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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...

https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/announcements/banned-and-restricted-february-9-2026 https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/announcements/commander-banned-and-restricted-february-9-2026 https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/announcements/commander-brackets-beta-update-february-9-2026 Standard No...

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...

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...

In crossing the last few Legends legends off my to-do list, I considered Chromium. Technically, I'd already put Chromium at the helm of an EDH deck once, but it was merely as a placeholder commander for Eriette, the Beguiler. Once I acquired a copy of Eriette, Chromium was pulled from the deck...

Nicol Bolas was one of the only Legends legends for which I still had not built a deck. Well, now I've changed that. I make people discard their cards. I'm not the Bolas, but the Bolas is in my command zone. This deck probably doesn't constitute much of a threat if I can't get Waste Not onto the...

This deck ties together a few different threads. Ordinarily, I try to build some thematically appropriate deck for Thanksgiving every year. Well, after a couple of years I established that my Halloween deck must have All Hallow's Eve and that my Christmas deck must use snow-covered lands. Since...

With just five of the "Legends legends" to go, I needed to figure out what kind of deck to build for Riven Turnbull. Based on his flavor text, he's not a big fan of the government, but that's not much to go on. Well, he's also a mana dork, but he's a horribly overcosted one by today's standards...

I had to do a deck for Sol'kanar at some point. Originally, I had this whole plan of spamming a bunch of black spells to gain life, stuff like Blood Pet. But I'm lazy and about to turn 40 and I'm just throwing together this weird combo deck that is kind of high-power but also not actually very...

https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/announcements/banned-and-restricted-november-10-2025 Standard Vivi Ornitier is banned. Screaming Nemesis is banned. Proft's Eidetic Memory is banned. Pioneer Heartfire Hero is banned. Modern No changes Legacy Entomb is banned. Nadu, Winged Wisdom is banned...

My Halloween deck themes have probably been hit-or-miss, but this one was a deliberate reference that now seems a bit awkward. To understand the reference, understand that my family, for reasons I still don't understand myself, had a planned pirate-themed party for Halloween of this year. Also...

I believe that the very first time I saw a Magic card, it was Teremko Griffin from Mirage, at some point in early 1997. I was visiting a small game store a mile and a half from my house, looking for figures for Warhammer Quest. Martin McKenna's art drew me in, but it was the layout of the cards...

This still hasn't come up here? Yikes, maybe the CPA really is dead. There are 34 spider heroes in the new set. Of course, some of them probably do not qualify as Spiderman. For instance, one of them is a cat. Cats cannot be Spiderman. Also, several of them are girls, but maybe girls can be...

I try to build some EDH deck with a commander for each new set that comes out. That's it. That's the reason I'm doing this. This Spider-Man set is underwhelming, but I saw the potential to use a bunch of the cards I'd already used a lot in my Omarthis deck. So now Omarthis goes in the maindeck...

Instead of putting my Torsten deck back together, I built a weaker Life from the Loam deck and threw in some of the new Edge of Eternities cards. Commander: 1 Kei Takahashi 1 Abdel Adrian, Gorion's Ward 1 Abundance 1 Academy Rector 1 Aftermath Analyst 1 Ancient Tomb 1 Arid Mesa 1 Azusa, Lost...

This is a dumb deck that tries to use Shared Fate to play other players' decks because I'm a dork. That's all. Commander: 1 Hunding Gjornersen 1 Academy Rector 1 Akroan Horse 1 Approach of the Second Sun 1 Archivist of Oghma 1 Auramancer 1 Beacon of Immortality 1 Browse 1 Careful Study 1...

This guy's name is ridiculous, but I am going to make so very many +1/+1 counters. Commander: 1 Mm'menon, Uthros Exile 1 Academy Ruins 1 Aether Spellbomb 1 Agatha's Soul Cauldron 1 Ancient Tomb 1 Animation Module 1 Arcane Denial 1 Arid Mesa 1 Ashnod's Altar 1 Bloodstained Mire 1 Brainstorm 1...

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...