Hello everyone and welcome to CommanderCast Episode 455! While we maybe a little late to the party due to uncontrollable circumstances we’re coming to you a little earlier than usual. This week Mark and Adam just want it to stop. WotC did a Magic Showcase for all of the upcoming projects for next year. We have a return to some familiar planes, demons doing their best Godfather/Good Fellas impersonations, people fighting in the streets, and Magic cards flossing? So as the old farts we are we have to at least try to see if we can make any sense of this while giving our own take on the  future of the game. We follow this up with a look at side hand effects and if they’re worth being ran in your next game. Plus we take a moment to go over some of the most expensive cards to be release exclusively in Commander product over the years and try to determine if they warrant the price tag they have or are they just flashes in the pan that only got to be so costly by being so rare to get a hold of in today’s market.

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

CommanderCast Episode 455

Posted: September 6, 2021

Intros: 

Adam

Mark 

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Community

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Mark and Adam discuss Magic Showcase 2021 and our souls die a little bit more.

Interstitial fodder: 

• Pathfinder: (a.k.a. “Protestant DnD”) Kingmaker is the closest I will ever get to playing actual DnD.
• New Spider-Man trailer
• Marvel’s Midnight Suns is not “Rise of the Midnight Sons”
• Bulgar vs. Cracked wheat: the topic on everyone’s lips and minds

Strategy

Are “side hand” effects ever worth running in EDH?

• Asmodeus the Archfiend
• Mangara’s Tome
• Muse Vessel
• Parallel Thoughts
• Skyship Weatherlight
• Uba Mask

Honorable Mention: 

• Dauthi Voidwalker

Technology

Are the most expensive cards from old Commander sets actually worth the cost?

(Search criteria: C19 and older; cost $10 and up)

Specific Commanders

• Atraxa, Praetors’ Voice
• Edgar Markov
• Kaalia of the Vast
• Karlov of the Ghost Council
• Kynaios and Tiro of Meletis
• Mirri, Weatherlight Duelist
• Mizzix of the Izmagnus
• O-Kagachi, Vengeful Kami
• Oloro, Ageless Ascetic
• Ramos, Dragon Engine
• Riku of Two Reflections
• Ruhan of the Fomori
• The Ur-Dragon
• Thrasios, Triton Hero
• Tymna the Weaver
• Vial Smasher the Fierce
• Xantcha, Sleeper Agent
• Yidris, Maelstrom Wielder

Known quantities:

• Alms Collector
• Benefactor’s Draught
• Champion’s Helm
• Dockside Extortionist
• Flusterstorm
• Kindred Discovery
• Ohran Frostfang
• Ophiomancer
• Song of the Dryads
• Teferi’s Protection
• Toxic Deluge

Corner-case, niche stuff:

• Arachnogenesis
• Bastion Protector
• Blade of Selves
• Bloodforged Battle-Axe
• Hammer of Nazahn
• Kindred Dominance
• Stonehoof Chieftain
• Traverse the Outlands

Also-rans:

• Acorn Catapult
• Comeuppance
• Conqueror’s Flail
• Faerie Artisans
• Homeward Path
• Kindred Summons
• Lifeblood Hydra
• Nesting Dragon
• Pathbreaker Ibex
• Primal Vigor
• Retrofitter Foundry
• Scalelord Reckoner
• Stranglehold
• Treasure Nabber

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!