"Synergy" is a very nebulous term, so this week the cast dives into the finer points of the deckbuilding template to examine how many card slots a deck tends to devote to its multi-part strategy. How many cards in your deck should help enable the deck in the first place, and how many do you […]
EDHRECast 117: Setup and Payoff: Your Deck's Synergy Ratio
June 26, 2020 by
Community Spotlight 
#aetherflux reservoir, #aminatou the fateshifter, #animate dead, #baral chief of compliance, #boundless realms, #brainstorm, #buried alive, #EDHRECast, #exquisite blood, #felidar sovereign, #Field of the Dead, #font of mythos, #Gavi nest warden, #glint-horn buccaneer, #howling mine, #jin-gitaxias core augur, #karlov of the ghost council, #king macar the gold-cursed, #living death, #lord of extinction, #lord windgrace, #metallurgic summonings, #myriad landscape, #necromancy, #nekusar the mindrazer, #oloro ageless ascetic, #omnath locus of rage, #praetors grasp, #psychosis crawler, #reforge the soul, #retreat to hagra, #sanguine bond, #selenia dark angel, #senseis divining top, #shared animosity, #shark typhoon, #soul warden, #souls attendant, #terastodon, #the locust god, #the mimeoplasm, #titania protector of argoth, #triskaidekaphobia, #warstorm surge, #wastes, #windfall, #winota joiner of forces, #xyris the writhing storm, #yennett cryptic sovereign Read More »
Monomania - All Things Considered: Colorless
June 12, 2020 by
Steven Vincent 
Multicolored? Nah. Monocolored? Meh. Colorless? That's the ticket.
#aetherflux reservoir, #arcane signet, #arch of orazca, #ashnods altar, #bonders enclave, #caged sun, #endless atlas, #honor-worn shaku, #horn of green, #Idol of Oblivion, #it that betrays, #mikokoro center of the sea, #mind stone, #minds eye, #mindslaver, #oblivion sower, #semblance anvil, #sol ring, #springleaf drum, #staff of nin, #thaumatic compass, #tome of legends, #ugin the ineffable, #vanquisher's banner, #Victory chimes Read More »
EDHRECast 105: The Data Hiding in Your Deck
April 3, 2020 by
Community Spotlight
Data doesn't just show up on EDHREC - there's also some hiding in your deck! This week, the cast tackles the probabilities, figures, data points, and stats that show up in various Commander archetypes! Follow the cast on Twitter: @EDHRECast @JosephMSchultz @danaroach @mathimus55 https://edhrec.com/ Special thanks to @The Command Zone for post-production work on the […]
#aetherflux reservoir, #alms collector, #beast whisperer, #boundless realms, #cabal coffers, #crypt ghast, #deploy the gatewatch, #despark, #djeru with eyes open, #dubious challenge, #EDHRECast, #Haktos the unscarred, #herald's horn, #hermit druid, #morality shift, #nykthos shrine to nyx, #ruby medallion, #syr konrad the grim, #urzas incubator Read More »
Commander Showdown - K'rrik vs Yawgmoth
March 12, 2020 by
Joseph Schultz 
Power at any cost! Which mono-black commander will bring you into Phyrexia?
#aetherflux reservoir, #aristocrats, #blood artist, #blood celebrant, #bloodghast, #butcher ghoul, #geralfs messenger, #hatred, #K'rrik Son of Yawgmoth, #mikaeus the unhallowed, #necroskitter, #nights whisper, #null profusion, #ophiomancer, #pontiff of blight, #tendrils of agony, #tendrils of corruption, #yawgmoth thran physician, #zulaport cutthroat Read More »
Too-Specific Top 10 - Vanilla
March 6, 2020 by
DougY 
No abilities, no problems!
