This week we get deeply personal on 60 to 100. Not because the deck is inspired by something that I love and have played in depth. Nope. This week we're playing an archetype that I hate with a passion. As a Merfolk player in Modern there is one notoriously bad matchup that I dread. Every […]

Hello friends and worshipers of the God-Pharaoh. Welcome to EDHREC's final Commander set review of Hour of Devastation - gold cards, split cards, artifacts and non-basic lands! We have a lot to cover, so let's get started!   I Love Goooooold!!!! Bloodwater Entity You know a set is powerful for Commander when you open the […]

You read this byline correctly, it is I, Jason Alt, long-time behind-the-scenes manager of content on this site, contributing a piece to EDHREC. And why not? Our other authors writing an EDH review of the cards in Hour of Devastation looked like so much fun that I had to try it for myself. I chose […]

Welcome to Hour of Devastation review of blue, where we will take a look at the most powerful offerings from this small set. Maybe I should have said most devastating offerings. I’ll be here all week, or at least until the end of the article. Unesh, Criosphinx Sovereign I would be remiss if I didn’t […]

Hello, everyone! Are you excited? I'm excited! If you're wondering why I'm excited, today was the end of "spoiler season" for the upcoming Magic: The Gathering expansion, Hour of Devastation. This means that every card in the set is now released, and everyone will be rushing to get their opinions out there. I'm no different, and […]

The Grass is Always Greener The Hour of Devastation is almost upon us, and in the spirit of survival, it's time for a review of the green cards in the upcoming set that are sure to shake up the EDH format. No time for pleasantries, Nicol Bolas is coming to wreck face, so we'd best […]

Today I have the privilege of taking you through the white cards of Hour of Devastation! We'll look at everything through the lens of Commander playability, so I'll skip lots of the common/draft cards that you likely won't ever see. Yada yada, disclaimers of my own opinions etc. Let's roll! To feed off of for […]

Welcome to the first edition of Fresh Meat! You may read my bi-weekly series Dig Through Time where I review old sets of Magic and pull out underplayed gems. This series is going to be more infrequent. Whenever a new set comes out I'll select an interesting new legend and walk you through some of the […]

Currently there are 3,339 decks in the EDHREC database running , and not a single one of them should have it as part of the 99. Welcome back to In the Margins, a semi-regular column where I’ll be focusing on making marginal upgrades to your Commander deck. Before I go any further regarding Naturalize I probably should […]

Horde of Notions art by Adam Rex When you build as many strange decks as I do, you might start to notice a trend: why are all these oddball concepts turning five-color? Five-color voltron, five-color superfriends (i.e. planeswalkers), five-color spellslinger– sometimes, you just want it all. Today on Low Market, we will have it all: […]