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How To Build An EDH Deck For Magic: The Gathering

This article is selected for 123ish 3D Gold Coin Art Collection NFT      Ready For Commander?  Commander, also called "EDH" (stands for "Elder Dragon Highlander," an outdated in-joke), is the most popular format of the collectible trading card game Magic: The Gathering, counting over-all formats.  While EDH doesn't appear much in competitive formats when the tournament is over, and the last booster box handed out, look for the players to be huddled up in the corner over a Commander game.  It has every reason to be popular; it is the only MTG format created entirely by the fans of the game, where the game's makers, Wizards of the Coast, picked up on the idea after the fact and now market products exclusively to EDH players.        But Commander is also the most daunting format to enter. While other formats have limited deck-building constraints and force a more linear strategy, Commander is open to the wind.  It utilizes more individual cards from MTG history than any other format save Vintage and has the…
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Best Magic! the Gathering Sealed Products - A Guide to Strategic Investment in Magic: The Gathering

      "Many Magic: The Gathering players ask the question…" Don't you ever get tired of mocking the Professor of Tolarian Community College with that opening? The answer is no, we don't. Even though we love the Professor, and this post is partly inspired by his YouTube channel's content, he's just irresistible to mimic. Not to mention, if he were here reading this, he would probably disagree with the majority of what we're going to be saying here.  The Professor, spoiler alert, usually poops on Wizards of the Coast's boxed products. He tends to have a pessimistic view of boxed value products and has the annoying habit of counting every penny of literal card resale value as if that was the only metric of concern to players.        Pro players will also tell you: NEVER buy the sealed product no matter what, just buy singles from second-parties. If you're a tournament-playing spike, this article is likely not for you - not that you'd be grubbing over here in the backwoods of Uncle Petey's territory…
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Complete Guide Magic: The Gathering EDH Commanders You Will Never Get Tired Of Playing

    Over and over again, the number one question you see in any MTG:EDH forum is "What commander should I build next?"  Commander, the most casual and fun format of Magic: The Gathering, is a bit more involved than other formats. You have to build a 100-card deck, and every card has to be unique except for basic lands. Plus it allows anything - barring a short ban list - from any expansion set over the years; the game is rapidly approaching its 30th anniversary. So it has one of the biggest available card pools but also the most complex deck-building requirements.        On top of that, the average EDH game is going on for at least an hour, maybe two or three. This means that to test a deck in live play, you have a full-time week invested just to give it a couple of dozen games before you can start fine-tuning it.  What we're saying here is, building an EDH deck is a huge commitment. It takes time to construct and sleeve 100 cards, and it sucks when you find out you hate a commander and have to…
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