The Best Cards (In the 99) from Lost Caverns of Ixalan | The Command Zone 575 | MTG EDH Magic

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Show Notes:

The Lost Caverns of Ixalan are full of many mysterious wonders: ancient civilizations, vast treasure troves, fearsome monsters, and… Commander staples?! This episode, we’re breaking down the best cards (for the 99) from Magic’s latest set. Come see which cards are worth bringing to the surface to slot into your favorite decks! With a bit of spelunking, you’ll be dunking on your friends in no time.

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Relevant Links:

Limited Resources:

Lost Caverns of Ixalan w/ The Professor | Game Knights 66:

Most Powerful Commanders from Lost Caverns of Ixalan | The Command Zone 571:

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Timestamps:
00:00:00 - Intro
00:04:32 - In The 99 Analysis
00:05:45 - Bloodletter of Aclazotz
00:14:26 - Bonehoard Dracosaur
00:21:53 - Dauntless Dismantler & Charismatic Conqueror
00:29:22 - Illustrious Wanderglyph
00:34:14 - Inti, Seneschal of the Sun
00:38:11 - Kitesail Larcenist
00:47:07 - Matzalantli, the Great Door
00:53:24 - Ojer Pakpatiq, Deepest Epoch
00:58:06 - Ojer Taq, Deepest Foundation
01:06:34 - Pit of Offerings
01:15:14 - Redemption Choir
01:23:17 - Ripples of Potential
01:25:17 - Roaming Throne
01:44:23 - Squirming Emergence
01:49:06 - Tarrian's Journal
01:52:35 - The Everflowing Well
01:58:16 - The Millennium Calendar
02:06:05 - Tishana's Tidebinder
02:12:42 - New Interaction
02:28:43 - Our Favorite "In the 99" Card?
02:30:03 - Most Powerful "In the 99" Card?
02:33:49 - To the Listeners

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[commandcast]

What do you think about this set? Are you excited about it? What new cards slot in perfectly to your existing commander decks?

[Deeplight]

Notably with Myrim and Roaming Throne, ward is a triggered ability so each copy of roaming throne will make opponents pay multiple times to get past ward.

[Fibirdnacci-sequence]

Dracosaur fits into a neat little niche where it either gets instantly removed pulling hate away from your real threats, or it sticks around long enough to pull in a crazy amount of value over time.

[snakeman]

Sword of X and Y cycle doesn't get any benefit from Roaming Throne. The triggered abilities are on the swords themselves, not the equipped creatures.

[sheahon]

As a small point of fact, Bronzebeak Foragers is actually the card that you and Prof played your game of chicken with at 20 minutes into the episode, Kitesail Larcenist is the card Jimmy used to protect his commander from his own Toxic Deluge at 1:18 minutes into the episode. Though both work similarly

[markturcotte]

Roaming Throne, goes straight into my Ayula deck. Beastmode.

[MysticLeviathan]

I’m surprised you didn’t mention at all that ojer taq’s ability only applies to creature tokens. to me, that’s the biggest issue of the card. not the cost or lack of protection. it’s comboing with smothering tithe and academy manufacturer and those types of cards that make token doublers so powerful. being limited to creature tokens is by far its biggest issue.

[walterwiffles]

One of my favourites from this set is the Roaming Throne. Going into about 5 of my decks. Such a good and versatile card.

[beningram]

11:05 When I was a kid we had a similar “escape from a room with no windows or doors” word puzzle thing. Ours involved a table though.

He’s trapped in a room, with no windows or doors, or exits of any sort. Just a table and you. How did he get out?

He looked around and saw. He used the saw to cut the table in half. Two half’s makes a whole. He crawled out of the hole, and ran away.

[Crowned_Goblin]

Ojer Taq fits really well in Atla Palani.

3 eggs can represent almost 18+ mana in value if all your creatures 6cmc or greater.

I tend to find this best because that’s the investment for Atla (4 cast + 2 tap)

[lenny-]

Millennium Calendar seems like a card that was printed solely because Gavin Verhey wanted to hear Rachel read it out loud.

[YokedDrunkard]

One deck I know for certain that loves Ojer Taq is my Ratadrabik deck. Tripling up the copied legendary tokens is crazy.

[Agaures]

I totally agree with the assessment of Ojer Taq. I pulled them, and it immediately went into my Hazezon deck. In most situations, though, it is just a "win more" type of thing.

[JAXTHEGNOME]

Dauntless Dismantler - 25:35 Not X or less.. it's X only. So pick a value for X and only those MV get popped.

[isaiahkahler]

So from the Ojer Taq conversation, that card is super good as a commander. Fill your deck with the planeswalkers that make creatures and the attacker cards that make creatures. Then you’re getting the benefit of Taq several times in the same turn.

[STS-qiqy]

Love Ojer Taq but agreed that it's a 'win more'. Feels amazing when you get it to go off but if you can get it to go off you we're almost certainly on the cusp of victory anyway.

[jkr]

"We are just not gonna give him vampires. And also, we are going to attack him. Just like with an Esper Sentinel or Rhystic Study."
That's bold to say after a Game Knights where Jimmy just drew 35 cards off of a Rhytic Study.

[BroncosDaBomb]

Getting an Ojer Taq soon to put in my Quintorious, Loremaster deck. Just basically a nice way to create extra Spirits to sac for free instants/sorceries along with blockers/attackers. I’ve got every iteration of him too, so plenty of tokens on the same turn Ojer Taq enters the battlefield without having to pay mana.

[thestarscape]

For Ojer Taq, i absolutely intend to put one in my Council of Four deck, in a turn cycle i can make up to 12 2/2 Knights, only potentially needing to spend two mana on my turn to make 3

[DivinePenguin]

I've had a couple games with my Oloro deck where The Millennium Calendar wouldn't have killed me. Great episode guys, thanks for the deep dive!