Welcome back to The Chopping Block! The place where we take an average deck and chop it into more refined pieces. With this information, you will be able to create a deck that feels like your own and is competitive to boot. This week we'll be looking at a series decks for the more aggressive […]

Let Me Tell You a Story Some time ago, I sat down for a game with my favorite deck, [card]The Gitrog Monster[/card]. A short while into this game, I assembled a small army with an [card]Avenger of Zendikar[/card]. An opponent wiped the board. I dropped a [card]Rampaging Baloths[/card] and began to recreate the army, but […]

[card]Kydele, Chosen of Kruphix[/card] and I have a special personal relationship, in that I was honored to be literally the first person to sing Kydele's praises to the world. Since the [card]Prophet of Kruphix[/card] left the stage, the Big K needs a new multi-armed wizard to represent his interests in the mortal world. {Tap}: Add {C} to […]

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. [card]Wrath of God[/card]-like cards destroy your creatures, you use your [card]Chaos Warp[/card] to deal with an opponent’s big threat, and maybe [card]Neheb, the Worthy[/card] has been making you discard […]

The steam engine broke society. It brought the world into the modern era. Industrialization, creating every modern amenity, would not have been possible without it. After the initial design by James Watt there were countless improvements, but there have been no developments with as large of an impact on the world since. When the previews […]

Hello friends and thrifty Commander brewers and welcome back to EDHREC and our continuing bi-weekly column, Non-Basically Speaking, the series that strives to identify non-basic lands that should be considered valuable staples or hidden gems based on their visibility on EDHREC. There's an unexplainable aura and feeling of pride when piloting a five-color commander deck. […]

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 […]

Maybe you've noticed a theme in my last two columns. First we did Future Sight. Then we visited Planar Chaos. Hm, is this a pattern? Yes, we've been doing Time Spiral block in reverse, and that means that today we're going to the past to visit the set that kicked off this crazy block. In addition to bringing […]

This article is Round 13 of the Underdog’s Corner, a series spotlighting various lesser-used commanders and their place in the format. Each article makes the argument for a single commander that deserves more play, as well as highlighting key cards and synergies. A Crawling Sensation Hello, everyone and welcome back to the Underdog's Corner! In my my […]

Currently there are 5,860 decks in the EDHREC database running [card]Beseech the Queen[/card], and not a single one of them should have it as part of the 99. Okay, that's not entirely true. And by not entirely true I mean not even partially true. [card]Beseech the Queen[/card] is a solid card and there are a […]