Hello everyone and welcome to CommanderCast Episode 439! This week Mark and Adam are copying each other’s homework with the new Commander 2021 exclusive mechanic, Demonstrate. This new mechanic allows a player who cast a spell to gain an extra copy of it, but only if they allow another player to also have a copy of it! This could lead to some very interesting game states. But first, what is new with the Secret Lairs turn WotC? The guys want to go over some of the recent developments involving this product. Then they wrap things up with a tech segment around Magic’s most tech based card type, Artifacts!
All that, plus our usual interstitial fodder, and all you have to do is Click the IB!!!
CommanderCast Episode 439
Posted: May 5, 2021
Intros:
Adam
Mark
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Community
Interstitial fodder:
- Mortal Kombat is the best dumb movie I’ve seen in a long time.
- A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, by Ana Lily Amirpour
- Final Fantasy 5
- Checking in with Falcon and the Winter Soldier
Strategy
We demonstrably discuss the new Demonstrate mechanic in C21
Rulings (real complicated):
“Demonstrate allows players to copy a spell when they cast it by allowing an opponent to have a copy as well.”
- Creative Technique
- Excavation Technique
- Healing Technique
- Incarnation Technique
- Replication Technique
The mechanic is the cycle; the cycle is the mechanic…
Technology
Known quantities
- Arcbound Ravager
- Metalworker
- Blightsteel Colossus
- Baleful Strix
- Burnished Hart
- Combustible Gearhulk
- Crashing Drawbridge
- Dross Scorpion
- Duplicant
- Ethersworn Canonist
- Hangarback Walker
- Master Transmuter
- Meteor Golem
- Noxious Gearhulk
- Painter’s Servant
- Platinum Angel & Platinum Emperion
- Psychosis Crawler
- Ramos, Dragon Engine
- Solemn Simulacrum
- Triskelion
- Voltaic Construct
- Walking Ballista
- Wurmcoil Engine
Corner Case / Personal Faves
- Ancient Stone Idol
- Arcbound Crusher
- Arcbound Reclaimer
- Cogwork Assembler
- Copper Gnomes
- Crackdown Construct (+ literally anything)
- Dancing Scimitar
- Deal Broker
- Golem Artisan
- Kuldotha Forgemaster
- Memnite et al
- Mindless Automaton
- Mycosynth Golem
- Phyrexian Devourer
- Scarecrone
- Scrap Trawler / Scrapyard Recombiner
- Soul of New Phyrexia
- Steel Hellkite
- Steel Overseer
- Traxos, Scourge of Kroog
- Walking Atlas
- Workhorse
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
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