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Magic the Gathering

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Commander Focus: Markov, Blood on the Cheap

B Phillip York -
Credit: Volkan Baga, Wizards of the Coast Okay, you want a deck you can build for a whopping $160 dollars, here you go. Eminence, in my October opinion, is a really underused mechanic. I understand the logic: Magic is largely supposed...
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Commander Focus: Syr Gwyn, the Night Rider

B Phillip York -
Credit: Lie Setiawan, Wizards of the Coast I sort of identify as an Azorius player; or a blue player, generally. Long ago, when Extended had a deck that was essentially 32 counterspells, thieving magpie, morphling, and faerie conclaves, that's what...
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Commander Focus: Kolaghan, A dash of Fire

B Phillip York -
Credit: Jaime Jones, Wizards of the Coast Dragons are cool, big flying, nigh-invulnerable creatures that breath fire, and appear to have some sort of fetish for non-fiat assets. Maybe they're all a bunch of libertarians, or maybe it has some...
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Commander Focus: Esika, God of Gods

B Phillip York -
Credit: Johannes Voss, Wizards of the Coast As soon as I saw The World Tree I thought there had to be a deck around it. Of course, it could be just as simple as running god Tribal deck. There are...
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Mental Magic: Lessons I’ve Learned About Managing Mental Health Over the Last 10 Years

Dinglis -
CW: Self Harm/ Mental Health Discussion Hello everyone, I hope you have all been good. This week I decided I wanted to talk about some lessons about Mental Health and gaming so I'm going to tell some stories from my...
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Commander Focus: Abusing Dungeons with Golos, Tireless Adventurer

B Phillip York -
Golos, Tireless Pilgrim. Credit: Joseph Meehan, Wizards of the Coast Every time a new set comes out, I think it's worth trying to make a deck around the new mechanics in the set. I like sets like Modern Horizons/Modern Horizons...
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Commander Focus: Kadena, Mighty Morphin’ Slinkin’ Sorcerer.

B Phillip York -
Credit: Caio Monteiro, Wizards of the Coast I have a love-hate relationship with abilities like Morph. It doesn't quite work in the usual magic way, where you do something and your opponent can respond.  On the one hand that makes...
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Commander Focus: Tiamat, a rage of dragons

B Phillip York -
Credit: Wizards of the Coast Tiamat is one of those times that Gary Gygax & co decided it was cool to more or less co-opt something that already existed in real life. There's even a first edition book that's just...
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Improving at Magic: How to Prepare for an Event

Dinglis -
If you fail to prepare, you prepare to fail. - Someone wise, probably Preparation is key to succeeding at most things in life. The problem is that preparing - doing your homework - is really boring. No one really likes doing...
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Commander Unstable Mutation: Dungeons of Death (Dungeons & Dragons: Adventure in the Forgotten Realms)

FromTheShire -
With the imminent release of the new D&D: Forgotten Realms set, we're meeting in a grimy tavern for some ale and to review the set's new cards. In this article we'll examine one of the companion Commander decks released...
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