Some Assembly Required Magic: the Gathering is filled to the brim with abilities. We have triggered abilities, as seen on cards like Eternal Witness and Phyrexian Arena. There are mana abilities, famously found on lands, artifacts, and mana dorks such as Gilded Lotus and Llanowar Elves. Then we have static abilities, like the classic Glorious […]
Commander Showdown — Mairsil vs Experiment Kraj
March 7, 2018 by
Joseph Schultz 
#+1/+1 counters, #activated ability, #aetherling, #anthroplasm, #cage counter, #experiment kraj, #gilded lotus, #grixis, #hateflayer, #infinite combo, #mairsil the pretender, #mirror-mad phantasm, #nevinyrrals disk, #pili-pala, #quicksilver elemental, #sage of hours, #simic, #staff of domination, #tree of perdition, #untap Read More »
60 to 100 — Mishra Has a Lantern
February 19, 2018 by
Matt Morgan 
Down -- still unceasingly -- still inevitably down! I gasped and struggled at each vibration. I shrunk convulsively at its every sweep. My eyes followed its outward or upward whirls with the eagerness of the most unmeaning despair... At length for my seared and writhing body there was no longer an inch of foothold on […]
#blood funnel, #codex shredder, #fanning the flames, #grixis, #lantern of insight, #mishra artificer prodigy, #paradox engine, #planar bridge, #possibility storm Read More »
Intellectual Offering — Admiral Beckett Brass
January 18, 2018 by
Sam Alpert 
Hello and welcome back to Intellectual Offering. Sorry for the short hiatus, but the end of the school year was a bit more busy than I expected, and I needed the time to focus on crushing my exams. Now, though, it is time to focus on crushing my opponents. Last set we achieved this literally […]
#admiral beckett brass, #arcane adaption, #black, #blue, #captivating crew, #conspiracy, #copy, #deadeye quartermaster, #dire fleet daredevil, #grixis, #mindclaw shaman, #molten primordial, #pirates, #red, #revel in riches, #sower of temptation, #steal, #treachery, #trophy mage, #xenograft Read More »
Uncompetitive Spirit — Chase
December 8, 2017 by
Robin Kaas 
Welcome to December's first installment of Uncompetitive Spirit! Here we celebrate not only the holidays, but also the quirky ways to play EDH with our friends - format variants! In this article series, I discuss the basic rules and strategies for each of these variants, and I also throw out a deck generated by this […]
#black, #blue, #gameplay, #grixis, #kess dissident mage, #red, #strategy Read More »
Intellectual Offering — Kess, Dissident Mage
November 24, 2017 by
Sam Alpert
This week in Sam vs. The Internet I take on a deck that pushing up the popularity charts week in and week out since its release. Kess, Dissident Mage is not normally the kind of commander I like to write about as she doesn’t facilitate a specific strategy and instead supports generic “goodstuff” style control […]
#black, #blue, #grixis, #kess dissident mage, #mystic confluence, #rakdos charm, #red, #spellslinger Read More »
Replacement Commanders — Activating Abilities with the Great Pretender
November 17, 2017 by
DM Cross 
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 […]
#artifacts, #black, #blue, #c17, #colorless, #grixis, #red, #tribal commander decks, #wizard tribal Read More »
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 »
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 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 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 »