MTGCast

Hello everyone and welcome to CommanderCast Episode 256! We’re your weekly source for Community, Strategy, and Technology, hosted on MTGcast.com and our homesite, CommanderCast.com! This week Mark & Clay are joined by Nick to discuss house rules, mastering the art of the "Rube Goldberg" deck, and what ended up being an unfortunately-titled Technology segment.  See what happens when you try to get cute when naming these things?  

 

 

 

 

CommanderCast Episode 256

Posted: August 8th, 2016

Intros: 

Clay

Mark

GUEST: Nick

Patreon

YouTube

REDDIT

Community: Free-for-all-Roundtable - “House Rules!”  What’s the equivalent of “Free Parking” in your meta?  What happens when house rules butt up against the Rules Committee?  And, of course, the most contentious of all house rules: to allow takesies-backsies or not?

Mulligans?

House Bans?

Strategy:

Mastering the art of the  “Rube Goldberg” Deck (or, somebody please teach me how to assemble the Station Combo in less than four hours).

Kurkesh, the Lord of “Build-a-Combo” 

Technology:

Best/Favorite Achilles’ Heel cards (think “best Red card draw” or “best Blue removal spells”; the best cards in a color’s weakest area).

Clay: Blue “LD”: Back to Basics, Mana Breach // White Card Draw: Bygone Bishop, Mentor of the Meek

Mark: Blue exile effects: Curse of the Swine, Reality Shift // Green control: Hall of Gemstone // Green counterspell: Avoid Fate

Nick: Song of the Dryads, Chaos Warp, Land Tax, Wayfarer’s Bauble, artifact destroy effects (OStone, Disk, All is Dust, etc), Outpost Siege

Outtro/Contacts:

Guests:

Nick - "blindfremen" (in the forums), and you can check out his work on the Anime Summit podcast.  

CommanderCast  - Email: commandercast(at)gmail(dot)com // twitter: (at)Commandercast

Rachel - Email: Wiehernandez(at)gmail(dot)com // twitter: (at)Blueram1409

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

Clay - Email: EDHPanda(at)gmail(dot)com // twitter: (at)EDHPanda // Stream on Twitch: Pandalpaca (on twitter as (at)Pandalpaca)

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

Be sure to check out our CommanderCast Facebook page. You can also tweet us (at)CommanderCast or email us at CommanderCast(at)gmail(dot)com. You can leave us a review on iTunes, and we’ll read off any 5-Star reviews on air!

If you like what we do here please consider supporting us on Patreon. Some of you are donating already and I’m really touched that people out there think we’re worth it. Thank you so much.

And a big thanks to everyone here at the CommanderCast Network, too. You’re all fantastic friends. We’ll see you next week with more community, strategy, and technology. Until then, LET’S GET IT!

After his shame of losing a rap battle, Cameron returns having not played Magic. Curtis, on the other hand, plays some Jeskai tokens. We go over some of the cards from conspiracy, talk about Puca Trade 2.0, and go over Stranger Things. Thank you for your honor.

00:00 - Our Weeks

08:40 - Conspiracy Talk and Puca Trade

30:35- Pop Culture Discussion

Cameron McCoy - @Cameron_McCoy

Curtis Nower - @CurtisNow

Our show - @SpikeFeedMTG

Music by Micah Jones

We're finally on Stitcher!

Kevin Cron and Steve Menendian review Conspiracy 2, and take a look at the evolving Vintage metagame heading into the 2016 Vintage Championship, including the recent results of The Mana Drain Open 17.

Contact us at @ManyInsanePlays on Twitter or e-mail us at [email protected].

0:01:00: Announcements: Eternal Weekend 2017, Understanding Gush 3rd Edition, Upcoming Events

0:20:00: Conspiracy 2 Mechanics

0:29:00: Sanctum Prelate

1:03:00: Daretti, Ingenious Iconoclast

1:20:45: Kaya, Ghost Assassin

1:43:30: Leovold, Emissary of Trest

1:57:45: Subterranean Tremors

2:01:00: Recruiter of the Guard

2:05:00: The Mana Drain Open 17 Results

2:24:00: Metagame Update

2:30:00: Eldritch Moon impacts

Links:

- So Many Insane Plays – Episode 43 – Gitaxian Probillard

- Eternal Weekend 2017 Announcement

- Conspiracy 2 Spoiler

- The Mana Drain Open 17 Results

- Kevin's Tamiyo Deck from the Team Serious Invitational

- Kevin's Tamiyo Deck from RIW

Hosts Jeff (Karn) Entwistle, Greg (Silverback) Ockey and Steve (Blood Artist) Morrison.

Talking about Lore and the Colorado Magic happenings.

IT'S CONSPIRACY TIME, BOYZ!

So pack your daggers, watch your back, trust no-one, expect Recruiter of the Guard, our new lord and savior.

This week, we just go over the spoiler and giggle like two schoolgirls!

Intro

Recruiter of the week

Nikša: Karador, Recruiter Chieftan

Igor: Alesha, Who Smiles at Recruiter

http://mythicspoiler.com/

Outro - Do You Hear the People Sing? - Les Miserables OST

Show’s Facebook https://www.facebook.com/ElderDragonDurdle/?ref=aymt_homepage_panel

Igor’s Twitter https://twitter.com/BluestManInMtG

Igor’s TappedOut http://tappedout.net/users/Mishraharad/

Igor's PucaTrade https://pucatrade.com/profiles/show/5663

In this episode we cover our fate/experience at GP Columbus (mind you this was recorded in GP Columbus, better late than never) Enjoy!

