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The Chopping Block — Zurgo, Helmsmasher

The Chopping Block — Zurgo, Helmsmasher

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Josh Coleman
Josh Coleman
Welcome back to The Chopping Block! The place where we take an average deck and chop it into more refined pieces. With this information, you will be able to create a deck that feels like your own and is competitive to boot. This week we'll be looking at a series decks for the more aggressive […]
Commander Showdown — Titania vs The Gitrog Monster

Commander Showdown — Titania vs The Gitrog Monster

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Joseph Schultz
Joseph Schultz
Let Me Tell You a Story Some time ago, I sat down for a game with my favorite deck, . A short while into this game, I assembled a small army with an . An opponent wiped the board. I dropped a and began to recreate the army, but the board was again wiped. Undeterred, […]
Partner Focus — Kydele, Chosen of Kruphix

Partner Focus — Kydele, Chosen of Kruphix

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Nate Burgess
Nate Burgess
and I have a special personal relationship, in that I was honored to be literally the first person to sing Kydele's praises to the world. Since the left the stage, the Big K needs a new multi-armed wizard to represent his interests in the mortal world. {Tap}: Add {C} to your mana pool for each card you've […]
Pure // Simple - Get More Cards in All Colors

Pure // Simple - Get More Cards in All Colors

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Jeremy Podczerwinski
Jeremy Podczerwinski
Welcome back to Pure // Simple, the article series that takes the mystery out of card choices in Commander. Commander is usually a game of attrition. -like cards destroy your creatures, you use your to deal with an opponent’s big threat, and maybe has been making you discard swaths of cards. Over the course of […]
EDH Political Science — Tasigur, Steel-Driving Man

EDH Political Science — Tasigur, Steel-Driving Man

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Rick Amundson
Rick Amundson
The steam engine broke society. It brought the world into the modern era. Industrialization, creating every modern amenity, would not have been possible without it. After the initial design by James Watt there were countless improvements, but there have been no developments with as large of an impact on the world since. When the previews […]
Non-Basically Speaking — Budget Five Color with Horde of Notions

Non-Basically Speaking — Budget Five Color with Horde of Notions

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Nick Wallace
Nick Wallace
Hello friends and thrifty Commander brewers and welcome back to EDHREC and our continuing bi-weekly 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. There's an unexplainable aura and feeling of pride when piloting a five-color commander deck. […]
Low Market — An Author Twice Cursed

Low Market — An Author Twice Cursed

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Quinn Miller
Quinn Miller
Overwhelming Splendor art by Richard Wright Darn You to Heck When the two suns of Amonkhet were naught but distant lights on the horizon, we knew to expect two things: top-down Egyptian themes, and top-down Nicol Bolas themes. What I did not expect was a smattering of curses, which (save for and ) are the […]
Dig Through Time — Time Spiral

Dig Through Time — Time Spiral

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Dean Gootee
Dean Gootee
Maybe you've noticed a theme in my last two columns. First we did Future Sight. Then we visited Planar Chaos. Hm, is this a pattern? Yes, we've been doing Time Spiral block in reverse, and that means that today we're going to the past to visit the set that kicked off this crazy block. In addition to bringing […]
Underdog's Corner — Ishkanah, Grafwidow

Underdog's Corner — Ishkanah, Grafwidow

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Mason Brantley
Mason Brantley
This article is Round 13 of the Underdog’s Corner, a series spotlighting various lesser-used commanders and their place in the format. Each article makes the argument for a single commander that deserves more play, as well as highlighting key cards and synergies. A Crawling Sensation Hello, everyone and welcome back to the Underdog's Corner! In my my […]
In the Margins — Beseech the Queen

In the Margins — Beseech the Queen

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Dana Roach
Dana Roach
Currently there are 5,860 decks in the EDHREC database running , and not a single one of them should have it as part of the 99. Okay, that's not entirely true. And by not entirely true I mean not even partially true. is a solid card and there are a ton of reasons to run […]