CommanderCast Ep 162 – Rowe, Walker Expert
August 18, 2014
Hello everyone and welcome to Commandercast Episode 162! We’re your weekly source for Community, Strategy, and Technology, hosted on MTGcast.com and our homesite: Commandercast.com! We’re recording this on August 14th 2014. This week William os missing and we have Calvin as the host of the show. Calvin is joined by Mark from last weeks episode and a new guest, Rowe. Rowe has recently talked his group into trying out Planeswalkers as the commanders for their decks.
We talk about Mono color and Dual color decks, the thing that make the decks work, and a variety of things Walker related. All this plus the randomness you could expect from Calvin hosting. All this and more is just an IB Click away!
Commandercast Episode 162
August 14th 2014
Guests:
Rowe – Our lead expert on Planeswalkers as Commanders
Mark – fledgling writer, Magic scrub
Favorite Commander This Week:
Rowe – sarkn Vol
Mark – Godo, Bandit Warlord
Calvin – Balthor the Defiled
News:
Email sent by Donovan aka D0su, former Commandercast Admin
Discussions heating up!
Captain WAS RIGHT!!
New cards spoiled from Khans & Commander 2014
Khans of Tarkir: Thousand Winds & Mardu Heart-Piercer
Commander 2014: Stitcher Geralf
Community:
We sit back and ask Rowe a few questions about him, what made him try this out, ups and downs to this format change, and any other rule changes he uses for this alteration.
Strategy:
Strategy is about the usage of Planeswalkers as Commanders. Deck ideas and more in depth play styles. The Mono color and Dual Color decks Rowe and his play group used.
Technology:
All the extra turns… (you all know what cards we’re talking about)
Counter Hatin’
A lot of proliferates…
Planeswalker Hatin’
[cardPropaganda[/card] effects that actually work against Planeswalkers
And of course: The Chain Veil
Outtro/Contacts:
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Calvin – Email: CaptainRedZone(at)gmail(dot)com // twitter: (at)CaptainRedZone
Rowe – Email:paperboy311(at)yahoo(dot)com // twitter: (at)paperboy311
Mark – Email:mahlerma@gmail.com
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