Thanks to March of the Machine, we now have a lot of interesting team-up commanders to build decks around. These new legendary creature mashups are almost like turning existing legends into partner commanders, but with the bonus that their...
Read moreWhen I started playing Magic in the Alara-Zendikar meta, I saw lots of decks I wanted to play that were Standard-legal, but there was a slight problem: they were pricy for a newcomer. Jund and vampires looked like great suggestions but I couldn’t...
Read moreYou’re playing a pretty straightforward Esper fliers deck, here. This is an aggressive deck that wants to get your opponents down to zero with a flying force that ignores any of their blockers.
Read moreSometime around 10 years ago, my family and I noticed that some food packages in our pantry were broken. Turns out we had a rat living in our kitchen and stealing our food. We eventually saw the rat, and boy was it big. I obviously named the...
Read morePhyrexia: All Will Be One’s Domini is one of the more interesting creature cycles in a while. Each of the Domini makes for an interesting commander, but the one that most caught my attention was Solphim, Mayhem Dominus.
Read moreThe year is 2013. A friendly face at my LGS introduces me to the concept of “Commander” and points me in the direction of that year’s precons. On the shelves I see what would become my first Commander deck, the glorious and basically...
Read moreEverybody comes to a Commander table to play some powerful cards. A core tenet of the format is to play big, scary spells that are too slow for other formats like Modern and Legacy. What could be more fun than playing with your big splashy...
Read moreI wanted to create a unique build that allowed me to play cards I don’t usually get to use with this Omnath, Locus of All deck. I made sure to include a lot of 5-color and multicolor cards that would help trigger Omnath’s mana-generating...
Read moreSpellslinger decks are a ubiquitous archetype in Commander. Often associated with Izzet or blue-red commanders, the archetype focuses on playing lots of cheap instants and sorceries to accrue a bunch of value alongside cards that benefit from you...
Read moreStreets of New Capenna gave us a lot of new 3-color commanders to choose from between the main set and the supplemental Commander product. While Lord Xander, the Collector and Jetmir, Nexus of Revels got a lot of love, the commander that caught...
Read moreThe Elder Dragons from Silverquill are the founders of the plane’s grand university, and they each lead one of the five schools on the campus. Today we’re looking at Shadrix Silverquill, founder of the Silverquill college, known for students...
Read moreThis Lord Xander, the Collector deck wins by milling out your opponents’ libraries or their life via attacks from Xander. You’re looking to copy Lord Xander at least twice so you can swing on the whole pod each turn since its abilities can...
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