Conquest

SRM’s Ongoing Imperium Review: Week 5

Imperium is a weekly hobby magazine from Hachette Partworks. In this 80-week series, our intrepid magazine-receiver will be reviewing each individual issue, its included models, and gaming materials. A Premium subscription was provided to Goonhammer for review purposes. This issue...

SRM’s Ongoing Imperium Review: Week 4

Imperium is a weekly hobby magazine from Hachette Partworks. In this 80-week series, our intrepid magazine-receiver will be reviewing each individual issue, its included models, and gaming materials. A Premium subscription was provided to Goonhammer for review purposes. My apologies...

Conquest Focus: Let me Extus you a question

Credit: Chase Stone, Wizards of the Coast Extus, Oriq Overlord is a pretty cool Commander option with a lot of flexibility in how you build around him. You can do an aristocrats-style sacrifice deck, focusing on sacrificing either cheap creatures...

The 16 cards that are banned in Commander but not Conquest

We've previously covered the Conquest format and what sets it apart from the Commander format. In today's column, we're looking at how the format's ban list differs from Commanders, and the impact certain "unbanned" cards may have. Part of the...

Commander/Conquest Focus: America: FY with Brallin and Shabaz

I've long had a fondness for the "Curiosity effect + deal a damage when you draw a card" combo that's pretty obviously built in to Niv Mizzet, the Firemind. The combination of card draw and damage based off card...

Conquest Focus: The Recent Bans and Revisiting Jorn, God of Stax

We've talked about the Conquest format and what's cool about it pretty recently - check out our intro here. Well the format recently updated with a new set of bans: - Inalla, Archmage Ritualist is banned as commander. - Rograkh,...

Commander Focus: Conquest, the Format of the Future Past

Conquest is a new-ish (it's actually close to a year old at this point) format that attempts to capture the interesting aspects of cEDH while avoiding some of the problematic luck components and excessive shuffling aspects. It's no accident...