Some commanders are just value engines, but some are the deck's ultimate payoff! How do you change your deckbuilding when your commander is vital to the deck's endgame? Want access to exclusive content, the Challenge the Stats spreadsheet, EDHRECast Discord, and more? Support the cast on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/edhrecast Want to see the decks we play? […]
When Your Commander is Also Your Win Condition | EDHRECast 230

#ardenn intrepid archaeologist, #atemsis all-seeing, #counterspell, #EDHRECast, #empyrial plate, #heroic intervention, #ishai ojutai dragonspeaker, #Juri Master of the Revue, #Kyler Sigardian Emissary, #lightning greaves, #mogis god of slaughter, #nekusar the mindrazer, #omnath locus of rage, #psychosis crawler, #rafiq of the many, #reyhan last of the abzan, #swiftfoot boots, #syr konrad the grim, #teferi's protection, #the locust god, #the mimeoplasm, #the scarab god, #tuvasa the sunlit, #valduk keeper of the flame, #ziatora the incinerator Read More »
Do Your Worst - Mono-Blue Aristocrats

Blue's usually known for spells, not sacrificing creatures, right? ...Right!?!?
#ashnods altar, #aura thief, #body double, #cackling counterpart, #cauldron of souls, #chasm skulker, #faerie artisans, #false demise, #floating-dream zubera, #homarid spawning bed, #illusionists stratagem, #Inga Rune-Eyes, #iridescent drake, #Keiga, #keiga the tide star, #minn, #Minn Wily Illusionist, #mitotic manipulation, #nadir kraken, #Naru Meha, #Naru Meha Master Wizard, #nim deathmantle, #overcharged amalgam, #psychosis crawler, #reef worm, #retraced image, #river kelpie, #selhoff occultist, #spawning pit, #Specimen Collector, #stitchers apprentice, #sublime epiphany, #thassa's oracle, #toothy, #toothy imaginary friend, #vedalken shackles, #whirler rogue Read More »
Power Sink- Kodama, The Loneliest Number

How well does Kodama work without any Partner at all? Lenny goes trailblazing to find out!
#biogenic ooze, #biowaste blob, #blade of selves, #bramble sovereign, #dollhouse of horrors, #dual nature, #helm of the host, #kodama of the east tree, #minion reflector, #mirror box, #mirrorpool, #mitotic slime, #pathbreaker ibex, #psychosis crawler, #regal force, #sakashima of a thousand faces, #splitting slime Read More »
Too-Specific Top 10 - Monster Guide

Looking for creatures Volo can duplicate? Doug breaks down the creature type popularities.
#acidic slime, #akroan horse, #amphin mutineer, #artisan of kozilek, #avenger of zendikar, #Beanstalk Giant, #biomancers familiar, #birds of paradise, #bloodspore thrinax, #burnished hart, #cloud of faeries, #collector ouphe, #consecrated sphinx, #Course of Kruphix, #crashing drawbridge, #curious homunculus, #darksteel juggernaut, #deepglow skate, #diluvian primordial, #dryad of the ilysian grove, #end-raze forerunners, #etherium sculptor, #filigree familiar, #gemhide sliver, #Glowstone Recluse, #golgari grave-troll, #great oak guardian, #hedron crab, #kioras follower, #llanowar elves, #looter il-kor, #loyal guardian, #man-o-war, #managorger hydra, #mycoloth, #myr retriever, #ornithopter, #pathbreaker ibex, #peregrine drake, #perplexing chimera, #phyrexian metamorph, #pili-pala, #platinum angel, #psychosis crawler, #rampaging baloths, #Ramunap Excavator, #reef worm, #sakura-tribe elder, #satyr wayfinder, #scourge of fleets, #scute swarm, #sea-dasher octopus, #seedborn muse, #solemn simulacrum, #spark double, #spore frog, #steel hellkite, #stormtide leviathan, #sylvan caryatid, #temur sabertooth, #Terstodon, #tidespout tyrant, #walking ballista, #wayward swordtooth, #wonder, #wurmcoil engine Read More »
Challenge the Stats – A Bevy of Belbes

