Rare land cycle - enters the battlefield tapped unless you control two or more other lands
Lands:
New Mechanics:
Day / Night
When the game starts, it's neither day nor night
If it's day as a turn begins, and the previous turn's active player didn't cast a spell last turn, it becomes night. Similarly, if it's night as a turn begins if the previous turn's active player cast two or more spells last turn, it becomes day
As it becomes day, all double-faced cards with nightbound transform to their daybound faces. As it becomes night, all double-faced cards with daybound transform to their nightbound faces.
Disturb
Cards can be cast from the graveyard via their disturb cost.
If these cards go to the graveyard again they are exiled.
Coven
Coven is an ability word that's used to highlight abilities that get better if you control three or more creatures with different powers.
. For example, a 1/1 creature, a 3/1 creature, and a 4/6 creature have three different powers (specifically, 1, 3, and 4).
Powers refer to a creature’s power, rather than it’s abilities.
Decayed
A creature with decayed can’t block. When it attacks, sacrifice it at end of combat.
Commander Decks
Coven Counters (green-white)
Undead Unleashed (blue-black)
Speculation on the commander decks
The Cards
I’ve gone through all the previewed cards and have created a list of my favorites. Ryan has not looked at any of the previews, so we will be getting his first time reaction to these cards.
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Ep 108 Community Spotlight:
Link to Arena of the Ancients stream with Zack: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1133509353
Disclaimer, we only have the information released as of 08.29.21. Some of what we say will be conjecture about the future sets.
Sets
Main Topic - Magic in 2022
Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty - Releasing Q1 2022
Takes place on Kamigawa, 2,000 years after the events of the original Champions of Kamigawa block.
WotC said they’ve worked with a lot of cultural developers and their regional offices to make sure representation in the new set is done right.
Streets of New Capernna - Releasing Q2 2022
Originally built by angels but is now dominated by demon-led crime families.
Five three-color crime families will have their own mechanic and play style.
Hopefully they will have shards rather than wedges.
Dominaria United - Releasing Q3 2022
Returning to where it all started on Dominaria!
Kicking off Magic’s 30th Anniversary
The Brothers War - Releasing Q4 2022
Set during the war between Urza and Mishra
The aftermath of this war was hinted at in Antiquities.
Gix
Tocasia
Ashnod
Mishra
Urza!?
Which famous magic characters from this time are we hoping to see?
Artificers right?
What about artifacts?
Supplemental Sets
Unfinity - Releasing second quarter 2022
Maro describes the set as a “retro science fiction space carnival/amusement park/circus”
The set takes place at Myra the Magnificent’s Intergalactic Astrotorium of Fun, which Rosewater says is “a space carnival that travels the galaxy with rides you can’t even imagine.”
Will include “space-ic” basic lands that are full art, borderless, and are set around the planet and in space!
Shocklands set in space!
Battle for Baldur’s Gate: Commanders Legends - Releasing first half of 2022
Another DnD set!
Set in the city of Bauldur’s gate!
New legends as DnD characters and new multiplayer keywords.
The set will build on 2020’s Commander Legends draftable Commander format. Each pack will contain 20 cards, from which you pick two at a time, to build a 60-card deck with a Commander.
Jumpstart 2022 - Releasing Q4 of 2022
Will include 46 themed packs of 20 cards
Themes like Eldrazi and multi-headed creatures
Each pack will contain one card that is new to Magic as well as one anime style card.
Double Masters 2022 - Releasing Summer 2022
Will retain the two rares and two foils per pack
Thoughts on reprints?
Universes Beyond
Cards will then be reprinted in a more traditional Magic, non-Street Fighter form some months later as a part of “The List” in set boosters, as will all mechanically unique Universes Beyond cards
You can get these at https://secretlair.wizards.com/us
Street Fighter - Secret Lair
Chung Li - Multikicker
Fortnite
Two separate Secret Lair drops.
