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The Command Zone

The Best of the Year I #302

The Command Zone

Collected Company & Studio71

Hobbies, Leisure, Games

52.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 December 2019

⏱️ 69 minutes

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As the year comes to a close, we analyze what went right and wrong for Magic and the Commander format in 2019 and then we look ahead to 2020, to see what the future might hold. ---------- What we talked about on THE END STEP: Marvel Series on Netflix: Daredevil: https://www.netflix.com/title/80018294 Jessica Jones: https://www.netflix.com/title/80002311 Luke Cage: https://www.netflix.com/title/80002537 The Defenders: https://www.netflix.com/title/80002566 ---------- Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Greetings humans, you have entered the commons. Your destination for all aspects of Elder Dragon Highlander. Enjoy your stay.

0:11.0

Happy Holidays everybody! Happy Holidays and very close to a very happy new year. 2019 is almost

4:32.3

the most powerful commander in that set. But not the most popular which warms my heart actually.

4:36.3

Yeah, me too, I'm very glad. Guardian Project, wilderness reclamation, electro dominance and smothering

4:42.5

tithe also in that set. See that's really what's going to keep the trophy for me. This is that was it.

4:47.2

Smothering tithe. Can you believe that smothering tithe has only been in the commander format for

4:52.1

not even a full year now? Because I feel like I see it all the time. It's true. I've seen it all.

4:57.2

Yeah, it brought it like it like got into the format and got in every deck very quickly. Yeah, you know,

5:03.5

Edydric recently posted this amazing graph showing commanders over time and how they've spiked

5:07.4

in popularity and when the tracks it came out, whoo! Right to the top. In smothering tithe,

5:11.3

I think it has the same effect. Yeah, if they did that for cards in the 99, it would have just been

5:15.0

smothering tithe would have come out of nowhere and been like, boom, in the top squad immediately. Yeah.

5:19.8

A white horse, I guess, in this case. The next set that came out was in April. Oh, by the way,

5:24.8

that was the game that's that came back for, right? After my break, I think. Was that the first one?

5:28.4

Yeah, you're right. It was with DG and Vinnie. Yes. Okay, War of the Spark came out in April and

5:33.0

that one, the notable cards were Lilliana, the new, the crazy new planeswalker, the finale cycle,

5:39.1

which I haven't really seen much of in Commander. The God Eternal cycle, which we also got excited about,

5:43.3

but also hasn't really made a huge splash. Narset, part of Vales. Unfortunately, half in it. Half in it.

5:48.7

Half in a huge splash. Oh, I see that card way too much. Yeah, Jace, we able to have mysteries,

5:53.5

another lab man, div misery born. And of course, there was the awesome alternate art Japanese

5:58.0

planeswalkers that were all done by famous anime artists. You know, I have three booster boxes of

6:02.7

that Japanese in my, because my girlfriend happened to go to Japan on vacation without me during

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