5 Spookiest Types to Build Around

5 Spookiest Types to Build Around

Jacob LacknerCommander

We’re a little over a week into Spooky Season. Last week I looked at some spooky Commanders to build around this October, and I’m doing something similar this week – only I’ll be specifically taking a look at spooky creature types and my pick for the best Commander that best embodies what each of these creature types are all about. …

5 Underrated Commander Cards From Shadowmoor

Jacob LacknerCommander, Products

Lorwyn Eclipsed releases early next year, and it’ll be our first full-scale return to the plane since the original Lorwyn-Shadowmoor block which was released from 2007 to 2008. Lorwyn is a unique plane, because it transforms into Shadowmoor every several hundred years and vice versa. While Lorwyn is an idyllic world where it’s always daytime, Shadowmoor is the exact opposite …

Is Lizard, Connors’s Curse The New Oko, Thief of Crowns?

Jacob LacknerHistoric, Pioneer, Standard

Spider-Man releases on September 26th, and by now we’ve known all the cards in the set for quite awhile. In this week’s article, I wanted to discuss one card that I think is being overlooked – and it’s a card that I think it would be dangerous to ignore. Lizard, Connors’s Curse comes with an impressive 4-mana 5/5 trampling body, …

Which Commanders Benefit the Most from Spider-Man?

Which Commanders Benefit the Most From Spider-Man?

Jacob LacknerCommander

Marvel’s Spider-Man releases on September 26th, and as of last week we now know every single card in the set. While the set unfortunately doesn’t feature any Commander precons, the set does have several great cards for Commander, and offers a significant power up for many EDH decks. In this article, I’ll take a look at some the Commanders that …

Is Spider-Man Too Small of a Set To Be a Good Limited Format?

Jacob LacknerLimited

Universes Beyond: Spider-Man releases on September 26th, and we’re already very deep into preview season. The set looks really exciting, featuring some cool new mechanics, and top-down designs of prominent characters and storylines from the Spider-Man franchise. With only 191 cards, it also happens to be the smallest draftable Standard-release set we’ve seen since 2015’s Fate Reforged. And unlike Fate …

How Hard Is it To Cast Anti-Venom?

Jacob LacknerProducts, Strategy

Marvel’s Spider-Man is the next Standard-release set. You can preorder the set now, and it releases on September 26th. We’ve already seen a huge chunk of the set, and there’s one card in particular that caught my eye because of it’s eye-popping casting cost. Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer is the first-ever card to cost “WWWWW,” and only the 7th card in …

Your Old Cards Are Secretly OP Now

Jacob LacknerCommander, Legacy, Products, Standard, Strategy

The power level of Magic cards is not static. This is because new cards are created all the time, creating a brand-new context for your cards every time that happens. This often leads to cards that were once viewed as useless or uninteresting suddenly getting a major upgrade, sometimes decades after originally being printed. So, get out your shoe boxes …