Sygg-nature Move In honor of the recent release of Duel Decks: Merfolk vs Goblins, we're going to do something fun for this week's Commander Showdown. Normally this series compares and contrasts commanders with similar abilities. For example, Tishana vs Zegana focused on two Simic card drawing powerhouses, and Hapatra vs The Scorpion God honed in on commanders that use -1/-1 […]
Commander Showdown — Sygg vs Sygg
November 15, 2017 by
Joseph Schultz 
Commander Showdown — Inalla vs Azami
November 1, 2017 by
Joseph Schultz
Hocus Pocus Now that Halloween has passed, we can take off our wizard costumes... and pick up our Wizard decks! Tribal decks are all the rage this year, and one of the big decks from Commander 2017 is Arcane Wizardry, featuring Inalla, Archmage Ritualist. Boasting the bizarre ability to temporarily copy your creatures, Inalla has […]
#arcane adaption, #arcane wizardry, #ashnods altar, #azami lady of scrolls, #bloodline necromancer, #blue, #combo, #dualcaster mage, #galecaster colossus, #grixis, #inalla archmage ritualist, #infinite, #laboratory maniac, #mind over matter, #panharmonicon, #patron wizard, #puppeteer clique, #stonybrook banneret, #sundial of the infinite, #venser, #venser shaper savant, #wizard tribal Read More »
Commander Showdown — Kess vs Dralnu
October 18, 2017 by
Joseph Schultz
Flashback Attack Almost exactly eleven years ago, the Time Spiral set was released, shaking the world in ways players never expected. 'Timeshifted' cards like Lord of Atlantis and The Rack brought the past into the present as temporal rifts threatened to destroy the beloved plane of Dominaria (which we'll return to next year.) If you'd like […]
#aetherflux reservoir, #blue black, #buyback, #cabal ritual, #commander 2017, #dimir, #domineering will, #dralnu lich lord, #flashback, #grixis, #kess commander deck, #kess dissident mage, #mana geyser, #paradox engine, #spellslinger, #storm Read More »
Commander Showdown — Hapatra vs The Scorpion God
October 3, 2017 by
Joseph Schultz
V for Venom-Detta Voilà! In view, the vast valleys of Ixalan! However, now that we've arrived at this vivid, vibrant vista, we must veer our vessel back to Amonkhet! We volunteered to visit two voracious veterans before the Hour of Devastation vanishes, and they would be very vexed and vindictive if we vacated our vow. If you, valuable viewer, would rather […]
#-1/-1 counters, #black, #black suns zenith, #blowfly infestation, #carnifex demon, #contagion engine, #control, #crumbling ashes, #devoted druid, #dusk urchins, #everlasting torment, #flourishing defenses, #golgari, #green, #hapatra vizier of poisons, #infect, #jund, #kulrath knight, #necroskitter, #nest of scarabs, #Obelisk Spider, #quillspike, #rakdos, #red, #soul snuffers, #swarm, #the scorpion god, #tokens, #wither Read More »
Ixalan EDH Review — Black
September 20, 2017 by
Joseph Schultz
Vampirates of the Caribbean According to our charts, we'll reach the shores of Ixalan on the 29th of this month. Before we reach our Voyage's End, let us take stock of our crew, and of the bloodthirsty beasts we may encounter upon this Treacherous Terrain. It's time we explore the black cards of Ixalan to deduce […]
#Arguel's Blood Fast, #Bishop of the Bloodstained, #black, #Bloodcrazed Paladin, #Boneyard Parley, #Costly Plunder, #Deadeye Tracker, #Dire Fleet Ravager, #Fathom Fleet Captain, #ixalan, #pirates, #Raiders' Wake, #revel in riches, #Ruin Raider, #Ruthless Knave, #Sanctum Seeker, #Sword-Point Diplomacy, #Temple of Aclazotz, #vampires, #Vicious Conquistador, #Vraska's Contempt, #Walk the Plank, #Wanted Scoundrels Read More »
Commander Showdown — Tishana vs Zegana
September 19, 2017 by
Joseph Schultz
Prime Speaker of Thunder Ixalan is just around the river bend, which means we must turn our attention from the tribes of Commander 2017 to the tribes of this dangerous new plane. We have a ton of new and exciting legendary creatures headed our way, but there's one in particular that stands out. Commander Showdown […]
#avenger of zendikar, #blue, #chasm skulker, #combo, #commander 2017, #craterhoof behemoth, #deadeye navigator, #draining whelk, #edric spymaster of trest, #elf tribal, #elfball, #eternal scourge, #food chain, #green, #ixalan, #kindred discovery, #kindred summons, #maro, #misthollow griffin, #mystic snake, #prime speaker zegana, #regal force, #simic, #tishana, #voice of thunder Read More »
Commander Showdown — Mathas vs Queen Marchesa
September 6, 2017 by
Joseph Schultz
Mardu Politics Commander 2017 has graced us with a host of new tribal commanders, from Cats to Dragons to Cat Dragons. However, for this week's Commander Showdown, I'd like to take a step back from all the tribal synergies and focus instead upon a strange and intriguing new inclusion to the 'Vampiric Bloodlust' precon. His name is Mathas, Fiend Seeker, and […]
#bounty hunter, #commander 2017, #crown of doom, #curse, #curse of bloodletting, #curse of opulence, #disrupt decorum, #ghostly prison, #group hug, #mardu, #mathas fiend seeker, #monarch, #politics, #queen marchesa Read More »
Commander Showdown — Taigam vs Taigam
August 16, 2017 by
Joseph Schultz
Alternate Timelines Here on Commander Showdown, we normally take a close look at two commanders whose abilities are very similar. Last week, for example, we went in-depth on The Ur-Dragon vs Scion of the Ur-Dragon. Long before that, we examined Roon vs Brago in a Blink-Bros Brawl. This week, I hope you'll indulge me as we try something […]
#black, #blue, #commander 2017, #delve, #dimir, #dovescape, #maze of ith, #ojutai, #paradox haze, #rebound, #reconnaissance, #sultai, #taigam, #taigam ojutai master, #taigam sidisis hand, #white Read More »
Commander Showdown — The Ur-Dragon vs Scion of the Ur-Dragon
August 8, 2017 by
Joseph Schultz
The Year of the Dragon Commander 2017 Spoilers are going crazy, and in this week’s Showdown, we’re going to talk about the biggest and baddest of them: The Ur-Dragon! Five colors, nine mana, and twenty combined power/toughness. The Ur-Dragon is here, and it means business. At the helm of the dragon-tribal preconstructed deck, this big […]
#c17, #commander 2017, #dragon tribal, #dragons, #five color, #five color commander, #previews, #scion of the ur-dragon, #spoilers, #the ur-dragon, #tribal Read More »
Commander Showdown — Titania vs The Gitrog Monster
August 1, 2017 by
Joseph Schultz
Let Me Tell You a Story Some time ago, I sat down for a game with my favorite deck, The Gitrog Monster. A short while into this game, I assembled a small army with an Avenger of Zendikar. An opponent wiped the board. I dropped a Rampaging Baloths and began to recreate the army, but […]
#black, #centaur vinecrasher, #crucible of worlds, #dredge, #evolving wilds, #fetch lands, #glacial chasm, #golgari, #green, #green black, #landfall, #Ramunap Excavator, #skirge familiar, #the gitrog monster, #titania protector of argoth, #zuran orb Read More »