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Conquest Focus: Let me Extus you a question

B Phillip York - May 6, 2021

Credit: Chase Stone, Wizards of the Coast Extus, Oriq Overlord is a pretty cool Commander option with a lot of flexibility in how you build around him. You can do an aristocrats-style sacrifice deck, focusing on sacrificing either cheap creatures...

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The 16 cards that are banned in Commander but not Conquest

B Phillip York - April 5, 2021

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...

Competitive Play

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

B Phillip York - March 25, 2021

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 - March 18, 2021

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,...

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Commander Focus: Conquest, the Format of the Future Past

B Phillip York - March 4, 2021

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...