The Hero's Blade Vibe Check Radio Show – Details, episodes & analysis

Time to take out the bird, vampires and Elemental Incarnation in one fell swoop. Begin firing sequence!

Opening bit inspired by Armored Core 6, and Lyght over on Twitter!

Cole and Quinn return, changing the stack for better flow and vibes. And some new editing technology in the background. Wrap it up in a bow with the new Soapbox section as the end of the episode.

As usual, you can find us at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@TheBloodricGuy⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@GirlDickEnergy⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@HBVC_MTG⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ on Twitter, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@thebloodricguy.bsky.social⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@girldickenergy.bsky.social⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@hbvc-mtg.bsky.social on Bluesky⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠!

Check out ⁠Empress Quinn's music on Soundcloud⁠. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Please check us out hosting MTG Lexicon, the Dive Bar of EDH over on Twitch!⁠⁠⁠ If you wanna get in on the action with Cole and Empress Quinn, come join the MTG Lexicon Discord, were there's a ⁠⁠dedicated HBVC channel⁠⁠!

Content

EPIC Bloomburrow Precon Commander Battle with a Gaslighting Ms Bumbleflower

Decks

Cole:

Watch Out For The Rocks

Quinn:

Shadow Dragon Style [Grixis Ninjas]

You're on your way to see Jurassic Park for the first time, and the person guiding the tour has told you to put your seatbelts on. The belts tighten around you, and the tour guide turns with their heart shaped glasses.

This isn't Jurassic Park. This is a Powerpoint presentation on Sol Ring.

Lyght (@indominus-lux.bsky.social) THE Sol Ring Contrarian, joins us this episode to talk Monster Hunter, Transformers comics, #IndominusPosting and the nuances of card choices, and how you don't have to play Sol Ring, Arcane Signet or Command Tower! (It's a bad feature!)

As usual, you can find us at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@TheBloodricGuy⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@GirlDickEnergy⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@HBVC_MTG⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ on Twitter, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@thebloodricguy.bsky.social⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@girldickenergy.bsky.social⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@hbvc-mtg.bsky.social on Bluesky⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠!

Check out ⁠Empress Quinn's music on Soundcloud⁠. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Please check us out hosting MTG Lexicon, the Dive Bar of EDH over on Twitch!⁠⁠⁠ If you wanna get in on the action with Cole and Empress Quinn, come join the MTG Lexicon Discord, were there's a ⁠⁠dedicated HBVC channel⁠⁠!

Content

Salty Commander Cards that are Healthy for the Format

Is Bloomburrow’s Gifting a Card a Balanced Design?

The Silver-Bordered Project

EDHREC Just Got an Upgrade

Brew Review Episode 19: Dave The Noob and Umbris, Fear Manifest

@thelovelymedusa on Twitter

Decks

Cole:

Commanders Seen in 2024 Games

Quinn:

Humorous Juxtaposition [blue black faeries (control)]

Most Wanted (Outlaws of Thunder Junction Commander)

Lyght:

Indominus Rex EDH (You Asked For More Teeth)

Blue/Owen EDH (A Dog and Her Less Cool Human)

Zacama EDH (Ravenous and Goad are Control Mechanics)

Indoraptor EDH (A Creature of the Future Made From Pieces of the Past)

Pantlaza EDH (Was Wrong About Pantlaza)

We'll unbury the Uncommon Commander theme for one last bit....one more job.

Lara, aka @TechnicolorMime is here to teach you some stuff about ÆDH, and how to pay attention to rarity downshifts during reprint season. We clown around discuss MLD, recent design trends, weekend warrior EDH marathons, unique commanders spotted per month, and how to commit infinite crimes!

As usual, you can find us at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@TheBloodricGuy⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@GirlDickEnergy⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@HBVC_MTG⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ on Twitter, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@thebloodricguy.bsky.social⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@girldickenergy.bsky.social⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@hbvc-mtg.bsky.social on Bluesky⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠!

