Alternate Timelines Here on Commander Showdown, we normally take a close look at two commanders whose abilities are very similar. Last week, for example, we went in-depth on The Ur-Dragon vs Scion of the Ur-Dragon. Long before that, we examined Roon vs Brago in a Blink-Bros Brawl. This week, I hope you'll indulge me as we try something […]

Remember? The guy from that commercial? When he was all like "WIZARD!"? Remember commercials before Netflix and AdBlock? It's no coincidence that I'm bringing that up because I want to talk about WIZARDS today and I'm capitalizing every letter in the word because, have you seen the Wizards in this deck? Every new card is […]

"To make you a vampire they have to suck your blood. And then you have to suck their blood. It's like a whole big sucking thing." Buffy Summers Day three of Commander 2017 spoiler week leaned heavily into vampires starting off in the wee hours of the morning with our first Mardu bloodsucker legend. As someone […]

Day 2 of spoiler season for Commander 2017 was all about the flying beasts. Dragons are the second tribe to get their day in the sun(unless you count their early leak which we covered here) and we'll jump right into the new hotness! [card]The Ur-Dragon[/card] The big bad flying beast of the set. The Eminence […]

The Year of the Dragon Commander 2017 Spoilers are going crazy, and in this week’s Showdown, we’re going to talk about the biggest and baddest of them: [card]The Ur-Dragon[/card]! Five colors, nine mana, and twenty combined power/toughness. The Ur-Dragon is here, and it means business. At the helm of the dragon-tribal preconstructed deck, this big […]

Welcome to spoiler week! It's like the nerdy version of Spring Break only we get like, six of them a year instead of just one. Plus there's way less shameful decisions made during spoiler week. Usually. Here at EDHREC we're going to break down the spoilers every day and give you a quick rundown of […]

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. […]

Hello everyone! Today we're covering something that some may find premature, but since the cat-dragon is out of the bag, we decided to address the new Commander 2017 "leaks." Check out the photos here. So yeah, cat dragons. Seriously. Well then, that's something completely different. The token is pretty cute though. The fiercest and most […]