Attack with Spock, play your land after combat, and Chief Kyle beams him out until your end step: the Landing Party precon triggers its commander twice a turn, and every trigger is a card. Here's how strange new worlds…
Attack all three opponents, tap The Beacon of Kahless for three red mana, and Own the Day costs exactly that: the Klingon Fury precon pays for its own second combat, and every Battlefront trigger fires again. Here's…
The U.S.S. Enterprise-E destroys every tapped creature, and Cryptic Command taps all of theirs: the Federation Fleet precon hides a one-sided wrath in its box. Here's how Picard's Seek out engine plays, the rule that…
One land in the We Are the Borg precon turns into a second Borg Queen for a turn: two anthems, two assimilations, and every Borg token a 5/5. Here's how the Esper hive plays, the Skullclamp rule people will get wrong,…
The Ur-Dragon's 2017 precon has played Hellkite Charger for nine years. A 22-cent Sun Warriors turns it into endless combats. We ran all 174 Commander precons in our database through DeckCortex's combo engine, then…
Agatha of the Vile Cauldron went from $3.99 to $11.16 on TCGplayer in the eighteen days after Aerid Konstrari came out, because the two go infinite together. The catch: Agatha needs power 5 first, and a 93-cent…
Giada leads a new Foundations precon and is EDHREC's fourth most-built commander this month, and almost half of the new Giada decks add a $1.46 Lyra that puts a counter on every Angel for every lifelink hit. The…
Kwia Vigorbloom makes one Lotus a turn, and her card says so. The average deck EDHREC's builders copy gets around it with a $10.63 unicorn: Emiel the Blessed blinks her, the Kwia that comes back is a new object that…
Ten days after Reality Fracture's release, Samut, Tyrant of Naktamun is in one cEDH decklist in five (682 of 3,351), as many as Worldly Tutor, while the set's $50 Jace is in 48. Her instants and sorceries get split…
Dack Fayden, Helping Hand costs $0.41 and gives away every creature he flips. In cEDH that's the combo: the creatures enter under your control before they change hands, so every trigger stays yours, and every…
All five new Foundations Commander decks ship with zero combos — and every one of them is exactly one card short of a known infinite. A $4.92 Pirate makes the Zombie deck loop forever, a $4.95 rock hands the artifact…
Vraska, Soul of Stone makes a Treasure every time you cast a noncreature spell, but her Treasures are creatures, so you can't spend them the turn you make them. We ran EDHREC's average Vraska deck through DeckCortex:…
Tam, the Possibility costs three mana and 51 cents, and one line of rules text makes it a five-color commander. The average deck EDHREC's builders are copying hides four infinite combos, and Tam isn't in any of them.…
We gave our solver all 110,447 combos in Commander Spellbook and one job: pack a Bracket 3 deck. It built Gwenom, Remorseless with 263 of them, 202 running through a single 1998 enchantment, Mortuary. Commander…
The $50 Jace, Multiverse Architect precon ships with zero combos, and every creature and planeswalker in its 99 costs six or more. One $19 card, Astral Dragon, goes infinite with the Cursed Mirror already in the box,…
Shang-Chi, Master of Kung Fu costs $11 and sits in 99% of Tayam lists, 95% of Sisay lists and three of cEDH's four most-played decks. Here's the one sentence on the card that explains it, the Sisay loop it now finishes…
Stasis is the saltiest card in Commander for the fourth time in five years, and it's in 0.18% of the 10 million decks on EDHREC and 48 of the 49,970 cEDH lists we track. We counted EDHREC's 30 saltiest cards against…
The most-played combo in Commander, Hullbreaker Horror plus Sol Ring, sits in 349,233 EDHREC decks, and it doesn't even work with two cards. We count down the five most-played combo engines with every loop step by step…
Emrakul, the Exigent Doom can turn three mana and a land upgrade into a route toward her own ten-mana cast. Here's why that makes her a finisher worth testing rather than a cheap-ramp replacement—and why exiling her…
EDHREC's average Thorin, King of Durin's Folk list costs $542, runs exactly one infinite combo, and Thorin isn't in it. One $13 card, Cloudstone Curio, loops the King off Dwarves the deck already owns; a different…
