Hello everyone and welcome to Commandercast Episode 192! We’re your weekly source for Community, Strategy, and Technology, hosted on MTGcast.com and our homesite: Commandercast.com! We’re recording this on March 26th, 2015. This week Tom, Calvin, Clay, and Mark are joined by Aaron as we drink deep on that haterade! All of the hate! We discuss the tuck rule, the best reasons to hate people out the game, the various ways to hate, and some of our favorite hate cards. Get your hater vision goggles ready as we spill hate ALL OVER THIS PLACE!

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Commandercast Episode 193

March 26, 2015

Guests:

Tom- MtG Radio

Favorite Commanders This Week:
Tom- Skullbriar, the Walking Grave

Aaron – Barrin, Master Wizard

Calvin – Ashling the Pilgrim

Mark – Rasputin Dreamweaver Commander ‘95 (It’s amazing; go get some! Read: Abe Sargent’s article)

Clay – Scion of the Ur-Dragon

News:

Community Ban Poll

DA NEW TUCK RULE!!!!!!

RC’s Justifications:
1) We want to engender as positive an experience as we can for players. Nothing runs the feel-bads worse than having your commander unavailable to you for the whole game.

2) The presence of tuck encourages players to play more tutors so that in case their commander gets sent to the library, they can get it back—exactly the opposite of what we want (namely, discouraging the over-representation of tutors).

3) While we are keenly aware that tuck is a great weapon against problematic commanders, the tools to do so are available only in blue and white, potentially forcing players into feeling like they need to play those colors in order to survive. We prefer as diverse a field as possible.

4) It clears up some corner case rules awkwardness, mostly dealing with knowing the commander’s location in the library (since highly unlikely to actually end up there).

Listen to an old episode of CommanderCast where Alex, from the rules committee, defends the tuck rule. (It’s funny, because it’s ironic now.)

HOME VERSION

Community:

The Playa Haters Ball – stories and/or reasons a player may play a hoser/hate card or deck. Does someone in your group have a deck that, for whatever reason, makes you want to hate it out? Yup, us too.

Aaron – Bounce

Mark – Stealing & Stax

Clay – Taxes and Abilities

Tom – Color specific hate

Blind Seer Decklist: http://www.mtgdeckbuilder.net/Decks/ViewDeck/718571

Calvin -Help me hate you

The image below also seems ripe for some Photoshopping magic, if anyone’s game.

http://cdn.ebaumsworld.com/mediaFiles/picture/16732/845956.jpg

Strategy:

To be angry is easy… – Knowing when, how, and at what/whom to best deploy your hate.

http://izquotes.com/quotes-pictures/quote-anybody-can-become-angry-that-is-easy-but-to-be-angry-with-the-right-person-and-to-the-right-aristotle-6728.jpg

Technology:

Our favorite bling to bring the hate

Calvin – AEther Flash, Artificial Evolution, Apocalypse Chime

Aaron – Tectonic Edge, The “Name A Card” Suite: Nevermore/Declaration of Naught/Voidstone Gargoyle/Meddling Mage, Trickbind

Clay – Stony Silence, Suppression Field, Aura of Silence, Torpor Orb, Spelltithe Enforcer, Defense Grid

Mark – Memnarch, Smokestack, Mind Slash

Tom: Nothing worse than having to stare at your commander on the battlefield doing nothing category : Song of the Dryads, Darksteel Mutation, Lignify

Outtro/Contacts:
Tom – Email: edhradio(at)gmail(dot)com // twitter: (at)mtgradio // twitch: twitch(dot)tv/mtgradio

Commandercast  – Email: Commandercast(at)gmail(dot)com // twitter: (at)Commandercast

William – Twitter: (at)BlueRam1409

Calvin – Email: captainredzone(at)gmail(dot)com  // twitter: (at)CaptainRedZone

Clay – Twitter: (at)edhpanda // Reddit: /u/EDHPanda // Cockatrice: Remillo

Mark – Email: mahlerma(at)gmail(dot)com

Aaron – Email: unclelanddrops(at)gmail(dot)com Twitter: (at)unclelanddrops

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