Hello everyone and welcome to Commandercast Episode 204! We’re your weekly source for Community, Strategy, and Technology, hosted on MTGcast.com and our homesite: Commandercast.com! We’re recording this on June 17th, 2015.

This week William,, Calvin, Mark, and Aaron are joined by Stark aka StarkMaximum, a huge fan of the show and long time listener.  This week we talk about theme decks. what makes a theme deck a theme deck? Is it all one type or is there room for creatures that aren’t of a shared type to be in it? we also go over what we think of as themes, plus we go over a few personal creature types we wish got just a little bit more love.

All this and more await with the click of an IB!

Commandercast Episode 204

June 17th, 2015

Guests:

Favorite Commanders This Week:

Aaron – Tymaret, the Murder King #BurgerKing

Stark –  Akroma, Angel of Wrath

Calvin – Purphoros, the Defiled

http://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/14-05-15-purphoros-the-burninator/

Mark – Adun Oakenshield (Commander ‘95!), inspired by Dodo Bird Commander writer Josh Jurgensen’s latest article on Ifh-Bíff Efreet. READ IT! (It’s pretty awesome.)

William – Ashling the Pilgrim

Weekly Schedule

Monday – Commandercast Prime

Tuesday – Journey to Somewhere/Deck Builder’s Spotlight

Wednesday – Strategy

Thursday – Free For All Articles/Rival’s Duel

Friday – Technology

Dodo Bird videos the first of every month!

Community: What constitutes a tribal deck? That could sound intuitive, but I don’t think it is. Both Uriah over at CMDR Decks and Sheldon Menery feel that with design lacking for certain types, especially Legends, tribal could be defined as a majority percentage of the creatures in the deck.

#HOMEVERSION

Strategy:  Are there advantages to playing niche tribes (say, minotaurs) over established ones like Elves? How to build weird tribes, pros and cons, etc.

Technology:  Tribes We’d Like To See Get More Love.

William – Weirds, Tribal Kiora, saprolings

Mark – ALLIES!!, Ninjas, & Illusions

Stark – Phoenixeseses, Plants, Knights

Calvin – Gargoyles, Frogs,

Aaron – Rogues. Rhinos.

Outtro/Contacts:

William – Email: wiehernandez(at)gmail(dot)com // twitter: (at)blueram1409

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

Stark – Email: el.starko(at)gmail(dot)com // Twitter: (at)starkmaximum

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

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

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