Tarmogoyf is a mythic in Reality Fracture's main set, which makes it Standard-legal on October 2 for the first time since 2008 and Pioneer-legal for the first time ever — and in the six months before that, it appeared…
One Ephemerate on a reanimated Atraxa and the Angel stays forever — that rules trick took Esper Goryo's from 2.7% of Modern lists in February to the top of the format, while Boros Energy fell from 19.5% in March to…
Reality Fracture's villain draws you a card on every opponent's draw step — Rhystic Study with no tax, on a planeswalker with three loyalty — and 3,911 EDHREC decks had slotted him in before he's legal. We ranked the…
The best-performing card printed in 2026 is a tapland that does literally nothing outside Commander. We pulled the full price history of all 1,714 new cards released this year out of DeckCortex's own database and…
Standard's most-played Hobbit card is a two-mana common that sits in 120 sideboards and two main decks. Three weeks of DeckCortex decklist data across seven formats, August 11 to September 4: Warg Tactics in 122 of…
Sprout Swarm is a $4.99 common from 2007 with convoke and buyback. Under Witherbloom, the Balancer its total cost with buyback is {4}{G}, affinity for creatures deletes the {4}, and the Saproling it just made taps to…
Casualty charges you a creature for every copied spell — and Sedgemoor Witch hands you two back, because magecraft reads "cast or copy". We walk Silverquill, the Disputant through all four official rulings (the copy…
The card climbing fastest in Y'shtola's tournament lists is mana value 1 — her trigger needs mana value 3, so it does nothing for her at all. Meanwhile Papalymo Totolymo, the 33-cent uncommon that pings on every spell…
Cast a one-mana cantrip, draw three cards. That's what a $0.98 aura from 1998 does once it's sitting on Crystal, Inhuman Princess — and it's why a $1.18 Marvel card went from zero tracked cEDH entries in May to the…
The most-played card you can actually buy in Magic's $334.99 Masters of the Universe Superdrop isn't the full-art Sol Ring — it's a one-mana white instant from 2009 that sits in 37.8% of our 51,592 cEDH decklists, and…
Wizards banned Badgermole Cub to kill green — then green nearly doubled to 16.5% of post-ban Standard and took three of the week's fourteen Challenge wins, because the real engine was never the Cub: Icetill Explorer…
The most expensive card in The Hobbit is a two-mana white enchantment whose own rules text hands your opponent a card every time you use it — and it has never appeared in a Standard decklist. We counted the set's five…
For twelve years, nobody could respond to Selvala's Parley — mana abilities never touch the stack. One new sentence in rule 605.1a ends that: ten cards lose mana-ability status overnight, a $0.55 Pithing Needle now…
The Hobbit ships no Commander precons — and its most-built new commander is a $2.38 main-set rare. Thranduil, the Elvenking borrows every activated ability of every Elf in your graveyard, and by August 12 the builders…
The verdict is in: The Fantasticar is banned in Legacy and restricted in Vintage — 45 days after release, with the card already down to $6.05 before Wizards said a word. We grade our own ban-watch predictions (Vintage:…
We ran the Hatsune Miku Secret Lair Commander deck through DeckCortex on release day: zero complete combos in the box, but 32 waiting one cheap card away. The full day-one review, plus a staged upgrade path from $5 to…
63 new legends, one command zone: we rank The Hobbit's best casual commanders with live EDHREC counts, Oracle-verified rules text, real prices — and a data-backed warning about the combo lines that quietly push your…
We scanned all 178 precon decklists in our database against Commander Spellbook: 16 ship with a two-card infinite combo straight from the factory — and the rate has jumped from 4% (2011–2022) to roughly one in five…
Spoiler season closed July 31 with all 193 cards public, and the preorder market immediately started contradicting the "low-power flop" consensus — Beorn up 139% in a week, the One Ring refusing to crash, an $800…
Magic just posted its first half-billion-dollar quarter while its players argue the game has priced them out — so we priced 3,437 July tournament decks card by card across eight formats. The answer runs from a $93 Red…
