One of my biggest issues when building EDH decks is that I’m very big on having consistent themes and aesthetics. I’ve built quite a few decks where I purposefully chose to leave out some strategically good cards to make space for other cards...
Read moreThe influx of Doctor Who designs from the Universe Beyond crossover has brought a lot of interesting top-down designs, like the Weeping Angel. It also supports suspend, one of my favorite mechanics that debuted in Time Spiral.
Read moreI have fond memories of Zendikar, the wild plane of exploration, of mana so intense the world itself quakes and churns beneath the Roil, and container of the eldritch horrors that are the Eldrazi. I began playing Magic in this block and remember...
Read moreMany Doctor Who fans have mixed opinions on Christopher Eccleston’s Ninth Doctor. As far as I’m concerned, The Ninth Doctor is the most important reincarnation of The Doctor that we’ve ever seen. Given the show was canceled in 1989, bringing it...
Read moreCommander 2016 was a product that promised huge shockwaves throughout Commander. The excitement of its announcement was that it would print five 4-color legendary creatures – the first 4-color legends. Until this point, EDH players who wanted...
Read moreCommander was created as a casual format. With constant support and Magic’s ever-increasing power levels, the format has been getting more and more competitive. I’m not here to tell anyone how to play the game or the format. But I’m here to keep...
Read moreI don’t crack packs too often. I’ve never really pulled anything all that great so it makes opening packs more frustrating than anything else. But once, a long time ago, I did pull a really cool card: Asceticism. This card felt absurdly strong at...
Read moreCommander, also unofficially known as Elder Dragon Highlander or EDH for short, has been around as a fan-made format almost since the beginning of MTG itself. However, this year will be the 10th anniversary since Wizards of the Coast officially...
Read moreI still remember getting incredibly excited when hearing for the first time that Ixalan would be a set that focused on dinosaurs. Let’s face it: dinosaurs are cool. Loads of kids are fascinated with dinosaurs when they’re young, and Jurassic Park...
Read moreEzuri is a character from Scars of Mirrodin who resisted the Phyrexian scourge, but, as we first saw in Commander 2015, he succumbed to their influence. Phyrexia: All Will Be One gave us the newest iteration of our favorite Phyrexian Elf, so...
Read moreIn The Lost Caverns of Ixalan, there’s a particular cycle of single-color gods that transform into lands whenever they die. Let’s go over a deck built around the green one, Ojer Kaslem, Deepest Growth, and explain some of the card choices and the...
Read moreHuatli, Poet of Unity is the perfect general to embody what many might consider the spirit of Commander: epic creatures crashing across the battlefield, trampling their foes underfoot as we leap ahead in mana. Naya has always loved its monsters...
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