Hello everyone and welcome to CommanderCast Episode 349! On this  week’s episode Mark and Adam back to talk about something that might be kinda of unpopular but Mark had to get off his chest. This week Mark jumps up on the soapbox to tell the world how he feels about the Alara block. After that note of crazy talk, the guys talk about being a peeper… in the show me yours and I might show you mines kind of play. Finally to wrap things up, they give you a few Ultimatums you can’t refuse.

So lets stop waiting and Click the IB!!!

CommanderCast Episode 349

Posted: February 25, 2019

Intros:

Adam

Mark

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Community

Unpopular opinion soapbox: Alara block is actually pretty “meh” for EDH. (Come at me, bruh!)

Our “Best 25 Years of Magic” picks from Alara:

Shards of Alara

• Immortal Coil
• Tezzeret the Seeker
• Vicious Shadows
• Mage Slayer

Conflux

• Sigil of the Empty Throne
• Master Transmuter
• Martial Coup
• Telemin Performance

Alara Reborn

• Wargate
• Mayael’s Aria
• Qasali Pridemage
• Sovereigns of Lost Alara

Strategy

Are Peek effects worth playing in Commander?

Peek effects:

• Clairvoyance
• Gitaxian Probe
• Glasses of Urza
• Ingenious Thief
• Peek
• Port Inspector
• Spy Network
• Urza’s Bauble
• Walker of Secret Ways

Peek + discard effects:

• Abandon Hope
• Agonizing Memories
• Discordant Dirge
• Doomsday Specter
• Extortion
• Leshrac’s Sigil
• Mindleech Mass
• Mind Warp
• Painful Memories
• Silent-Blade Oni
• Thrull Surgeon
• Vendilion Clique

Playing with “hands revealed” effects:

• Revelation
• Seer’s Vision
• Telepathy
• Wandering Eye
• Zur’s Weirding

Mindslaver effects:

• Emrakul, the Promised End
• Mindslaver
• Sorin Markov
• Word of Command
• Worst Fears

[*Note: we talked previously about some of these effects in Ep 277: Off-Color Blue Aggro, but this segment is more of a deep dive into this specific effect]

Technology

Retrocycle Review: Alara’s Ultimatums

• Brilliant Ultimatum

• Clarion Ultimatum

• Cruel Ultimatum

• Titanic Ultimatum

• Violent Ultimatum

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!