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Not-Commander Secret Lair: Stranger Things

B Phillip York - October 19, 2021

Late last week Wizards revealed cards from the next "Universes Beyond" release, this time focused on the Netflix series Stranger Things. If you're starting to feel fatigue from the sheer volume of new Magic releases well, you're not alone. Today we'll...

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Commander Focus: The Rubaiyat of oh my Tayam!

B Phillip York - October 14, 2021

Tayam, Luminous Enigma is kind of a strange card. He cares about counters, not particular counters. A lot of cards will have you remove counters, but typically they are counters associated with the creature itself, and the most common...

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Commander Focus: Anowon, Feeling a Bit Rouge-ish.

B Phillip York - October 7, 2021

Yes, thank you I know how to spell. But that's the point of a rogue deck. I tricked you into correcting my spelling. You fell into my cunning plan of, well proving something or other. Rogues are a nifty subtype...

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Commander Unstable Mutation: Coven Counters

B Phillip York - October 4, 2021

Coven Counter is based on generating +1/+1 counters, off the commander and other sources, buffing the small creatures in order to deal combat damage. This is inherently a bad game plan, especially without backup from things like proliferate, or...

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Commander Unstable Mutation: Undead Unleashed

B Phillip York - September 30, 2021

We've previously covered the mechanics and cards of Midnight Hunt, the newest Innistrad-set expansion for Magic: the Gathering. This week we're covering the Commander preconstructed decks for the set - what they've got, how to play them, and how...

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Innistrad: Midnight Hunt Review, Part 3 – Multicolor, DFCs, and Colorless

Robert "TheChirurgeon" Jones - September 22, 2021

Just in time for Halloween we’re returning once again to Innistrad. The days are getting shorter, the nights are getting longer, and we’ve got an entire set of spooky new cards to shake up every format. In today’s set...

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Innistrad: Midnight Hunt Review, Part 2 – WUBRG

Robert "TheChirurgeon" Jones - September 20, 2021

Magic's newest expansion has us returning to Innistrad just in time for Halloween. Innistrad: Midnight Hunt is the first of two expansions set in the horror-themed plane, and this first set sees the story focusing on the besieged humans'...

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Innistrad: Midnight Hunt Review, Part 1 – The Mechanics

Robert "TheChirurgeon" Jones - September 16, 2021

Magic's newest expansion has us returning to Innistrad just in time for Halloween. Innistrad: Midnight Hunt is the first of two expansions set in the horror-themed plane, and this first set sees the story focusing on the besieged humans'...

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Commander Focus: The Death of Golos

B Phillip York - September 14, 2021

Yesterday's ban announcement is one of the largest to happen in a while: As of 09/13/2021, Golos, Tireless Pilgrim is banned from Commander. As it turns out, we'd just finished building another Golos deck, and while it's no longer...

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Commander Focus: Markov, Blood on the Cheap

B Phillip York - September 9, 2021

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...