Hello everyone and welcome to CommanderCast Episode 366! This week Mark and Adam are tripping all over the place talking about Cantrips! But first, in community the guys talk about the various work arounds WotC use to print cards that you would normally see on the reserved list.

So sit back, relax, and Click the IB!!!

CommanderCast Episode 366

Posted: July 8, 2019

Intros: 

Adam

Mark 

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Community

Bending/breaking the Reserved List. 

Already straight up reprinted in From the Vault: Relics, or Duel Decks: Phyrexia vs. the Coalition

• Karn, Silver Golem
• Masticore
• Memory Jar
• Mox Diamond
• Phyrexian Negator
• Sliver Queen (Do oversized cards from Commander’s Arsenal count?)

Non-functional reprints (but we see what you’re doing, WotC):

• Bazaar Trademage / Bazaar of Baghdad
• City of Solitude / Dosan the Falling Leaf
• Deep Forest Hermit / Deranged Hermit
• Lesser Masticore / Masticore
• Lotus Field / Lotus Vale
• Echo of Eons /Timetwister

Which cards do we think are ripe for a pseudo-reprint next?

What we think are likely criteria:

• Around $20-$50 value range
• Nothing too broken
• No format staples
• Nothing that re-warps the color pie (i.e., no Preacher, sadly)
• Nothing that takes a brick of text or an undergrad in Magic rules (Chains of Mephistopheles or Ice Cauldron) 

Adam’s picks:

• Living Plane
• Nether Void
• Cadaverous Bloom

Mark’s picks:

• Thawing Glaciers
• Corpse Dance/Shallow Grave
• Gate to Phyrexia

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Strategy

Cantrips in EDH. 

• When are they worth running?
  • They be niche. Yar.
  • Good value
  • Pretty deece
• Which commanders/strategies reward you for running them?
  • Storm
  • Commanders
    • Feather, the Redeemed
    • Kykar, Wind’s Fury
    • Shu Yun, the Silent Tempest
    • Kefnet the Mindful
    • Atemsis, All-Seeing
    • Talrand, Sky Summoner
    • Masumaro, First to Live (among other Maros)
    • O.G. Multani, Maro-Sorcerer

Technology

Favorite underplayed cantrips in EDH

Adam:

• Abeyance
• Benefactor’s Draught
• Mental Note

Mark:

• Shadow of Doubt
• Shadow Rift
• Dazzling Beauty/Curtain of Light

**Worth reading: 

• Rachel Agnes’ “Opt to the Races,” about tiers of cantrips in Magic.
• Aaron Forscythe’s “Magic’s Zero-Level Spells” about the design of cantrip spells.

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!