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Commander A to Z - Baru, Fist of Krosa For the next entry in my Commander A to Z series, I have selected Baru, Fist of Krosa. Each week, I will be selecting one potentially powerful yet underused commander that begins with each letter of the alphabet to highlight. This series was born out of my love for commander as a format and a desire to see some exciting new synergies that I've never considered. These decks may not be top-tier for winning but I'm always looking to have the most fun playing EDH. Check out a deck tech and full list below. Baru, Fist of Krosa is a relatively straightforward commander with a deceptively complex deckbuilding pattern. On the surface, his ability appears to be easy to utilize with the simple requirement of putting more lands into play in order to make your own Overrun . And, obviously, go ahead and ignore the Grandeur ability since we won't have any other copies of Baru in your deck. Unless, your cheating. However, the process ...

Aboshan, Cephalid Emperor - Commander Deck Tech Today, I'm excited to kick off a brand new series called Commander A-Z. Each week, I will be selecting one potentially powerful yet underused commander that begins with each letter of the alphabet to highlight. This series was born out of my love for commander as a format and a desire to see some exciting new synergies that I've never considered. These decks may not be top-tier for winning but I'm always looking to have the most fun playing EDH. Check out a deck tech and full list below. The first instinct when looking at Aboshan is to put together a Cephalid tribal deck to abuse the ability to tap any permanent with any cephalid. However, it turns out that there's not nearly enough cephalids in Magic history to support a tribal theme and so it was important to construct a theme that support cephalids instead. When investigating the cephalids' abilities, it became apparent that they're obsessed with putt...