One of my favorite stories to come out of competitive Magic of all time is the success of Chris Lachmann and Jacob Van Lunen at Pro Tour San Diego in 2007. The format was Two-Headed Giant Time Spiral Booster draft and the two had come up with a very specific plan: force slivers. Apparently, most of the […]

Hi everyone! Welcome back to The Knowledge Pool, and part 2 of our series on . If you haven't yet read part 1, I highly encourage that you do so in order to make the most out of this article. Part 1 can be found here. To quickly recap, my previous article suggested an outline […]

All That Glitters... ...is sometimes treasure! Welcome back to Low Market, EDHREC's budget Commander deckbuilding series. Keeping in with the recently-released Rivals of Ixalan, this is the space where I would normally select my favorite legend from the set and whip up a budget deck list. This time around, though, I'm taking a slightly different […]

Guess who's back! Patrick Sippola is back and better than ever, and I'm here to crack some mad, homebrewed combos on you with a smile on my face and the stack as confusing as possible. At least that is going to happen this time around, where it isn't a particular card I'm going to build […]

Hello again! We're going to be talking about the Sun Empire and its use of 'feathered serpent imagery', its roots in Mesoamerican culture, iconography and thought, and how that influenced the art-style of Ixalan in regards to the Sun Empire's aesthetic. Also, dinosaurs! Lets get off to a ROARING start! Jurassic Petting Zoo Dinosaurs are […]

Hit Me With Your Best Shot Welcome to the first Low Market of the new year! We've got a fresh coat of paint, a renewed sense of purpose, and the same commitment to budget deckbuilding. Here on Low Market, we have an impressive track record of building tribal decks. And for good reason! Tribal decks […]

Hi everyone! I’m Scot, and I want to welcome you to The Knowledge Pool. In this series I want to discuss deckbuilding theory and the elements that we can implement to make our decks more consistently competitive in our respective metas. I will walk you through the approaches that work for me with the hope […]

Bears, Beats, and Battlecruiser Magic Welcome to Andrew Jackson Highlander special project. AJH is a series where I build and share Commander decks for twenty dollars. This week, we find out how got her name. I knew that I wanted to build Goreclaw for AJH as soon as she was spoiled. Then, as I started […]

Golden Reality Welcome to Andrew Jackson Highlander, a weekly series where I share a Commander deck tech that costs twenty dollars. In this article, I finally explore a play style that I have yet to touch on this series: combo. Love it or hate it, combo is a major pillar of the EDH format. It is pretty […]

What Is Andrew Jackson Highlander? Welcome to Andrew Jackson Highlander! AJH is a series where I build and share $20 deck techs. This article is actually the first AJH post I did on reddit. I felt it was worthwhile to add my backlog of articles here and fortunately the EDHREC team did as well. With […]