Saskia the Unyielding art by Greg Opalinski Lightning Strikes Twice Whether you're a grizzled Magic veteran or a bushy-tailed new player, chances are good that at some point before learning to play you listened to someone discussing the game and said to yourself, "I recognize the words they're using, but they may as well be speaking a different language." […]
Low Market — Lightning Strikes Twice
October 11, 2017 by
Quinn Miller 
Replacement Commanders — O-Kagachi, Where Art Thou?
October 6, 2017 by
DM Cross 
Hello again readers and welcome back to Replacement Commanders. For this series, we look at all the alternative legendary creatures created for the Commander 2017 product and concoct some different brew strategies for them with the help of EDHREC.com's endless data on what the cool kids are building for each Commander. I put up a […]
#black, #blue, #dragon spirit, #dragon tribal, #five color, #green, #o-kagachi vengeful kami, #red, #spirit tribal, #tribal commander decks, #voltron, #white Read More »
Commander Focus — Wasitora, Nekoru Queen
October 4, 2017 by
Nate Burgess 
Some people like cats. Some people like dogs. Some people like both cats and dogs, so there's a bit of overlap on that Venn diagram. But what, you presumably ask, about the people who like both cats and dragons? Wasitora, Nekoru Queen is a hard-working mother who just wants to feed her litter of cute […]
#black, #cat, #dragon, #green, #jund, #land destruction, #red, #sacrifice, #token, #wasitora nekoru queen 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 »
Non-Basically Speaking — Kess, Dissident Mage
September 28, 2017 by
Nick Wallace 
Hello friends and spellslingers, welcome back to EDHREC and our continuing biweekly column, Non-Basically Speaking, the series that strives to identify non-basic lands that should be considered valuable staples or hidden gems based on their visibility on EDHREC. In our last episode of non-basically speaking we jammed three of Ixalan's new double faced artifact-to-land cards […]
#black, #blue, #c17, #grixis, #Ixalan EDH, #kess commander deck, #kess dissident mage, #kess edh deck, #primal amulet, #primal wellspring, #red, #spellslinger Read More »
Low Market — Cheap Date: [Super]friends with Benefits
September 27, 2017 by
Quinn Miller
Ramos, Dragon Engine art by Joseph Meehan The Power of [Super]friendship Welcome back to Low Market, a column for budget Commander deckbuilding! Every week, I gaze balefully at the perpetually empty "Planeswalker" subcategory of my deck template, yearning for the day that I will stuff it to the brim with planeswalkers. That day has finally come: […]
#artifacts, #black, #blue, #five color, #green, #mazes end, #planeswalkers, #proliferate, #ramos dragon engine, #red, #superfriends, #white Read More »
In the Margins — Clone
September 26, 2017 by
Dana Roach 
Currently there are 5,363 decks in the EDHREC database running Clone, and not a single one of them should have it as part of the 99. Once again I'm lying. Clone is fine and there are probably decks that want every clone effect possible. There might be one at the end of this article. I […]
#altered ego, #black, #blue, #clever impersonator, #clone, #dacks duplicate, #dimir, #evil twin, #gigantoplasm, #gravity falls, #phantasmal image, #phyrexian metamorph, #rite of replication, #sakashima the impostor, #sakashimas student, #stunt double, #vesuvan doppelganger, #vesuvan shapeshifter, #vizier of many faces Read More »
Commander Focus — Edgar Markov
September 25, 2017 by
Nate Burgess
The eminence ability allows us to play a commander that is lurking behind the scenes, making the team stronger, and only entering the fray when an urgent decisive strike is needed. With these characteristics, Edgar Markov is literally "The Man". He's an authority figure in the patriarchy, he's white, he has his own private army […]
#black, #edgar markov, #mardu, #red, #token, #tribal, #vampire, #Vampire tribal, #white Read More »
Underdog's Corner — Dragonlord Silumgar
Hello and welcome back to your regularly scheduled visit to the Underdog's Corner! I hope you enjoy your stay, but please keep an eye on your wallet, your phone, your foil commanders, and other valuables that you may have upon your person. This week we're taking a visit to the secretive guild color combination of […]
#black, #blue, #blue black, #clone legion, #deadeye navigator, #dimir, #dragonlord silumgar, #gonti lord of luxury, #hostage taker, #minds dilation, #praetors grasp, #steal Read More »
EDH Political Science — Guns, Germs, and STEAL
September 22, 2017 by
Rick Amundson 
Update 1/16/2022: Since the original publishing of this article, we have learned that Cortés' arrival in Mexico was probably not interpreted by the Aztecs as the return of the god Quetzlcoatl, as some were taught in school. The 'white gods' myth was likely invented by later generations due to various social and political pressures. We're […]
#axis of mortality, #black, #debtors knell, #evangelize, #new blood, #orzhov, #politics, #smallpox, #strategy, #swords to plowshers, #vona butcher of magan, #white Read More »