Gemstone Mine
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M015 -- Lessons from cEDH -- Critiquing Your Win-Conditions
April 4, 2021
Game's gotta end, and the more you know about how your deck wants to end the game, the better you'll be able to tune your deck to the wants and nee...
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M014 -- Lessons from cEDH -- Ready, Set, Go
March 3, 2021
What is the cadence of a game of Commander? This week, another Lesson from cEDH on how your group can get into rhythm and get better games in, and ...
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M013 -- Lessons from cEDH -- Are Tutors Bad for Commander?
March 3, 2021
Tutors are some of the most sought-after cards in the format of Commander, but are they right for every table? This week, we look at the arguments ...
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M012 -- Primer -- Torbran's Off-Brand Superfriends
March 3, 2021
We're keeping the ball rolling with another Primer, this time on Torbran's Off-Brand Superfriends! If you like seeing your opponents' jaws drop whe...
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M011 -- Primer -- Scrappy-Cat
March 3, 2021
Here we go: a new series! Adapting the cEDH primer format for non-cEDH decks, and trying to compress it into a digestible, short-form content for y...
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E019 -- Lessons from cEDH -- What Makes a Good Commander?
March 3, 2021
There are more legendary creatures printed now than ever before. The Gemstone Mine Crew try to decipher exactly what makes a commander strong, and ...
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M010 -- Hidden Gems -- Compost
February 2, 2021
The mantra of "Green is too good" has been a common refrain in recent years, but some of the older designs that R&D created for this color were pre...
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E018 -- Lessons from cEDH -- When to Wheel
February 2, 2021
Wheels have been a part of Magic since the game's inception, but the question of when it's the proper time to cast a wheel in multiplayer is a tric...
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M009 -- Lessons from cEDH -- It Blocks Tymna
February 2, 2021
Tymna the Weaver was printed in Commander 2016 and the cEDH metagame was never the same, but what lessons are there to learn from this for non-cEDH...
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E017 -- What's in Our Cart -- Kaldheim
February 2, 2021
It's that time again: we've got some cool new singles in our cart from the new set, Kaldheim, and we're pretty excited about a few of them. Tune in...
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E016 -- Oh My Gods (Part 2)
January 1, 2021
The grand tour of gods as creatures throughout the history of Magic continues! War of the Spark through Theros: Beyond Death and to the first peek ...
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E015 -- Oh My Gods (Part I)
January 1, 2021
It's time to take a grand tour of one of the more peculiar tribes in the multiverse. Kaldheim is on the horizon and we're looking ahead by looking ...
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M008 -- Hidden Gems -- Meltdown
January 1, 2021
Red has gotten a lot of love in recent years from R&D, but there is a card so spicy from the ancient history of red that we just had to talk about ...
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E014 -- Answers
January 1, 2021
Last time, the Gemstone Mine crew shared their thoughts on Threats, and this time it's all about Answers. What makes a good answer? When is an answ...
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M007 -- Lessons from cEDH -- What's the Deal with Rograkh?
December 12, 2020
The cEDH community is buzzing about a new legendary creature from Commander Legends who is shaking up the metagame. Would you believe it's this tin...