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Now displaying: February, 2021

Commander Social is a podcast about the Magic: the Gathering variant, Commander! Your hosts Ryan, and Zack attempt to entertain you with interesting anecdotes about the game of Magic, including their experience running a Commander league.

Check Us Out on Youtube at https://www.youtube.com/commandersocial

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/commandersocial/

Contact us on Twitter @commandersocial
Ryan - @greenegeek
Zack - @z4ck38

Email: cast@commandersocial.com

Feb 24, 2021
  1. Patreon
    1. Patreon Contest - Which Magic card has the most metal name? You could win a Kaldheim collector’s booster.
    2. We’re streaming with patrons most Thursdays now, so watch out for the message on slack to sign up to be eligible for that week. 
    1. Ryan - @greenegeek
    2. Zack - @z4ck38
    3. Together - @commandersocial  
  2. You can find us on Twitter
    1. https://store.mothershipatx.com
    2. SOCIALSHIP - free shipping on orders of $50 or more
    3. SOCIAL10 - 10% off in stock MTG singles
      1. https://discord.gg/MMXQJqf
    4. Thursday nights come play at mothership!
  3. Our LGS has setup an online store!
    1. @MothershipGames - 2:43
  4. Ep 84 Community Spotlight:
    1. What is a warm blanket card? 
      1. Pretty much a reactionary card that can save your bacon. These will be at instant speed for the most part.
    2. There’s nothing quite like that feeling when you’re holding one of these cards. Yeah, things can still go wrong for you, and yes counterspells exist, but knowing that you’ve got a plan for whatever comes you way, brings me a warm snuggly type feeling.
    3. These types of cards are one of the big reasons I like playing at instant speed
    4. Running a lot of these cards can bog your deck down, and they aren’t often great in aggro style decks. You want to make sure you don’t go too far overboard with these, because you can be left with a deck that “can’t loose” but doesn’t really have a “plan to win” and some folks don’t enjoy playing against decks like that.
    5. Ways to protect your board, or protect your combo could go here as well.
      1. One of the benefits of cards like this is that you only use them when you need to. 
      2. This is kinda the other side of the boardwipe coin. Basically, most boardwipes, you have to divine your opponent’s intentions, and go ahead and use them if the board is getting a little bit messy, or if you’re in a meta with a bunch of “wild cards”. With these types of cards, you only use them when you’re being attacked. 
      3. If you’re known for playing cards like this, people may less often attack into you when you’ve got open mana. This is pure gravy when you have other things you can do with your mana at instant speed, like say cast a stunt double, or activate Kenrith, the Returned King. Vedalken Orrery is a good card for a reason.
      4. Often times, these cards can catch opponents unaware, and really leave them open for business
    6. Building a reputation for “Always having an answer”
      1. White
        1. Teferi’s Protection
        2. Swords to Plowshares/Path to Exile
        3. Comeuppance
        4. Selfless Squire
        5. Reverse Damage
        6. Honorable Passage
        7. Eye for an Eye
        8. Selfless Spirit
        1. Counterspells
        2. Illusionist’s Gambit
        3. Aetherize
        4. Evacuation
        5. Cyclonic Rift
        6. Misdirection
        7. Commandeer
      2. Blue
        1. Sudden Spoiling
        2. Darkness
        3. Simulacrum
        4. Imp’s Mischief 
      3. Black
        1. Chaos Warp
        2. Electrodominance
        3. Tibalt’s Trickery
        4. Sneak Attack
      4. Red
        1. Constant Mists
        2. Arachnogenesis
        3. Spike Weaver + Genesis in your graveyard
        4. Obscuring Haze
        5. Crop Rotation + Maze of Ith
      5. Green
        1. Deflecting Palm
        2. Ice-Fang Coatl
      6. Gold
        1. Trading Post
        2. Nuisance Engine
      7. Artifact
        1. Maze of Ith
        2. Kor Haven
        3. Kher Keep
        4. Glacial Chasm
      8. Land
    7. Examples
  5. Main Topic - Warm Blankets
  6. Summary - Are you a warm blanket enthusiast? Do you prefer to forgo stuff like this for more aggressive potential? What are some of your favorite blankets?
  7. Keep it Social!
    1. Komiku - Battle of Pogs
    2. https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
  8. Zack Gets it Together Theme
    1. Consider becoming a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/commandersocial
    2. You can check us out at commandersocial.com
    3. YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/CommanderSocial
    4. You can email us directly at cast@commandersocial.com
    5. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/commandersocial
    6. On twitter @commandersocial
      1. twitch.tv/greenegeek
    7. Ryan individually @greenegeek
    8. Zack individually @z4ck38
  9. Contact Info
  10. © Copyright 2021 Leaky Dinghy, LLC
Feb 10, 2021
  1. Patreon
    1. Patreon Contest - Which Magic card has the most metal name? You could win a Kaldheim collector’s booster.
    2. We’re streaming with patrons most Thursdays now, so watch out for the message on slack to sign up to be eligible for that week. 
    1. Ryan - @greenegeek
    2. Zack - @z4ck38
    3. Together - @commandersocial  
  2. You can find us on Twitter
    1. https://store.mothershipatx.com
    2. SOCIALSHIP - free shipping on orders of $50 or more
    3. SOCIAL10 - 10% off in stock MTG singles
      1. https://discord.gg/MMXQJqf