Check us out at @cbc_cast

Welcome to another episode of TuskTalk with Sean'O Brien (Nedleeds), Brian Plattenberg (Alphastryke), Zack Wilson (Deeeeeeeeeeeeed) and Evan Nyquist (HymnYou). We reviewed the set when 50+ cards were spoiled. We may do a part 2 but doubtful since most of the new cards that weren't spoiled yet suck except new Grenzo (most goblins announced were sadly crappy low play value commons) and maybe a couple others. After we casted, Show and Tell and Berserk were announced to be reprinted in this set.

Team Tusk is a group of powerful wizards with a vast history contributing, and brewin' in the eternal community while enjoying exotic cooked meats. We are strictly focused on Legacy, Vintage and occasionally get to speak on 93/94.

Cards we review:

Fake Juzam (Archdemon of Paliano)

Kaya, Ghost Assassin

Chalice Man

Kuato, Ingenious Iconoclast (aka Daretti)

Leovoid, Emissiary of Trest (wtf?)

Recruiter of the Guard

Timecodes:

00:00 - Intro and return from Gencon

03:30 - Conspiracy Two: Dark Territory

04:40 - Reprints, IoK, Burning Wish

08:00 - Fake Juzam Flyer

12:00 - Kaya, Assassin who does not Kill

18:00 - Chalice Man

28:00 - Ringleaders are sick

33:00 - Why don't Slivers have a Ringleader?

34:00 - Daretti, Kuato Revealed

46:00 - Blue Elf One-Sided SotL Personal Howling Mine

52:00 - Eunuchs

55:00 - Aurochs ... a lost tribe

57:00 - Down with the King, the Monarch Emblem

62:00 - White Recruiter

72:00 - Vote or Die

73:00 - Understanding Ninjachant, and Deeeeeds

88:00 - Ghost Ship

90:00 - Creature type or not?

We discuss various topics in our conversation.

Link to Conspiracy spoilers:

http://mythicspoiler.com/

Episode 74 - Captain Jund

 

Introduction

Brought to you by Gamers Vault

www.gamersvaultonline.com

Facebook

@gamersvaultnj - twitter

Introduce Josh Peragine

-Josh tells viewers about himself

Keep or Mull

Grixis Burn (Dan Ward List)

GP Portland Top 8 Decklists

9-32 Decklists

Blue Green Crush - Cory Lingelbach

Jund Delirium - Christian Keeth

Abzan Planeswalkers - Pascal Maynard

4 Color Amalgam - Jim Collier

Listener question from J. J. Cronin

I'm interested to hear everyone's thoughts about this issue of competitive play and personal adversity. I know some players who are chomping at the bit to play in the next "big" event (PPTQ, Open, RPTQ, etc.) regardless of how they did and some who get discouraged after consistently poor performances at FNM's or PPTQ's where they take a step back from competitive Magic or the game altogether.  I don't think I've ever played a "tier 1" deck in standard yet have relied on slightly above average skill to usually go above .500 but never top 8. I try to play FNM every week, but sometimes it's every other week. I probably average between one to three standard leagues on MTGO a week. I often wonder if more testing/playing and also playing a tried and tested tier 1 deck is the reason I can't seem to get over the hump and top 8 my first PPTQ. I sort of have a maybe unrealistic goal of having the same habits but expecting different results in terms of spiking a PPTQ and eventually getting to the RPTQ or PT level. I'm debating taking a step back from non-FNM magic until the release of Kaladesh.  What are your thoughts and keys to success? How often do you take a look at your play beyond the sequences of games?

What are we up to this weekend?

Final thoughts

Eternal Extravaganza Satellite event - Saturday September 24th - Legacy 1k

Kaladesh pre-release at Gamers Vault

Coupon for cheap booster boxes

Conspiracy 2 release

Gamers Vault Schedule - Standard Monday, Legacy/Draft Tuesday, Modern Thursday, FNM Friday, Commander Saturday

Josh - Final thoughts and contact info

Drop us a line:

E-mail: [email protected]

Twitter: @Mtgstandards

MTGO - macnaughton9   Josh - CaptainSarang

Facebook - Join our closed group and discuss standard with other like minded people!

Let’s play a game at the Ally Encampment where we do whatever we can to make places that Magic the Gathering is played as inclusive and welcoming as possible.

Turn 2 looks like this:

Upkeep: Back from the Brink!

Draw: Eldritch Moon

Main Phase: Pre-releasing / Judges for Diversity

Combat: Canon LGBTQI characters in Magic

Declare blockers: Finding local playgroups at University

Post-combat main phase: PAX

Links mentioned in the cast:

Reid Duke quote on diversity in Magic

Women in magic judge conference panel

Athena Huey’s tips for effective discourse about Women in Magic

JudgeCast podcast

Anastacia Tomson on Diversity in Magic

Tumblr question on canonical LGBTI inclusion in cards and the cynical Vice article

Starting a P4D chapter

Planeswalkers for Diversity at PAX 

Contact us at:

Planeswalkers for Diversity contact form

Twitter: @mtgdiversity @e_jarrett @tqmurdock

http://www.twitter.com/yourendstep

http://www.facebook.com/atyourendstep