You know, we’re not the only website that deals in Commander content believe it or not. Yes, sometimes we find other people who talk for hours on end about our favorite format. Cassidy and Mr. P are two such people.

In fact, they have entire columns and even their own podcast to talk about Commander! We’ve enlisted these two very special guests to help promote their show, talk about an interesting trend in the banlist, and showing off their three-cards deep!

As  always, you can leave us a comment after the Ib.

Recording Oct 23, 2013

Guest: Cassidy & Patrick of General Damage Control

Favorite Commander:

Cassidy – Zedruu the Greathearted

(Sheldon’s Ruhan deck that he’s talking about http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkkKrzn4mzI)

Patrick – Stonebrow, Krosan Hero (R/G dinosaurs!!!)

www.GeneralDamageControl.com

Announcments:

Gifts Given 2013!

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Donations will get your messages read on air!

So far our prize pool includes:

ONE XL-sized Boros T-shirt, the kind that Wizards sells on their website, kindly donated by my local gameshop, Fog of Dusk.

4-5 Alters by Kayla aka Zeico! You can see her Magic art/card alters here.

More alters by Donavan Ward!

A full set of the Commander 2013 pre-constructed decks!

For every benchmark we reach, we’ll add more prizes to the pool!
Community: The Ban List
Every so often, the topic of what should be banned comes up with people calling for the head of Omniscience, Sylvan Primordial, or what have you. But the Rules Committee hasn’t banned anything since Trade Secrets and has even unbanned a couple of cards. Are people just over reacting?
Possible idea: Letting cards be your commander, but not in your deck?
Strategy: Metagaming the meta game.

When people start putting cards into their deck specifically to answer yours, what can you do about it? The obvious answer is to put in answers of your own! We’re gonna take things even deeper by trying to think an extra step ahead of everyone else!
Evolution of decks in general: leads people to play hosers and what not as shaped by their personal meta
Technology: Three Cards Deep

On their home site, GDC has a recurring column they call “Three Cards Deep” where they showcase a card that’s super sweet, a similar card that’s really good but earns you all kinds of hate, and a third card that SHOULD work similarly, but just doesn’t get the job done.

Cassidy – Reanimation

The Rad – Rescue from the Underworld

The Bad – Sepulchral Primordial

The Sad – Living Death

Patrick – Things that Kill living things

The Rad – Echoing Decay

The Bad – Grave Pact

The Sad – Nim Deathmantle
Outtro/Contacts:

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

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

Cassidy – Email: generaldamagecontrol(at)gmail(dot)com // twitter: (at)GDCCommander

Patrick – Email: thingsMrPthinks(at)gmail(dot)com // twitter: (at)thingsMrPthinks

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