    4. Thursday nights come play at mothership!
  3. Our LGS has setup an online store!
    1. @MothershipGames - 7:47
    2. @scryfall - 12:01
  4. Ep 82 Community Spotlight:
    1. Of all the things I love in magic, Sultai, snow lands, and mana doubling are pretty high up there. So after Ryan and I spoke about Jorn, God of Winter last week it got my gears going and I built this deck.
    2. Disclaimer: This is the first draft, so I can’t guarantee it will work great, but I think it will be fun. I also want to note that this is 100% a combo deck, so keep that in mind.
    3. Decklist - https://archidekt.com/decks/1144778#Salty_Snow_Sultai
      1. Jorn, God of Winter // Kaldring, the Rimestaff
    4. Commander
      1. Maze of Ith
      2. Sculptor of Winter
      3. Rime Tender
      4. Frost Raptor
      5. Ice-Fang Coatl
    5. Commander Synergy
      1. Heartbeat of Spring
      2. Mana Reflection
      3. Dictate of Karametra
    6. Mana Doublers
      1. Horn of Greed
      2. Tatyova, Benthic druid
      3. Rhystic Study
      4. Consecrated Sphinx
      5. Stroke of Genius
    7. Draw
      1. Feed the Swarm
      2. Assassin's Trophy
      3. Vraska's Contempt
      4. Putrefy
      5. Force of Vigor
    8. Single Target Removal
      1. Dead of Winter
      2. Blood on the Snow
    9. Mass Removal
      1. Crop Rotation
      2. Sylvan Scrying
      3. Gyre Engineer
      4. The usual ramp package
    10. Ramp
      1. Fierce Guardianship
      2. Swan Song
      3. Mystic Confluence
      4. Mana Drain
      5. Negate
    11. Counterspells
      1. Vedalken Orrery
      2. Leyline of Anticipation
    12. Flex
      1. Sakura-Tribe Scout / Llanowar Scout / Skyshroud Ranger / Walking Atlas + Retreat to Coralhelm + Karoo Land
    13. Infinite Landfall
      1. Freed from the Real / Gyre Engineer
      2. Basalt Monolith / Rings of Brighthearth
      3. Infinite Landfall + Lotus Cobra
    14. Infinite Mana
      1. Infinite Turns
        1. Mystical Tutor + Seasons Past + Time Warp
        1. Sakura-Tribe Scout / Llanowar Scout / Skyshroud Ranger /Walking Atlas + Retreat to Hagra + Karoo Land
      2. Kill Table + Gain infinite Life 
        1. Infinite Landfall + Zendikar's Roil
      3. Infinite 2/2’s
    15. Other Combos
      1. Stroke of Genius + Thassa’s Oracle
      2. Torment of Hailfire
      3. Exsanguinate
    16. Mana Sinks
      1. Dark Depths + Thespian’s Stage
      2. Marit Lage's Slumber
    17. Other WinCons
      1. Glacial Revelation
      2. Aqueous Form
      3. Tyrite Sanctum
      4. Sunstone
      5. Mouth of Ronom
      6. Narfi, Betrayer King
    18. Cards Ryan would add!
      1. Winter Orb
      2. Static Orb
      3. Back to Basics
    19. If you want to be mean:
  5. Main Topic - Salty Snow Sultai
  6. Summary - So this is my combo-tastic mana doubling seems totally fun to me. Yes there are a lot of combos, but they all require quite a bit of setup and you can scale the power up or down based on the number of tutors you run by removing some of the combos we talked about and adding other good stuff. 
  7. Keep it Social!
    1. Komiku - Battle of Pogs
    2. https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
  8. Zack Gets it Together Theme
    1. Consider becoming a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/commandersocial
    2. You can check us out at commandersocial.com
    3. YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/CommanderSocial
    4. You can email us directly at cast@commandersocial.com
    5. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/commandersocial
    6. On twitter @commandersocial
      1. twitch.tv/greenegeek
    7. Ryan individually @greenegeek
    8. Zack individually @z4ck38
  9. Contact Info
  10. © Copyright 2021 Leaky Dinghy, LLC
Feb 3, 2021
  1. Patreon
    1. Patreon Contest - Which Magic card has the most metal name? You could win a Kaldheim collector’s booster.
    2. We’re streaming with patrons most Thursdays now, so watch out for the message on slack to sign up to be eligible for that week. 
    1. Ryan - @greenegeek
    2. Zack - @z4ck38
    3. Together - @commandersocial  
  2. You can find us on Twitter
    1. https://store.mothershipatx.com
    2. SOCIALSHIP - free shipping on orders of $50 or more
    3. SOCIAL10 - 10% off in stock MTG singles
      1. https://discord.gg/MMXQJqf
    4. Thursday nights come play at mothership!
  3. Our LGS has setup an online store!
    1. @MothershipGames - 5:40
    2. @LennyWooley - 11:06
    3. @scryfall - 11:06
    4. @dpkrausejr - 16:45
    5. @algenpfleger - 29:23, 31:17
    6. @danaroach - 48:43
  4. Ep 82 Community Spotlight:
    1. Disclaimer: We aren’t including the Pathway lands in our lists
    2. Set the over/under - Zack’s turn to set it
  5. Main Topic - Kaldheim Top 8
  6. Summary - How did we do? What are your top 8 cards from Kaldheim? What cards did we totally miss?
  7. Keep it Social!
    1. Komiku - Battle of Pogs
    2. https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
  8. Zack Gets it Together Theme
    1. Consider becoming a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/commandersocial
    2. You can check us out at commandersocial.com
    3. YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/CommanderSocial
    4. You can email us directly at cast@commandersocial.com
    5. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/commandersocial
    6. On twitter @commandersocial
      1. twitch.tv/greenegeek
    7. Ryan individually @greenegeek
    8. Zack individually @z4ck38
  9. Contact Info
  10. © Copyright 2021 Leaky Dinghy, LLC
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