Hello everyone and welcome to CommanderCast Episode 411! This week Mark and Adam are getting down and dirty with the stickiest of the icky creatures in the game. This week’s episode is going to ooze all over you… But first, Mark Rosewater has dropped a few hints as to what’s to come in Zendikar Rising! So you know the guys had to take a crack at the codes Maro is laying down.

All that, plus our usual interstitial fodder, and all you have to do is Click the IB!!!

CommanderCast Episode 411

Posted: August 31, 2020

Intros: 

Adam

Mark 

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Community

MaRo’s Blogatog Zendikar teaser:

 

• “A white creature that can make an opponent lose the game simply by attacking them no matter how much life they have
• A multicolor creature that lets you repeatedly reanimate permanents out of your opponent’s graveyard for no mana
• Three creatures with five creature types
• An artifact granting +2/+2 to a subset of creatures that first appeared in Alpha
• X being used for a variable it’s never been used for before
• a 6/6 artifact creature that costs 3 and a 7/5 artifact creature that can cost 3
• The return of four mana symbols that have each only ever been used on two cards before
• Lands that come with a choice you’ve never had before
• Targeted enchantment removal in black
• A red/white creature with a line of rules text that starts with “Whenever” and ends with “draw a card”
• A card with three different activated abilities that all copy something

 

Here are snippets of rules text, you’ll see:

 

• “three plus”
• “different converted mana cost X or less”
• “equal to 20 minus”
• “Cowards can’t block Warriors”
• “don’t lose unspent red mana”
• “twice the number of equipment”
• “If it’s the third time”

 

And finally, here are some creature type lines you’ll see:

 

• Mouse

• Leviathan Crab

• Shapeshifter Rogue

• Demon Cleric

• Wurm Horror

• Hydra Horror

• Cat Horror

• Angel Wizard”

Interstitial fodder: 

• Forty years later, Star Trek: The Motion Picture is still an ungodly mess of a film.
• Marvel Dark Ages
• Best Final Fantasy game to start on for young people
• Zendikar Rising spoilers

Strategy

Much like this film, Ooze tribal sounds better in theory than it is in reality.

Ooze tribal = viable?

• Experiment Kraj
• Prime Speaker Vannifar
• The Mimeoplasm
• Umori, the Collector

Archetype?

Adam:

• Go wide tokens

Mark:

• Reanimator

Technology

All the hot Ooze tech you never knew you wanted (must…not…make…obvious…joke…)

• Acidic Slime
• Corrosive Ooze
• Gobbling Ooze
• Mephitic Ooze
• Ravenous Slime
• Scavenging Ooze

Non-creatures

• Simic Ascendancy
• Corrupted Zendikon
• The Ozolith
• Birthing Boughs

*See also:

• Non-Legendary Oozes
• EDHREC’s Ooze tribal page

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

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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!