The Golden Mean of Roster Building

Despite talking through commander reputations, deck rankings, and lightning rods in the zone on previous episodes, Kyle still has a commander who notoriously gets him focused on. He sits down with Andy to hash out why he thinks that is rightfully happening and they suss out how some commanders are lending to a management philosophy of direct focus because of what some contemporarily designed commanders are designed to do. As always, find deck lists and card lists from the podcast on the Discord server’s #lists-from-the-pod channel. Be sure to check out . ------------------- Join the community on Patreon: Check out old shit on YouTube: ------------------- The intro and outro music in this episode comes courtesy of the artist Makeup and Vanity Set. Be sure to support them! –   

The drill here is for our listeners to provide their lists for commanders who have under just 500 decks being referenced on EDHREC for data for that commander. In an era where Atraxa and the other top commander are rocking tens of thousands of lists, you truly are drinking that hipster moose juice when your commander isn’t cracking 500 lists. So let’s see what the listeners are doing to stay unique. As always, find deck lists and card lists from the podcast on the Discord server’s #lists-from-the-pod channel. Be sure to check out . ------------------- Join the community on Patreon: Check out old shit on YouTube: ------------------- The intro and outro music in this episode comes courtesy of the artist Makeup and Vanity Set. Be sure to support them! –  

Our relationship with the Magic: the Gathering product ebbs and flows and we’re all prone to patterns that place on the path of fatigue or the precipice of drifting away from the game. So how do we find a happy middle ground? Andy guides a discussion of life and death cycle of decks and how that impacts roster building and through personal experience juxtaposed with Kyle’s explores what it might not look like to have a happy relationship with the product and constructing a roster of decks that bring joy. As always, find deck lists and card lists from the podcast on the Discord server’s #lists-from-the-pod channel. Be sure to check out . ------------------- Join the community on Patreon: Check out old shit on YouTube: ------------------- The intro and outro music in this episode comes courtesy of the artist Protector 101. Be sure to support them!  –  

You know the drill. Our listeners along with Andy and Kyle have a group of cards we’re all paying attention to from the Bloomburrow set that we are planning to acquire or throw into our existing decks. Let the cuteness continue. As always, find deck lists and card lists from the podcast on the Discord server’s #lists-from-the-pod channel. Be sure to check out . ------------------- Join the community on Patreon: Check out old shit on YouTube: ------------------- The intro and outro music in this episode comes courtesy of the artist Makeup and Vanity Set. Be sure to support them! –   

The cuteness continues as we dive into the review of new legends from Bloomburrow! Our listeners have all the new legal commanders reviewed for you so you can find new ideas for the legends you haven’t gotten around to considering yet. This is part two of our review, so be sure to check out part one for the initial sequence in the color cycle of legends. Below are the legends you’ll find in this episode, in the following order: Alania, Divergent Storm Bria, Riptide Rogue Camellia, the Seedmiser Hazel of the Rootbloom The Odd Acorn Gang Ygra, Eater of All Mabel, Heir to Cragflame Clement, the Worrywort Wick, the Whorled Mind Baylen, the Haymaker Helga, Skittish Seer Mr. Foxglove Ms. Bumbleflower Flubs, the Fool Arthur, Marigold Knight Zinnia, Valley's Voice Glarb, Calamity's Augur As always, find deck lists and card lists from the podcast on the Discord server’s #lists-from-the-pod channel. Be sure to check out . ------------------- Join the community on Patreon: Check out old shit on YouTube: ------------------- The intro and outro music in this episode comes courtesy of the artist Home. Be sure to support them! –  

Take off your cowboy hats and dust off your fur, on the Bloomburrow we go! Our listeners have all the new legal commanders reviewed for you so you can find new ideas for the legends you haven’t gotten around to considering yet. As we are reviewing in two parts, all the legends you’ll find in this episode are listed below. Check out part two for the rest. Beza, the Bounding Spring Eluge, the Shoreless Sea Kitsa, Otterball Elite Maha, Its Feathers Night Dragonhawk, Fate's Tempest Lumra, Bellow of the Woods Kastral, the Windcrested Vren, the Relentless Gev, Scaled Scorch The Infamous Cruelclaw Bello, Bard of the Brambles Hugs, Grisly Guardian Muerra, Trash Tactician Wildsear, Scouring Maw Byrke, Long Ear of the Law Finneas, Ace Archer Zoraline, Cosmos Caller As always, find deck lists and card lists from the podcast on the Discord server’s #lists-from-the-pod channel. Be sure to check out . ------------------- Join the community on Patreon: Check out old shit on YouTube: ------------------- The intro and outro music in this episode comes courtesy of the artist Home. Be sure to support them! –   

We all have an understanding that commanders can serve different roles for a deck, whether as a strategy or providing benefit for implementing a strategy. But Andy proposes that we give some attention to the idea that some commanders can get us started, but can then be abandoned as the strategy gets going. Andy shares a variety of decks that exemplify this idea of a commander that can provide resources to get rolling, but that don’t need to be present for success. As always, find deck lists and card lists from the podcast on the Discord server’s #lists-from-the-pod channel. Be sure to check out . ------------------- Join the community on Patreon: Check out old shit on YouTube: ------------------- The intro and outro music in this episode comes courtesy of the artist Makeup and Vanity Set. Be sure to support them! –   

With each set we get preconstructed commander decks to get us started on the path of a new experience. But if you're looking for something with more of an LCP flavor, join us for this continuation of our starter deck series. Andy gets us up to date with what he’s been up to with his classic Nezahal, Primal Tide deck and shares a solid starter deck that can get you started on building a comparable experience on a budget. As always, find deck lists and card lists from the podcast on the Discord server’s #lists-from-the-pod channel. Be sure to check out . ------------------- Join the community on Patreon: Check out old shit on YouTube: ------------------- The intro and outro music in this episode comes courtesy of the artist Protector 101. Be sure to support them!  –

Winning is a key element of Magic: the Gathering, but it’s an unusual proposition in commander. That unusual space can make for varied expectations and feelings about winning. Kyle and Andy talk about the fine line between playing the game and being realistic about what we can achieve in this format while enjoying being at a table with friends. As always, find deck lists and card lists from the podcast on the Discord server’s #lists-from-the-pod channel. Be sure to check out . ------------------- Join the community on Patreon: Check out old shit on YouTube: ------------------- The intro and outro music in this episode comes courtesy of the artist Home. Be sure to support them! Makeup and Vanity Set – https://makeupandvanityset.bandcamp.com/ –   

We've got a guest joining us today in Joey of EDHRECast. Joey joins to get deep with us as we talk about commanders who tend to earn the ire of opponents before the game even starts. We get into the various ways a commander may call for attention despite the game actions playing out in front of us and how many of those commanders may fit better into the 99 of some decks. As always, find deck lists and card lists from the podcast on the Discord server’s #lists-from-the-pod channel. Be sure to check out . ------------------- Join the community on Patreon: Check out old shit on YouTube: ------------------- The intro and outro music in this episode comes courtesy of the artist Makeup and Vanity Set. Be sure to support them! –