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Commander Showdown — Hapatra vs The Scorpion God

Commander Showdown — Hapatra vs The Scorpion God

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Joseph Schultz
Joseph Schultz
V for Venom-Detta Voilà! In view, the vast valleys of Ixalan! However, now that we've arrived at this vivid, vibrant vista, we must veer our vessel back to Amonkhet! We volunteered to visit two voracious veterans before the Hour of Devastation vanishes, and they would be very vexed and vindictive if we vacated our vow. If you, valuable viewer, would rather […]
Flash of Insight — 5 Lessons for Commander My Wife Taught Me

Flash of Insight — 5 Lessons for Commander My Wife Taught Me

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Matt Morgan
Matt Morgan
Well hello there! Welcome back to another edition of 60...wait. No, that's not right this time. Sorry about that! If you came for my regular series on adapting 60-card decks for Commander, you'll find that article is this week. This topic is something that I've wanted to cover for a while, and several other writers for […]
Weird Harvest — Turning Trash into Lannery's Treasure

Weird Harvest — Turning Trash into Lannery's Treasure

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Christopher Russell
Christopher Russell
Pirates are here. Granted, they’ve been here but they haven’t really been a “thing”, if you know what I mean. Ixalan is finally upon us and we have all been summoned to explore the open waters to new uncharted lands. Lands filled with dinosaurs, lawful evil vampires, pirate Vraska, and half-naked Jace. Yes, it seems […]
Non-Basically Speaking — Kess, Dissident Mage

Non-Basically Speaking — Kess, Dissident Mage

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Nick Wallace
Nick Wallace
Hello friends and spellslingers, welcome back to EDHREC and our continuing biweekly column, Non-Basically Speaking, the series that strives to identify non-basic lands that should be considered valuable staples or hidden gems based on their visibility on EDHREC. In our last episode of non-basically speaking we jammed three of Ixalan's new double faced artifact-to-land cards […]
Low Market — Cheap Date: [Super]friends with Benefits

Low Market — Cheap Date: [Super]friends with Benefits

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Quinn Miller
Quinn Miller
Ramos, Dragon Engine art by Joseph Meehan The Power of [Super]friendship Welcome back to Low Market, a column for budget Commander deckbuilding! Every week, I gaze balefully at the perpetually empty "Planeswalker" subcategory of my deck template, yearning for the day that I will stuff it to the brim with planeswalkers. That day has finally come: […]
In the Margins — Clone

In the Margins — Clone

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Dana Roach
Dana Roach
Currently there are 5,363 decks in the EDHREC database running , and not a single one of them should have it as part of the 99. Once again I'm lying. is fine and there are probably decks that want every clone effect possible. There might be one at the end of this article. I think […]
Commander Focus — Edgar Markov

Commander Focus — Edgar Markov

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Nate Burgess
Nate Burgess
The eminence ability allows us to play a commander that is lurking behind the scenes, making the team stronger, and only entering the fray when an urgent decisive strike is needed. With these characteristics, is literally "The Man". He's an authority figure in the patriarchy, he's white, he has his own private army of fanatic […]
Underdog's Corner — Dragonlord Silumgar

Underdog's Corner — Dragonlord Silumgar

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Mason Brantley
Mason Brantley
Hello and welcome back to your regularly scheduled visit to the Underdog's Corner! I hope you enjoy your stay, but please keep an eye on your wallet, your phone, your foil commanders, and other valuables that you may have upon your person. This week we're taking a visit to the secretive guild color combination of […]
Ultra Budget Brews — Exava

Ultra Budget Brews — Exava

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Andrew Cummings
Andrew Cummings
Hello and welcome back to Ultra Budget Brews, the article series that gives the people what they want, overthrowing the Magic hierarchy by letting cheap, unwanted, unloved cards have their moment to shine. In other words, we build entire EDH deck with no card costing more than $1, but that sounds far less dramatic. Speaking […]
EDH Political Science — Guns, Germs, and STEAL

EDH Political Science — Guns, Germs, and STEAL

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Rick Amundson
Rick Amundson
Update 1/16/2022: Since the original publishing of this article, we have learned that Cortés' arrival in Mexico was probably not interpreted by the Aztecs as the return of the god Quetzlcoatl, as some were taught in school. The 'white gods' myth was likely invented by later generations due to various social and political pressures. We're […]