Hello everyone and welcome to CommanderCast Episode 352! We are your weekly source for community, strategy, and technology hosted each and every week on Commandercast.com! On this  week’s episode Mark and Adam are going Modal for March. If you recall, they did an episode about the Charm cards and on today’s episode they continue by going over a few other modal cards in Magic. Entwine, The Command cycles, Sieges, and more are on this episode all to be put under the scope so we can determine which ones are worth play.

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CommanderCast Episode 352

Posted: March 18, 2019

Intros:

Adam

Mark

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Community

Whatever happened to casual Commander events?

Feel the funk with Casual Commander

Strategy

Non-charm modal spells

Our rankings:

• Tier 1: almost always useful
• Tier 2: corner case cards, but usually playable in the right circumstance
• Tier 3: you’re stretching it; these are almost never worth running in your deck

• Mirrodin Block—Entwine

  • Abuna’s Chant -3
  • Barbed Lightning -3
  • Betrayal of flesh -3
  • Blinding beam -3
  • Dream’s grip -3
  • Grab the reins -2
  • Incite war -3
  • Journey of discovery -2
  • One dozen eyes -3
  • Plunge into Darkness -2
  • Promise of power -2
  • Rain of Rust -3
  • Reap and Sow -2
  • Roar of the kha -3
  • Rude Awakening -1
  • Savage Beating -1
  • Second Sight -3
  • Shriveling Rot -2
  • Solar tide -2
  • Spectral Shift -2
  • Stir the Pride -3
  • Temporal cascade -2
  • Tooth and nail -1
  • Wail of the Nim – “2”

• Lorwyn—Commands
  • Austere Command – 1
  • Cryptic command -1
  • Incendiary command -3
  • Primal command -2
  • Profane command -2

• Dragons of Tarkir—Commands
  • Atarka’s command -3
  • Dromoka’s command -2
  • Kolaghan’s command -2
  • Ojutai’s command -2
  • Silumgar’s command -2

• Commander 2015—Confluences
  • Fiery confluence -2
  • Mystic confluence -1
  • Righteous confluence -2
  • Verdant confluence -2
  • Wretched confluence -2

• Eldritch Moon—Escalate
  • Blessed alliance -3
  • Borrowed grace -3
  • Borrowed hostility -3
  • Borrowed malevolence -3
  • Collective brutality -2
  • Collective defiance -3
  • Collective effort -2
  • Savage alliance -3

Technology

Permanent Modals

Sieges

• Citadel siege -2
• Frontier siege -1
• Monastery siege -2
• Outpost siege -2
• Palace siege -2

Exarch

• Brutalizer Exarch -2
• Deceiver Exarch -2
• Entomber Exarch -3
• Inquisitor Exarch -3
• Tormentor Exarch -3

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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