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Commander Focus: Syr Gwyn, the Night Rider

B Phillip York -
Credit: Lie Setiawan, Wizards of the Coast I sort of identify as an Azorius player; or a blue player, generally. Long ago, when Extended had a deck that was essentially 32 counterspells, thieving magpie, morphling, and faerie conclaves, that's what...
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Commander Focus: Abusing Dungeons with Golos, Tireless Adventurer

B Phillip York -
Golos, Tireless Pilgrim. Credit: Joseph Meehan, Wizards of the Coast Every time a new set comes out, I think it's worth trying to make a deck around the new mechanics in the set. I like sets like Modern Horizons/Modern Horizons...
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Commander Focus: Tiamat, a rage of dragons

B Phillip York -
Credit: Wizards of the Coast Tiamat is one of those times that Gary Gygax & co decided it was cool to more or less co-opt something that already existed in real life. There's even a first edition book that's just...
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Commander Focus – Zabaz, or: LA+R+BO+DU RO+MO+S

B Phillip York -
Modern Horizons 2 wasn't exactly a timeshifted set, but it wasn't exactly not timeshifted, either. A number of mechanics were revisited that haven't been used in a while, and among them was Modular. Modular hasn't really seen much use...
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Commander Focus: Hazezon Tamar – Fear is the mindkiller

B Phillip York -
Credit: Richard Kane Ferguson, Wizards of the Coast This week is GOONHAMMER '96 and we're looking back at the games we love with a bit of a retro bent. In this week's Commander Focus, we're building around one of the...
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Commander Focus: Jorn, God of Winter

B Phillip York -
Credit: Wizards of the Coast, Magali Villaneuve Kaldheim continued a thread started in Zendikar Rising by offering new modal cards, though no longer bound to lands, giving us modal double-faced cards that instead had two spells to choose from. These...
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Commander Focus: Uro, Never Not Banned Cards

B Phillip York -
Credit: Vincent Proce, Wizards of the Coast Uro, Titan of Nature's Wrath, is probably the stand-out card of Theros: Beyond Death. It's hard to say exactly but Simic has been at the center of a number of cards which required...
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Commander Focus: Take it to the Limit (Aegar, the Freezing Flame)

B Phillip York -
Credit: Chris Rahn, Wizards of the Coast Aegar, the Freezing Flame comes out of Kaldheim as part of a strange and somewhat new tribe combination: Giant Wizards.  If you thought this wasn't threatening enough: Imagine if he was also twenty feet...
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Commander Focus: Kobolds and Swords

B Phillip York -
In general, combat damage is a difficult (read: Bad) way to win games of Commander. In a normal game of Magic you have to get your opponent to zero life.  Assuming they don't interfere in some way (either gaining...
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Commander Focus: 2020 in Review and What Does 2021 Hold?

B Phillip York -
2020 saw an astonishing number of releases of product for Magic: the Gathering, and as Commander is its own essentially eternal format, virtually any release of any cards whatsoever adds the possibility of new cards for the format. And...
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