It’s nearly Thanksgiving folks! This week on New Perspectives I decided to take you through the most fitting mechanic for the holiday: Food! I’m going to show you as many weird and interesting ways to use Food as I can think of, so you’ll be well-equipped to feast this Thursday.
Continue reading “Food”In this article about Vilis, Broker of Blood, I mentioned how co-author Bob challenged me to build a mono-colored Commander deck, which was something I hadn’t done at the time. That deck is called Green Meanies, and I think it’s time I walked you through the sheer beauty (and brute force) of a deck helmed by Yeva, Nature’s Herald.
Continue reading “Yeva, Nature’s Herald”A change in direction is often something that culminates after a careful time of planning and meditation. Today we’re announcing a change in this blog’s direction that happened from months of thoughts and experience, and about ten minutes of discussion.
Continue reading “New Perspectives”When we’re growing our creatures, it doesn’t usually make much sense to lean heavily on “until end of turn” effects. Unless the goal is to kill our opponent immediately with infect creatures, this strategy is often laughed at and simply forgotten by most players. That’s why I’m here to tell you about Wild Defiance.
Continue reading “Wild Defiance”I’m a big fan of “chip-away” strategies; deal one damage to opponents enough times, they’ll eventually be dead. It’s a slow strategy most of the time, using our pea shooters to keep the battlefield clear and whittle our opponent’s life away. However, Throne of Eldraine gave us Torbran, Thane of Red Fell, and he turns our pea shooters into artillery cannons that will close out the game in no time.
Continue reading “Torbran, Thane of Red Fell”Commander 2016 will go down in history as one of the most unique Commander sets to ever be printed; the four-color legends and the partner mechanic were amazing firsts for the format. At one point we planned to write an article for each of the 105 possible pairings of the partners, but that endeavor proved to be unsustainable. However, that doesn’t mean we still can’t talk about the more interesting combinations.
Continue reading “Reyhan & Tana”Symmetrical effects used to be everywhere in Magic: the Gathering. However, aside from board wipes they are something we seem to be getting less and less of as time goes on. As I understand it, it’s because newer players don’t understand that an effect on their card might hurt them, or help their opponent. Why would Goblin King buff our opponent’s goblins? Why would Deft Duelist‘s shroud stop me from helping him? These things are off-putting to people who are just learning the game. Every once in a while, though, Wizards prints an interesting symmetrical-effect card (usually at Mythic rarity). Rankle, Master of Pranks is one such card.
Continue reading “Rankle, Master of Pranks”Throne of Eldraine has arrived, and with it comes a plethora of fun new cards to try out. We could take time to break down what’s to come of the new Standard or Modern meta, but instead we’re going to focus on one of the more overlooked cards of the set.
Continue reading “Workshop Elders”Divine Visitation is one of my favorite cards from a recent set. I’ve mentioned it in passing a few times now, but I figured this time I’d give it the full article it’s been calling me to write. Token fans rejoiced when Divine Visitation was printed, myself included. But why?
Continue reading “Divine Visitation”I’m a Selesnyan mage at heart. Tokens, small creatures, and big swings are in my DNA, and I’ve had some sort of token deck in EDH for as long as I can remember. A few years ago I built Trostani, Selesnya’s Voice and had some fun with it, but It wasn’t well-tuned and was a more casual deck. I eventually decided to rework it when the Guilds of Ravnica set came out, and that led me to decide I had the wrong Commander to begin with.
Continue reading “Trostani Discordant”