A while back I took a look at new EDH Generals from Worldwake.  I decided to make a deck-list featuring Kazuul, Tyrant of the Cliffs.  I wanted to go with a build that was full of flavor, using the imagery of the powerful ogre warlord.  In most cases of card selection I used flavor as [...]

Elder Dragon Highlander is one of my favorite formats to play.  The rules of this format allow for some very exciting interactions with cards that would be rarely played in any other format.  The most important aspect of EDH is the General.  Any Legendary Creature can be the General for your EDH deck with very [...]

So what happened is that I wrote up my review yesterday for my local playgroup and thought, “Hey, James might like this”  But my style is a little different and I’m not as deep into the analysis as his excellent white review is.   We talked and instead of integrating my thoughts into his review, I’d [...]

To follow up our discussion of Premium Deck Series: Slivers as it relates to EDH, let’s have a look at the newly announced decklist for the product.  First off, here’s the decklist: 2 Ancient Ziggurat 5 Forest 2 Island 3 Mountain 2 Plains 1 Rootbound Crag 2 Rupture Spire 2 Swamp 2 Terramorphic Expanse 2 [...]

Wizards announced way back in late July that they were going to release Premium Deck Series: Slivers on Novermber 20th of this year.  MSRP $34.99.  The deck will be all foil, 60 cards, and sliver based, with a limited English-only print run.  Now they’ve revealed the packaging for Premium Deck Series: Slivers, along with a [...]

Welcome to batch two of the Zendikar preview season. We’ve got ~59 new cards or so to review today. As usual, these are knee-jerk reactions, in most cases, and we try to keep these reviews as much of a first impression as possible. With the exception of Lotus Cobra, previewed by our pal Mike Flores, [...]

On the mothership, in his zendikar sneak preview article today, Kelly Digges reveals a new mythic rare legendary octopus creature called Lorthos, the Tidemaker.  Behold: Before I even see the casting cost or textbox or typline or anything, the name of this guy makes me wonder whether the psychographic profile / player type “Vorthos” is [...]

So the You Decided™ online card creation feedback system that Wizards has going on, recently produced, in its mechanical-turk-like cyber sweatshop, the new Zendikar planeswalker Sorin Markov, behold: This handsome devil caused quite a stir amongst some dorks I know, and I thought I’d therefore share my own thoughts on him.  First, let’s evaluate the [...]

At the stroke of midnight tonight a number of bannings will become effective in the elder dragon highlander format (here’s a sick link to the rules homepage for any unfortunate souls who have not heard of this fantastic format).  This time around, the chariot turning into a pumpkin is braids, cabal minion, who is now banned for use as [...]

I caught the EDH bug about two weeks ago when I got an email announcing that EDH was the new format for the NM Tech Invitational for this semester. A quick trip to the EDH homepage revealed that Rofellos, Llanowar Emissary was off the banned generals list.  Knowing the tournament was to be 1v1 matches [...]