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Welcome back to Stripped Out, where I take a precon and remove all the off theme cards and move the deck forward. This time I'm looking...

I'm continuing my work to hit all the color combinations. Today I look at Red and Blue. I'm not alone here in thinking of Izzet as a...

Control can be a very powerful strategy in Magic. Rule setting, counter spells, taking permanents. All provide powerful tempo shifts....

I've done dozens of articles to date. I've even made multiple attempts at certain colors and combinations. One day I went through and...

Some sets feel like black holes to me. I look at the mechanics and the legends and they just seem stale. They're either too straight...

I'm on a roll with my mono colored decks lately. After taking forever to finish the cycle and get all 5 represented, I'm closing in on...

I was a big fan of the Baldurs Gate sets when they came out. This was in part because I grew up playing Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn....

Energy was a dormant mechanic for many years. After its debut in Kaladesh it was unheard of for years. Cue 2024. We got 2 Commander...

Have you ever been brewing a deck, had a clear vision, then once you get rolling on it realize there's a cooler thing to do with the...

Be the Token Burn Player This week we jump into Murders at Karlov Manor. For all the complaints people had about it, MKM was good to me....

I have been promising you updates of some of your favorite decks for quite some time. The core of any deck is generally set, but there...

Encore, Myriad, and Knowing When to End The Turn This week's deck was reluctantly 3 colors. The whole thing spun out of an angel I bought...

Welcome back to Stripped Out. The series where I cake a commander preconstructed deck and pull all the stuff that doesn't quite fit and...

You're getting a Double Dose of Decks today. Congratulations. How did this come to be? I keep a list of themes/strategies and colors they...

I love a good theme deck as much as anyone. It's fun to flesh out an idea and build around the central theme. Any time you build around a...

I've done mono colored decks in almost every color. I even did a colorless deck. Some colors even got the MEDHWA treatment twice. Then...

I will make you believe vanilla is a viable strategy in Commander. I know what you're thinking. I was there too. It's just going to be a...

This Week: I explore an Orhzov EDH deck built around locking down my opponents and draining their life totals for fun and profit. When I...

For this week's #StrippedOut I'm reaching back. Way back. The early Commander decks had a lot of really good material in them, including...

This Week: I explore the viability of a Colorless deck in EDH. I lean into Commander damage initially but explore other avenues for...