Both drops will be contain reprints of existing cards with art that features the flavor, characters, and world of Fortnite
Warhammer 40k - Commander Decks
Made up of four Commander decks that will feature new art, brand new cards, and powerful reprints
All decks are set in the dystopian 40k universe
Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-Earth - Set + Commander Decks
Full set and four commander decks
Coming to Magic Online and Magic Arena in addition to tabletop and will be legal in Modern as well as eternal formats, which isn’t standard for Universes Beyond
Secret Lairs
https://secretlair.wizards.com/
Teferi’s Time Trouble
Each card features a “classic” take on how Planeswalker rules might have read in 1994—an impenetrable block of text with reminders to “use counters”
Dack Fayden
Karn, the Great Creator
Teferi, Time Raveler
Kamigawa Ink
Art inspired by traditional Japanese brushwork.
Heartless Hidetsugu,
Kami of the Crescent Moon
Michiko Konda
Truth Seeker
Reki, the History of Kamigawa
Toshiro Umezawa
Artist Series: Johannes Voss
The cards tell a story in their art and contain a poem by Voss in their flavor text.
Sanctum Prelate
Carpet of Flowers
Sphere of Safety
Karmic Guide.
Artist Series: Thomas Baxa
Ob Nixilis Reignited
Silver Hivelord
Sire of Insanity
Spellskite
Math is for Blockers
Math-inspired art by Alexandre Chaudret
Brazen Borrower
Vindictive Lich
Meandering Towershell
Ohran Frostfang
Thragtusk
Wrap Up
2022 is going to be a great year for magic! We love that they're diversifying the settings of the new set and the crossover secret lairs.
It’s going to be awesome to bring magic with other fandoms and inversely for magic players to be able to experience their favorite properties through the lens of magic.
There is a lot of exciting stuff coming next year and that can def hit the wallet pretty hard. That being said, you don’t have to buy everything.
For Example: I know I’m totally not psyched about a Lord of the Rings set personally, but in the end I’m totally glad it’s coming out for those who are very big LotR fans!
What do you think about what’s coming next year? Did you enjoy this kind of episode summing up everything? Let us Know!
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Ep 107 Community Spotlight:
Disclaimer: I’m sure this idea isn’t a brand new one, but we do think it could be a useful tool to folks out there.
Disclaimer 2: I don’t do this for every deck I built, but it’s most of them.
Do you always find yourself cutting the same card over and over again, right at the end of deck-brewing? Flex spots could be the answer you're looking for
In every deck tech we do you might have noticed we include a slot called the flex spot.
Having a healthy amount of cards reserved for flex spots, is a good way to ensure you’re not hyper-tuning your deck. This can lead to a lower overall power level. Some folks out there have a hard time not over-tuning (nice place to plug Lenny’s Power Sink series on edhrec: https://edhrec.com/articles/author/lenny-wooley/)
This idea is potentially more useful to folks that brew decks often, and don’t necessarily keep all their decks up-to-date when new cards are released (guilty!). However, I do see some merit to people who have like 3-5 decks that they frequently update. Maybe say earmark 5 cards as like “sandbox play area”. Heck, you could even do this with a star sticker on the inner sleeve
If you use Flex spots in this way, you also greatly increase the chance of a deck feeling more “like you”
Cards that you simply want to play that maybe aren’t synergistic with the deck.
New cards you want to test out and see how good they are.
Pet cards
Extra removal ;-)
Fun cards
Spice!
There are lots of different cards you can include in a flex spot
Zack Examples
In Roger and Arden I run Grafted Exoskeleton, it is an equipment, so it fits the deck in that way, but It’s also infect which IMO is just fun.
I don’t know if Vorpal Sword is good in Yawgmoth, but I want to put it in a flex spot to find out!
Chatterfang
Journey to Eternity
Explosion of Riches
Bladegriff Prototype
Diaochan, Artful Beauty
Zurzoth, Chaos Rider
Chef’s Kiss
Embercleave
Delina, Wild Mage
Ryan Examples
Examples:
Ryan Pet Cards
Ryan is gonna mix-it-up here and list some cards coming-soon-to-a-flex-spot
Wrong Turn
Double Major
Culling Ritual
Rise of the Dread Marn
Bolas’s Citadel
Chromatic Lantern
Search for Azcanta
Zack Pet Cards
Dustin Ivy - Shirei, Shizo’s Caretaker
Case Vickers - Mist-syndicate Naga
Zane - Glaring Spotlight.
