Hello everyone and welcome to CommanderCast Episode 328! This week, the celebration of Magic reaching 25 years of age reaches it end with Mark and Adam going over some of the cards they enjoy from Kaladesh to Rivals of Ixalan  blocks.

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

CommanderCast Episode 328

Posted: July 30

Intros:

Adam

Mark

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Community

“Aristocrats” theme?

Banlist update: no changes

Commander 2018 deck colors/themes released (why is this a thing?):

• Izzet (Blue-Red) Artifacts “Exquisite Invention”
• Jund (Black-Red-Green) Lands “Nature’s Vengeance”
• Bant (White-Blue-Green) Enchantments “Adaptive Enchantment”
• Esper (White-Blue-Black) Top of Library Matters “Subjective Reality”

Strategy

25 years of M:tG strategy:

What strategies have the past few sets enabled or enhanced?

• Red “impulse” card draw/rummaging
• Vampire tribal
• White equipment card draw
• Dinosaurs in magic (no love for pirates?) [nope, they still suck]
• Colorless removal

Technology

Two favorite cards from each set:

Kaladesh

• Adam
  • Aetherflux Reservoir
  • Panharmonicon
• Mark
  • Cathartic Reunion
  • Demon of Dark Schemes

Commander 2016

• Adam
  • Atraxa, Praetors’ Voice
  • Deepglow Skate
• Mark
  • Ash Barrens
  • Entrapment Maneuver/Selfless Squire

Aether Revolt

• Adam
  • Baral, Chief of Compliance
  • Mechanized Production
• Mark
  • Lifecrafter’s Bestiary
  • Paradox Engine

Amonkhet

• Adam
  • Approach of the Second Sun
  • Throne of the God-Pharaoh
• Mark
  • Dusk // Dawn
  • Cascading Cataracts

Hour of Devastation

• Adam
  • Mirage Mirror
  • Obelisk Spider
• Mark
  • Hour of Revelation
  • Neheb, the Eternal

Commander 2017

• Adam
  • Hammer of Nazahn
  • Kindred Discovery
• Mark
  • Teferi’s Protection
  • Patron of the Vein

Ixalan

• Adam
  • Search for Azcanta
  • Fleet Swallower
• Mark
  • Settle the Wreckage
  • Revel in Riches

Rivals of Ixalan

• Adam
  • Dire Fleet Daredevil
  • Polyraptor
• Mark
  • Journey to Eternity
  • World Shaper

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!