By: Chris Lorensen Coming together, meeting new people and, above all else, having fun – that’s what Matt McClure, the Commander Precon League organizer, says the tournament is all about. It’s one of the main reasons he decided to put people into teams for season two. “After lots of feedback from Season one, Anthony from […]

By: Chris Lorensen How to scrape the bottom of the upgrade barrel with class We’re all excited. We’ve got our fresh decks and fresh upgrades to tune our decks up. Some of us are keeping the main commander at the helm, others the secondary. Well, I’m here to tell you why you may want to […]

By: Colin Turzai The Deck Primer  Faceless Menace is a sultai (bug colors) morph deck that should be led by Kadena the Slinking Sorcerer. It should be noted that the precon also contains two lackluster legends: Rayami First of the Fallen and Vorlath the Shapestealer that are absolutely useless to this deck’s strategy and to be frank […]

Covered by: Chris Lorensen There is a fair amount and variety of debate in the commander community as to the power level of aggro infect. Outside of the realm of combos, people say that 10 poison counters is too easy to get to, others refute, saying since the creatures are small and limited that it’s […]

Covered by: Chris Lorensen Budget constraints were one of the third place finisher’s favorite parts about the commander Precon League. Jeff Haladay competed in the tournament and brought home the bronze using Trynn and Sylar and what he called ‘fair magic.’ “The colors are not the best, there’s no ramp, there’s no control elements,” Haladay said “It’s just a […]

By Colin Turzai Often in the first few minutes of a commander game gearing up the following phrase can be heard uttered: “How powerful are we playing here?” the answers to that question are frankly just as useless as the question itself.  Answers can include anything from: cedh, tier x, 75%, full power x, x/10, […]

Voltron Victory: Covered by Chris Lorensen Voltron, that’s what took a top 5 prize home from this last commander precon league but it wasn’t an easy road there. “Most of my losses were early on,” said Keith Fuller, who came in fifth with an enchantment themed voltron deck. “The deck was really, really slow and […]