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Pauper Ponderings: Izzet Cheerios

Austen Hoey
April 26, 2018
Pauper Ponderings
Boy, do we have a spicy one this week. Utilizing a brand new Dominaria card, Artificer's Assistant. While also pairing either Reckless Fireweaver and Firebrand Archer, in conjunction with Tandem Lookout and Oph... Read More...

Pauper Ponderings: Dominaria Stand-Outs and Brews

Austen Hoey
April 24, 2018
Pauper Ponderings
Well, Dominaria is here! And I'm as excited as the nest guy when it comes to this beauty of a call-back set! So, I'm going over some of the cards i missed last time around. As well as a few brews I've been t... Read More...

Rant of Valakut: Remembering Tiny Leaders

Ben Iverach-Brereton
April 23, 2018
Rants of Valakut
With so many people talking about the new Brawl format, I thought I should take a look at another Commander-like format that surged in popularity not that long ago: Tiny Leaders. Some of you may remember Tin... Read More...

Cubism: Dominaria First Impressions

Aaron Paquette
April 20, 2018
Cubism
Aaron and Drew are back this week talking about their (not so) first impressions of Dominaria! Didn't see something your excited for? Let us know in the comments and we'll cover it in part 2! https://www.you... Read More...

Pauper Ponderings: Mill Aggro

Austen Hoey
April 19, 2018
Pauper Ponderings, Uncategorized
Well, we've talked about it for a while, and we've finally done it. The Jace's Phantasm, Wight of Precinct Six package is together! With cards like Mind Scupt and Memory Sluice, we're looking to power out Un... Read More...

Channel Nikachu: Classic Merfolk in Modern!

Nikachu
April 17, 2018
Channel Nikachu
This week, Classic Merfolk explores the meta! Land2 x Cavern of Souls10 x Island (98)1 x Minamo, School at Water's Edge4 x Mutavault1 x Oboro, Palace in the Clouds1 x Tectonic Edge1 x Wanderwine Hub Creat... Read More...

Modern Musings: Dominaria Spoilers Part 2

Michael Shapiro
April 16, 2018
Modern Musings
Hey everyone and welcome to another Modern Musings! This week we are going to return to spoilers and take a look at all the new goodies Dominaria might have for Modern.  So far the set looks great has quite a l... Read More...

Pauper Ponderings: GR Ponza

Austen Hoey
April 12, 2018
Pauper Ponderings
We're back to form this week, we're commentating live! And we're playing GR Ponza. Like our Modern Brethren, we're playing Utopia Sprawl and Wild Growth in conjunction with Arbor Elf to explode on mana into Lan... Read More...

The Metaworker: Building Jank with cEDH All-Stars (part 2, Riku Hulkmorph)

James LaPage
April 11, 2018
The Metaworker
Last week I hope you had as much fun as I did brewing a casual Ad Nauseam deck. “Casual” and “Ad Nauseam” don’t usually fit in the same sentence unless it’s something like “This Ad Nauseam deck is perfect for s... Read More...

Modern Musings: Eternal BloodBraid

Michael Shapiro
April 9, 2018
Modern Musings
Hey everyone! Welcome to another Modern Musings!  This week I'm going to walk you through a new brew I thought up: Eternal Bloodbraid.  If the name sounds someone reminiscent of a deck called Eternal Command, i... Read More...
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