Resources

Some of my favourite Magic resources:

• EDHrec: The first place you should go if you’re looking for inspiration for a new deck.

• Scryfall: The definitive Magic Card Search engine. (Come check out my article on beginner scryfall syntax!)

• Salubrious Snail’s Caluclators and Manabase Tool for checking my deck composition.

• This article on building manabases for singleton formats, with a sweet calculator!

Some of my favourite Magic podcasts:

• Listen to the Legendary Creature Podcast for sane, measured talk about the game of Commander.

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Growing Pains

Did you know that there has been as 51 1 or 2 mana value rare and mythic red creatures printed into standard in since 2020? Hot on the heels of The Last Airbender, they have just spoiled another one even. When people talk about the state of standard for the last couple years of years there’s a lot of blame thrown at Commander or Universes Beyond influencing card design but no one seems to think about the number of cards being printed into Standard.