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Tried this deck out twice on Wednesday night, but not also kinda not really. When I brought it out for its first game, one of my two opponents was running a powerful Giada deck and just stomped on both of us before we could do anything. He cast an Angel of Jubilation before I could get a single...

This deck earned a second victory. It was touch-and-go for a bit there, but Zuran Orb gave me an outlet to keep filling my graveyard up with lands for Lluwen to make more worms, while Conduit of Worlds and Exploration Broodship let me keep recurring Aftermath Analyst. Constant Mists protected me...

Played this deck on Wednesday. Although I lost as usual, it was a funny game. This was the second actual game of Magic for one of the players, who brought a precon (he had prior experience with other trading card games). Since it was mentioned that this player was new and that a deck that was...

I was going to play this one on Wednesday, but I held off initially because there was a new player at the table, and only got two games in. Next time...

One year ago, WotC published the announcement for the "Beta" rollout of the Commander Format Panel's "Bracket System." For some time now, I've been contemplating the idea of an "anniversary rant" breaking down my qualms with this system. As I'd originally envisioned it, I'd go through the...

I've been running with Pashalik Mons for a while and I thought black/red goblins might be a fun change of pace. That's about it. Commander: 1 Grub, Storied Matriarch 1 Ancient Tomb 1 Arid Mesa 1 Ashnod's Altar 1 Badlands 1 Basilisk Collar 1 Beetleback Chief 1 Blood Crypt 1 Bloodline Bidding 1...

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I had a good game going with this deck, swinging in with tokens from Goblin Rabblemaster and General Kreat. But one of my opponents popped off with some combo and killed the table. Oh, I remember now. I was a Prossh deck with Food Chain. Yep. Can't really outrace that with this deck.

This deck just couldn't get the cards together to function properly. Technically, I could have. I purposely ignored a Bomberman line that definitely would have let me win the game, just because I've reached the point of trying to force the Barren Glory win. Despite playing suboptimally to hunt...

I'd had this deck sitting in my bag for a couple of weeks, but I finally got to play it on Wednesday. Spike Weaver kept me alive and then Squandered Resources gave me the mana to hit the table with a big Decree of Pain. I had 11 creatures (Lluwen, Timeless Witness, World Shaper, Spike Weaver...

This is my first new deck of 2026, and I'm trying to rein in power level while still using cards I like. It's also my first deck helmed by a commander from the new *Lorwyn Eclipsed* set. As a big fan of Worm Harvest, I have to build around this guy. And while I couldn't resist the urge to...

One of my opponents decided to use turn 1 Black Vise on me, which was a bit strange. I had lousy topdecks and took a while to get out from under the Vise. By the time I did, the same opponent had set up Sheoldred, the Apocalypse + Forced Fruition. So I couldn't cast any spells or I'd die...

Since I hadn't pulled this deck out for a while, I played it this week. I was excited to get a hand with Metalworker, Wormcoil Engine, and Sculpting Steel. I was able to rush out Wormcoil Engine and was contemplating shenanigans to copy and recur it. No one really had anything that threatened me...

I tried this deck yet again, having still failed to get Barren Glory to work for me. I had a sluggish start, then one of my opponents wiped the board and had me discard 11 cards (I only had 7 cards in my hand). I think he picked me because I had the most cards in hand, but it was an easy way to...

Despite the failure of Squandered Resources to break through in Legacy, the card has made appearances in tournament formats with smaller card pools, such as Premodern, a format that has often surprised me with its strange innovations. While the use of Squandered Resources in Enchantress decks is...

Speaking of staples, that’s another category I traditionally include in these reports. Ranking cards by category doesn’t really give a clear picture of which ones I used most throughout the year, and an unabridged list from the top includes lots of lands and mana rocks. So here are the 31 cards...

Welcome to my seventh annual article summarizing my year in EDH. This project began with the relatively short-lived West Coast Commander League (2019–2020). Since then, it has taken on a kind of life of its own. I play a lot of EDH and, compared to most players, I build a lot of different...

I just might do both! :P My sister is out of town, so we're celebrating "Christmas" with her on Saturday. But I also spent actual Christmas day with my mom and my youngest brother.

Originally, the Universes Beyond cards were only to show up in the "Secret Lair" product line (generally between 3 and 7 cards, which you order on a website and then get mailed to your house). But after a few of those they came up with three other models for Universes Beyond cards. Commander...

After slogging through a color-screw (couldn't find red mana until the turn after an opponent cast Blood Moon anyway), I had multiple false starts and got to a pretty low life total. When I finally did cast Hypergenesis, it gave one of my opponents fuel to use Bolas's Citadel to kill me while...