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Family Matters is the Jeskai Commander Precon from Bloomburrow. It features the main set mechanic Offspring, and encourages you to go deep on tokens while growing your Commander. Find out how to bolster this build with our $50 Budget Upgrade Guide. Bloomburrow Commander has four Commander decks: Animated Army, Family Matters, Peace Offering and Squirreled Away. Today we’re going to …
Bloomburrow releases on August 2nd and with it comes four new commander preconstructed decks. As Card Kingdom’s resident rodent lover, I’m very excited to take a look at the Golgari Squirreled Away deck. This deck looks to generate tons of tokens and mana to overwhelm your opponent. In this article I’m going to review the deck’s contents and suggest some …
Commander Staples are staples for a reason: they’re widely played, powerful and are a good choice for the average deck. They aren’t necessarily best-in-slot for your deck, though. Kristen shares some tips and truths about how to refine your decks further. What if I told you that you don’t actually want to be running Swords to Plowshares in your build? …
Sometimes the best way to get rid of something is to take it. Kristen has rounded up some of the best ways to take from your opponent’s boards. Theft effects can be the best options for some colors to deal with problem permanents. The Sheldon Menery Secret Lair is dispatching at the moment, and while reflecting on all of what …
Having Legendary synergy in your Commander Deck is a fun way to bring together your favorite Heroes and Villains from the Magic universe under one banner. Legendary-matters has received a lot of support in recent years, so here are 10 of the best Legendary Matters Commanders to helm your rag-tag bunch of adventurers. THE BEST LEGENDARY MATTERS COMMANDERS So usually …
In any given game of Commander, at least one player will have the fabled Sol Ring start, and be off and away to the races while everyone else is still saddling up. Wondering how to offer some counterplay with cards that are still good in your deck? Kristen has some picks to settle the score with. Sol Ring starts can …
There are over 2,000 legendary creatures to choose from for your Commander, and sometimes it can be hard to pick one. Join me in this new series as we go set by set to discover some underrated Commanders from throughout Magic’s rich history of legendary creatures. UNDERRATED STRIXHAVEN COMMANDERS Today in the first entry in this series, we’ll be stopping …
For over two decades, phasing was a “dead” mechanic. It was a gruesome museum piece, maligned as an arch-example of archaic, confusing design. Even Time Spiral shied away from it when choosing old mechanics to highlight, despite it being a perfect fit for the time-manipulation themes of the block. So then why is phasing suddenly making a comeback? Not just …
Assassin’s Creed cards release on July 5, and there’s already some serious interest in certain cards. Kristen shares her top picks of what to keep an eye on as we move from pre-orders to set release. UNIVERSES BEYOND: ASSASSIN’S CREED Universes Beyond continues to go from strength to strength, with previous entries in the series like Warhammer 40,000, Doctor Who …
I started playing Magic: the Gathering in Fall of 1998 and my first was Urza’s Saga. This means for the first two years I played Magic, I bore witness to an era dominated by noncreature spells and monocolored cards. So, when Invasion Block came out two years later with a big focus on multicolored cards and powerful creatures, it felt …