#aetherflux reservoir, #alpine grizzly, #ancient brontodon, #ancient brontodone, #arahbo, #arahbo roar of the world, #arcades the strategist, #ayula, #balduvian bears, #barktooth warbeard, #bear cub, #bear triabl, #bears, #blade of the sixth pride, #brimaz king of oreskos, #bronzehide lion, #cheerios, #cloudstone curio, #doran the siege tower, #dryad arbor, #expedition envoy, #field creeper, #fire elemental, #fleecemane lion, #forest bear, #fusion elemental, #ghalta primal hunger, #gigantosaurus, #gishath sun's avatar, #goblin bombardment, #golden bear, #gray ogre, #grizzled leotau, #grizzly bears, #hill giant, #hope of ghirapur, #indomitable ancients, #isamaru hound of konda, #jasmine boreal, #jedit ojanen, #jerrard of the closed fist, #kasimir the lone wolf, #kraken hatchling, #kytheon gero of akros, #kytheon hero of akros, #lady orca, #leatherback baloth, #looming altisaur, #memnite, #metallic sliver, #phyrexian walker, #purphoros god of the forge, #queen among bears, #Renata called to the hunt, #runeclaw bear, #savannah lions, #selvala heart of the wilds, #sir shandlar of eberyn, #sivitri scarzam, #skullclamp, #tainted strike, #teshar ancestor's apostle, #the lady of the mountain, #tobias andrion, #tolsimir friend to wolves, #tolsimir wolfblood, #Too Specific Top 10, #top 10, #top 10 lists, #torsten von ursus, #toughness, #toughness matters, #toughness tribal, #vanilla, #vanilla tribal, #watchwolf, #wicker witch, #woolly thoctar, #yargle, #yargle glutton of urborg, #zurgo bellstriker Read More »
Monomania - All Things Considered: White
March 2, 2020 by
Steven Vincent
Taking a critical look at mono-white in EDH
#aetherflux reservoir, #boreas charger, #bygone bishop, #cathars crusade, #Commander’s Insignia, #crescendo of war, #crystal chimes, #dawn of hope, #dictate of heliod, #dowsing dagger, #dusk // dawn, #elesh norn grand cenobite, #endless horizons, #enduring renewal, #felidar sovereign, #gift of estates, #knight of the white orchid, #kor cartographer, #land tax, #legion's landing, #luminarch ascension, #mentor of the meek, #mesa enchantress, #open the vaults, #oreskos explorer, #rally the ancestors, #ranger of eos, #sacred mesa, #sevinne's reclamation, #smothering tithe, #sram senior edificer, #sun titan, #sword of the animist, #tithe, #true conviction, #weathered wayfarer, #well of lost dreams Read More »
Monomania Takes on Eldraine – Madder Lake
December 2, 2019 by
Steven Vincent
Maybe random merpeople handing out swords IS a good system of goverment....
#aether spellbomb, #aetherflux reservoir, #ashnods altar, #blasting station, #capsize, #careful consideration, #chromatic star, #codex shredder, #emry lurker of the loch, #etherium sculptor, #foundry inspector, #frantic search, #golden egg, #grinding station, #krark-clan ironworks, #lotus petal, #memnite, #mirran spy, #mystic forge, #ornithopter, #phyrexian altar, #phyrexian walker, #thirst for knowledge, #ugin the ineffable Read More »
Commander Showdown - Neheb vs Neheb
May 22, 2019 by
Joseph Schultz
New Neheb vs Newer Neheb! Which mono-red Minotaur is the best fit for command?
#aetherflux reservoir, #ajani's welcome, #alhammarrets archive, #bonus round, #commune with lava, #doublecast, #experimental frenzy, #fury storm, #guttersnipe, #howl of the horde, #knollspine dragon, #mizzixs mastery, #mono red, #neheb dreadhorde champion, #neheb the eternal, #price of progress, #psychosis crawler, #pyroblast, #pyromancers goggles, #reverberate Read More »
The Knowledge Pool - Jhoira, Weatherlight Captain
December 26, 2018 by
Scot Sutton 
The Artificer Who Stole My Heart Hi everyone! Welcome back to The Knowledge Pool! This week I'll be writing about a commander that I've been itching to talk about since her release: Jhoira, Weatherlight Captain. In fact, I would go so far as to say that Jhoira is my favorite new commander of 2018, making […]
#aetherflux reservoir, #artifacts, #blue, #combo, #dominaria, #izzet, #jhoira weatherlight captain, #red, #storm, #weatherlight Read More »
Replacement Commanders - Once an Apprentice, Now a Combo Master!
November 5, 2018 by
DM Cross 
An Artificial Apprenticeship Alright, my beloved readers, it is time to return to this year's Commander product and shining the spotlight on those Replacement Commanders, the legendary cards that were the right colors to be in the command zone, but found the deck's directions to not be as supportive for their abilities as the face […]
#aetherflux reservoir, #artifact, #combo, #copy, #izzet, #izzet artifacts, #paradox engine, #tawnos urzas apprentice Read More »