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Why Overlap Is The Key To Good Deck Building | 733

4/1/20261 hr 2 min

99 cards feels like a lot, until you’re trying to fit in the right amount of card draw, removal, ramp, synergy pieces, pet cards, lands, boards wipes…how do you find room for everything?!? Luckily, you can get more out of your deck by understanding a key concept: OVERLAP! This episode, we’re going over the art of finding cards that check multiple boxes in your strategy, leaving your plan cleaner, your deck stronger, and your options way more open. Let’s get started!

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Clips

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Powerful Commanders Overlap
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Goblin Bombardment’s Hidden Reach

Transcript preview

First 90 seconds

  1. Speaker 00:00

    [upbeat music] Greetings, humans. You have entered the Command Zone, your destination for all aspects of Elder Dragon Highlander. Enjoy your stay.

  2. Rachel Weeks· Host0:11

    [upbeat music] Hello, everybody, and welcome back to another episode of the Command Zone Podcast. I'm your host, Rachel Weeks.

  3. Jimmy Wong· Host0:17

    I'm Jimero.

  4. Rachel Weeks· Host0:18

    And today we're talking about Magic: The Gathering- What? [laughs] ... as always.

  5. Jimmy Wong· Host0:23

    [laughs] S- has there ever been an episode where we don't ta- there's been, like, a u- no, we... Uh, Magic's always mentioned.

  6. Rachel Weeks· Host0:30

    I... It would be so hard to do one without it. [laughs] Like, can you imagine?

  7. Jimmy Wong· Host0:34

    Well, Josh and I did an episode that was, like, how to build your channel from zero to hero- Sure, yeah ... which is, like, very informative and has, like, no views on it- Yeah ... which is crazy 'cause it's, like, a master class in how to... Uh, they'll put it up on the screen.

  8. Rachel Weeks· Host0:44

    Yeah.

  9. Jimmy Wong· Host0:45

    But yeah, it would be very difficult. Uh, today, we are talking, though, about Magic: The Gathering, yes.

  10. Rachel Weeks· Host0:48

    We are.

  11. Jimmy Wong· Host0:49

    That's why you're here, patrons.

  12. Rachel Weeks· Host0:50

    [laughs] And specifically a, uh, concept that we call overlap, and this is when, like, a card checks multiple boxes. It fills multiple roles in your deck, and how you can use that very basic skill to get more synergy into your deck and make your deck work more consistently, and- 'Cause Commander is no longer a singleton format. Abso- yeah [laughs] yeah. Look.

  13. Jimmy Wong· Host1:09

    [laughs] [laughs] Uh, yes, uh, first thing we should mention, though, is the card, uh, building, deck-building template, the Commander deck-building template.

  14. Rachel Weeks· Host1:16

    Yeah. When the- Which everyone was like, "You made a mistake, Rachel.

  15. Jimmy Wong· Host1:19

    There are 108 cards [laughs] on this deck-building template."

  16. Rachel Weeks· Host1:22

    Absolutely. So when we made the Commander deck-building template, there's a whole episode about that. You should watch it if you haven't. Uh, we said that every deck

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