Gemstone Mine
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M012 -- Primer -- Torbran's Off-Brand Superfriends
March 17, 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 10, 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 24, 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 17, 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 10, 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 3, 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 27, 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 20, 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 13, 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 6, 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 30, 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...
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E013 -- Threat Assessment
December 23, 2020
Threat assessment is hard enough in heads-up games of Magic. When you ramp up to three opponents instead of one, it gets exponentially more difficu...
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M006 -- Hidden Gems -- Dawn of the Dead
December 16, 2020
We're up to Black in our Hidden Gems series, and that means we've got to talk about the graveyard. There's a spicy card from way back in the day wi...
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E012 -- Decks We Play -- Scrappy-Cat
December 9, 2020
John has a confession to make: he loves Scrap Trawler. He loves Scrap Trawler so much that he built a mono-white deck with Scrap Trawler as one of ...