Hello everyone and welcome to CommanderCast Episode 364! This week Mark and Adam are finally getting to do a show with Spoilers in it. Magic 2020 core set spoilers have started and it’s time to jump back on the hype train. Then the guys go into things they feel would make core sets better. After that, they go on and talk about color hosing cards and why they should be played.

So let’s get into it and Click the IB!!!

CommanderCast Episode 364

Posted: June 17, 2019

Intros:

Adam

Mark

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Community

• New preview cards for Core Set 2020 (It’s the fucking future, bruh.)

• The color pie reconsidered for 2019.
  • What do we think are the responsibilities for each color and how certain cards bend these “rules” & affect the game.  
  • See:
    • Generous Gift, Tectonic Reformation
    • Dreamscape Artist, Essence Warden
    • Planar Chaos & Modern Horizons

*Worth reading: MaRo’s article, “Mechanical Color Pie 2017”

Strategy

Wisdom from the Great White North.

[*Editor’s note: we recorded this episode before the M20 spoilers dropped with their new color hate cards, so we’re actually psychic.  Who knew?]

Color hosers! Viability/playability in EDH?

• Defining “hate/hoser”
• Applicability.  Generally, we think people tend to avoid these effects because they fear having a dead card in hand if there are no targets on the board.

Technology

The Spectrum of Color Hosin’

Inoffensive, but useful:

• Pyroblast, Active Volcano, Red Elemental Blast
• Reap
• Rewards of Diversity
• Snake Pit
• Spinal Villain
• Story Circle

Strong, yet narrow:

• Carpet of Flowers
• Compost
• Contamination
• Crackdown
• Dystopia
• Elephant Grass
• Inundate
• Lightwielder Paladin
• Nature’s Wrath
• Radiant Kavu

You’re a mean bastard:

• Boil
• Choke
• Flashfires
• Iona, Shield of Emeria
• Omen of Fire
• Volcanic Eruption

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!