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

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...

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

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...

Commander Focus: Kenrith, death by taxes

Credit: Kieran Yanner, Wizards of the Coast Kenrith, the Returned King is just sort of generically good. He's a 5/5 for 5, which isn't an amazing stat block, but his 5 activated abilities are flexible, powerful and useful. Additionally his cmc...

Commander Legends Review, Part 4 of 7: Black

With Commander Legends releasing, the format is about to see a shakeup arguably bigger than any in its relatively short history. This week, Phillip York and FromTheShire are doing a card-by-card review of the new set and what the...

Commander Legends review, Part 2 of 7: White

With Commander Legends releasing, the format is about to see a shakeup arguably bigger than any in its relatively short history. This week, Phillip York and FromTheShire are doing a card-by-card review of the new set and what the...

Magic the Gathering: Zendikar Rising Round-up

Magic's newest expansion dropped last week - Zendikark Rising, a new set in the very popular world of Zendikar. The Eldrazi are long defeated and the plane is at rest... or is it? New machinations are afoot as Nahiri seeks to...

Commander Focus: Omnath, Locus of Creation

Credit: Chris Rahn, Wizards of the Coast One of the more exciting cards to come out of Zendikar Rising for Commander players is probably Omnath, Locus of Creation. We might call this Omnath the IV, or Omnath's fourth iteration. Hopefully,...

Zendikar Rising EDH/Commander Review: The Lands are back in town

Zendikar Rising has a theme of “lands matter” much like Theros had “enchantments matter”. So there’s a number of creatures with landfall abilities that will probably make a splash in commander, especially in less competitive games. Potential Commanders Tazri, Beacon of...

Commander Focus: Slay Queen Marchesa

Image credit: Kieran Yanner, Wizards of the Coast In Commander Focus, Pseudanonymous looks at key Commanders, how to build around them, and what makes their decks work. In this first installment, he’s looking at Queen Marchesa. Queen Marchesa represents a stable platform...