If your commander is offline... can your deck still win? This week, we're examining cards in the 99 that help substitute a commander's abilities, and why some archetypes have more backups than others. Support the cast on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/edhrecast Follow the cast on Twitter: @EDHRECast @JosephMSchultz @danaroach @mathimus55 Interested in writing for EDHREC? Send us […]
Commander Backups & Substitutes | EDHRECast 155
March 26, 2021 by
Community Spotlight 
#aesi tyrant of gyre strait, #animate dead, #anje falkenrath, #ankh of mishra, #athreos shroud-veiled, #avenger of zendikar, #brago king eternal, #chasm skulker, #conjurers closet, #EDHRECast, #eerie interlude, #Emiel the Blessed, #eternal witness, #forgotten ancient, #fumiko the lowblood, #ghostway, #glimpse of nature, #goblin spymaster, #guardian project, #havoc festival, #hullbreacher, #ishai ojutai dragonspeaker, #journey to eternity, #kardur doomscourge, #karma, #kenrith the returned king, #kor spiritdancer, #living death, #manabarbs, #managorger hydra, #meren of clan nel toth, #mogis god of slaughter, #painful quandary, #panharmonicon, #pestilence, #psychosis crawler, #rafiq of the many, #rampaging baloths, #reki the history of kamigawa, #reyhan last of the abzan, #rielle the everwise, #scute swarm, #sheoldred whispering one, #sram senior edificer, #tatyova benthic druid, #Teferi's Ageless Insight, #thassa deep-dwelling, #the great henge, #the locust god, #the ozolith, #urborg tomb of yawgmoth, #uril the miststalker, #valduk keeper of the flame, #victimize, #xyris the writhing storm, #zendikars roil, #zo-zu the punisher Read More »
EDHRECast 125: The Most Popular Combos in EDH
August 21, 2020 by
Community Spotlight
C-C-C-Combo!!! EDHREC is debuting a brand new feature to help players identify and execute fantastic combos in their decks, so now it's time to measure the most popular combos in the Commander format! Check the new feature out at: https://edhrec.com/combos Follow the cast on Twitter: @EDHRECast @JosephMSchultz @danaroach @mathimus55 Interested in writing for EDHREC? Send […]
#aetherflux reservoir, #animate dead, #ashnods altar, #azami lady of scrolls, #basalt monolith, #brago king eternal, #breya etherium shaper, #cathars crusade, #curiosity, #deadeye navigator, #deceiver exarch, #dramatic reversal, #EDHRECast, #exquisite blood, #ghave guru of spores, #grapeshot, #grenzo dungeon warden, #heartless hidetsugu, #isochron scepter, #kiki-jiki mirror breaker, #kinnan bonder prodigy, #kykar wind's fury, #mana echoes, #niv-mizzet Parun, #palinchron, #peregrine drake, #restoration angel, #retreat to coralhelm, #rings of brighthearth, #sanguine bond, #sharuum the hegemon, #sliver queen, #strionic resonator, #tatyova benthic druid, #universal automaton, #urza lord high artificer, #vito thorn of the dusk rose, #vizkopa guildmage, #worldgorger dragon, #wound reflection, #zealous conscripts, #zirda the dawnwaker Read More »
Too-Specific Top 10 - Uncommon Core
July 17, 2020 by
DougY 
The most popular uncommons from core sets? Let’s get counting!
#acidic slime, #animate dead, #arcane denial, #basalt monolith, #broken bond, #buried ruin, #caustic caterpillar, #counterspell, #counterspells, #declaration in stone, #demonic tutor, #dispatch, #elixir of immortality, #force of vigor, #insidious will, #krosan grip, #lightning greaves, #meteor golem, #meteror golem, #natualize, #natures claim, #naturesclaim, #negate, #poison-tip archer, #reclamation sage, #regrowth, #Return to Nature, #seal of primordium, #sol ring, #swiftfoot boots, #swords to plowshares, #thrashing brontodon, #Too Specific Top 10, #top 10 lists, #top ten, #uncommon, #uncommons, #wing shards Read More »
Commander Showdown - Tinybones vs Kroxa
July 16, 2020 by
Joseph Schultz 
Looking for some discard in EDH? Which commander is right for you?
#animate dead, #bottomless pit, #kroxa titan of death's hunger, #lilianas caress, #megrim, #memory jar, #mindslicer, #shrieking affliction, #sire of insanity, #Tinybones Trinket Thief, #uba mask, #worldgorger dragon Read More »
EDHRECast 117: Setup and Payoff: Your Deck's Synergy Ratio
June 26, 2020 by
Community Spotlight
"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 […]
#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 »
Too-Specific Top 10 - Word.
February 14, 2020 by
DougY
There's a million things he hasn't done, but just you wait.
#Advisors, #Alexander Clamilton, #animate dead, #avenger of zendikar, #caged sun, #Clam Session, #Clam-I-Am, #Clambassadors, #Clamfolk, #dance of the dead, #deathrite shaman, #defiant vanguard, #growing rites of itlimoc, #ice cauldron, #inventors fair, #knight of the holy nimbus, #lin sivvi defiant hero, #mana vault, #myriad landscape, #necropotence, #obzedat ghost council, #opal palace, #persistent petitioners, #rebels, #rules lawyer, #solemn simulacrum, #sylvan library, #takklemaggot, #The Antiquities War, #the first iroan games, #Too Specific Top 10, #top 10, #top 10 lists Read More »
Too-Specific Top 10 - Leaving an Impression
January 31, 2020 by
DougY
Measuring the most popular cards that trigger when they leave the battlefield!
#angel of serenity, #animate dead, #blink, #boreas charger, #curators ward, #flicker, #grothama, #grothama all-devouring, #hostage taker, #oblivion ring, #outpost siege, #reality acid, #reveillark, #terastodon, #thragtusk, #toothy imaginary friend, #trapjaw tyrant, #twilight drover, #ugin the ineffable, #varchild betrayer of kjeldor, #vela the night-clad, #watcher for tomorrow, #worldgorger dragon Read More »
Un-mander Showdown — Grusilda vs The Mimeoplasm
December 20, 2017 by
Joseph Schultz
The Monster Mash Silver-bordered commanders are here for just a few short weeks, and while Un-mander isn't usually my thing, there's one legendary creature from Unstable who hits so close to home that I absolutely must write about her. I'm lucky to have many commander decks. Most are budget, several are just experiments, but there's […]
#animate dead, #buried alive, #entomb, #grusilda monster masher, #infect, #infinity elemental, #jin-gitaxias core augur, #necrotic ooze, #phyrexian devourer, #pili-pala, #silver border, #skithiryx the blight dragon, #the mimeoplasm, #three-headed goblin, #unstable, #vampire nighthawk Read More »