Check out ⁠Empress Quinn's music on Soundcloud⁠. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Please check us out hosting MTG Lexicon, the Dive Bar of EDH over on Twitch!⁠⁠⁠ If you wanna get in on the action with Cole and Empress Quinn, come join the MTG Lexicon Discord, were there's a ⁠⁠dedicated HBVC channel⁠⁠!

Content discussed:

Spellify on Commander's Herald

Design Trends We LOVE | EDHRECast 310

Grixis Finance Girlies Rise Up - Obeka, Splitter of Seconds - Maldhound

Elder Dragon Challenge Review - Beacon of Creation

Decks this episode:

Quinn:

The Last Day of the Time War [Jeskai Cascade Burn]

yes we already have this deck in grixis, mind ur business [sultai cipher]

Forge of Solus Prime [Naya Robots Aggro/Stax]

Cole:

The Vampire Lifegain Foundation

Your Ride's Over, Mutie. Time to Perish.

Publick Occurrences

Killer Queen v2.22 - Mardu Battlebox (aka MarDandân)

Lara:

Did you know Changelings are Mounts now (Artisan Miriam)

Uncommon Crimes - Lazav, Familar Stranger

Artisan Firja Reanimator

Artisan Jem Lightfoote

Artisinal Dicephalous Zombois

Wizards are the strongest class in Dungeons and Dragons, and Peter decided to show me how true it is. 

Peter (aka MonoWhiteBorder) and I talk about the numerous ways to venture into the Tomb of Annihilation, using Hama Pashar to double down in the effects in each room. Azorius Burn. Who would have thought?

You can find Peter's content on Twitter, Weebly and find the Hama Pashar deck here.

Just remember, in Dungeons and Dragons, you owe your group's cleric your goddamn LIFE. THEY ARE YOUR GOD.

My longtime friend Derek comes on this week's episode to chat about Trelasarra and his interesting way of building a "silver bullet" style deck with a lot of cool and underused pieces and boost her power to the roof while also scrying through half your deck. I highly encourage sticking around the full episode. (I just realized that we didn't outright say what Trelasarra does verbatim but you all get it right?)

You can find Derek's deck here.

Let the dark energies flow through you, let them ravage your opponent's hand....take flight, young specter.

Coach Jro, the Unsummoned Skull, joins me this episode to talk about his mono-black specter tribal deck helmed by the visually stunning Urgoros. Listen to Coach's method of bringing his special brand of deck building to the table, with his staple unsummon effects. 

You can find the Unsummoned Skull over on Twitter, Youtube, and the Quote of Arms podcast. Find Coach's Urgoros deck here.

Let's take a step back from the rush of new product and look at the 10 uncommon legends of Adventure in the Forgotten Realms! I brought in Peter, aka MonoWhiteBorder, to discuss and rank our least to most favorite of the 2 color legends. Is there one that catches your eye? What do you think of dice rolling and venturing? Lemme know over at https://mobile.twitter.com/EclipseMeteor

You can find Peter over at https://mobile.twitter.com/MonoWhiteBorder and his blog at https://monowhiteborder.weebly.com/ for all things mono white. 

The War of the Spark books are like, not good right? Right?

Last episode guest Chris and I catch up in this precast talk, going over deck building, MH2, the last few years of sets, our playgroup history, talk about Magic Story before and after the War of the Spark books, card prices, and a decade of playing Magic.

Read the Ixalan Magic Story segments, they're really good.

I'm joined by Chris, a friend I've played Magic with for 10 years, to talk about his Breeches, Brazen Plunderer and Malcolm, Keen-eyed Navigator partner deck that he put together for the show. He got some time in with the deck just before luckily, but I hope you can enjoy the theory of playing Izzet Pirates!

I've been playing with Phil (Junehawk), Josh and Bryant over Spelltable for a year now, and I decided to bring them on to talk about the last year of playing, building new decks, celebrating our friendship and what we look forward to this fall with the two Innistrad sets.

Sorry not sorry for the length.

You can see a combination of us playing Casual EDH over at https://www.twitch.tv/junehawk, usually on Sunday nights.