EDHRECast
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The official podcast of @edhrec, breaking down the stats and data to help all deckbuilders.
Cast:
@JosephMSchultz
@danaroach
@mathimus55
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Cast:
@JosephMSchultz
@danaroach
@mathimus55
[email protected]
Mirrodin week: We've reached our first modern frame set, and with it some cards whose design also feels modern, starting with Fatespinner. Whether you're playing some light stax or just want a value wizard, Fatespinner is very, very good.
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November 24, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Mirrodin week: We've reached our first modern frame set, and with it some cards whose design also feels modern, starting with Fatespinner. Whether you're playing some light stax or just want a value wizard, Fatespinner is very, very good.
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edhrec.com/route/?cc=Fa...
Scourge week: There's not a lot of ways to give all your zombies vigilance, but in a deck running things like decayed or with sac outlets Faces of the Past lets you untap all those attackers when a zombie dies.
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November 23, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Scourge week: There's not a lot of ways to give all your zombies vigilance, but in a deck running things like decayed or with sac outlets Faces of the Past lets you untap all those attackers when a zombie dies.
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Scourge week: A one-time Wound Reflection, Final Punishment can just delete people in the right deck like Alpharael, Stonechosen or Astarion, the Decadent.
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November 22, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Scourge week: A one-time Wound Reflection, Final Punishment can just delete people in the right deck like Alpharael, Stonechosen or Astarion, the Decadent.
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edhrec.com/route/?cc=Fi...
Scourge week: Yes this impacts everyone, so be careful when you use it as it can help your enemies too, but cards that let you keep your mana between phases are very powerful in a list built around abusing such effects.
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November 20, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Scourge week: Yes this impacts everyone, so be careful when you use it as it can help your enemies too, but cards that let you keep your mana between phases are very powerful in a list built around abusing such effects.
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edhrec.com/route/?cc=Up...
Scourge week: For gameplay purposes on offense Treetop Scout is a flier, and in an elfball-style build or in a list like Edric, Spymaster of Trest a one-drop that has evasion is very useful even in today's meta.
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November 19, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Scourge week: For gameplay purposes on offense Treetop Scout is a flier, and in an elfball-style build or in a list like Edric, Spymaster of Trest a one-drop that has evasion is very useful even in today's meta.
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Scourge week: There are fourteen legendary clerics with black and white in their casting cost, two of which can be cast for free with Edgewalker, minus commander tax. It's not an auto-include or anything, but if you're playing any kind of cleric deck it's excellent.
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November 18, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Scourge week: There are fourteen legendary clerics with black and white in their casting cost, two of which can be cast for free with Edgewalker, minus commander tax. It's not an auto-include or anything, but if you're playing any kind of cleric deck it's excellent.
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edhrec.com/route/?cc=Ed...
Scourge week: Want to pay 1 less for your soldiers? Want to buff them? Why not both, and why not both on a soldier? Daru Warchief has crept up to $2 due to never having a reprint, and because it remains an excellent include in any soldier list to this day.
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November 17, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Scourge week: Want to pay 1 less for your soldiers? Want to buff them? Why not both, and why not both on a soldier? Daru Warchief has crept up to $2 due to never having a reprint, and because it remains an excellent include in any soldier list to this day.
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scryfall.com/card/scg/6/d...
Legions week: Playing wizards? 13,000+ people on EDHREC are, and if you're one of them Riptide Director can draw you a whole lot of cards every turn for 2UU with this fifty cent rare.
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November 16, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Legions week: Playing wizards? 13,000+ people on EDHREC are, and if you're one of them Riptide Director can draw you a whole lot of cards every turn for 2UU with this fifty cent rare.
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edhrec.com/route/?cc=Ri...
Legions week: Playing kindred birds or clerics? I'm sorry. Still, this is a flying body that after blocking a beater can bring a pair of birds and/or clerics back from the yard to play. It's not amazing, but if you wanted amazing you wouldn't be playing birds and clerics.
