Note the flavor text on the cards and . "May starving fleas birth a thousand generations on your stubborn hide, cow!" "May your horns get lodged in an Eldrazi's bony face, ornery brute!" -- Bruse Tarl, Goma Fada nomad is brash, abusive, unapologetic, and may or may not have a name that sounds like "bruise". […]

I've been looking forward to writing this article. Along with , this partner was the most immediately appealing to me. is a combat-ready commander that enjoys jumping into the fray and gives you an amazing benefit as a result. Let's look at each part of the card in turn and see what deductions can be […]

Who knew that necromancy didn't need the color black? I didn't know that. Apparently, if you add alchemy then you can raise those dead bodies Gitaxian-style, with strange mixtures and fluids and not a single ritual sacrifice to be seen. is an odd character. He can potentially help any player on the board as long […]

He is the Peter Pan of Magic, because he can convince the rest of the children that they can fly. They can't really fly, but they think they can. It's because of the hallucinogenic mushrooms he found on the island and then fed to the rest of the kids, just like in Peter Pan. You don't […]

combines the sneering punchable face of Martin Shkreli with the haughty annoyance of C3P0's body. He's a fun guy at parties. But enough about the card art. He's a 2/2 with Deathtouch. If he does combat damage to a player, you can cast a dead artifact from your graveyard. You still have to pay the mana […]

Shout out to those 1/1 Saprolings! While doesn't have the same immediate impact on the board state as the ubiquitous , now all you belligerent botanists and red-loving hydroponics engineers can role play a commander that suits your interests. Tana has a few different moving parts, so let's take each in turn. She has to do combat damage to a […]

Suppose, theoretically, that you are already bored with . You've already built Atraxa as Infect, Planeswalkers, Thallid tribal, and even Angel/Horror tribal just to tone it down a notch. I've played multiple games recently against two different Atraxa builds at the same time, which is a testament to her power, popularity, and versatility. However, maybe you want to try […]

Howdy! I’m Nate Burgess, and I co-host the Commanderin’ MTG podcast where we talk about Commander, also known as EDH. You probably already knew that last part if you’re reading this website, which you are. In this series of articles, we take each one of the Partners from the Commander 2016 sets and use both […]