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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...

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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...

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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...

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Commander Focus: Atraxa

B Phillip York - August 18, 2020

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 Atraxa, Praetors' Voice. Atraxa, Praetors’ Voice is a powerful and flexible commander that has...

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Commander Focus: Golos, Sleeping Pilgrim

B Phillip York - August 13, 2020

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 Golos, Tireless Pilgrim. Among the storied tales of tier 0 commanders are such legends...

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Magic: the Gathering Double Masters Set Review

Sean "Star Man" Matoon - August 11, 2020

With the full spoiler out now for Wizards of the Coast’s newest reprint set, Double Masters, we thought we’d take a look at the set as a whole and talk about its impact on constructed formats, including Commander, and...

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Building a Commander Deck

B Phillip York - August 6, 2020

We've previously covered the basics of Commander - check out our Getting Started article here - but in today's article we're talking about how to build a solid Commander deck. One of the frequent questions people ask is "How can...

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Getting Started: Commander

B Phillip York - July 23, 2020

Welcome to part three of our Getting Started series for Magic: The Gathering! Yesterday we covered the basics of getting started with Magic: The Gathering Arena electronically (click here if you missed that one and want to know more), and...