Magic the Gathering

Commander Focus: The 2021 Coverage Retrospective

Happy Holidays, Dear Reader! Today I'm supposed to be looking back on the last year's worth of articles, but I'm going to cheat and go back to 2020, since we haven't done a retrospective before, and of course it's...

Commander Focus: A Riku of Two Reflections means (2 decks)

Riku was a perfectly good commander once upon a time. Since the release of Commander 2011 here's been a tremendous amount of power creep, and generally speaking, you can get something like Prosper, Tome-Bound, who offers both a value...

Commander Best in Show: Free Interaction

This is part of a series on core cards for playing Commander, focusing on sort of "generic" cards that fit into a variety of decks, based on color identity, and aren't necessarily tied to a specific game plan, but...

Commander Best in Show: Fast Interaction

When it comes to Commander, despite the massive number of available cards in the format once you get into more serious play there are a number of cards that show up over and over in decklists. I think it's...

Unstable Mutation: Vampiric Bloodline

This week we’re finishing out our review of Crimson Vow by taking a look at the two Commander decks Wizards is releasing for the set – whether they’re worth it, and how you can expand them. Today we're talking about...

Unstable Mutation: Spirit Squadron

This week we're finishing out our review of Crimson Vow by taking a look at the two Commander decks Wizards is releasing for the set - whether they're worth it, and how you can expand them. Wizards offers two new...

Innistrad: Crimson Vow Review, Part 3 – Multicolor, DFCs, and Colorless

Magic's newest expansion has us returning to Innistrad just in time for Halloween. Innistrad: Crimson Vow is the second of two expansions set in the horror-themed plane, and this second set sees the two main vampire lineages uniting in...

Innistrad: Crimson Vow Review, Part 2 – WUBRG

Magic's newest expansion has us returning to Innistrad just in time for Halloween. Innistrad: Crimson Vow is the second of two expansions set in the horror-themed plane, and this second set sees the two main vampire lineages uniting in...

Innistrad: Crimson Vow Review, Part 1 – The Mechanics

Magic's newest expansion has us returning to Innistrad just in time for Halloween. Innistrad: Crimson Vow is the second of two expansions set in the horror-themed plane, and this second set sees the two main vampire lineages uniting in...

Commander 103: Mana Value, Ramp, and the Meta

At the dawn of Commander... Long ago, in the Great Before Time, Commander exploded in popularity as a format, giving birth to more competitive spirit, and many more competitive decks were born. Many of these decks are still around in some...