Prophet - Trade Routes
CardTyrant - Sarkhan the Mad
Bill Toenjes - Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
We thought sharing some of our patrons' pet cards might help some folks out there in audience land, maybe get some creative juices flowing.
The flex spot is also a way to put your own personal touches in a deck.
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Ep 106 Community Spotlight:
Disclaimer: This is still very much a work in progress!
It’s called Classmander because you start with one of the 12 class cards in the Command zone:
Zack and Ryan discuss which class they would start with, and maybe look into what starting creature they would pick
Zack - Warlock Class
Cabal Initiate
Leech Fanatic
Promising Duskmage
Ranger
Norwood Ranger
Orochi Ranger
Ryan - Bard/Ranger/Rogue are tempting
I think we can have the same kind of tax on your class card, as you have on a normal Commander
The plan is also to start with a vanilla-ish creature in the Command zone, preferably of the same creature type as your class (Currently no Fighter or Sorcerer)
It might be cool to let characters multi-class after a certain level, plus this would allow for decks to be 3 or more colors.
By the end of the campaign (or maybe multiple campaigns) have a legendary creature, a class, and a 100 card singleton deck, hence the name Classmander.
The idea: Play many games of Classmander over a long period of time, similar to a D&D campaign length. Basically a TTRPG but instead of dice rolling to resolve combat, you play games of Magic.
We have 3 spreadsheets so far (see, it’s serious!)
Monster Manual
This is the least fleshed out bit so far.
You could also have a higher-level skeleton deck that runs cards like Skeletal Swarming and Death Baron
The idea for this is to create “encounter decks”, so for example you could have a skeleton deck with regenerating creatures, that the players will have to team up to get out of the way, because regenerating taps the creature
This is a spreadsheet with a tab for each class. I went through the exercise of creating the starting level 1 Cleric deck (I have added cards to some of the other Classes, but very few).
Cleric
Classmanders: Kitsune Diviner, Keepers of the faith, Samite Healer
The idea is for the deck to be as “bad” as possible at the start. The lower you start, the more you have to gain, and that’s going to be the fun part of this game, Character progression!
Avacyn's Collar
Healer's Headdress
Potion of Healing
Shield of the Realm
True-Faith Censer (see the flavor coming through!!!!)
Class Specific Cards
Fifty Feet of Rope
Adventuring Gear
Blazing Torch
Explorer's Scope
Dungeon Map
Cards that could go in ANY starting deck
Paladin's Shield
Sigil of Valor
Paladin
Sorcerer’s Wand
Sorcerer
Blinding Powder
Thieve’s Tools
Rogue
Class Guide
Rules Tab
Place to put all the general stuff
The idea here is that you can put any sort of equipment or artifact or book. You know, flavorful stuff like Bag of Holding. Basically people playing in pods/campaigns will ask to have certain cards they want to add to their decks added to the item list
Items Tab
Same idea as the items tab, but with creatures you want to add to your deck. Might start off with a base price for common, and then more for an uncommon, and more for rare, and more still for mythic Rare. Maybe legendary creatures cost a bunch? Still playing with this idea
Hirelings
The idea here is that we can have a Drizzt deck, or a Minsc deck. Some adventurer that can show up and either help the players, or be an obstacle.
NPCs
This is going to be a template, like the kind you print out for D&D characters, it’s still pretty rough currently.
Character Sheet
There isn’t much here, but the idea is that by level 20, which should be max level, you will have:
Starting life total of 40 (maybe we can let this go lower/higher based on class?)
7 Starting hand size
A cool legendary creature at the helm of your deck
Lots of sweet cards in your deck. We can even have some cards gifted to each character upon level up
Level Up Guide
Classmander Core Rulebook
Let’s flesh out the details a bit more
We do not have a campaign created, but would be cool if we eventually get there.
In the meantime, it might be fun to get a party together, and just play a few rounds against some of the encounter decks, and see what leveling up could look like
The idea here is that all good adventurers take the time to keep their skills sharp, so why not have a sparring match (Montage!) against 3 other players of similar level? Good way to gain experience, and maybe gold.
We’re gonna need a montage!
How do you get experience?
The plan is to let Patrons contribute to the spreadsheets. Ideally, a single patron could take on the challenge of creating the level 1 deck for a particular class.
