Commander Focus

Commander Focus: Eat Your Foes – Boil ‘Em, Mash ‘Em, Stick ‘Em in a Stew (Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit and Sam, Loyal Attendant)

This week I'm back with a seasonal brew helmed by Frodo, Adventurous Hero and Sam, Loyal Attendant. This deck tries to generate as many Food tokens as possible, and then use them for drawing cards, stabilizing its life total,...

Ghoulhammer: Grimgrin’s Corpse Stash

Here's an early preview of the kind of content we'll be running next week to celebrate Halloween, when Ghoulhammer once again takes over the site. As spooky season approaches, it's time for the long forgotten undead to once again resurrect...

MTG Commander Focus: Costs, Reductions, and Eluge, the Shoreless Sea

One of the single best things you can do in a game of Magic is "Draw a card," but only slightly less well-known is this: "...spells cost {1} less to cast." Yes, reducing the overall costs of cards allows...

MTG Commander Focus: Polymorph, Scramble, and Why Deckbuilding Restrictions Matter

The conceit of Commander is itself at-odds with the idea of optimal deckbuilding; no matter how much some commanders are pushed, there may always be another option that has some upside over the more niche option, causing players to...

MTG Commander Focus: Rating Blue-Less Counter Spells Part 2

Hi everyone! A few weeks back, we started to check out all of the different counter spells you can play in Commander that lack the classic counter spell coloring of Blue. You can check that out here if you...

MTG Commander Focus: Let Me Azlasks You a Lot of Questions

This article concludes our series on playing Eldrazi in Commander alongside the recent release of a bunch of new ones in Modern Horizons 3. If you haven't read our previous article on Morophon, the Boundless, you can find it...

Commander Focus: Morophon, Eldrazi Tron in Disguise

This article continues our series on playing Eldrazi in Commander alongside the recent release of a bunch of new ones in Modern Horizons 3. If you haven't read our previous article on Ulalek, Fused Atrocity, you can find it...

MTG Commander Focus: Ulalek, Fused Atrocity LX

This article will be part of a series on playing Eldrazi in Commander alongside the recent release of a bunch of new ones in Modern Horizons 3. Ulalek, Fused Atrocity is a good commander for a midrange revamp of...

Commander Focus: Hazezon Tamar – Fear Is the Mind-killer

This week with the recent Dune release, we're looking back at the game we love with a bit of a retro bent. In this week's Commander Focus, we're building around one of the Magic's original Legends, Hazezon Tamar. This article...

Commander Focus: Toshiro’s Reign of Terror

This week I'm back with another slight tweak of one of my personal decks, that skews extremely heavily into the Commander's theme. This deck tries to punish opponents for swinging at us and somewhat lock down creatures, drawing cards...