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November 14, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Legions week: Playing kindred birds or clerics? I'm sorry. Still, this is a flying body that after blocking a beater can bring a pair of birds and/or clerics back from the yard to play. It's not amazing, but if you wanted amazing you wouldn't be playing birds and clerics.
edhrec.com/route/?cc=Ce...
edhrec.com/route/?cc=Ce...
Legions week: Noxious Ghoul is a brutal one-sided board wipe in zombie decks, and despite seeing play in about 30k zombie lists that's probably not enough.
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November 13, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Legions week: Noxious Ghoul is a brutal one-sided board wipe in zombie decks, and despite seeing play in about 30k zombie lists that's probably not enough.
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Legions week: Withered Wretch is a nice bit of utility in a zombie or cleric deck, letting you surgically deal with other people's graveyard nonsense without it impacting your own graveyard nonsense.
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November 12, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Legions week: Withered Wretch is a nice bit of utility in a zombie or cleric deck, letting you surgically deal with other people's graveyard nonsense without it impacting your own graveyard nonsense.
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Legions week: Tribal Forcemage is a four mana overrun in a kindred/typal deck, and you can even spread that mana out over multiple turns. It's especially good if you're the kinda person playing say elves, who doesn't want to sully your elf list with a non-elf like 'hoof.
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November 11, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Legions week: Tribal Forcemage is a four mana overrun in a kindred/typal deck, and you can even spread that mana out over multiple turns. It's especially good if you're the kinda person playing say elves, who doesn't want to sully your elf list with a non-elf like 'hoof.
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Legions week: Being able to give all your wizards in a wizard deck flying for an alpha strike is really useful, especially when the ability is hard to stop short of a stifle. Gempalm Sorcerer isn't amazing, but in the right deck nothing else really does what it does.
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edhrec.com/cards/gempal...
November 10, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Legions week: Being able to give all your wizards in a wizard deck flying for an alpha strike is really useful, especially when the ability is hard to stop short of a stifle. Gempalm Sorcerer isn't amazing, but in the right deck nothing else really does what it does.
edhrec.com/cards/gempal...
edhrec.com/cards/gempal...
Onslaught week: Aurification is an odd duck of a pillowfort card, making all creatures that hit you into walls. One added bit of play here is if you move a gold counter onto another creature, it also becomes a defender that can't attack.
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November 9, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Onslaught week: Aurification is an odd duck of a pillowfort card, making all creatures that hit you into walls. One added bit of play here is if you move a gold counter onto another creature, it also becomes a defender that can't attack.
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edhrec.com/cards/aurifi...
Onslaught week: Wirewood Lodge is really simple; it's a colorless land that untaps target elf. Worst case if you happen to have an elf commander it's pseudo vigilance. But best case it untaps something busted like Lathril, Blade of Elves or Marwyn, the Nurturer.
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November 8, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Onslaught week: Wirewood Lodge is really simple; it's a colorless land that untaps target elf. Worst case if you happen to have an elf commander it's pseudo vigilance. But best case it untaps something busted like Lathril, Blade of Elves or Marwyn, the Nurturer.
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edhrec.com/cards/wirewo...
Onslaught week: Sure it doesn't do much if your opponents are also playing typal, but what are the odds of that? If you're playing a typal deck of some sort, Onslaught entirely skips your stuff, and takes out 2W worth of your opponents bodies every time.
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November 7, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Onslaught week: Sure it doesn't do much if your opponents are also playing typal, but what are the odds of that? If you're playing a typal deck of some sort, Onslaught entirely skips your stuff, and takes out 2W worth of your opponents bodies every time.
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Onslaught week: Giving all your creatures in your typal deck shroud can cause problems, but it's really often worth making all your opponents be unable to interact with your creatures. This card hasn't had a reprint either, making it particularly tricky to track down.
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November 6, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Onslaught week: Giving all your creatures in your typal deck shroud can cause problems, but it's really often worth making all your opponents be unable to interact with your creatures. This card hasn't had a reprint either, making it particularly tricky to track down.
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edhrec.com/cards/steely...
