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Hello everyone and welcome to CommanderCast Episode 210! We’re your weekly source for Community, Strategy, and Technology, hosted on MTGcast.com and our homesite: CommanderCast.com! We’re recording this on July 30th, 2015! This week, William, Mark, and Clay are joined by Travis of Twitch streaming fame. The guys talk about the Commander Rotisserie Draft and then move in on giving out some helpful advice to newer players. First they talk about how to build decks and then the guys follow it up with a Commander Beginner’s Tool Kit.
All this and more await with the click of an IB!

Commandercast Episode 210
July 30th, 2015
Guests:
Travis – Team Mana Deprived Streamer
Favorite Commanders This Week:
Travis – Lazav, Dimir Mastermind
Mark – Rhys the Redeemed (‘The Other 99’ version – i.e., Centaur Glade is too cool not to play)
Clay – Sidisi, Brood Tyrant
William – Karrthus, Tyrant of Jund
Weekly Schedule
Monday – Commandercast Prime
Tuesday – Journey to Somewhere/Deckbuilder’s Spotlight
Wednesday – Strategy
Thursday – Free For All Articles/Rival’s Duel and The Stack, w/ Uncle Landdrops & Grandpa Growth
Friday – Technology
Dodo Bird videos the first of every month!
Community: #EDHROTO !
Loser’s Finals (William, Travis, Daniel, and Vash)
Winner’s Finals (Tom, Jason, Archie, and Adam)
#HOMEVERSION
Strategy:
How would we teach people who are new to Commander how to build their first deck?
Technology: Beginner’s Staple Box!
William – Vandalblast, Ulvenwald Tracker
- Gas to Go: Deathreap Ritual, Shadows of the Past, Stroke of Genius
Clay –
- Cheap mana rocks/color fixing – Signets, Cluestones, Banners, Commander’s Sphere/Darksteel Ingot/Chromatic Lantern
- “Second Chance” cards – Life from the Loam, Eternal Witness, Regrowth, cards with Flashback or Dredge
- Modal, Versatile spells – Commands, Charms, Entwine
Mark –
- Alternate casting costs: Snag, Abolish, Snuff Out
- Cheap(er) mana fixing that come in untapped: Pain lands, Check lands, Tainted lands, Odyssey Signet lands, Scars of Mirrodin Taplands, da’ Lairs, Graven Cairns, Nimbus Maze, River of Tears (‘cuz the rest of that cycle is redonkulously expensive).
- Target Swap cards: Shunt, Redirect, Imp’s Mischief
Outtro/Contacts:
William – Email: wiehernandez(at)gmail(dot)com // twitter: (at)blueram1409
Mark – Email: captainredzone(at)gmail(dot)com // twitter: (at)CaptainRedZone
Clay – Email: EDHPanda(at)gmail(dot)com // Twitter: (at)EDHPanda // Stream Twitch, Tumblr, Twitter: (at)Pandalpaca
Travis – Email: SemulinJones@gmail.com // Twitter: (at)Semulin // Twitch twitch.tv/Semulin
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