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Playgroup Brews - Commander 2018 (Pt 1)

Playgroup Brews - Commander 2018 (Pt 1)

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Christian Alexander
Christian Alexander
  Our Mission Howdy readers! We’ve finished another set review, and it’s time for another round of Playgroup Brews! A lot of people have had mixed feelings about Commander 2018, but I think we can all agree that we’ve gotten some really interesting commanders to play with and brew! This article isn’t going to be […]
60 to 100 - Estrid's Boggling Bant-chantress!

60 to 100 - Estrid's Boggling Bant-chantress!

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Matt Morgan
Matt Morgan
Mind "Bogle"-ing Greetings once again to all my friends (and to readers who aren't my friends)! Here we are in a post-Commander 2018 world where Wizards of the Coast gives us a whole set devoted only to our beloved highlander format. This week, we'll get a glimpse into what I've been jonesing to build for […]
Commander 2018 Set Review — Gold (Pt 2), Artifacts, and Lands

Commander 2018 Set Review — Gold (Pt 2), Artifacts, and Lands

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Dean Gootee
Dean Gootee
Commander Treasures It's that time of year again! August, the birthday month for many an EDHREC author including Joey Schultz, Sam Alpert and yours truly. For our birthdays, Wizards has decided to release the yearly commander product in August again! Now there may have been a bit of a kerfuffle about what exactly a "Jund lands" […]
Commander 2018 Set Review - Gold (Pt 1)

Commander 2018 Set Review - Gold (Pt 1)

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Mason Brantley
Mason Brantley
Commander 2018 It is finally that time! Commander 2018 is here! I've described this release as a Commander player's Super Bowl, and this year's new legends don't disappoint. In the first five years of its lifetime, the Commander products were done in full color cycles. After that, with Commander 2017, the product was reduced to […]
Commander 2018 Set Review - Green

Commander 2018 Set Review - Green

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Scot Sutton
Scot Sutton
Green SMASH! Hi everyone! For those of you who don't know me, I'm Scot, and I write the Knowledge Pool series here on EDHREC. I'm a Temur player at heart and a Timmy in Commander. I like to approach deck building through an analytical lens, leading to decks that win through controlled smashing. With Commander […]
Commander 2018 Set Review - Red

Commander 2018 Set Review - Red

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Matt Morgan
Matt Morgan
*Cue the Music* *Deep breath* It's the moooooost wonderrrrfulll tiiiiiiiiiiiiime of the yeeaaaarrrrrr! With new cards for viewing and commanders for brewing and hyperbole to heeeeearrrrr! You know what time I'm talking about everyone: Commander Christmas! Commander 2018 is upon us and the decklists are spoiled. The ghosts of precons past are trying to haunt us […]
Commander 2018 Set Review - Black

Commander 2018 Set Review - Black

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Joseph Schultz
Joseph Schultz
Clear as Day, Black as Night Welcome to the Commander 2018 Black Set Review! There are only a handful of new black cards in this year's product, but boy, do they pack a punch. Let's dive right in and check out these awesome new cards. Bloodtracker We begin with , a card that immediately grabbed my attention […]
Commander 2018 Set Review - Blue

Commander 2018 Set Review - Blue

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Dana Roach
Dana Roach
'Twas the Night Before EDHmas, and All Through the House... Welcome to the season we call Commander Christmas, where boys and girls and those that are neither or both wake up evil-eyed and squirrel-tailed to see what gifts Gavinclaus left in their backpacks the night before. Will it be a Breya deck, for those that […]
Commander 2018 Set Review - White

Commander 2018 Set Review - White

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Brody Mikel
Brody Mikel
White Noise Welcome to the Commander 2018 White Review. The team here thought it was a good idea to trust the new guy with a review article, so let's dive in and see just how big of a mistake that was! Before we take a look at the new cards, I want to start off […]
Commander Focus — Vaevictis Asmadi, the Dire

Commander Focus — Vaevictis Asmadi, the Dire

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Nate Burgess
Nate Burgess
Vaevictis, New and Improved Behold, ! A new upgrade to an old classic. The previous version of this Elder Dragon had firebreathing, as well as treebreathing and swampbreathing. While this ability might be fascinating to reptilian nutritionists, it's a bit mediocre compared to what modern commanders can do. The upgraded version gets to cause widespread […]