Rakuno, Rakdos, Raktres Barring decks with black and green in their color identity, the Command Zone found in their gameplay survey that decks with black and red in their color identity were the strongest. Although this extends to color combinations like Jund and Mardu, does this color pairing advantage translate to Rakdos? In this new […]

Your Worst Best Nightmare Hi everyone! Welcome back to the Knowledge Pool! This week we're beginning a new miniseries I'm lovingly referring to as the "Nightmare Series." The concept of this series is simple: demo the decks that haunt our dreams. I think most of us with consistent playgroups have a deck or two that […]

Judgment Day Hello everyone, and welcome back to yet another Underdog's Corner! As this past week was Thanksgiving, I would like to say I am thankful for each and every reader that has opened my article, read it, or even left a scathing review. I appreciate all of your feedback, and without you, I wouldn't […]

Prologue 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 […]

All Your Race Are Belong to Us 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. We’re not allowed to use more than 15 nonland cards used in the commander’s average EDHREC decklist. On top of this, we will […]

A New Shape Greetings fellow EDHREC addicts. Welcome to a new series of articles: Shape Anew. I am Willem-Jan Rensink, and as you might have guessed from that name, I’m from Europe (the Netherlands, in fact). I started playing Magic around Rise of Eldrazi and was immediately hooked. I love all the crazy possible interactions, […]

Hello and welcome back to another edition of Ultra Budget...wait a second. I feel something. Do you feel it too? It feels as if a great weight has been lifted. As if my hands that have been ceaselessly shackled are now free. As if...I am no longer restricted by a budget. Also, as if a […]

  Greetings jank enthusiasts and aspiring jank mages! Welcome back to Weird Harvest for our third reader request in a row. This is by far my favorite thing to do. Seriously, keep these requests coming because I have never had more fun writing this column as when I’m brewing your requests. I can’t thank you […]

It’s that time again! Welcome back for another installment of Weird Harvest, where we supply only the freshest of free range jank for EDH. We have another reader request this week and this one comes courtesy of Brian Meracle. Brian asked if we could do a mercenary build based on . This is certainly an […]

It’s that time again! Welcome back to Weird Harvest, where misfit commanders wield forgotten spells to create head scratching situations. This week we tackle a reader request from Darrenn E Canton! He asked if we could break . We’re going to shatter this jank commander or die trying. Ertai: Just Add Oil This commander is […]