Magic: The Gathering

Magic: The Gathering has spawned many variant formats developed by the community. Commander is by far the most famous, now an official format with wide product support. Some would say this has done more

This is a cross post of @jacobtothe/jump-scare-a-commander-deck-review by @jacobtothe.Big monsters leaping out of the shadows, plus new Archenemy rules and cards!

Way back in January, I wrote a post about my attempt to build Wilson, Refined Grizzly and the Flaming Fist background into a voltron-style commander with +1/+1 counters and pump spells. After some playtesting,

Magic: The Gathering features five colors of cards representing different philosophies of gameplay and deck design. It took a few years for the ideas to settle into a permanent pattern, and there are points

I wrapped up my series about pauper decks a couple weeks ago, but I've been considering new ways to upgrade or even replace them. White The soldier deck is slow, perhaps unavoidably so, just because of

After a round of playtesting, I've made some substantial changes to the deck list from the last post. Sideboard Sidetrack The following thirteen cards have been moved to the sideboard. The links to their

There are three basic kinds of players known by nicknames in the Magic community. There's a comprehensive article on the official website, but in short there's Spike the tournament player who wants to

This is the fourth post in a series of pauper deck lists I'm sharing to introduce different ways of playing Magic: The Gathering. The first was blue mill, second was red burn, and most recently, I covered

In the last two installments of this pauper deck series, I covered a blue mill deck and a red burn deck, each with a secondary aggro combat strategy. The white deck is up next, and it's all about going

A few weeks ago, I wrote about my Pauper Mill deck experiment. That blue deck was only the start, and there are four more colors in the traditional Magic color pie. My goal is to build several simple decks

Over the years, I have written a lot about Commander decks for Magic: The Gathering, but little on the traditional 60-card formats. This is because I don't have any interest in keeping up with the rotation

I've been pretty well knocked out by illness and subsequent slow recovery for the last couple weeks, but I'm getting back on my feet bit by bit. While on a recent trip into Spokane to assemble a flat-pack

Back in November of 2018, Wizards of the Coast launched a series of Ravnica Guild Kits including cards from previous sets in their popular Ravnica setting where a plane-spanning city is divided among 10

Magic: The Gathering (MTG) differs from other collectible card games in its embrace of alternative rules and formats. Broadly speaking, there is only one way to play Pokemon, Yu-Gi-Oh, Lorcana, or other

I've noticed something odd about my decks. I don't know what others usually build, but mine lean heavily into token swarms. This isn't deliberate. I like horde armies in various games, but it's not a theme

It's been a while since I've written a deck list for Magic: The Gathering. The trouble is, when I get started on one deck, I find ideas to refine or build so many other decks along the way that sometimes

Way back in August, I hinted at a deck idea based on copying stuff and stealing stuff, and now it's time to show the bare bones of the deck I have in mind. See it on Moxfield here! This is not at all ready

Source Magic the Gathering Foundations is up for preorder! Good day all! Cheers Brennan and Steve.

This week, I'm trying a slightly different take on the kind of deck I wrote about last week. That deck was designed to inflict damage by making everyone draw. It's a tall order to defeat three opponents

The first time I built a deck with this commander, it just didn't work. It's not his fault. I was using him for color identity more than playing to his abilities. If I want to build a deck all about copying