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When Commander 2019 came out I made techs for eight different commanders – half of which I did two for – and with Throne of Eldraine I'm currently in the process of working my way through the Brawl-centric commanders I've already done Kenrith, The Returned King before that Presently of the Brawl commanders, I have done,[...]

The decks each revolve around a specific Commander specially made for each deck and not obtainable in booster packs (besides, quite possibly, Collector's Edition packs of Throne of Eldraine, but that's a luxury for another storytime) Because formats with a Standard card pool aren't my area of expertise or my market, however, the series of[...]

Magic: The Gathering is releasing their 82nd expansion set, Throne of Eldraine, in the course of a couple of weeks from now. With the general release, Wizards of the Coast will be releasing a set of four decks geared especially for the Brawl format. Now, I'm not someone who that release is 100% marketed towards, and as[...]

Between Collector's Packs, normal booster packs, the Brawl decks slated for release alongside the set, and the Buy-A-Box Promo, Throne of Eldraine is worthwhile for any player. This worth is valid for Commander players as well While a lot of Throne of Eldraine's marketing is geared to get people enthusiastic about Brawl, Commander players (like myself!)[...]

Just Games in Rochester, for example, held a charity Commander tournament back in 2018 and reprised this tournament earlier this year as well The tournament series was called "Commander for a Cause", and it raised money for the REACH Home, a charity that aids the homeless. So, when asking what you can do to help out[...]

For example, when the themes of the Commander 2019 decks were first leaked to the public, Ixidor, Reality Sculptor was only in the ranges around $1.50 USD Nowadays, Ixidor is fluctuating in the $20-$22 range This wasn't the card's high point, but that was maybe a week or two prior when it was around $24[...]

When Wizards of the Coast came out with their Dominaria expansion set, they revealed their initial plans of bringing Brawl into their gallery of formats, but many players played it for a very short while before sloughing it off to play either Standard, which boasts the same list of cards that Brawl's format consists of,[...]

Hey all! I wanted to write a piece on proper threat assessment in Magic: The Gathering multiplayer formats, namely Commander The research I did made me reconsider a few personal opinions I had about my own level of play as a result It seems to me that, in my playgroups, I might be the problem! Let's explore[...]

Hey all! I figured after yesterday's article on The Golden Age of Magic, I'd write up an article about the different ways that people personalize their Magic: the Gathering decks.

(We eventually went to undergrad together and he taught me a lot about my favorite format, Commander Nowadays he is a huge enthusiast of Delver of Secrets, and took first at Star City Games Syracuse at the Legacy Open back in March.) Source: Wizards of the Coast Around the time we were living our best collegiate lives,[...]

The deck themes are as follows: Artifacts and Enchantments, in white, blue, and black An "Adventure" theme, in white, blue, and green Knights and Equipment, in white, black, and red A sacrifice theme, in black, red, and green The decklists can all be found on this page of the Magic website. Source: Wizards of the Coast We at Bleeding Cool will be following[...]

It stands to reason, despite all of Wizards of the Coast's pushing, that Commander, a fan-regulated format, is one of the most-played formats in all of Magic, if not the most played. Source: Wizards of the Coast Every year from 2011 onwards, Wizards has come out with a product catering primarily to Commander fans This year marks the[...]

And as you'd expect, Magic: The Gathering is continuing its trend of making extremely popular cards for the Commander format with the recent release of Commander 2019. Source: Wizards of the Coast The Commander 2019 release is different from other Commander releases in that it specifically focuses on a select few famous mechanics from Magic's history: Morph,[...]

Once again, the annual Commander product for Magic: The Gathering proves to be a great success for the format at large From the first reveal of the set's themes, players knew to expect amazing things from this release, and when it came around, it did not disappoint The mechanics expanded on include Morph, Flashback, Populate, and[...]

Magic: The Gathering has outdone themselves yet again with their yearly Commander product The four Magic preconstructed decks in this release each have coherent mechanical themes and do not pull too many punches when it comes to power level As it stands, the decks as constructed revolve around four mechanics: Morph, Flashback, Populate, and Madness[...]

Like something out of the Roald Dahl book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Emiel van Daele has found a Magic Golden Ticket, so to speak. When Emiel, a Magic: the Gathering player from the Netherlands, opened his Commander 2019 "Mystic Intellect" deck, he was shocked to find that the cards were all, save for the foil Commanders,[...]

One could almost say to manage to build the perfect deck is… maddening? On that note, we at Bleeding Cool have been aiming to improve upon the Commander 2019 decks for Magic Our focus is simply to find the twenty best cuts from the deck, and twenty worthwhile inclusions to replace them Last Tuesday, August 13th, we went[...]

This is very true of Commander players especially, where a metagame isn't as enforced as formats like Modern or Legacy Today, we at Bleeding Cool will be continuing our series of articles on how to improve the Commander 2019 preconstructed decks A week ago, on Tuesday, August 13th, we improved upon Faceless Menace Two days later,[...]

On Tuesday, August 13th, we went over the Faceless Menace deck for Commander 2019, and made twenty changes to its contents Today, Bleeding Cool goes over ideal cuts for the "Mystic Intellect" Commander 2019 deck for Magic: the Gathering, as well as ideal initial additions to the deck We went over its newer contents last week, and[...]

Commander encompasses both of these format types, and to drive this point home, the deck size for a Commander deck is 100 cards as opposed to a minimum of 60 With this in mind, we at Bleeding Cool have compiled a list of the twenty most pertinent additions to the Faceless Menace deck from Commander[...]

During GenCon 2019 last weekend, Wizards of the Coast unveiled their newest Commander deck themes for Magic: The Gathering What's more, they revealed that on each day from August 5th-8th, they are revealing a new decklist The themes are Morph, Madness, Populate, and Flashback, themes that are very popular for many players Today, Wizards of[...]

At GenCon 2019 this past weekend, Wizards of the Coast unveiled their newest Commander deck themes for Magic: The Gathering What's more, they revealed that on each day from August 5th-8th, they are revealing a new decklist The themes are Morph, Madness, Populate, and Flashback, themes that are very popular for many players Today, Wizards[...]

During GenCon 2019 this past weekend, Wizards of the Coast unveiled their newest Commander deck themes for Magic: The Gathering What's more, they revealed that on each day from August 5th-8th, they are revealing a new decklist The themes are Morph, Madness, Populate, and Flashback, themes that are very popular for many players. Today, Wizards of the[...]

During GenCon 2019 this past weekend, Wizards of the Coast unveiled their newest Commander deck themes for Magic: The Gathering What's more, they revealed that on each day from August 5th-8th, they are revealing a new decklist The themes areagicorph, Madness, Populate, and Flashback, themes that are very popular for many players. Source: Reddit.com Today, Wizards revealed[...]

Svensson writes for Bleeding Cool. Everyone's favorite castle-owning, eyes-focusing CGI character from Star Wars: The Force Awakens was announced to be a character in the Star Wars mobile strategy game Star Wars: Commander at the Star Wars/Marvel Mobile Game panel at Silicon Valley Comic Con. The panel featured Matt Fillbrant from Lucasfilm, and Nathan Etter from Disney[...]