Hello everyone and welcome to CommanderCast Episode 353! 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 finishing March Modal Madness with Mark Rosewater’s favorite kind of modal spell, Kicker! But first, the guys hold a 13 gun salute to yet another fallen format we barely knew, Brawl. To wrap things up, the guys go over some of Adam’s favorite modal spell that didn’t come in a cycle.

So lets stop waiting and Click the IB!!!

CommanderCast Episode 353

Posted: March 25, 2019

Intros:

Adam

Mark

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Community

Is Brawl officially dead yet?

(Subtitle: Can I kick it when it’s down?)

• No more EDHREC Brawl page
• Google Trends data doesn’t look good
• But the r/mtgbrawl folks are still keeping the dream alive on Reddit

Strategy

Can I Kick it?

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

All the Kicker spells!

• Agonizing Demise -3

• Bloodhusk Ritualist -3

• Blood Tribute -3

• Breath of Darigaaz -2

• Citanul Woodreaders -2

• Comet Storm -1

• Conqueror’s Pledge -3

• Deathforge Shaman -3

• Desolation Angel -2

• Desolation Giant -3

• Dismantling Blow -3

• Everflowing Chalice -2

• Fight with Fire -3

• Gatekeeper of Malakir -3

• Ghitu Chronicler -3

• Goblin Bushwhacker -2

• Goblin Ruinblaster -3

• Grow from the Ashes -3

• Grunn, the Lonely King -2

• Heartstabber Mosquito -3

• Hunting Wilds -2

• Into the Roil -3

• Joraga Warcaller -2

• Josu Vess, Lich Knight -2

• Kangee, Aerie Keeper -2

• Kor Sanctifiers -2

• Marshal’s Anthem -2

• Mold Shambler -2

• Molten Disaster -3

• Oran-Rief Recluse -3

• Orim’s Chant -3

• Orim’s Thunder -2

• Primal Growth -2

• Rite of Replication -1

• Rushing River -3

• Sadistic Sacrament -2

• Saproling Migration -3

• Sergeant-at-Arms -3

• Skizzik -3

• Slinn Voda, the Rising Deep -2

• Strength of the Tajuru -2

• Territorial Allosaurus -2

• Thicket Elemental -2

• Urza’s Rage -3

• Verdeloth the Ancient -2

• Verix Bladewing -2

• Vines of Vastwood -2

• Wild Onslaught -2

• Wolfbriar Elemental -2

Technology

Favorite non-cycle modal spells

Adam –

• Breya, Etherium Shaper
• Demonic Pact
• Hull Breach
• Merciless Eviction

Mark –

• Consult the Necrosages
• Crux of Fate
• Reign of Chaos
• Triskaidekaphobia

*Honorable mention:

• Umezawa’s Jitte

*Worth reading: Dana Roach’s “In the Margins – Divination” article

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!