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Commander Focus

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...
Competitive Play

Commander Focus: Abusing Dungeons with Golos, Tireless Adventurer

B Phillip York -
Golos, Tireless Pilgrim. Credit: Joseph Meehan, Wizards of the Coast Every time a new set comes out, I think it's worth trying to make a deck around the new mechanics in the set. I like sets like Modern Horizons/Modern Horizons...
Competitive Play

Commander Focus: Tiamat, a rage of dragons

B Phillip York -
Credit: Wizards of the Coast Tiamat is one of those times that Gary Gygax & co decided it was cool to more or less co-opt something that already existed in real life. There's even a first edition book that's just...
Competitive Play

Commander Focus – Zabaz, or: LA+R+BO+DU RO+MO+S

B Phillip York -
Modern Horizons 2 wasn't exactly a timeshifted set, but it wasn't exactly not timeshifted, either. A number of mechanics were revisited that haven't been used in a while, and among them was Modular. Modular hasn't really seen much use...
Competitive Play

Commander Focus: Jorn, God of Winter

B Phillip York -
Credit: Wizards of the Coast, Magali Villaneuve Kaldheim continued a thread started in Zendikar Rising by offering new modal cards, though no longer bound to lands, giving us modal double-faced cards that instead had two spells to choose from. These...
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