Friday Nights: Clanmanders
Orcish Farmer get your pig ready!
Vital Statistics
Date: October 2, 2014
Category: Friday Nights
Appearing: Kathleen De Vere, Cameron Lauder, Paul Saunders, Graham Stark, Alex Steacy, James Turner
Writing: Kathleen De Vere, Graham Stark with Alex Steacy
Camera: Graham Stark
Boom: Brendan "Beej" Dery
Music: Bradley Rains
Edited by: Kathleen De Vere, Graham Stark
Thanks To: Trick Jarrett, Andrew Ferguson
Synopsis
The return of orcs in Khans of Tarkir prompts James to dig out his childhood card collection in attempt to revive his orc deck. However, orcs have historically been a fairly weak tribe, especially in the formats in which James' old cards are legal.
Alex wants to build a commander deck with one of the five Khans, but he can't decide which one. He holds "job interviews" with each of them, having himself and other crew members voice the cards.
- Anafenza (Abzan), voiced by Alex himself in a high-pitched warble, begins the conversation promisingly enough but reacts angrily to Alex' questions about her weaknesses and eventually insults him as a "scrub".
- Sidisi (Sultai), voiced by Kathleen in a breathy, "witchy" voice, promises incredible value but fails to deliver when Alex begins asking her for specific examples.
- Narset (Jeskai), voiced by Cam in a gravelly rumble, begins describing a promising spell-focused deck, but before she can finish, Cam himself gets too excited about the idea himself and takes her away to build his own deck.
- Surrak (Temur), voiced gruffly by Graham, is excited about punching bears, but proves capable of little else.
Based on these interviews, Alex settles on Zurgo (Mardu), but James swipes him on the grounds that he's an orc.
Trivia
- In real life, though Alex is partial to eternal formats, he does not play Commander, preferring another 100-card singleton format named Highlander.
