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Standard Cori-Steel Cutter is banned. Abuelo's Awakening is banned. Monstrous Rage is banned. Heartfire Hero is banned. Up the Beanstalk is banned. Hopeless Nightmare is banned. This Town Ain't Big Enough is banned. Pioneer No changes Modern No changes Legacy No changes...

Perusing the stupidly vast list of potential commander options from the Final Fantasy set, I discovered that one of them has the same name as my little brother. Well, it's got to be him, then. I then learned that Joshua here actually has an older brother and that the older brother is *also* a...

The story of the awkward "Leprechaun Ward" archetype in the Old School '94 format is fascinating. It's a case worth studying. Of course, the archetype doesn't really scale into EDH and it would be silly to try, which is exactly where I come in. I am willing to be very silly. After compiling a...

Having already done a Sunastian Falconer deck years ago, I've been somewhat stumped as to what approach I want to take with building decks helmed by the two other mana dork legends among the original 55. I was trying to think of an appropriate "princess" theme of some sort, and the art got me...

It had been over a year since I built a walls deck and apparently I can't help myself, even against my better judgment. Should Rolling Stones be in here? Probably. But it's not. We're not attacking. We're defending. Eventually, if no one kills us, I guess we win. If opponents somehow let this...

https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/announcements/commander-bans-and-restrictions-april-22-2025 Gifts Ungiven is unbanned Sway of the Stars is unbanned Braids, Cabal Minion is unbanned Coalition Victory is unbanned Panoptic Mirror is unbanned

I threw this Energy deck together because I wanted to do an Energy deck in these colors. It's not very good and I'll probably make revisions if I do decide to keep it around. Commander: 1 Saheeli, Radiant Creator 1 Academy Ruins 1 Aether Chaser 1 Aether Herder 1 Aether Hub 1 Aether Swooper 1...

https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/announcements/banned-and-restricted-announcement-march-31-2025 Announcement Date: March 31, 2025 Standard: No changes Pioneer: No changes Modern: Underworld Breach is banned. Legacy: Sowing Mycospawn is banned. Troll of Khazad-dûm is banned...

I've long been torn on what kind of theme my Halfdane deck would use, once I eventually got around to building one. Well, I've been stuck in a deckbuilding rut for most of this year, but I'm settling on an equipment deck. Equip a big creature to make it even bigger, copy its power/toughness with...

https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/announcements/introducing-commander-brackets-beta Well, this is a steaming hot pile of garbage.

When I considered Tor Wauki as a commander option, it occurred to me that Repercussion might work well with that ability. So I built a Repercussion deck. Commander: 1 Tor Wauki 1 Akroan Horse 1 Arid Mesa 1 Ashnod's Altar 1 Atsushi, the Blazing Sky 1 Badlands 1 Black Market 1 Blasphemous Act 1...

I am on a mission to complete my checklist of EDH decks helmed by every one of the original 55 Legends legends before the end of 2025. I'd already covered most of them starting in 2019, but this is the year that I complete the project. Up first is a deck that I've been procrastinating on for a...

Welcome to my sixth annual article in this series. I had at some point gotten the idea into my head that this would be the fifth one because there was a five-year anniversary for a 2019 event at work, but thinking about it exposes the flaw in that thinking. These reports have been for complete...

It's time for the five-year retrospective on my "Elk Need Not Apply" article. I've gone back and reread the article a couple of times, in anticipation of this five-year anniversary. While I didn't think that I could predict what the game would look like in five years, and never pretended that I...

I built this deck for my brother as a Christmas gift. Commander: 1 Imodane, the Pyrohammer 1 Abrade 1 Ashling, Flame Dancer 1 Blazing Sunsteel 1 Bonus Round 1 Brash Taunter 1 Chain Lightning 1 Chaos Warp 1 Chrome Mox 1 Conspiracy Theorist 1 Demand Answers 1 Desperate Ritual 1 Dictate of the...

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Commander: 1x The Gitrog Monster 1x Acidic Slime 1x Ancient Greenwarden 1x Bala Ged Recovery 1x Barad-dur 1x Caustic Caterpillar 1x Crucible of Worlds 1x Dakmor Salvage 1x Dark Confidant 1x Deadly Dispute 1x Drivnod, Carnage Dominus 1x Essence Warden 1x Fiend Artisan 8x Forest 1x Giant Adephage...

I threw this together so that I would have a deck helmed by a Foundations commander. Loosely inspired by my old Azusa deck. This one could probably use some refinement. Commander: 1 Loot, Exuberant Explorer 1 Abundance 1 Ancient Greenwarden 1 Arcum's Astrolabe 1 Ashaya, Soul of the Wild 1...

A couple of years ago, I built a mono-black discard EDH deck helmed by The Haunt of Hightower. It was very explosive, but tended to falter once opponents started hitting my commander with removal, especially multiple times in the same game. I recently brought most of those cards back together...