Commander

Commander Focus: Ye Dragon Approacheth

As we covered in our review of the set, with Strixhaven Wizards have finally decided to print another card with the rider that you lets you play any number of copies in your deck. There's a decent extant Shadowborn...

A Review of Magic: The Gathering’s Strixhaven Expansion, Part 4 of 4: Commander 2021

With the imminent release of the new Strixhaven set, B Phillip York and FromTheShire are evaluating the first years as they make their way into the academy. Note that as our typical coverage is focused on Commander, we'll be...

A Review of Magic: The Gathering’s Strixhaven Expansion, Part 3 of 4: Multicolor and Colorless

With the imminent release of the new Strixhaven set, Phillip York and FromTheShire are evaluating the first years as they make their way into the academy. Note that as our typical coverage is focused on Commander, we'll be primarily...

A Review of Magic: The Gathering’s Strixhaven Expansion, Part 2 of 4: WUBRG

With the imminent release of the new Strixhaven set, B Phillip York and FromTheShire are evaluating the first years as they make their way into the academy. Note that as our typical coverage is focused on Commander, we'll be...

A Review of Magic: the Gathering’s Strixhaven Expansion, Part 1 of 4: The Mechanics

With the imminent release of the new Strixhaven set, we're evaluating the first years as they make their way into the academy. And also the set's cards, we guess. In this article - the first of four in our...

Commander Focus: Krark and Sakashima – the cake is no lie

The odds are pretty good there's some interesting Magic: the Gathering lore as to why poor Krak has no thumbs. But maybe we've already lost that bet. For the most part, Wizards of the Coast have decided to scale...

The 16 cards that are banned in Commander but not Conquest

We've previously covered the Conquest format and what sets it apart from the Commander format. In today's column, we're looking at how the format's ban list differs from Commanders, and the impact certain "unbanned" cards may have. Part of the...

Trogdor Tribal – Old School Burnination with Vaevictis Asmadi

Credit: Anti Rusu, Wizards of the Coast Back in my day, before you kids came along with your Emracools and your Urgos, when YOU were the only planeswalker around, and Commander was a military rank, we used to play the...

Commander/Conquest Focus: America: FY with Brallin and Shabaz

I've long had a fondness for the "Curiosity effect + deal a damage when you draw a card" combo that's pretty obviously built in to Niv Mizzet, the Firemind. The combination of card draw and damage based off card...

Conquest Focus: The Recent Bans and Revisiting Jorn, God of Stax

We've talked about the Conquest format and what's cool about it pretty recently - check out our intro here. Well the format recently updated with a new set of bans: - Inalla, Archmage Ritualist is banned as commander. - Rograkh,...