It shouldn’t be a surprise that many insect commanders in Magic interact with the graveyard in some way, whether they care about what’s in there, let you mill cards, or help you to reanimate creatures and lands.
Read moreCommander was imagined as a format for all those pet cards that just don’t have a home elsewhere, and Anti-Venom is the kind of legend that adds something fresh to the format.
Read moreSnow commanders are legendary creatures and other eligible commanders that can serve in the command zone of a deck with snow cards and other snow theming.
Read moreToday, we go deep. Sea creature commanders are usually legends that care about what I’ll call Magic’s sea-dwelling Big Four, or KLOS creatures: kraken, leviathans, octopuses, and serpents. These Big Four have been batched on multiple cards...
Read moreGoblins, dragons, zombies, and vampires all have their lords, but what about angels? There are angel decks across Magic’s history and formats, but we have fewer angel lords than you might expect.
Read moreWhenever a Magic set gives us a new mechanic or a new card type, there’s always the question of whether that new element can be its own theme in Commander. Sagas now have enough history in MTG that they have their own dedicated commanders.
Read moreFans of roleplaying games are more than familiar with rogues of all kinds. Rogues in Magic are sly tricksters, likely to hang out with thieves, mercenaries, assassins, and other outlaws. Keep an eye on your coin purse. These party members aren’t...
Read moreEdge of Eternities takes Magic to space, and with it comes a whole fleet of spacecraft. As you might expect from ships designed to cross the interstellar medium, they take a while to get going.
Read moreI’m a noted sucker for a bonus sheet, and we finally have one focused entirely on lands. Stellar Sights reprints some Magic’s most iconic lands, reimagined as planets and space stations. That’s far out, man.
Read moreWhen you’ve got a deck of 40 cards and 23 nonlands, only so many of those are really strong, but such is the way of Limited play on Arena or paper. So who does the winner end up being?
Read moreThe Final Fantasy set has unleashed a slew of powerful, interesting commanders that have received plenty of attention, but those are far from the only cards introduced in the set. It also has tons of interesting lands, with powerful abilities.
Read moreFinal Fantasy brings a group of precons focused on individual Final Fantasy games. Final Fantasy VII gets its own deck, and it’s a Naya precon featuring popular FF characters like Cloud, Tifa, and Aerith.
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