Commander Focus

Commander Focus: Budget Combos Episode 1

Hi everyone! I'm back with something a little different this week. When I first started writing about Magic, my goals were twofold: Show players that Magic can be accessible with strong, focused decks on a reasonable budget. Demonstrate that...

Commander Focus: Let It Snow! (Isu the Abominable)

Oh the weather outside's been frightful, but this deck is so delightful, and since we've no place to go, let's team up and crush the jerk playing draw-go! I'm back with another seasonal deck that will serve as a lead...

Commander Focus: You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch

Credit: Michelle Lizak One of the things that eluded Magic in the beginning was a sense of ownership, a sense of place in the game for the protagonist, aka the player. The original backstory of Magic explained that you were...

Commander Focus: Poxwalkin’ on the Sun

Hi everyone! Welcome back to another Commander Focus: Budget edition! I'm your host, Loxi, and today we'll be bringing you the latest in fun and affordable deck techs. I'll actually be starting a mini series-within-a-series (within...a series?) where we...

Commander Focus: Talrand’s Flying Circus

Have you ever felt like your friends were playing too much Magic in your game of Magic? Do you think that there's a finite amount of fun to be had in a given game and want to have all...

Commander Focus: Vito, the Dusk Rose

They let me back in. This time I’m here with another Halloween themed deck (though the first one wasn’t intentionally Halloween themed), mono-black, vampire-tribal helmed by Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose. This isn’t a particularly novel deck or idea...

Commander Focus: Boros Shenanigans

Last year it seemed like Wizards had a consistent agenda of pushing "Boros reanimation" but we seem to have cycled away from that. There were a number of cards that involved either artifacts or spirits and graveyards and lead...

Commander Focus: Tymaret, The Murder King

Zombies are a classic fantasy creature. Shambling, undead corpses brought to life by a Necromancer to be smelly and gross and ruin your whole village for fun (fun for the Necromancer, the zombies feel nothing). Wizards has printed a...

Commander Focus: Chatterfang, a Chatter of Squirrels

I think most people know that a group of crows is called a murder, fewer are aware of the standard naming convention for a group of squirrels. And while traditionally a group of squirrels is called a drey (hence...

Unstable Mutation: Bedecked Brokers

Bedecked Brokers is the BANT precon, in theory, the shard is White with Green and Blue, but I think that distinction is eroding over time.  It's focused on counters and proliferation, and has a subtheme of shield counters, with...