Jess Stirba

Senior Staff Writer

@jlina

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Pauper Cubin’, Part Two: Themecide

Jess gets into what Born of the Gods added to her Pauper Cube, and cuts a much-loved theme.

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Pauper Cubin’, Part One

Jess goes deep into her Pauper Cube, setting up next week’s BNG update post.

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Is Magic Compatible With Peace?

Jess contemplates the relationship between Magic and violence.

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Born of Fire, Part Deux

Jess finishes up her Commander/EDH set review, focusing on uncommons and dollar rares.

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Born of Fire, Part One

Jess goes through part one of her Commander set review for Born of the Gods, focusing on the flashy rares.

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Building a Better Manabase, Part Two

Jess talks about the in-between manabases in Commander. Two- and three-color manabases need EDH love too!

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Building a Better Manabase, Part One

Jess writes about manabases in Commander, because she’s gotten fed up with lists that include fetchlands and old-school duals.

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Players Against Humanity

Jess takes time away from EDH (Commander, what-have-you) to talk about Cards Against Humanity. It’s an amazing party game, available for free online or for a reasonable price in many stores, and she’s a huge fan. You should try it!

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The Why of Tokens

Jess examines what we get when we choose a token general. Then she looks at one of her own token decks, Ghave, Guru of Spores, and talks exponential math with Doubling Season and newcomer Primal Vigor.

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Commander 2013 in Review

Jess finally finishes up her overview of the Commander 2013 products, in part ten of her ten article cycle. The EDH player in her heart was a fan, although she knocked off half a grade for the weird economics of the set. A-, would buy again!

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Good Grief!

Jessica comes to the final of the five Commander 2013 decks: Jeleva, Nephalia’s Scourge, who has been chucked in favor of Nekusar, the Mindrazer. Nekusar is aces in EDH! Choke on it!