Posted by ANDY aka GHoooSTS
Otherwise, this week is the same CommanderCast stuff that we do every week. Your opinion on that being a good or bad thing is obviously subjective, but you're here for a reason I assume.
Show notes and links below.
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SHOW NOTES
00:00 to 06:30: Intro: Andy, Carlos, Byron and Nick introduce themselves and provide some quick news tidbits related to CommanderCast.
06:39 to 15:57: Free-For-All-Roundtable: Partial Paris Mulligans: Believe it or not, Partial Paris mulligans are actually a formalized part of the EDH rules. If you're not playing with it, you're house-ruling it. Did you know that? Apparently, lots of people don't. We're discussing the value of this mulligan system on the roundtable today.
06:39 to 15:57: Free-For-All-Roundtable: Partial Paris Mulligans: Believe it or not, Partial Paris mulligans are actually a formalized part of the EDH rules. If you're not playing with it, you're house-ruling it. Did you know that? Apparently, lots of people don't. We're discussing the value of this mulligan system on the roundtable today.
16:09 to 33:57: Community: Tournaments: Between the Casualness Inquisition calling everyone with cards better than Craw Wurm a douschebag and the EDH Mafia predating on your local event, Commander tournaments have caught a bit of a bad rap. Can these be good? How can you promote a local EDH tournament? What other issues revolve around the notion of a 'casual format tournament'?
34:09 to 35:50: Community: Spotlight: Muse Vessel: Do you like casual Magic? What about things that are awesome? If so, you should probably check out the Muse Vessel, a new MTG blog that's on-point when it comes to the casual multiplayer realm. I don't actually even care about your answer to the first two questions, just go scope 'em.
36:06 to 53:08: Strategy: Hosers: When we talk Hosers, we don't mean Canadians (necessarily). Instead we're looking at cards that are often considered 'too narrow' because their effects might not do much in a given game, but Nick is on to a different theory. Beyond actually using them, WHEN should you use them, and which ones?
53:22 to 54:50: Technology: Break My Card: It's our new thing on Twitter. STRICTLY for our followers there because before this our e-mail guys got all the love (and the contest). Here's how it works:
- Once a week, I give you a single card. It can be anything.
- You let me know how to use it via Twitter. It has to be in one Tweet. You can use short versions, abbreviations, and acronyms, but if I can't decipher them you're busted. You can't send a second tweet, e-mail, or telegraph to explain what you mean.
- You have to tell me what Commander will be in charge of the deck the card is used in. After that, you can say whatever; a combo? Some synergies? The type of deck it works in best? It's up to you to do something awesome with the card.
55:06 to 75:48: Technology: Secret RECKLESS Tech: This Secret Tech, Nick is uppercutting your brain RIGHT IN THE NECK with some card selections. We are actually unleashing such torrents of Tech that it becomes uncontrolled at one point with us wildly spewing Tech all over the place, resulting in an uncontrolled Tech spill. Thus, this is actually RECKLESS Tech.
Nick's Picks:
Common: Avenging Druid, Syphon Mind, Spreading Seas
Uncommon: Necromancy, Thornbite Staff, Constant Mists
Rare: Quicksilver Amulet, Bonehoard, Inferno (be advised: may kill guys who aren't even playing)
76:10 to closing: Outtro.
PERTINENT LINKS
- The Judgebreaker decklist.
- Here's the rules on Partial Paris, and here's a video explaining it.
- Here's Adam's proposed change to the system.
- Another link to the Muse Vessel, because it's awesome.
- Luke Sonnier's Cast Through Time article about MtG podcasts in general.
- 02drop.com, where you can find Nick writing 'There Can Only Be Fun'.
CONTACT INFORMATION
- To E-Mail Andy: CommanderCast(at)gmail(dot)com
- To E-Mail Carlos: cag5383(at)gmail(dot)com
- To E-Mail Byron: surgingchaos19(at)gmail(dot)com
- To Tweet CommanderCast: (at)CommanderCast on Twitter
Four people just seems too many. I think three is a good number for people on a podcast. Perhaps others disagree. It wasn't *bad* with four, but it just seemed like there was less time for each person to fully express himself.
ReplyDeleteOther than that, a very solid show. I look forward to the next!
Whenever I play EDH the paris mulligan rule is totally acknowledged.... but of cause not liked by everybody.
ReplyDeleteIn my experience the partial-mulligan basically says in most cases: "Reshuffel all your non-land cards and draw..."
As it is in most cases a mulligan to prevent manascrew, or gives you more mana in a format where more mana is needed!
Of cause I encounter player who dislike it at all... our solution is in most cases to let them choose before they draw their opening hand. If they rather want a free mulligan with the normal mulligan rules. Or if they want the partial paris. So everybody is normally happy.
As this is a casual format it doesn't really matter who gains a little edge here, as long as everybody is happy!
I prefer the partial paris, for the aforementioned help not to get manascrewed!
Yours Dominik
from www.completelycasual.net
Partial Paris is too confusing. My play group just plays with "mulligan until you get a playable hand".
ReplyDeleteHey Spezza, get off these here boards and start getting some points for me in my fantasy pool! :p
ReplyDeleteI think the partial paris is there to help get around mana screw but the combo players have been able to abuse it slightly in their favor. Liek Andy said, the ones who want to game the system will find a way no matter what.
My suggestion would be to take a page from my playgroup back in '94 and allow people to do a free full mulligan if they have 1 land, no land or all land, providing they reveal their hand to you before they ship it. Back then we used to allow people to do it twice.
The one change I would make to the above rule in order to save time (because shuffling when everyone has eleventy-billion tutors is kind of pointless anyway) would be to just pitch the original 7 after revealing them and draw 7 more. Draw until you have a hand that fits the outlined criteria and then put the rest on the bottom.
Anyway, those are my ideas and yes...if it wasn't printed in The Dark it's not as good! Go Inferno!
-Wheel_of_Armageddon
Holy balls, guys. That judgebreaker deck looks AWESOME! Thanks for sharing that, it made my brain bleed just from reading the decklist. I'd love to build a facsimile of it, minus a few of the really old and expensive cards ($40 for Guardian Beast? NO WAY!) that I don't have.
ReplyDeleteIt looks fun as hell to play, though.