Landfall... without green? You'll be shocked at how powerful Esper lands can be.

Have Arcades and Doran "solved" defender decks? Two words: Vent Sentinel

Time After Time “The world, I’ve come to realize, is a blank canvas on which to paint.” —Ixidor, reality sculptor Commander is the best Magic: The Gathering format for expression. With just about every card available to a deck builder, Commander is truly a blank canvas, and any idea is at least worth trying out. […]

Dominaria is teeming with nostalgia, so much more so than that Masters set specifically designed to celebrate Magic's past (I'm looking at you Masters 25). Dominaria is also teeming with great Commander options, from its startling number of legendary creatures, to its seemingly endless supply of fantastic support cards. While I'm not discussing the myriad […]

Last time on Pure//Simple, the article series that explores the why behind the best cards in the Commander format, I went over a few “I win” buttons. Cards that when you cast them in the right situations and you’re practically guaranteed victory. This time, I’m completing the list with a few more powerful Commander spells, […]

It’s 2018, and with the new year comes a whole slew of quickly broken New Year’s resolutions. But just because you might drop your gym membership by February, it doesn’t mean you should be dropping as many games of Commander as you did in 2017. Welcome back to Pure//Simple, the article series that explores the […]

In my last Pure//Simple article, I looked back fondly at the year 2010 and found some cards that were hot in the Commander format but have since lost their luster in the last 7 years. This time, I’m going to skip ahead two years to 2012 and look at cards that were at the top […]

Ixalan has almost crashed ashore and you know what that means? Set reviews! I’ll guide you through the winding plains, staying out of the way of giant dinosaurs, and finding the best white cards in Ixalan for Commander. What cards will conquer your playgroup in the coming months? Let’s explore together! White gets another graveyard […]

I started playing Commander in 2010, about a year before it was even called Commander—when Wizards officially acknowledged the format with the release of Magic: the Gathering-Commander. At the time, it was hard to navigate Magic forum posts to figure out what to play. There wasn't the wide breadth of information that sites like EDHREC […]

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 […]