Also, we plan to add a Slack channel, so that people can share ideas. Say, like Zane wants to make the Sorcerer deck, but maybe Andy Bentley has some ideas to share,
Do you want to get involved?
What do you think of this idea? Is this something you’d be interested in participating in? If so, hit us up on Patreon.com/commandersocial. Was this a fun/entertaining episode? Please let us know.
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Ep 105 Community Spotlight:
Read the Commander!
Decklist is here: https://www.moxfield.com/decks/RWbvf2Nxm06S7Q9erIlNTg
Deck genesis: Zack mentioned this card should be in my top 8 list, and it really should have! Not sure how I missed this. It’s kinda hard for me to say no to making a mono-red deck, and if you recall I talked about how Sword of Hearth and Home can do blink stuff in non-traditional colors. This lead me to see how mono-red Blink can work, and I think it can work pretty well!
Mindclaw Shaman!
Solemn Simulacrum (Note, Delina exiles, so we don’t get death triggers unless we have some sort of sac outlet.)
Emrakul’s Hatcher
Dire Fleet Daredevil
Fanatic of Mogis
Godo, Bandit Warlord (cause there is a bit of an equipment sub-theme)
Imperial Recruiter
Goblin Engineer
Vengeful Ancestor
Plundering Barbarian
Rapacious Dragon
Blink Targets
Liquimetal Torque
Burnished Hart
Pilgrim’s Eye
Ramp
Rogue’s Passage
Access Tunnel
Whispersilk Cloak
Trailblazer’s Boots
Zephyr Boots
Make Delina survive combat
Sword of Hearth and Home
Erratic Portal
Conjurer’s Closet
Mirror March (doesn’t work with tokens from Delina)
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Ep 104 Community Spotlight:
Disclaimer: There’s not going to be a lot of talk about Magic this episode, so please let us know what you think of the episode
How long you’ve been playing D&D, how long you’ve done the DM thing, I know you got a module published, etc etc
Murder at Myrefall (A Cabin created adventure)
Drivethroughrpg.com (place to get these books)
The Studied Summoner
Vorlen Publishing
Collaborations with Carlos
BJ’s credentials
History as it relates to D&D (Being the original that spawned the rest).
Different systems out there and what BJ is currently playing or has played.
Overview of TTRPG (Tabletop Roleplaying Games)
What are some things people can expect?
Common misconceptions?
Why get into D&D?
Bare minimum, books, dice, etc
I used to really enjoy reading the manuals when I was a kid
Pathfinder Society
Adventures League
No thank you evil (http://www.nothankyouevil.com/)
warhorn.net
Does the bare minimum differ if you plan on being the DM?
What people might want to think about getting down the road?
Aonprd.com
What people need to start
What is the right number of people to be in a group?
Define stuff up front: How often you want to play, etc etc
Testing out gameplay through Adventure League or Pathfinder Society.
Forming a Group
VTT (Virtual Tabletops like Roll20, Fantasy Grounds, Maptools, etc..)
Online Character Builders
Online Rules Resources
Online resources
What does it take to be a good DM?
Any tips for rookies just starting out on the DM path?
Setting expectations (IE What kind of campaign you’re running).
Being a Dungeon Master (DM)
What does it take to be a good player?
How a bad player can ruin the game for everyone (Not bad as in the don’t know the rules, but bad as in they are abusing the rules or the game itself for personal enjoyment).
Setting expectations (What are you looking to get out of the game?).
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Ep 102 Community Spotlight:
There’s already a bunch of new cards out in the Forgotten Realms Commander decks, but we didn’t include them in our top 8 lists.
It’s difficult to do these shows because of how close previews are getting to each other. We did last week’s show because we wanted to get something into your ears as soon as possible, but we also wanted to do our top 8 list once we knew all of the cards in the set. Hopefully this is the kind of content you want, let us know!
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Ep 101 Community Spotlight:
It’s hard to do the set review shows, because the cards come out so quickly, and we want to make sure we release an episode while things are still relevant. We’re going to do this differently than our Secret Top 8 lists, just keep it pretty casual. Please let us know which way you like it better.
Disclaimer: We’re talking about cards previewed up until Thursday July 1st
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