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How does one acquire the riches of Tarkir? How does one take Sarkhan, Dragon Ascendant even further beyond? By blinking an old favorite, Deadeye Navigator, and doubling up those treasures with the help of Xorn! This Combo Breakdown is brought to you by Commander Spellbook, the search engine with over 40,000 EDH combos, including this Sarkhan, Dragon Ascendant combo to finally amass a dragon’s hoard for yourself. The Combo Begin …
Tarkir: Dragonstorm is just around the corner. In fact, Card Kingdom’s presale kicks off today! In this much-anticipated set, we’ll be returning to the plane of Tarkir for the first time since 2015. To get us in the mood for the set, I’ve written a few articles recently about the older Tarkir sets. A few weeks back, I took a …
Magic Math: 9 Lives + 3 Cats = 0 Surviving Opponents. Time to show our work! This Combo Breakdown is brought to you by Commander Spellbook, the search engine with over 30,000 EDH (Commander) combos. The Combo Begin the combo with Nine Lives and Herald of Eternal Dawn on the battlefield. This combo is perfect for Zedruu decks, and fits …
What do you get when you mix a Goblin Wizard, a Squirrel and a Vampire? A game-winning combo that results in infinite life-loss and Treasure tokens, that’s what! This Combo Breakdown is brought to you by Commander Spellbook, the search engine with over 30,000 EDH (Commander) combos. The Combo Begin the combo with Warren Soultrader, Chatterfang, Blood Artist, and at …
Commander staples can be really expensive. They’re in high demand because they’re usually the best-in-class at what they do. Are there any actually good, actually playable budget alternatives to these popular cards? Well, there are more than you’d think. Here are my picks for the ones I like to run. BUDGET ALTERNATIVES TO RHYSTIC STUDY Rhystic Study is one of …
Standard is in a really interesting place right now – and not least because it’s not the one I or many other people expected. The post-Bloomburrow format has begun to settle after its long-awaited rotation, and while GB Midrange and Atraxa Ramp remain top contenders, they are surrounded on all sides by hyper-aggressive aggro decks! It’s true that aggro is …
Kristen has some thoughts on how a good blocker is more important than ever in Casual Commander. In short, blockers are good. Play more of them! That’s not why you clicked, though – you’re more interested in my reasoning. So let’s just jump straight in. THE STATE OF CASUAL COMMANDER Casual Commander in 2024 is in a good place, but …
Every Magic set goes through an excitable honeymoon phase, and it’s only after the first few weeks of events that you can really measure their impact on the metagame. The top minds in Constructed Magic have had some time to thoroughly explore Lost Caverns of Ixalan, so which shiny new decks have emerged to flash their tournament potential? More importantly, …
Sorcery spells have long had a bad rap in Commander because they can’t be used as an instant response. That said, count how often you use an instant at sorcery speed (it’s more often than you think). So in an effort to prove this card type’s value, Kristen has a selection of sorceries sure to satiate your salacity. Before we …
Modern has been dominated by one card over the last few weeks, and Up the Beanstalk is taking format by storm. The powerful, two mana enchantment rewards players for casting to expensive spells. Luckily, for the beans players, there are a ton of cards that cost 5+ mana in theory, but far less (zero to one) in practice. With that …
