The manabase is arguably what makes or breaks your Commander deck. Other than on-color basics and dual-color lands, what should you fill it with? Kristen has her picks of the best utility lands for Commander. 20 of the Best Utility Lands for Commander Picking out the best utility lands for your deck is a largely unique experience that’ll depend heavily …
Recently, we’ve been exploring a unique niche within Commander deckbuilding: decks where the most important and defining card isn’t the one in the command zone. Whether because of a rules nonbo or just lacking the legendary supertype, not every build-around is eligible to take command. But that doesn’t mean you can’t still make them work with a little ingenuity. There …
Modern Horizons 3 comes out next month. Like the previous two sets in the series, I think it’s a pretty safe bet to assume that the cards in the set are going to have a massive impact on the format it’s chiefly designed for – Modern. However, it isn’t like Modern is the only format that Modern Horizons sets have …
I don’t get to brew many decks for tournament Magic these days. The majority of my time and energy goes into Limited (check out our Outlaws of Thunder Junction Draft guide!), so if I do play Constructed I tend to just trust decklists offered by more invested players. But sometimes a new card (or a new set of cards) just …
Every Commander deck needs a selection of wraths. Wiping the board is sometimes the best option, and with more and more Ward creatures hitting tables, wraths are becoming a more attractive way of dealing with things in a cost-effective way. Here are 10 cheap wraths that you have no right to not be playing in your Commander decks. STOP SKIMPING …
Love them or hate them, bonus sheets have become a big part of Magic over the last couple of years. In this article I’ll talk about the pros and cons of bonus sheets, especially as they relate to Limited. A “bonus sheet” is a curated collection of reprints that appears in booster packs for a set. Today’s Play Boosters have …
Dragons are cool. They’re also one of the most popular decks to build for Commander, whether in mono-red, two, three or even five-color varieties. Here we share 10 of the more underplayed Dragons that you should take a second look at… and why. 10 UNDERPLAYED DRAGONS WE THINK ARE COOL While the likes of Terror of the Peaks and Tiamat …
Kristen sits down to talk about one of the most divisive cards in Commander, Smothering Tithe. Is it a fair card? When should you play it? SMOTHERING TITHE Smothering Tithe. It’s a card that rocked the format on its inception. I remember getting access to this insane white ramp in my Boros decks, and feeling on top of the world. …
Alright listen up, you low-down, snake-bit, cattle-rustlin’, rock-kickin’, whiskey-spillin’… …it’s time for the long-awaited cowboy draft set! Outlaws of Thunder Junction is here and we’re about to find out who’s got the fastest first-pick in the West! Wizards have wisely decided to follow up Murders at Karlov Manor with a more “normal” draft set, but that doesn’t mean it lacks …
Bloomburrow is Magic’s next Standard-release set, and we’ve been told that it’s a plane where there are no humans. This made me think of Lorwyn, another humanless plane. In my MTG Top 10 on the most important sets in the history of Magic, Lorwyn came in at #6. It introduced two new card types – Planeswalkers and Kindred (called Tribal …