Belbe's stats have been corrupted! Let's find her some new, underplayed cards.
#animists awakening, #Arguel's Blood Fast, #astral cornucopia, #belbe corrupted observer, #damnable pact, #hooded blightfang, #hurricane, #psychosis crawler Read More »
Commander Backups & Substitutes | EDHRECast 155

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 […]
#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 »
Scale: The Power of Multiplayer | EDHRECast 131

Multiplayer Magic can be daunting... except when you use cards that take advantage of having multiple opponents! In this episode, we talk about cards that scale well to the increased size of the game, cards that scale poorly, and the cards that go totally overboard, so you can tip the scales in your favor! Support […]
#authority of the consuls, #bane of progress, #black market, #blade of selves, #blasphemous act, #chandras ignition, #coastal breach, #consecrated sphinx, #crescendo of war, #cruel entertainment, #curtains call, #cyclonic rift, #day of judgment, #decimate, #decree of pain, #diluvian primordial, #disenchant, #dismantling wave, #disrupt decorum, #dockside extortionist, #EDHRECast, #exsanguinate, #ezuris predation, #faerie artisans, #forgotten ancient, #fumigate, #grasp of fate, #gray merchant of asphodel, #grismold the dreadsower, #hallar the firefletcher, #insurrection, #ishai ojutai dragonspeaker, #ishkanah grafwidow, #kaervek the merciless, #kambal consul of allocation, #kokusho the evening star, #lord of extinction, #lurking predators, #maddening cacophony, #malignus, #mana geyser, #managorger hydra, #mangara the diplomat, #manifold insights, #mazirek kraul death priest, #Morphic pool, #mystic barrier, #mystic remora, #oblivion ring, #phyrexian rebirth, #play of the game, #pramikon sky rampart, #psychosis crawler, #purphoros god of the forge, #revel in riches, #rhystic study, #rise of the dark realms, #river's rebuke, #rolling stones, #Scheming Symmetry, #seedborn muse, #sepulchral primordial, #smothering tithe, #soul warden, #stolen strategy, #swords to plowshares, #syphon mind, #syr konrad the grim, #tendershoot dryad, #torment of hailfire, #wrath of god, #xyris the writhing storm Read More »
EDHRECast 117: Setup and Payoff: Your Deck's Synergy Ratio

"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 - Going in Cycles

Are you ex-cycle-ted?
#akromas vengeance, #ancient excavation, #archfiend of ifnir, #ash barrens, #astral rift, #astral slide, #barren moor, #blasted landscape, #brallin skyshark raider, #canyon slough, #cast out, #chasm skulker, #cloud of faeries, #cunning survivor, #curator of mysteries, #cycling, #decree of pain, #desert of the fervent, #desert of the glorified, #desert of the indomitable, #desert of the mindful, #desert of the true, #drake haven, #drifting meadow, #eternal dragon, #faith of the devoted, #fetid pools, #flameblade adept, #forgotten cave, #forsake the wordly, #Gavi, #Gavi nest warden, #Gavinest, #glint-horn buccaneer, #Golos, #golos tireless pilgrim, #homing sliver, #irrigated farmland, #life from the loam, #lightning rift, #lonely sandbar, #migratory route, #nadir kraken, #niv-mizzet Parun, #niv-mizzet the firemind, #ominous sphinx, #ominous sphinxe, #polluted mire, #psychic corrosion, #psychosis crawler, #remote isle, #scattered groves, #secluded steppe, #shabraz the skyshark, #sheltered thicket, #slippery karst, #smoldering crater, #sphinxs tutelage, #splendid reclamation, #starstorm, #stoic champion, #sylvan reclamation, #teferi hero of dominaria, #the gitrog monster, #the locust god, #Too Specific Top 10, #toothy imaginary friend, #top 10, #top 10 lists, #tranquil thicket, #unearth, #vedalken aethermage, #zenith seeker Read More »
Ultra Budget Brews - Damia, Sage of Stone

Damia's budget deck will still petrify her enemies
#allies, #birthing boughs, #budget edh, #cryptoplasm, #damia sage of stone, #deckbuilding, #evil twin, #null brooch, #progenitor mimic, #psychosis crawler, #rite of replication, #shapesharer, #sultai, #thassa deep-dwelling, #ultra budget brews, #Vivien Champion of the Wilds Read More »