Hello everyone and welcome to CommanderCast Episode 454! This week, in preparation of the upcoming fall set and Standard rotation, Mark and Adam are taking a look back at one of the most controversial sets in recent memory that’s on it way out of Standard, Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths! This set came with all of the issues with Companion, trying to understand how Mutate worked, and some of the first cards in the game to have artwork of licensed properties that are not owned by WotC or Hasbro. Now as the time comes for it to leave Standard, is the a home for any of the cards from Ikoria in Commander, or will it disappear from memory only to be talked about in passing conversations of “Do you remember when I attacked your planeswalker with Godzilla?”. But first, The Professor has a video (linked below) that talks about how Magic is having a product overload. This is a topic we feel we need to talk about and touch on before the newest set drops and we get pulled into that next preview season.

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

CommanderCast Episode 454

Posted: August 30, 2021

Intros: 

Adam

Mark 

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Community

• We discuss the Prof’s very on-the-nose video, “Magic: The Gathering Overload”
• Reddit Post: Days of spoilers

Interstitial fodder: 

• Risky Business is not a comedy.
• Is the Girl Next Door underrated
• Streets of Rage 4 makes me pine for more beat ’em ups
• What If…? episodes 1 + 2 

Strategy

Mechanics of Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths

• Cycling
• Mutate
• Companion
• Keyword counters

Technology

Cards from Ikoria that we think are worth running in EDH

• Bastion of Remembrance
• Bonders’ Enclave
• Dire Tactics
• Fiend Artisan
• Keep Safe
• Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy
• Luminous Broodmoth
• Lurrus of the Dream-Den
• Mythos of Snapdax
• Ominous Seas
• Quartzwood Crasher
• Reconnaissance Mission
• Rielle, the Everwise
• Sea-Dasher Octopus
• Shark Typhoon
• Skull Prophet
• Song of Creation
• Sprite Dragon
• The Ozolith
• Triomes
  • Indatha Triome
• Ultimatums
  • Eerie Ultimatum
  • Ruinous Ultimatum
• Whirlwind of Thought

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!