Welcome back to Weird Harvest, where we strive to weaponize jank to our strategic advantage. This week I figured we would take a break from our regularly scheduled programming to spotlight a deck building concept that is the embodiment of jank. It’s no secret that artifacts are a critical component of our format, with just […]
Weird Harvest — A New Hope...of Ghirapur!
November 23, 2017 by
Christopher Russell 
#artifact, #colorless, #crawlspace, #damping engine, #hope of ghirapur, #junk diver, #kozilek the great distortion, #lifeline, #mana web, #myr retriever, #nim deathmantle, #scarecrone, #scrap trawler, #silent arbiter, #smokestack, #stax, #storage matrix, #trinisphere, #void winnower, #voltron, #ward of bones Read More »
Weird Harvest — Cyclonic Rift is my Commander!
November 9, 2017 by
Christopher Russell
Welcome back to Weird Harvest, the column devoted to all things jank. This week we have our sights set on an Esper commander that tries to do something on its color identity. I know, the notion shocked me as well when it initially occurred to me. As I contemplated this thought for a bit it […]
#black, #blink, #blue, #celestial dawn, #control, #darkest hour, #dromar the banisher, #esper, #mana breach, #shifting sky, #warped devotion, #white Read More »
Weird Harvest — The Truth is Out There...
October 26, 2017 by
Christopher Russell
There’s something to be said about the unexpected. Since our format is predominantly multiplayer, it has the potential to yield some hilarious results. There’s also something janky about the idea of setting our opponents up to expect one thing and then hit them with another. I recently caught up on a bunch of episodes of […]
#abzan, #anafenza the foremost, #athreos god of passage, #attrition, #black, #cataclysmic gearhulk, #karador ghost chieftain, #lifeline, #meren of clan nel toth, #red, #toolbox, #white Read More »
Weird Harvest — Hail to the King, Baby!
October 12, 2017 by
Christopher Russell
Last time on Weird Harvest we explored the new lands of Ixalan with Captain Lannery Storm. This week I thought we would do something a bit different and step away from red and cover a mono-colored deck that is similar, but different enough in focus that it isn't a rehash. Who needs to turn trash into […]
#artifacts, #control, #honor-worn shaku, #king macar the gold-cursed, #mono black, #panharmonicon, #smugglers copter, #strionic resonator, #untethered express, #unwinding clock Read More »
Weird Harvest — Turning Trash into Lannery's Treasure
September 29, 2017 by
Christopher Russell
Pirates are here. Granted, they’ve been here but they haven’t really been a “thing”, if you know what I mean. Ixalan is finally upon us and we have all been summoned to explore the open waters to new uncharted lands. Lands filled with dinosaurs, lawful evil vampires, pirate Vraska, and half-naked Jace. Yes, it seems […]
#blade of selves, #captain lannery storm, #comqueror's galleon, #goblin charbelcher, #grenzo havoc raiser, #ixalan, #kazuul tyrant of the cliffs, #kiki-jiki mirror breaker, #mono red, #pirates, #red, #thaumatic compass, #total war, #treasure map, #vicious shadows Read More »
Weird Harvest — Forget Cruel Control, this is Gruul Control!
September 14, 2017 by
Christopher Russell
Hello all and welcome back to Weird Harvest, the column that’s committed to keeping commander janky. Last week we fulfilled a reader request for a tribal treason deck, but this week I wanted to shift gears and try something that some of you may have never seen before. I’m sure that most of you are […]
#city of solitude, #crimson honor guard, #dosan the falling leaf, #gruul, #gruul control, #hall of gemstone, #price of glory, #ruric thar the unbowed, #smoke Read More »
NEWS — New EDHREC Feature! Themes!
September 10, 2017 by
Christopher Russell
A message from Don, the founder of EDHREC: In this article, Chris is going to go through our new features on EDHREC that revolve around "themes"! I'm really excited about it because there are so many fun hidden archetypes and this should make it easier to find them. Tribes were our first theme and those were […]
#anointed procession, #control, #crucible of worlds, #deus of calamity, #ember swallower, #endless ranks of the dead, #epicenter, #ertai the corrupted, #esper, #esper control, #ghoulcaller gisa, #icefall, #jund, #jund control, #keldon firebombers, #land destruction, #lich lord of unx, #price of glory, #price of progress, #shattergang brothers, #stoneshaker shaman, #the scarab god, #tribal, #wayward servant, #Zombie Tribal Read More »
Weird Harvest — Kessy Fingers
August 31, 2017 by
Christopher Russell
New product release is always an exciting time in Magic. We get to rummage through all the new toys and tinker with them until we find what we like most. I was lucky enough to have a reader comment on my last article with a request that gave me the opportunity to tinker with purpose. […]
#coffin queen, #control, #dack fayden, #dissident mage, #grixis, #helm of possession, #information dealer, #jalira master polymorphist, #recursion, #ritual of the machine, #soothsaying, #treacherous urge, #tribal commander decks, #willbreaker Read More »
Weird Harvest — Pharika, Plague Politics
August 18, 2017 by
Christopher Russell
Hello everyone and welcome to the first installment of Weird Harvest. Over the course of this series I hope to impress upon all of you one of my favorite elements of EDH, and that is using jank during our build process to disrupt our opponents. You may ask yourself, “Why would I ever intentionally put […]
#black, #city of solitude, #dread, #enchantments, #gate to phyrexia, #genesis chamber, #golgari, #green, #jolrael empress of beasts, #living death, #oath of ghouls, #pharika god of affliction, #politics, #portcullis, #tokens, #ward of bones Read More »