Hello everyone and welcome to CommanderCast Episode 219! We’re your weekly source for Community, Strategy, and Technology, hosted on MTGcast.com and our homesite: CommanderCast.com! We’re recording this on October 2nd, 2015. This week we are running on a skeleton crew as half the team are down and out for the night! But like any good showman will tell you, the show must go on! With that the remaining members take this chance to discuss Ramp! Hopefully you will enjoy as we go over some of our favorite ramp cards! 

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CommanderCast Episode 219

October 2, 2015

News:

Do we have news? There’s a new set out – there’s your damned news!

You’re running out of time to BAN THE WHALES! (The polling ends on Oct. 21, 2015)

Weekly Schedule

Monday – CommanderCast Prime (subscribe to our main site for up-to-date episodes!)

Tuesday – Super-secret Mystery Show!!

Wednesday – Strategy

Thursday – Free For All Articles/Rival’s Duel and The Stack, w/ Uncle Landdrops & Grandpa Growth

Friday – Technology/ Squirecast!

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Community:

To ramp or not to ramp, that is the question. Whether ‘tis Nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of an outraged playgroup or to simply draw more cards against a Sea of troubles, and by opposing end them; to smashface, to burn, to combo out on turn four and by a sweep to say we end the Heartache and the thousand Natural shocks that EDH is heir to?

‘Tis a Commander game devoutly to be wished. To ramp, to win, to win, perchance to gloat; aye, there’s the rub.

Strategy:

The many flavors of ramp:

• Old school, Azusa barf-all-your-lands-onto-the-table

• Spell-based ramp Songs of the Damned, Energy Tap

• Mana dorks –  Orcish Lumberjack, Soulbright Flamekin

• Artifact ramp – Blinkmoth Urn, City of Shadows, Clock of Omens & Unwinding Clock

• Mana doublin’ – Mirari’s Wake, Turnabout, Mana Reflection, Koth of the Hammer,

• Shenanigans! Perilous Forays & Bloodghast, Fertilid & counter shenanigans, Ashnod’s Altar & Phyrexian Altar & Krark-Clan Ironworks, Carpet of Flowers, Life from the Loam

• Incidental ramp  – Karametra, God of the Harvests, Avenging Druid, Charmed Pendant, Sakiko, Mother of Summer, Savage Ventmaw

Technology:

We just covered it.

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

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