Ladies, gentlemen, changelings…here we are again! Another installment of Replacement Commanders, the series where we look at the “other guys/girls” from Commander 2017 and break down some different strategies that may have not been represented well with the precons. We look at what you, the people are building with the help of EDHREC.com, the site's […]
Replacement Commanders — Activating Abilities with the Great Pretender
November 17, 2017 by
DM Cross 
Commander Showdown — Sygg vs Sygg
November 15, 2017 by
Joseph Schultz 
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 […]
#azorius, #black, #blue, #dimir, #intruder alarm, #merfolk, #protection, #rogue, #stonybrook schoolmaster, #sygg river cutthroat, #sygg river guide, #tribal, #unblockable, #white, #wizard Read More »
Uncompetitive Spirit — Kingdoms
November 9, 2017 by
Robin Kaas 
Too Many Cooks... EDH is pretty great, though I think we’d be hard-pressed to find consensus among the community about exactly what it is that makes it great. Some like to play competitive EDH, a concept I myself find very difficult to grok. Some like to play preconstructed decks or Pauper EDH with only commons […]
#alternate format, #black, #casual, #golgari, #green, #kingdoms, #meren of clan nel toth Read More »
Weird Harvest — Cyclonic Rift is my Commander!
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 »
60 to 100 — Train Sucks, Soul Sisters Doesn't
November 6, 2017 by
Matt Morgan 
Welcome yet again to another edition of 60 to 100, your favorite series on taking 60 card archetypes and bringing them to the world of Commander. This week I'm taking another reader request to cover a deck, and it happens to be one that I really enjoy this time! In case you missed the last […]
#aetherflux reservoir, #black, #blue, #crested sunmare, #dovescape, #esper, #lim-duls vault, #no mercy, #norns annex, #oloro ageless ascetic, #soul warden, #souls attendant, #suture priest, #white Read More »
EDH Political Science — Duel to the Death
October 27, 2017 by
Rick Amundson 
World at War When the world is thrown into the chaos of multi-sided war there is an air of unpredictability. Each country is attempting to get an edge on the enemy, but is ultimately only concerned with survival. During the last World War, there were the Axis and Allies, but each country fought multiple fronts […]
#black, #blood artist, #craterhoof behemoth, #golgari, #green, #meren of clan nel toth, #politics, #razaketh the foulblooded, #shadowborn apostle, #strategy 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 »
Replacement Commanders — Spells from the Grave
October 20, 2017 by
DM Cross
Ah, hello again, readers and spellslingers. Welcome back to Replacement Commanders, the series where we look at the Other Commanders (™ pending) from Commander 2017 and break down their abilities and stats. Next, we use EDHREC.com's data to see what the current best card choices and strategies are for each one. Finally, we go off […]
#black, #blue, #control magic, #graveyard, #grixis, #kess commander deck, #red, #tri-color, #wheel Read More »
Commander Focus — Mairsil, the Pretender
October 17, 2017 by
Nate Burgess 
Some commanders are considered to be "glass cannons", in the sense that all the offensive power of the deck is concentrated through a single creature. If that creature is repeatedly removed or otherwise subdued, then the deck just stops being a threat. However, if that creature has enough protection or can evade detrimental spells, then […]
#black, #blue, #filters, #glass cannon, #grixis, #jason vorhees, #mairsil the pretender, #red, #Scryfall, #voltron Read More »
EDH Political Science — Straw Man and Threat Assessment
October 16, 2017 by
Rick Amundson
Politics wouldn’t be the same without lying. There is a precedent for it. Lying as part of any political system exists simply because there are clear advantages to doing so. A politician can get caught lying and still come out ahead. The fact that information is out there is more important than if it was […]
#arcane adaption, #black, #blue, #enchantment, #esper, #political, #rooftop storm, #ulamog the ceaseless hunger, #white, #zur the enchanter Read More »