With the Doctor Who Commander decks now on the shelves of your LGS, and with singles from them flying around, it’s a good time to evaluate the pricing of some of the set’s most popular car...Read More
The signature card of blink decks, however, is Panharmonicon and all its later spin-offs. There are so many, these days: Yarok, the Desecrated, Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines and the brand-new Virtue ...Read More
Mass-blink effects are what makes blink decks what they are. Eerie Interlude, Ghostway, Lae’zel’s Acrobatics – these cards can offer truly ridiculous amounts of value, as you blink f...Read More
While I don’t think that one-shot blink effects like Cloudshift offer enough value to earn a slot, repeatable blink effects that offer ongoing value certainly do. Conjurer’s Closet, in thi...Read More
But perhaps the sweetest category of blink targets to have around are the ones that return cards from your graveyard to your hand. Why? Because you’ll be casting Eerie Interlude and cards simila...Read More
Coiling Oracle is another card that can ramp your mana, but belongs to another category of cards that are critically important for blink decks: “cantrip” creatures. Two-drops that draw a c...Read More
I don’t need much of an excuse to include Solemn Simulacrum in my EDH decks, but in a dedicated blink deck, the sad robot works even harder than usual. Unfortunately it doesn’t draw a card...Read More
I’ll try to include as many interactive creatures as I can in my blink decks, and if those interactive creatures also offer me enormous flexibility, all the better. Rather than Reclamation Sage,...Read More
You don’t want to devote too many slots to dedicated removal like Swords to Plowshares in a blink deck. Rather than Counterspell, I prefer to play Mystic Snake, and rather than Swords, I play Fi...Read More
There’s no consensus on the “best” blink commander. Numbers are split relatively evenly across cards like Preston, the Vanisher, Roon of the Hidden Realm and Elesh Norn, Mother of Ma...Read More