Making the Initial Cut Hello, and welcome to Making the Cut, where we try to get you to your best 99. So, you've got an idea for a new Commander deck. The only question is... what now? Well, if you're anything like me, what's now is spending a couple hours on EDHREC and various sites looking up […]

Epic Preparations Good morning, EDHREC! I’m Bernardo Melibeu and this is The Epic Experiment, a series where we throw all common sense aside and experiment with some unusual cards, effectively changing how we normally build our deck. Is it going to work? Who knows?! We’re making science here. When you’re an Izzet mage, blowing things up […]

Commander, or the Deck? Hey Everyone, Kya here once again! I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving! Time waits for no one, and I'm busy preparing for upcoming holidays! I know I myself am excited for Christmas, as that means more Orks and cards coming in my way! Due to massive computer problems, this article is […]

Prologue Cowabunga! Welcome to Lore Seeker, a series devoted to the legendary creatures left by the wayside of Magic story. In this series, I analyze a legendary creature card in depth, one that does not have much mythos surrounding it. I consider everything from the name and mana cost to the art and flavor text, extracting the essence […]

For the Legion! Welcome spellslingers, one and all! Thanks for making your way back to another edition of 60 to 100! This week, as always, we have another spicy fun deck. This one is actually terribly uncharacteristic of me, but that just shows you how sharp and exciting the deck is! As you may know, […]

Deathly Data In the first article of this series, I presented a number of results regarding card effectiveness based on gameplay data from the Command Zone. What can be done with such data? Can we use this'information as a tool for deckbuilding? In this second installment of Pursuit of Knowledge, we will take a look […]

Kestia is the Bestia Hello again, lovely readers! It is I, Seth Cross, and we are back with yet another installment of Replacement Commanders! This series is dedicated to all the unloved legendary creatures that get printed in the annual Commander product decks but are not the face cards of the decks themselves. While everyone […]

Welcome to Cure for the Common Game! Join me on my quest to build an EDH deck for every legendary creature. Today we're looking at decks #360 through #369. Deck #360 - With this mono-red deck, we try to solve red's card-drawing problem by "drawing" cards from other players' decks. Deck #361 - + + tokens […]

Leading the War Hi everyone! Last time on The Knowledge Pool we talked about one of my nightmare decks. This time we're going to look at one of my oldest commanders, but one that I no longer play. We're exploring one of my retired commanders, . There's a lot to unpack with a commander like this. […]

Mind Your Words Greeting fellow EDH addicts. Welcome to another iteration of Shape Anew, where we will create a decklist around a commander with 500+ decks on EDHREC. Different strategies will be explored to find original strategies for these popular commanders. From this article onwards, the rules for additional cards will change slightly. Originally, we […]