negation
• “Spend only mana produced by basic lands…” – Imperiosaur
• Turning cards face-down – Ixidron
• No-casting cost suspend cards – Living End, among others
• “Protection from converted mana cost…”  – Mistmeadow Skulk
• Pulling cards out of exile – Riftsweeper, Pull from Eternity
• Pseudo-Flashback – Thunderblade Charge
• Non-mana mechanic costs – Street Wraith, Volcano Hellion, Walk the Aeons
• Weird honorable mentions:
  • Narcomoeba
  • Spellweaver Volute
  • Shah of Naar Isle
  • Shapeshifter’s Marrow

Technology

Two favorite cards from each set:

Coldsnap

• Adam
  • Rimescale Dragon
  • Brooding Saurian
• Mark
  • Braid of Fire
  • Hibernation’s End

Time Spiral

• Adam
  • Fool’s demise
  • Harmonic Sliver
• Mark
  • Voidmage Husher
  • Sudden Spoiling

Planar Chaos

• Adam
  • Null Profusion
  • Porphyry Nodes
• Mark
  • Body Double
  • Treacherous Urge

Future Sight

• Adam
  • Barren Glory
  • Yixlid Jailer
• Mark
  • Venser, Shaper Savant
  • Nacatl War-Pride

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!