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Adam is a longtime pro Magic player. He's been grinding away from back in the Junior Super Series and has since competed in a 26 Pro Tours and countless GPs. In this episode, Adam shares his sage wisdom with us about practicing the game, tournament prep, playing to win and mental heuristics.

Adam is a prolific writer on TCG Player and Quiet Speculation. He's also one of the coaches in the Pro Magic training group, Magic Mastermind team on Facebook. So if you want coaching from someone who has 165 pro points, Adam's your guy! (Btw, I keep checking back to how many Pro Points Adam has and it keeps going up.)

- Sam

 

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Music Credits: (in order of appearance)

Jahzzar - Siesta

Minden - Big Because

Minden - Gold Standard

Broke For Free - Things to Come

YEYEY - Wild Things

Christine Sprankle is the premier cosplayer in the Magic community. She brings life to the art we love by meticulously crafting her costumes. Christine has worked with many prominent artists such as Terese Nielsen, rk post, Steve Argyle, Eric Deschamps and Karla Ortiz.

Christine  loves what she does. And she loves to share the art of cosplay with everyone in the community. Christine has such a genuine heart. While editing her episode, I often found myself laughing along to her stories working with artists. She's a real inspiring person and I'm grateful to have her as part of our MTG community.

Please enjoy this very special interview with Christine, say hi to us on social media and please let me know what you thought of the interview!

Special thanks to Joey Pasco for sharing this photo with us. Say hi to him on Twitter @AffinityForBlue

- Sam

 

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If you liked some of the music in the episode, please check out and support these artists. Special thanks to Needle Drop Co. in Portland Oregon for allowing us to sample these tracks under the Creative Commons license.

Music Credits: (in order of appearance)

YEYEY - Wild Things

Minden - Gold Standard

Minden - Big Because

This week the guys talk about pre Pro Tour EMN magic. As always though, before they get to the MTG they talk about their weeks, escapades, and general nerd stuffs. Stick around until the end to hear KnifeCity miss making a huge mistake by mere seconds.

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Hello everyone and welcome to CommanderCast Episode 255! We’re your weekly source for Community, Strategy, and Technology, hosted on MTGcast.com and our homesite, CommanderCast.com! This week Mark is joined by Clay and Adam as they discuss when is it a good time to drop and older deck or card in favor of the newer hotness. 

 

 

 

 

CommanderCast Episode 255

Posted: August 1st, 2016

Intros: (No “favorite commanders segment”)

Clay

Mark

GUEST: Adam

Patreon

YouTube

REDDIT

Community:

Tired, Fired, and Retired: when & why you decide to put a deck out to pasture.

Adam:

Not fun for me anymore

Won’t work without becoming homogenous

Strategy:

How do you go about retrofitting/updating an old deck?  From scratch? Card-by-card? Just replace the old busted with the new hotness?

Adam:

Card -by-card

Evaluate new sets

Evaluate existing card lists for where a card may fit

Look for something to take the weakest card

Technology:

Breaking Up Is Hard to Do: discuss cards we used to love that have either been outclassed by new cards. (Give one pair of cards each and then talk about your feelings.  It’s OK, it’s 2016.  Nobody’s gonna judge… Well, maybe a little, but you can take it.)

Clay: OUT: Pacifism IN: Prison Term, OUT: Clone IN: Phyrexian Metamorph, OUT: Overrun  IN: Craterhoof Behemoth

Mark: OUT: Collective Unconscious, IN: Shamanic Revelation OUT: Clone, IN: Gigantoplasm

Adam: OUT: Sisay’s ring, IN: Hedron Archive; Out: Clone, IN: Clever Impersonator

Outtro/Contacts:

Guests:

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

Adam: (at)squire9999, [email protected]

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. Music for our show is the “X meets Heavy Metal” series by 331Erock. We’ll see you next week with more community, strategy, and technology. Until then, LET’S GET IT!

We couldn't have asked for a more exciting Pro Tour. Zombies!, delirium, CoCo, and my new favourite Izzet Machine Gun. What will you bring to Game Day this weekend?

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Posted August 10, 2016

Kessler and Ben break down the need-to-know basics of playing Tempo decks in Modern. This includes the history of tempo in the format, different key decks, the difference between tempo and combo, and the way different color combinations deal with being a part of a tempo deck. They then finish off their series of Deck Brews involving the 5 main tribes of Innistrad with Modern Vampires.

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So all good things come to an end. We looked at all possible ways to keep this going but unfortunately, we found no good answers. So I thank all the listeners, guests, hosting sites, and sponsors over the years. We have been putting out episodes for like 4 years or something like that. You all have been on the same journey we have just on a different end of it.

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The TriHards return in the wake of the Pro Tour!  Brian & Sean are joined by the Matt Hurley SoundBoard (patent pending) to to discuss every Magic player's role as an ambassador.  The guys also delve into Pro Tour news.  Did you just witness the End of an Era?  Which tech will prove its mettle?  Which TriHard will wear the crown in our Pro Tour Pick'em Challenge?  All that & more on this week's episode of TriHards!

Complete Pro Tour Sydney Coverage

SCG Regionals Lists

In the Elevator w Emrakul, the Promised End

3 Min to Brew w Vessel of Nascency

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Pro Tour Eldritch Moon is complete, and Emrakul  and Liliana are real things in Standard. We go over the Pro Tour, discuss our weeks, and look at what the meta-game will look like. Also Curtis wants to build an arcade cabinet. Let's hope for the best.

00:00 - Our Weeks

12:40 - Pro Tour Discussion

28:50 - Pop Culture Discussion

Cameron McCoy - @Cameron_McCoy

Curtis Nower - @CurtisNow

Dustin Gore

Our show - @SpikeFeedMTG

Music by Micah Jones

We're finally on Stitcher!

For episode 24, Geoff Moes (@ThallidTosser on Twitter), Nat Moes (@GrandpaBelcher), Josh Chapple (@joshchapple), and Andy “Brass Man” Probasco (@tmdbrassman) look at some recent Vintage Magic: The Gathering results, namely the recent MTGO Power 9 Challenge, and the Team Serious Open. It’s one of our longest episodes ever, and we have lots of detail and discussions of the decks, and their relation to the Vintage metagame.

Here’s the timestamped table of contents for your listening ease and enjoyment:

0:00:27 – Power Nine Challenge and Team Serious Split Format Recap

1:02:05 – Unsolved Mysteries of the VSL

1:02:28 – Deck Choice in Vintage

1:29:56 – Pizza!

Total runtime – 1:38:49

 

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