Hello everyone and welcome to CommanderCast Episode 359! 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 in on War of the Spark! The Legends, The Gods, and ThePlaneswalkers….well not that much of the planeswalkers but they are discussed. This is our new kinda sorta set review and we hope you enjoy.

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CommanderCast Episode 359

Posted: May 13, 2019

Intros:

Adam

Mark

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Community

Fancy boxes controversy

More gushing & kvetching about the newest set

Commanders

• Fblthp, the Lost
• Feather, the Redeemed*
• God-eternal Bontu*
• God-eternal Kefnet*
• God-eternal Oketra*
• God-eternal Rhonas
• Ilharg, the Raze-Boar
• Krenko, Tin Street Kingpin
• Massacre Girl
• Mowu, Loyal Champion
• Neheb, Dreadhorde Champion
• Niv-Mizzet Reborn*
• Roalesk, Apex Hybrid
• Storrev, Devkarin Lich
• Tolsimir, Friend of Wolves*
• Tomik, Distinguished Advokist

Strategy

Amass in Commander is meh.

Amass N (Put N +1/+1 counters on an Army you control. If you don’t control one, create a 0/0 black Zombie Army creature token first.)

Rulings:

• It’s possible to control a nontoken Army (perhaps a creature with the changeling ability) and, through combinations of other cards, it’s possible to control multiple Army tokens. When instructed to amass, you may put +1/+1 counters on any of your Army creatures, and you may choose a different one each time.[6]
• If you don’t control an Army, the Zombie Army token that you create enters the battlefield as a 0/0 creature. Any abilities that trigger when a creature with a certain power enters the battlefield, such as that of Mentor of the Meek, will see the token enter as a 0/0 creature before it gets +1/+1 counters.
• Although players can respond to the spell or ability that instructs you to amass, once you start to amass, no one can interrupt you. This is true even if you’re creating a new Army — no player can do anything while the Zombie Army creature token is still 0/0, before it gets the counters.
• Even though the +1/+1 counters represent the growing numbers of Eternals joining your ranks, the Zombie Army creature token is still a single creature. It has two creature types: Zombie and Army.
• Some spells that amass may require targets. If each target chosen is an illegal target as that spell tries to resolve, it doesn’t resolve. You won’t amass.
• Some cards that cause you to amass also provide bonuses to “Zombie tokens.” These affect any token that happens to be a Zombie, not just a Zombie Army you’ve amassed.

Technology

Our favorite cards in War of the Spark.  These aren’t necessarily the big bombs, just cards we heart.

Adam  –

• Prismite
• Heartwarming Redemption
• Return to Nature
• Mayhem Devil

Mark –

• Narset’s Reversal
• Saheeli, Sublime Artificer
• Parhelion II

*Honorable mention:

• Soul Diviner

Outtro/Contacts:

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