Artful beauty? Ben McDole cranks the art and beauty up to... eleven. Turning a Godo deck into Diaochan.

Tags: Ben McDole, Commander Chop Shop, deckbuilding, EDH, Elder Dragon Highlander

Another week, another Commander deck in need of Ben's help. This week Ben tackles a Savra deck with just $40 to spend.

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This week Ben takes on a Sygg, River Cutthroat with a budget of just $20. What changes can he make?

Tags: Ben McDole, Commander, Commander Chop Shop, EDH, Elder Dragon Highlander, Sygg

This week Ben McDole works over a true Elder Dragon deck of the biggest baddest most evil dude at the table. That can be only one bad mofo.

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Week #2 of Commander Chop Shop is up, this week from among the submissions Ben tackles a Teysa EDH build with a $60 budget.

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Ben McDole returns to regular Commander writing with a new series, a deck doctor solely for Commander, this is: Commander Chop Shop.

Tags: Ben McDole, Commander, EDH, Elder Dragon Highlander, Grimgrin

For those of you not in the know, Pentagram is an old variation of multiplayer where each person uses a deck of a single color. Players sit in a circle with their colored decks in the same configuration as the color wheel on the back of a Magic card. The players to your immediate left [...]

Before I dive into precisely what the title of this article means, I want to talk a little bit about Overextended—or "Throwback," as we've been calling it. The response to the most recent Throwback article was, shall we say, underwhelming, and as such the tournament is being put on silent mode. Note that this does [...]

So, in the past two weeks, I have made a discovery: Tournaments are difficult to run. Not so much in a logical sense; as far as that goes, I've run much larger tournaments than the bracket I proposed, but more in the time sense. Everyone started out very excited to run the new format, only [...]

Last week, Trick added a poll to the article to see where this series should go, or if the series should even continue. I'm quite happy to say that the responses were greatly in favor of continuing to develop Throwback! The winning choice was for us to create a tournament and smash the decks against [...]