Jesse Barker Plotkin
Jesse Barker Plotkin started playing Magic with Innistrad. He was disqualified from his first Commander game after he played his second copy of Goblins of the Flarg, and it's all been uphill from there. Outside of Magic, he enjoys writing and running.
- The Best Cards You're Not Playing Are Ones You'll Never Cast
ArticlesHave you ever included cards in your deck that you don't intend on casting? You may want to take a look at some Eidolons.
- Ride the High Tide with Rikala, Homarid King
ArticlesRikala, Homarid King puts High Tide in the command zone for this Simic storm deck that untaps Islands, draws out, and wins with Brain Freeze.
- Belladonna Took | Mono-White Tokens
ArticlesBelladonna Took turns three tokens into life, cards, and a team-wide buff, leading a mono-white aggro Tokens deck built to count to three.
- Dr. Beverly Crusher | A Crushing Mono-White Lifegain Deck
ArticlesDr. Beverly Crusher doubles every lifegain trigger you control, and this mono-white Commander deck turns life gains into a lethal board.
- Power Down the Table with Wasp, Shrinking Savior in Commander
ArticlesBuilding Wasp, Shrinking Savior as a mono-blue deck that shrinks creatures below zero power to draw a mountain of cards and lock down combat.
- Building Stick, Fearless Mentor: A Group Slug Deck
ArticlesA group-slug deck tech for Stick, Fearless Mentor, turning red's self-damage cards into relentless impulse-draw value and a fast clock.
- Build a Political Flying Deck in Commander with Storm, Windrider
ArticlesStorm, Windrider is one of the weirder legendary creatures in the Marvel Super Heroes - so Jesse made a deck taking full advantage of that weirdness.
- Building Colorless Spellslinger in Commander with The Dawning Archaic
ArticlesJesse's colorless deck for The Dawning Archaic is built around a bizarre constraint: cram in every instant and sorcery we can, then cast them for free!
- Artifacts and Counters With T'Challa, the Black Panther
ArticlesGreen and white might not be the best colors for artifact commanders, but that's about to change with T'Challa, the Black Panther.
- Grind Out Value With Moseo, Vein's New Dean
ArticlesIs Moseo, Vein's New Dean the grindy, mono-black value engine you've been looking to build in Commander? Take a look.