Welcome back, dear readers! Today, since we've had two weeks of five-colored decks, we're taking a step back from rainbow manabases and instead we're going to focus on but a single color: black. Our patient is reader Sara's deck. Before we get into it, however, we should discuss the broader perspectives. Mono-colored Decks in EDH […]

Making the Rounds I want to begin today's article by extending another sincere thank you to everybody who has sent me deck submissions so far. There are more of you than I initially expected, and even in my own fantasy I didn't anticipate how many would be willing to put their decks under the knife. […]

Doing the rounds! This time, the Doctor has found a very special spicy brew to go under the cutting knife. It's a hybrid brew of slivers and super friends! The deck is helmed by and comes to us from reader Cowboy Kyle. He writes that the deck has been fun to play but it rarely […]

Welcome dear readers to my new series premiering today here at EDHREC.com! In this series, dubbed General Medicine, I take your submitted decks, throw them into the EDHREC machinery, add my own analysis on top, and present a cool brew, along with suggestions by EDHREC and myself. Before we meet our very first patient, I want […]

It's time to put this series to a rest. At least for now. I do have some suggestions I want to mull over and test with my own playgroup which I might cover in the future. An example is the "EDH with Planeswalkers for commanders" variant, which I personally find extremely interesting. That said, it's […]

Aside from the Pentagram variant and the Chase variant, there aren't that many ways to spice up a five-player game of EDH, but as I'm sure we're all well aware, they can really drag on if played in a classic free-for-all style. This installment of Uncompetitive Spirit will cover a variant which allows for very […]

One of my favorite stories to come out of competitive Magic of all time is the success of Chris Lachmann and Jacob Van Lunen at Pro Tour San Diego in 2007. The format was Two-Headed Giant Time Spiral Booster draft and the two had come up with a very specific plan: force slivers. Apparently, most of the […]

Welcome readers to another edition of Uncompetitive Spirit! In my previous article, which you can find by following this link here: CLICK, I described the format of Planechase EDH, or at least the way my particular group plays it. From the comments below that article, and other feedback I received, it seems we're not alone […]

Happy Holidays everyone! Hopefully you have some time off from school or work, and that you use this time off for some epic games of EDH with friends and family. Today, Uncompetitive Spirit brings you another way to mix things up - and make them games even more epic! I'm talking about mixing in another […]

Welcome to December's first installment of Uncompetitive Spirit! Here we celebrate not only the holidays, but also the quirky ways to play EDH with our friends - format variants! In this article series, I discuss the basic rules and strategies for each of these variants, and I also throw out a deck generated by this […]