It’s always Halloween Commander time in my house. If my roommate had their way, we’d live in our own private fae realm, complete with mushroom furniture, decorative ivies, and lots and lots of faerie lights. Magic’s faerie commanders can be just...
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Read moreCommander is known as the most popular format of Magic. The possibilities are endless with far more than 3,000 legendary creatures to choose from to make your commander. With the partner mechanic, and its variants like choose a background and...
Read moreSome of Magic’s most busted cards rely on the graveyard, so building around self-mill gets you off to a strong start, especially in Commander, where games go long. But which commander should lead your graveyard-centric strategy?
Read moreSplinter, Radical Rat makes it easier to play your ninjas with their special abilities as an unblockable enabler, plus it doubles up on your ninjas’ triggered abilities, usually combat damage/saboteur triggers that these slippery fighters tend to...
Read moreI really, really want to like things with beasts in them, but Magic makes it tough. They’re mana intensive to cast, and that’s sort of their identity. You really need special cards to help make MTG beasts playable. And often that’s going to be a...
Read moreBracket 3 includes many decks. Here, Commander players teeter between “look how cool this uncommon is” and “I will win at all costs,” leading to decks that employ plenty of pet cards yet still go for the throat.
Read moreWith Secrets of Strixhaven right around the corner, let’s brew some decks in anticipation of our return to school.
Read moreMany avatars can be your commander, and the best are some of the most played throughout the entire format. Which of these commanders did you forget were avatars along with their other types?
Read moreTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles introduced a slew of commanders appropriate for many players and power levels. Among the most imposing is the Timmy-approved Raph & Mikey, Troublemakers, a massive threat that pushes immense damage every turn.
Read moreIn Commander, the cost of mulliganing a bad hand is smaller than in one-versus-one formats… but it’s still a cost, and you should treat it like one. So let’s check all the ins, outs, and corner cases of how to mulligan in Commander.
Read moreGaining life on its own doesn’t do much other than give you more time to stabilize, win, or maybe even survive. In an Eternal format like Commander, players have access to so many cards that you can take an otherwise basic mechanic (like gaining...
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