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The 16 cards that are banned in Commander but not Conquest

B Phillip York -
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...
Magic the Gathering

Trogdor Tribal – Old School Burnination with Vaevictis Asmadi

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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...
Competitive Play

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

B Phillip York -
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...
Competitive Play

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

B Phillip York -
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,...
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...
Competitive Play

Commander Focus: Conquest, the Format of the Future Past

B Phillip York -
Conquest is a new-ish (it's actually close to a year old at this point) format that attempts to capture the interesting aspects of cEDH while avoiding some of the problematic luck components and excessive shuffling aspects. It's no accident...
Competitive Play

Commander Focus: Golgari Elves, the Re-anim-elf-matrix

B Phillip York -
Credit: Wizards of the Coast Elves have been pushing into Golgari territory the last year or so, and though it's not a new concept - Wizards first introduced green-black elves in Ravnica with the Golgari and expanded the concept in...
Competitive Play

Commander Focus: Uro, Never Not Banned Cards

B Phillip York -
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)

B Phillip York -
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...
Gaming

A Review of Magic: The Gathering’s Kaldheim Expansion, Part 3 of 3: Lands, Artifacts, and Final Thoughts

B Phillip York -
With the imminent release of the new Kaldheim set, B Phillip York and FromTheShire are reviewing the avalanche of new cards sweeping downhill into all formats. Note that as our typical coverage is focused on Commander, we'll be primarily...
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