Onslaught week: Akroma's Blessing is an oft-forgotten gem on offense and defense. Need to save your blockers from some chonky attackers? It does that. Need to dodge a Blasphemous Act? It does that. Need to make your stuff unblockable? It does that.
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edhrec.com/cards/akroma...
November 5, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Onslaught week: Akroma's Blessing is an oft-forgotten gem on offense and defense. Need to save your blockers from some chonky attackers? It does that. Need to dodge a Blasphemous Act? It does that. Need to make your stuff unblockable? It does that.
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edhrec.com/cards/akroma...
Onslaught week: If you're playing elves, then this Gaea's Cradle at Home is still pretty spectacular. Generally speaking elf decks don't struggle for mana, but if you brew right you can always use more, and Elvish Guidance provides plenty more.
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edhrec.com/cards/elvish...
November 4, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Onslaught week: If you're playing elves, then this Gaea's Cradle at Home is still pretty spectacular. Generally speaking elf decks don't struggle for mana, but if you brew right you can always use more, and Elvish Guidance provides plenty more.
edhrec.com/cards/elvish...
edhrec.com/cards/elvish...
Onslaught week: Aphetto Alchemist shows up in a lot of morph decks, but the ability to untap any creature or maybe more importantly any artifact is really useful, maybe more so when attached to a wizard.
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November 3, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Onslaught week: Aphetto Alchemist shows up in a lot of morph decks, but the ability to untap any creature or maybe more importantly any artifact is really useful, maybe more so when attached to a wizard.
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Judgment week: Utility land slots have gotten really crowded, but if you've got a way to consistently put lands into the yard, devoting one of them to a land that makes all your lands into Savannahs isn't a bad option.
edhrec.com/cards/riftst...
edhrec.com/cards/riftst...
November 1, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Judgment week: Utility land slots have gotten really crowded, but if you've got a way to consistently put lands into the yard, devoting one of them to a land that makes all your lands into Savannahs isn't a bad option.
edhrec.com/cards/riftst...
edhrec.com/cards/riftst...
Judgment week: If you hit the threshold, Hunting Grounds lets you play a creature for free whenever your opponent plays a creature. You probably want a deck that has ways to hit threshold aside from hoping it happens, but the upside on this is huge for two mana.
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October 31, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Judgment week: If you hit the threshold, Hunting Grounds lets you play a creature for free whenever your opponent plays a creature. You probably want a deck that has ways to hit threshold aside from hoping it happens, but the upside on this is huge for two mana.
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edhrec.com/cards/huntin...
Judgment week: Keep Watch is a little more consistent if your deck also goes wide, but even if it doesn't it's really not hard to get 2U mana worth of draw out of this at instant speed in most B2-B3 games.
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October 30, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Judgment week: Keep Watch is a little more consistent if your deck also goes wide, but even if it doesn't it's really not hard to get 2U mana worth of draw out of this at instant speed in most B2-B3 games.
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edhrec.com/cards/keep-w...
Judgment week: Seedtime, because of course taking extra turns in green makes sense. All you need to do is bait that blue player into countering whatever nonsense you ramped into.
edhrec.com/cards/seedtime
edhrec.com/cards/seedtime
October 28, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Judgment week: Seedtime, because of course taking extra turns in green makes sense. All you need to do is bait that blue player into countering whatever nonsense you ramped into.
edhrec.com/cards/seedtime
edhrec.com/cards/seedtime
Judgment week: Firecat Blitz has a pricey flashback cost, but it doesn't matter as the base spell is so good. Better yet, the cats have been errata'ed to be elemental cats, so in a deck like Omnath, Locus of Rage it's often just a win condition if you have a sacc outlet.
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edhrec.com/cards/fireca...
October 27, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Judgment week: Firecat Blitz has a pricey flashback cost, but it doesn't matter as the base spell is so good. Better yet, the cats have been errata'ed to be elemental cats, so in a deck like Omnath, Locus of Rage it's often just a win condition if you have a sacc outlet.
edhrec.com/cards/fireca...
edhrec.com/cards/fireca...