A message from Don, the founder of EDHREC: In this article, Chris is going to go through our new features on EDHREC that revolve around "themes"! I'm really excited about it because there are so many fun hidden archetypes and this should make it easier to find them. Tribes were our first theme and those were […]

Welcome to the EDHREC primer about the tribes of Ixalan. Ixalan is a magical land where dinosaurs roam the earth and pirates rule the high seas. There's buried treasure, some new Planeswalker friends and the Standard format gives us the opportunity to have dinosaurs crew flying vehicles, making my childhood wishes all come true. Breaking […]

“He thought, in fine, that the dreams of poets were the realities of life.” The first pack of Revised I ever opened contained a [card]Sengir Vampire[/card]. At the time it was a bomb card. A 4/4 flyer for five was insane. Better hope you draw that [card]Shivan Dragon[/card], son. Still, the power level of the card […]

"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 […]

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 […]

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 [card]Wheel of Sun and […]

Triple Showdown Two months ago, I wrote a Commander Showdown about the reigning zombie tribal commanders, [card]Gisa and Geralf[/card] and [card]Grimgrin, Corpse-Born[/card]. Then Hour of Devastation happened, unleashing one of the coolest and most frightening commanders we've seen in a long time: [card]The Scarab God[/card]. The zombie apocalypse never stops, nor do its commanders. We've been […]

After a close encounter with [card]Queen Marchesa[/card]’s thugs last week I decided to travel somewhere a little less politically charged. As dropping in unannounced is always considered rude I wrote ahead to a friend I’d met on a plane known as Innistrad. My Dearest Gisa, How long has it been since we last connected? It […]

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 […]