Posted by ANDY aka GHoooSTS
This was a week full of surprises. I mean, not really in the context of content production. I generally have to read the articles posted here, and listen to the podcast a MIND-BENDING three times before it’s released (trust me, it’s not nearly as exciting after the second time). But what was surprising was the overwhelming positive response to Gifts Given, which I will honestly say I was worried would just be annoying to a lot of people. Instead, I’ve been fortunate enough to have the curtain pulled back, revealing a huge swath of CommanderCast listeners who are a secret cabal of super-ballers with charitable inclinations. This is, in case you’re wondering, the greatest kind of shadowy cabal to discover lurking in the depths of any community. So, thanks to everyone who helped make the first week of the charity drive a outrageous success. Is this momentum sustainable? I doubt it, since I honestly can’t imagine something topping this week, but you never know.

Speaking of Gifts Given, check back this Sunday for the first video with the raffle giveaways and some other random prizes. Be advised: Ghettovision™ production values will be engaged.

Anyway, here’s the stuff for this week.

THE WEEK IN REVIEW

• Here at CommanderCast:
• I posted S4E4: I’m A Sphinx.
• The Gifts Given Charity Drive kicked off.
• Old Man Fred is dropping more Ancient Wisdom with his fourth article, “How To Play Five Colours On The Cheap”
• Sinis has his first in a cycle of Kamigawa Ascendant decklists, “Rune-Tail, First To Flip”
• It’s do or die time on Three To The Face!!!, where CaptainRedZone is brewing up an all-in R/W attack step deck in “First Strike!”
• Cassidy is back on TCGPlayer with his latest blistering-hot piece, “Grimgrin’s Zombocalypse”, and there’s all kinds of stuff jumping off on his personal blog.
• Muse Vessel up in this bitch! Graveborn Muses’ “Security, Theory and Multiplayer Success, Part Two” is upon us. Windborn Muse has “Commander VS Chaos”, where he tries to compel Commander players to give traditional 60×4 multiplayer a go.
• We have an interesting community project this week; the first (to my knowledge) MtG film, called Tap: Max’s Game. It’s being produced as we speak. The plot seems to follow the real-life trajectory of many Magic players (great times at a club, group splits up, one guy keeps playing and eventually everyone gets back together), only it looks a LOT more dramatic than I ever remember Magic being. This is a good thing because a movie about me playing Magic would be intolerably boring. Check out the trailer to see what I mean:

CMDRDECKS: PHIL’S KARADOR DECK