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Commander Focus: You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch

B Phillip York -
Credit: Michelle Lizak One of the things that eluded Magic in the beginning was a sense of ownership, a sense of place in the game for the protagonist, aka the player. The original backstory of Magic explained that you were...
Competitive Play

Commander Focus: Poxwalkin’ on the Sun

Will "Loxi" Angarella -
Hi everyone! Welcome back to another Commander Focus: Budget edition! I'm your host, Loxi, and today we'll be bringing you the latest in fun and affordable deck techs. I'll actually be starting a mini series-within-a-series (within...a series?) where we...
Core Games

Commander Focus: Talrand’s Flying Circus

FromTheShire -
Have you ever felt like your friends were playing too much Magic in your game of Magic? Do you think that there's a finite amount of fun to be had in a given game and want to have all...
Core Games

Commander Focus: Vito, the Dusk Rose

Rocco Gest -
They let me back in. This time I’m here with another Halloween themed deck (though the first one wasn’t intentionally Halloween themed), mono-black, vampire-tribal helmed by Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose. This isn’t a particularly novel deck or idea...
Competitive Play

Commander Focus: Boros Shenanigans

B Phillip York -
Last year it seemed like Wizards had a consistent agenda of pushing "Boros reanimation" but we seem to have cycled away from that. There were a number of cards that involved either artifacts or spirits and graveyards and lead...
Core Games

Commander Focus: Tymaret, The Murder King

Rocco Gest -
Zombies are a classic fantasy creature. Shambling, undead corpses brought to life by a Necromancer to be smelly and gross and ruin your whole village for fun (fun for the Necromancer, the zombies feel nothing). Wizards has printed a...
Core Games

Commander Focus: Chatterfang, a Chatter of Squirrels

B Phillip York -
I think most people know that a group of crows is called a murder, fewer are aware of the standard naming convention for a group of squirrels. And while traditionally a group of squirrels is called a drey (hence...
Magic the Gathering

Unstable Mutation: Bedecked Brokers

B Phillip York -
Bedecked Brokers is the BANT precon, in theory, the shard is White with Green and Blue, but I think that distinction is eroding over time.  It's focused on counters and proliferation, and has a subtheme of shield counters, with...
Competitive Play

Commander Focus: Markov, Blood on the Cheap

B Phillip York -
Credit: Volkan Baga, Wizards of the Coast Okay, you want a deck you can build for a whopping $160 dollars, here you go. Eminence, in my October opinion, is a really underused mechanic. I understand the logic: Magic is largely supposed...
Competitive Play

Commander Focus: Syr Gwyn, the Night Rider

B Phillip York -
Credit: Lie Setiawan, Wizards of the Coast I sort of identify as an Azorius player; or a blue player, generally. Long ago, when Extended had a deck that was essentially 32 counterspells, thieving magpie, morphling, and faerie conclaves, that's what...
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