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Commander Focus

Competitive Play

Commander Focus: Tiamat, a rage of dragons

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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

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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

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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...
Competitive Play

Commander Focus: Uro, Never Not Banned Cards

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Credit: Vincent Proce, Wizards of the Coast Uro, Titan of Nature's Wrath, is probably the stand-out card of Theros: Beyond Death. It's hard to say exactly but Simic has been at the center of a number of cards which required...
Competitive Play

Commander Focus: Take it to the Limit (Aegar, the Freezing Flame)

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Credit: Chris Rahn, Wizards of the Coast Aegar, the Freezing Flame comes out of Kaldheim as part of a strange and somewhat new tribe combination: Giant Wizards.  If you thought this wasn't threatening enough: Imagine if he was also twenty feet...
Competitive Play

Commander Focus: Kobolds and Swords

B Phillip York -
In general, combat damage is a difficult (read: Bad) way to win games of Commander. In a normal game of Magic you have to get your opponent to zero life.  Assuming they don't interfere in some way (either gaining...
Competitive Play

Commander Focus: 2020 in Review and What Does 2021 Hold?

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2020 saw an astonishing number of releases of product for Magic: the Gathering, and as Commander is its own essentially eternal format, virtually any release of any cards whatsoever adds the possibility of new cards for the format. And...
Competitive Play

Commander Focus: A Pirate’s Life for me, Part II: Admiral Becket Brass

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Avast matey! Welcome to part two of our series on building around Pirates (you can find part 1 here). Lemme ask: Do you seek to set sail on the stormy seas with a deck with flair and a nautical...
Gaming

Commander Focus: A Pirate’s Life for Me, Part 1 – Malcolm and Breeches

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Credit: Ferris, Jean Leon GEROME/Private Collection/BRIDGEMAN IMAGES The distribution of power throughout the tribes of Magic: the Gathering is - at best - uneven. For most of Magic's history Elves have probably been the strongest, with the combination of cheap...
Gaming

Commander Focus: Lurrus, of the Dream Den, you can Count on him

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Credit: Slawomir Maniak, Wizards of the Coast Given the impinging Halloween and the strange year, I think it's important to bring up a topic that may be of much concern, and is very relevant and very serious. Who is the best...
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