Dear Diary, today is the day I broke Riku. He seemed so lovable and cute, too! I watched him through art class. (He’s so dreamy when he’s copying something!) But then I ran into him playing a game…

Fire up your Magic card finder off choice. Look up Reap and Deathlace. Whether you’re intrigued or terrified, you need to see what Carlos has cooked up for a Commander deck!

With a new format becoming available for the first time Friday, it’s time to take a quick look at what’s available. For the most part, these will be aggro or combo decks, since control decks need to be built towards the metagame. As it stands, Caw-Blade is the premiere control deck in the format, and it can be played as-is with the mere addition of Batterskull.

There was a time when this deck was flying under the radar (well, as much as arguably the strongest deck from last season can really do) and the best reason to bring in a card like Kiln Fiend or Frost Titan was that your opponent simply sideboarded out their removal for game 2! This would also put your hapless opponent in a difficult decision for game 3 […]