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I find myself in a bit of a Tribal Update Report funk, but I’ll probably get over it. Before we get into the cards from Kaldheim, let’s recapitulate what I’m even doing here. On again and off again from 2005 to 2013, we held a series of casual multiplayer games under an evolving ruleset based on...

At the beginning of the thread for Seasons Past, I noted that my extensive EDH deckbuilding efforts of the past few years and my dabbling in Canadian Highlander have been my only outlet for experience with some of the "new" cards in the game. Going through my most-played cards in EDH for 2019...

About a year a go, I published a statistics brief on the decks I played in the West Coast Commander League (WCCL) in 2019. At that time, I imagined that I'd probably play in more of the WCCL weekly events in 2020 than I did in 2019, and that I could do this again with more data. That turned out...

It’s been well over a month since the release of Commander Legends. Since the set was spoiled, I’ve been mulling over my gripes regarding a somewhat controversial card in the set, Jeweled Lotus. Wizards of the Coast clearly viewed the upcoming artifact as something that should be exciting, and I...

Last month, it was announced that the West Coast Commander League would run events online through webcams. I set up a Discord server to help with the administration of these events and the League organizer looked into the Spell Table site for running the actual games. We did some testing in the...

White gets a bad rap in EDH, but I think that the color I've had the most trouble trying to use in EDH has been red. With the tendency toward drawn-out multiplayer games, trying to dish out damage isn't as effective as it would be in your typical 20-life duel. Efficient damage is no longer...

When I think of what to write about for threads like this, I have this recurring thought process that goes something like... I should write about cards that aren't from the 90's. It's not like I stopped playing Magic in the 90's. There's this card I've been using a lot in EDH and in Canadian...

This report will be running a bit late, but you’ll live. Now, Commander Legends is a set themed around the Commander format. The set is going to make waves in that format, but what does this mean for Tribal formats? While cards that have mechanics specific to Commander don’t necessarily do...

I was introduced to an hour-long video created by Messrs “The Nitpicking Nerds” covering the best cards for EDH from every Magic set to release new cards into the game. If these guys had merely selected their #1 pick from each set, I wouldn’t be commenting on it now. But they also threw in some...

So this thing was spoiled recently... Opposition Agent 2B Creature — Human Rogue Flash You control your opponents while they’re searching their libraries. While an opponent is searching their library, they exile each card they find. You may play those cards for as long as they remain exiled...

In 2017, I started writing these reminiscent "Magic Memories" forum posts because it was more convenient than trying to write full-length articles for the front page, but still got me that good old Magic-writing fix. I wrote about a bunch of cards I'd used over the years and my memories of those...

https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/news/october-12-2020-banned-and-restricted-announcement Standard: Omnath, Locus of Creation is banned. Lucky Clover is banned. Escape to the Wilds is banned. Historic: Omnath, Locus of Creation is suspended. Teferi, Time Raveler is banned...

https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/news/september-28-2020-banned-and-restricted-announcement-2020-09-28 Standard: Uro, Titan of Nature's Wrath is banned.

And we're back with another Tribal Update Report. We're leaving Ikoria, a wild land in which people must be resourceful in order to deal with an abundance of monsters. Now we're going to Zendikar, a wild land in which people must be resourceful in order to deal with an abundance of monsters. I...

I'm in the middle of a full sort of my entire Magic collection. On Sunday, while handling my Mirage cards, I spotted my entire playset of Cursed Scroll. As you may already be aware, Cursed Scroll is not a Mirage card. It's from Tempest. They'd been misfiled with the card Cursed Totem (which...

https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/news/august-8-2020-banned-and-restricted-announcement Standard -Wilderness Reclamation is banned. -Growth Spiral is banned. -Teferi, Time Raveler is banned. -Cauldron Familiar is banned. Pioneer -Inverter of Truth is banned. -Kethis, the Hidden...

It's been a while since I did one of these. And after revisiting a crappy old creature I used to use when I was new to the game, I thought Spike Weaver deserved a thread, being the creature that last year saw, by far, the most play in my decks. I mean, did you catch this thread? I compiled some...

https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/news/july-13-2020-banned-and-restricted-announcement-2020-07-13 Historic Agent of Treachery is banned (from suspended) Winota, Joiner of Forces is banned (from suspended) Fires of Invention is banned (from suspended) Nexus of Fate is banned...

Well, a new core set is coming out. And there’s also a supplemental set called “Jumpstart” that has its own thing going on. Both of them were supposed to have been released already, but technically, at the time I’m writing this, their release date hasn’t arrived just yet. Also, I have cards...

It looks like all of the games I'm in here are on hiatus until Spiderman gets back. Mooseman and I were talking about potentially playing just regular old Commander, something I don't think we've actually done on the Games Run board in quite a while. Just wanted to see if we can get enough...