Hello everyone and welcome to CommanderCast Episode 443! This week Mark and Adam are taking a moment to go back in the past and giving a retro review of a possible overlooked set. With all the Modern Masters, Dragons people are finding in Dungeons, and the last sets requiring a Banned List discussion over multiple formats… the guys want to look back at a time when sets were more fun and entertaining. So today the guys are going back to Gatecrash! Do the mechanics from then still hold up after all this time? What cards that were game defining still see play all these years later? Can the set still stand with the cards of today or are they dust blowing in the ancient winds of the past? Plus we have a Community segment with exciting news if you leave in the New York area come September.

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

CommanderCast Episode 443

Posted: May 31, 2021

Intros: 

Adam

Mark 

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Community

Commander Sealed 2021

• The event will be held in Rochester, NY on September 25th, 2021. Venue TBA
• All proceeds go to benefit The Trevor Project
• For more details, check out the event poster, as well as Facebook & Twitter.

Interstitial fodder: 

• Crimson Shroud (3DS) scratches some of that D&D itch for the Final Fantasy crowd.
• Sweet Tooth is not actually about cannibalism (yet???)
• City Skylines makes you feel like you’re at your very own planning and zoning commission meeting! Yay!
• M.O.D.O.K. might be good. Or it might not.

Strategy

Gatecrash mechanics

• Battalion
• Bloodrush
• Cipher
• Evolve
• Extort

Technology

EDH Staples from Gatecrash

• Aetherize
• Blind Obedience
• Boros Charm
• Consuming Aberration
• Crypt Ghast
• Duskmantle Guildmage
• Fathom Mage
• Gyre Sage
• Hellkite Tyrant
• Illusionist’s Bracers
• Merciless Eviction
• Rapid Hybridization
• Thespian’s Stage

Cards that deserve another look for EDH

• Biomass Mutation
• Clan Defiance
• Court Street Denizen
• Duskmantle Seer
• Frenzied Tilling
• Gruul Ragebeast
• High Priest of Penance
• Ivy Lane Denizen
• Nightveil Specter
• Ogre Slumlord
• Rubblehulk
• Sepulchral Primordial
• Signal the Clans
• Verdant Haven
• Wrecking Ogre

Also rans

• Enter the Infinite
• Lord of the Void

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!