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Commander Focus: Golgari Elves, the Re-anim-elf-matrix

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Credit: Wizards of the Coast Elves have been pushing into Golgari territory the last year or so, and though it's not a new concept - Wizards first introduced green-black elves in Ravnica with the Golgari and expanded the concept in...
Competitive Play

Commander Focus: Uro, Never Not Banned Cards

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Credit: Vincent Proce, Wizards of the Coast Uro, Titan of Nature's Wrath, is probably the stand-out card of Theros: Beyond Death. It's hard to say exactly but Simic has been at the center of a number of cards which required...
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Commander Focus: Take it to the Limit (Aegar, the Freezing Flame)

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Credit: Chris Rahn, Wizards of the Coast Aegar, the Freezing Flame comes out of Kaldheim as part of a strange and somewhat new tribe combination: Giant Wizards.  If you thought this wasn't threatening enough: Imagine if he was also twenty feet...
Gaming

A Review of Magic: The Gathering’s Kaldheim Expansion, Part 3 of 3: Lands, Artifacts, and Final Thoughts

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With the imminent release of the new Kaldheim set, B Phillip York and FromTheShire are reviewing the avalanche of new cards sweeping downhill into all formats. Note that as our typical coverage is focused on Commander, we'll be primarily...
Gaming

A Review of Magic: The Gathering’s Kaldheim Expansion, Part 2 of 3: Multicolor and Double-Faced

B Phillip York -
With the imminent release of the new Kaldheim set, B Phillip York and FromTheShire are reviewing the avalanche of new cards sweeping downhill into all formats. Note that as our typical coverage is focused on Commander, we'll be primarily...
Competitive Play

A Review of Magic: The Gathering’s Kaldheim Expansion, Part 1 of 2: WUBRG

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With the imminent release of the new Kaldheim set, Phillip York and FromTheShire are reviewing the avalanche of new cards sweeping downhill into all formats. Note that as our typical coverage is focused on Commander, we'll be primarily examining...
Competitive Play

Commander Focus: Kobolds and Swords

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In general, combat damage is a difficult (read: Bad) way to win games of Commander. In a normal game of Magic you have to get your opponent to zero life.  Assuming they don't interfere in some way (either gaining...
Competitive Play

Commander Focus: 2020 in Review and What Does 2021 Hold?

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2020 saw an astonishing number of releases of product for Magic: the Gathering, and as Commander is its own essentially eternal format, virtually any release of any cards whatsoever adds the possibility of new cards for the format. And...
Competitive Play

Commander Focus: A Pirate’s Life for me, Part II: Admiral Becket Brass

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Avast matey! Welcome to part two of our series on building around Pirates (you can find part 1 here). Lemme ask: Do you seek to set sail on the stormy seas with a deck with flair and a nautical...
Gaming

Commander Focus: A Pirate’s Life for Me, Part 1 – Malcolm and Breeches

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Credit: Ferris, Jean Leon GEROME/Private Collection/BRIDGEMAN IMAGES The distribution of power throughout the tribes of Magic: the Gathering is - at best - uneven. For most of Magic's history Elves have probably been the strongest, with the combination of cheap...
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