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Commander Focus: Karona, the False God says “FU, have this”

B Phillip York - October 22, 2020

Credit: UDON, Wizards of the Coast Karona, False God is kind of a strange card in a game that's ostensibly two-player. Why play a creature your opponents are going to get to control? Karona's effect is not entirely dissimilar to...

Magic the Gathering

Commander Focus: Kroxa, doesn’t want the turn to end

B Phillip York - October 16, 2020

Credit: Wizards of the Coast, Vincent Proce There are a few cards in magic that have mechanics associated with them that essentially break the game. The way some of these cards are dealt with changes over time; sometimes they work...

Gaming

Commander Focus: Tazri, Beacon of Unity (but not of winning)

B Phillip York - October 8, 2020

A long time ago, in a meta far far away, General Tazri was a top tier cEDH commander, and a shell for food chain. Food chain relies on a relatively rare ability: Cards that can be cast from exile. The...

Gaming

CF: Let’s Fighting Love: Neyith of the Dire Hunt

B Phillip York - September 29, 2020

Occasionally Wizards of the Coast comes out with a new legendary creature (or planeswalker) that makes for an exciting commander. Unfortunately, some of the topmost competitive commanders in the game (Tymna the weaver, Thrasios Triton Hero, Kenrith the returned...

Gaming

Magic the Gathering: Zendikar Rising Round-up

Goonhammer Staff - September 27, 2020

Magic's newest expansion dropped last week - Zendikark Rising, a new set in the very popular world of Zendikar. The Eldrazi are long defeated and the plane is at rest... or is it? New machinations are afoot as Nahiri seeks to...

Gaming

Commander Focus: Prankle, Master of Pranks

B Phillip York - September 22, 2020

Credit: Dmitry Burmak, Wizards of the Coast Faeries and rogues are cool. And there's this thing floating around, which is kind of cool: Which is one of my favorite heroes in 12v12 (though that's a story for another day), but it...

Gaming

Commander Focus: Omnath, Locus of Creation

B Phillip York - September 15, 2020

Credit: Chris Rahn, Wizards of the Coast One of the more exciting cards to come out of Zendikar Rising for Commander players is probably Omnath, Locus of Creation. We might call this Omnath the IV, or Omnath's fourth iteration. Hopefully,...

Gaming

Zendikar Rising EDH/Commander Review: The Lands are back in town

B Phillip York - September 11, 2020

Zendikar Rising has a theme of “lands matter” much like Theros had “enchantments matter”. So there’s a number of creatures with landfall abilities that will probably make a splash in commander, especially in less competitive games. Potential Commanders Tazri, Beacon of...

Gaming

Commander Focus: Gavi, Nest Warden

B Phillip York - September 3, 2020

Image credit: Randy Vargas, Wizards of the Coast In Commander Focus, Pseudanonymous looks at key Commanders, how to build around them, and what makes their decks work. In this first installment, he’s looking at Gavi, Nest Warden. Gavi, Nest Warden is a...

Gaming

Commander Focus: Slay Queen Marchesa

B Phillip York - August 25, 2020

Image credit: Kieran Yanner, Wizards of the Coast In Commander Focus, Pseudanonymous looks at key Commanders, how to build around them, and what makes their decks work. In this first installment, he’s looking at Queen Marchesa. Queen Marchesa represents a stable platform...