Greasefang's share of Pioneer nearly doubled in July — and its top-cut conversion halved. We went through 1,201 published lists and every one of the 61 events with a named winner to settle the question our July piece…
One Rhystic Study flips your bracket exactly like one Panoptic Mirror — but one of them is in 62.1% of the 58,497 cEDH tournament lists we track, and the other is in six. We walked all 53 Game Changers down the…
The Fantasticar is already banned in one format: Duel Commander pulled the trigger 31 days after release, and Wizards decides on August 10. We lay out the whole case before the verdict — the 16-power trigger, five…
One month after the Seeker of Skybreak ban, Pauper's real story is a forty-cent flier: Sneaky Snacker sits in 23.4% of the 2,561 published 75s we track, the Gates deck that lost its combo nearly tripled instead of…
Premodern and Vintage both refuse to rotate — and in the last twelve months one of them gained 2,443 cards while the other gained none. We put 15,417 Premodern and 17,398 Vintage lists through our own corpus, and the…
The Hobbit lands August 14 as the first Standard-legal Tolkien set, and 71 of its 198 cards are already public. We pulled the live Oracle text for everything that matters and ran the marquee reprints through our own…
Y'shtola, Night's Blessed is EDHREC's #3 commander, and the €1.50 cat comes with her own precon. We rebuild Scions & Spellcraft in four budget stages — backed by 94 tournament lists, flex-slot keep rates, and the…
Yuuki Ichikawa's Simic Neoform posted the best Modern numbers at Pro Tour Marvel Super Heroes and left with the trophy. We break down the champion's exact 75 card by card — the Neoform math, the Consign-your-own-Pact…
Reality Fracture put a blue Chandra next to the red one on purpose — every booster ships an "echoed pair" from Jace's mirror reality, and only 21 unique cards are public. We pulled the live Oracle text for all of them…
Bracket 2 allows exactly zero Game Changers — so one beloved staple, like the Rhystic Study sitting in over a million decks, moves your "casual" deck to Bracket 3 by rule. We ran the flip live on a stock Marvel precon…
The most-played card in Modern is a $3.51 uncommon. Consign to Memory sits in 46.2% of all Modern decklists, has passed Brainstorm in Legacy at 55.4% of all 75s, and shows up in a third of Vintage — we traced the…
Yuuki Ichikawa won the first draft-decided Pro Tour Top 8 in fifteen years — while Modern's two most-played decks posted the event's worst numbers. The full Amsterdam report: Wizards' Day One win-rate graphic…
Magic's *Star Trek* set got its First Look — roughly 38 cards of a 280-plus set — so every "this breaks Modern" take is a read off the card text, not a number off a table. We pulled the live Oracle text for all of it…
The biggest gainer on our own board was a two-cent common up 62,650% — so we fixed the board, threw out the basics, the emblems and the oversized league prizes, and asked the question no price tracker can answer: is…
Our cEDH data says the best-converting deck in the format isn't Blue Farm or Kinnan — it's a 0.4%-share Mardu planeswalker deck, Dihada, Binder of Wills, topping out at 49.4%. It's also mostly a mirage: 81 counted…
Two decks are quietly beating Modern's top tier heading into Pro Tour Amsterdam: Broodscale combo, whose Basking Broodscale + Blade of the Bloodchief loop posts a 57.7% weighted win rate against the six most-played…
Consign to Memory now sits in 49.2% of all Legacy decklists, hard graveyard hate is in free fall, and the winning Reanimator boards pack four Show and Tells and a flying car. A data-driven guide to sideboarding against…
Three DeckCortex snapshots taken nine days apart chart something no single stat can: Trini Tron Karn's top-cut share collapsing from 9.9% to 4.4% since the Candelabra of Tawnos ban — with zero Tron decks making a top…
For the first time in fifteen years, a Pro Tour champion will be crowned at a draft table — and the format is Marvel Super Heroes. Live 17lands data (pulled July 9), every card checked against real Oracle text: why…
Pro Tour Marvel Super Heroes plays Modern in nine days, and our 2,000-list June corpus shows the metagame the pros are testing against: Boros Energy is the deck to beat at 12.1%, but no deck runs away, dozens of…