CommanderCast Ep 441 – All Aboard the (Life)Gain Train

Hello everyone and welcome to CommanderCast Episode 441! This week Mark and Adam are down to get some gains! Listen, your 40 point life total is puny and skeptical at best. Any who plays this format can take that chump change total to 0 without really a second thought. Would you like more? Doing you […]

Hello everyone and welcome to CommanderCast Episode 441! This week Mark and Adam are down to get some gains! Listen, your 40 point life total is puny and skeptical at best. Any who plays this format can take that chump change total to 0 without really a second thought. Would you like more? Doing you deserve more? Well today the guys are going to teach you how to go from that weakling who gets stuff to a life gaining god! But, first a quick look at a topic we recently came across from the guys over at the YouTube channel, Nitpicking Nerds. Is attacking a valid win condition anymore? Today we throw our hats into the ring and drop our options on the subject.

 

All that, plus our usual interstitial fodder, and all you have to do is Click the IB!!!

 

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CommanderCast Episode 441

Posted: May 17, 2021

 

Intros: 

 

Adam

 

Mark 

 

Keep up with the conversation on Facebook & Twitter.

 

Community

 

Our hot takes on the Nitpicking Nerds’ “Commander Metagame Breakdown (And Why attacking isn’t everything in EDH)”

Winning through combat isn’t as prevalent as most people think it is.
Most of the top deck archetypes on EDHREC don’t care about attacking
Ghostly Prison /pillowfort strategies in general aren’t proactive enough (and hence not really worth running)
Try swapping a Ghostly Prison effect for a board wipe and see if you notice the difference 

 

Interstitial fodder: 

Predators is a movie. The Predator (2018) is a truly terrible movie.
Black Science
Pour one out on the curb for Giant Bomb
The Sandman is just the best.

 

Strategy

Lifegain: amount of life gained vs. amount of Lifegain triggers

 

Commanders:

Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
Karlov of the Ghost Council
Oloro, Ageless Ascetic
Ayara, First of Locthwain
Ikra Shidiqi, the Usurper
Licia, Sanguine Tribune
Linden, the Steadfast Queen
Trostani, Selesnya’s Voice

 

Technology

 

Lifegain adjacent Tech

 

Aetherflux Reservoir
Alhammarret’s Archive
Camaraderie
Cosmos Elixir
Crested Sunmare
Death Cultist
Dread Presence
Hydroid Krasis
Light of Promise
Primeval Bounty
Resplendent Angel
Rhox Faithmender
Shamanic Revelation
Silversmote Ghoul
The Great Henge
Twilight Prophet
Valkyrie Harbinger
Whip of Erebos
Witch of the Moors
Zuran Orb

 

Outtro/Contacts:

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

Adam – (at)squire9999

 

Be sure to check out our CommanderCast Facebook page. 

 

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