Commandercast Episode 254 – The New Beginning
Description
Hello everyone and welcome to CommanderCast Episode 254! 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 Calvin and Adam as they talk about how to fix Archenemy, and suggest a few cards for a werewolf deck.
CommanderCast Episode 254
Posted: July 25th, 2016
Intros: (No “favorite commanders segment”)
Calvin
Mark
GUEST: Adam
Community:
Free-for-all-Roundtable – “How to Fix Archenemy”
Adam:
- Sales – new cards that are actually relevant
- Play
- Maybe do multiple roles
- Ability to switch roles midgame
Strategy:
Best Discard/Hand-disruption strategies:
See Calvin’s ill-fated “Hellbent & Unleash” Rakdos deck (to be filed under “this looked better on paper”).
Adam:
- Cao Cao http://tappedout.net/mtg-articles/2015/jan/6/commander-compulsion-4/
- Madness
- Bottomless Pit
- Cunning Lethemancer
- Necrogen Mists
- Win cons
- Megrim
- Bloodchief Ascension
- Liliana’s Caress
- Waste Not
- Results
- Very slow
- If had the chance, very oppressive
- Nath might be a better way to go because ramp and tokens to add win con
Technology:
Entourage: Werewolves! (with Ulrich, maybe): Making a Werewolf deck that doesn’t suck. (Everybody gets three cards–or two, if we’re running a five-person show)
Calvin: Instigator Gang, Five-Alarm Fire
Clay: Pyreheart Wolf, Full Moon’s Rise, Ulrich’s Kindred
Mark: Huntmaster of the Fells, Master of the Wild Hunt, Wren’s Run Packmaster
Adam: Howlpack Resurgence, Silverfur Partisan – Blades of Velis Vel, Warrior’s Lesson, Immerwolf
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
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