Gareth Hughes

I'm a longtime casual player of MtG, having started way back in 1997, and dropping in and out a few times ever since. I played for a good while during Onslaught and Mirrodin blocks, dropped at Kamigawa and came back this time round for Gatecrash. It is around this point that I discovered Commander (EDH), and I now almost exclusively build and play Commander decks, hitting the 20+ deck mark earlier this year... I think I might have an addiction.

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Jul 23 2015

A Casual Guide to Generals: Part 7

By Gareth Hughes in EDH Articles, EDH Commander

Sorry about the delay in getting Part 7 up and written. Turns out retraining professionally can really cut into your free time! Anyway, this 7th part of this series will take a look at the first set of mono black generals that are legal for use as the general of your EDH deck, and attempt …

Jul 06 2015

A Casual Guide to Generals: Part 6

By Gareth Hughes in EDH Articles, EDH Commander

Here we are, the third and final part of our review of all the blue generals available for EDH. Once again, this is current up to the release of Dragon’s of Tarkir and so will not include cards from Magic Origins, despite its upcoming release. I may go back at the end and do a …

Jun 24 2015

A Casual Guide to Generals: Part 5 Mono Blue Commanders Continued

By Gareth Hughes in EDH Articles, EDH Commander

Last time out we got as far as in our review of mono blue commanders. So today, as promised I will pick up where I left off with Magic 2015‘s .

I think this is a general choice with some promise: she is a 2/2 for 4 CMC which isn’t ringing any bells of …

Jun 12 2015

A Casual Guide to Generals: Part 4 – Mono Blue Commanders

By Gareth Hughes in EDH Articles, EDH Commander

Welcome to part 4 of this ongoing series where I look at and grade every card that is currently a legal choice to use as a general in EDH/Commander. the first three parts of this series looked at those cards in white that can head up your EDH deck, and now with this installment we …

Jun 08 2015

A Casual Guide to Generals: Part 3 – Mono White Commanders

By Gareth Hughes in EDH Articles, EDH Commander

This is the last part in the series for mono-white generals, which will bring us up to a total of 70 by the end. White clearly has a good depth to it when it comes to generals and has a decent selection of archetypes too. Here are the remaining choices:

Cool artwork in the …

Jun 04 2015

A Casual Guide to Generals: Part 2 – Mono White Commanders

By Gareth Hughes in EDH Articles, EDH Commander

In this second part of this series, I will continue our journey through the mono-white generals that are available to use as a general in EDH/Commander. This is a pretty big list, and the first part of this series covered a little over a 1/3 of all the available mono-white generals. As before, I will …

Jun 02 2015

A Casual Guide to Generals: Part 1

By Gareth Hughes in EDH Articles

In this series I am going to cast my eye over every card that is currently legal to use as a general in EDH/Commander, as it stands at this point in time. I reckon this could be a bit of a mammoth series, and it is likely that the next scheduled set (Magic Origins) will …

May 14 2015

EDH Philosphy in Practice – Rhys Token Deck

By Gareth Hughes in EDH Articles, EDH Commander, EDH Decks

So in the follow up to my first article, which discussed my philosophy towards Commander, I wanted to talk about my very first EDH deck that I built and how it stands in its current form, to show that philosophy in practice, as well as look at some of the major changes this deck has …

Apr 29 2015

A Philosophy

By Gareth Hughes in EDH Commander

Hey everyone, welcome to my first article, hopefully of many. I wanted to use this article to explain my philosophy behind building EDH decks for Magic, as this will underpin a lot of what I want to write about in future articles, and it allows you folk to see what I am all about. Hopefully …

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