CommanderCast Ep 486 – Backgrounds in BfBG

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Hello everyone and welcome to CommanderCast Episode 486! This week Mark and Adam are moving forward and taking a look at one of the newest subtype of cards from Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur’s Gate, Backgrounds! First we take a moment to look at some of the recent information we got from the upcoming set Double Masters 2022! We then take a quick look at about half of the new Background cards from Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur’s Gate. We wrap things up with a quick look at pairing up some of the “Choose a Background” Legendary creatures with some of the best Background enchantments.

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

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CommanderCast Episode 486

Posted: June 27, 2022

Intros:

GUEST HOST: Stephen

Mark

Keep up with the conversation on Facebook & Twitter.

Community

Dean’s Commander Sealed 2022 event is officially up to 256 players!

Topic: a little Double Masters 2022 talk & EDH leagues

The NexGen EDH League just wrapped up a 12 month season that started last July and is on hiatus for 6 months. The point system Steve uses for NexGen Comics’ league has been adopted by Lost Coast Wizards in California. Steve will be working over the next half year to line up additional stores to try to get additional leagues to start up next January all using the same point system.

Interstitial fodder:

• Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin
• YouGov’s poll: “Dungeons and Dragons: Americans are most likely to be ‘Neutral Good’”
  • See also: FiveThirtyEight’s “Where Americans Fall On The D&D Alignment Chart”
• Stephen’s latest card alters
• Stephen’s Marvel movie rewatch

Strategy

Part 1: All the Backgrounds!! (so, really, half of the backgrounds)

White

• Far Traveler
• Flaming Fist
• Folk Hero
• Inspiring Leader
• Noble Heritage
• Veteran Soldier

Blue

• Candlekeep Sage
• Clan Crafter
• Dungeon Delver
• Feywild Visitor
• Shameless Charlatan
• Sword Coast Sailor

Black

• Agent of the Iron Throne
• Agent of the Shadow Thieves

*To be continued next week!

Technology

Pairing up “Choose a Background” Legendary creatures with some of these Background enchantments

Stephen’s top 3 picks:

• Servok, Deathbringer & Raised By Giants
• Erinis, Gloom Stalker & Scion of Halaster
• Vhal, Candlekeep Researcher & Clan Crafter

Mark’s top 3 picks:

• Zellix, Sanity Flayer + Haunted One
• Sivriss, Nightmare Speaker + Street Urchin
• Shadowheart, Dark Justiciar + Cloakwood Hermit

Outtro/Contacts:

GUEST: Steve – Email: ardentscribbler(at)gmail.com and you can check out his columns every Monday morning on CoolStuffInc.com.

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

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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!