Duskmourn: House of Horror Releases

Today marks the full official release of the latest Magic expansion that is Duskmourn: House of Horror. This spooky, new set can be found anywhere that trading card games are sold, and has additionally hit digital clients such as MTG Arena and Magic Online. Get out to your local game store and see what the new set has to offer, or else go check out the Duskmourn: House of Horror page here on CoolStuffInc.com to pick up all your terrifying needs.

Commander Bans Rock the MTG World

This monday saw an absolute bomb go off in the greater MTG world, resulting in one of the most impactful announcements ever in the game's long history. With this announcement, the Commander Rules Committee released the usual quarterly Banned and Restricted Update. Typically as of late, these have largely resulted in no changes being levied against the format, but this one bore several with four cards being banned.

As of now, each of the following cards is banned in Commander:

• Dockside Extortionist
• Jeweled Lotus
• Mana Crypt
• Nadu, Winged Wisdom

While the banning of Nadu took virtually no one by surprise, the remainder of the bannings resulted in tremendous losses to many players. Jeweled Lotus and Mana Crypt being removed from the format completely blindsided many, as there was little to no previous indication that these had a potential for being targeted. Additionally, both cards were some of the most expensive cards available for play in the format, both reaching over $100 in value on the secondary market. Dockside Extortionist was a slightly less unexpected hit, as it had been coming up in public discussions over the past year or so, however this still represented a major financial loss as well, causing further unease amongst players.

This boiled over throughout the course of the week, with debates and reactions continuing to be ongoing. However, some of these reactions have proven downright vitriolic, with many members of the community - including RC and CAG members - noting that it got so bad that death threats were being thrown around. This led to further statements from the RC, including an FAQ document, and even the locking down of select members' social media accounts. In addition to the fallout from this, Command Zone member and CEO Josh Lee Kwai announced his resignation from the Commander Advisory Group on Wednesday.

The discussions surrounding this topic continue to be ongoing, though I'd like to encourage anyone reading this to show a little civility and to not harass the people involved.

Scryfall Adds Gavin Verhey's Unknown Event Cards

Fun news, everyone! We were finally able to get all of the @GavinVerhey Unknown Event cards added to @scryfall!

This means that deck building sites like @moxfieldmtg and @archidekt will be able to allow users to add them to decks.

Unknown Event set list:https://t.co/jN2Hoe46p1 pic.twitter.com/iSkG3yUbNe

— Logan // Seraph Six (@seraph_six) September 21, 2024

Announced by Logan (aka @seraph_six) over on Twitter, Scryfall has now finally uploaded all of the currently released cards from the various Gavin Verhey's Unknown Events to their database. This allows players to take a look through and reference these cards, as well as include them in their decklists across various mediums such as Moxfield and Archidekt. Additionally, these include the special Unknown Event Planechase cards that are much harder to come by. Check them out now over on Scryfall!

Decklist of the Week

Boros Control | Pioneer | gazmon48, 1st Place MTGO Pioneer Challenge

• Companion (1)
• 1 Kaheera, the Orphanguard

• Planeswalkers (4)
• 4 The Wandering Emperor

• Instants (7)
• 3 Torch the Tower
• 4 Get Lost

• Sorceries (4)
• 4 Sunfall

• Enchantments (12)
• 4 Caretaker's Talent
• 4 Fable of the Mirror-Breaker // Reflections of Kiki-Jiki
• 4 High Noon

• Artifacts (4)
• 4 Carrot Cake

• Lands (25)
• 1 Mountain
• 2 Plains
• 1 Castle Ardenvale
• 1 Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire
• 1 Westvale Abbey // Ormendahl, Profane Prince
• 2 Battlefield Forge
• 2 Needleverge Pathway // Pillarverge Pathway
• 3 Field of Ruin
• 4 Fountainport
• 4 Sacred Foundry
• 4 Sunken Citadel

• Sideboard (14)
• 1 Authority of the Consuls
• 1 Beza, the Bounding Spring
• 1 Elspeth, Sun's Champion
• 2 Depopulate
• 3 Portable Hole
• 3 Rest in Peace
• 3 Wedding Announcement // Wedding Festivity

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With the US Pioneer Regional Qualifier coming up in just a week's time, everyone is trying to figure out the latest tech to get ahead of the metagame. In one of the final MTGO Pioneer Challenges before the release of Duskmourn: House of Horror, player gazmon48 won with this interesting Boros Control list. Clearly inspired by the current Boros Token Control list that's prominent in Standard, this list wins by controlling the board while also stalling out explosive starts by way of High Noon. This attempts to fight back against decks like Izzet Phoenix, Rakdos Aggro, and Nykthos Ramp, and is also tech being used in more mainstream lists like Azorius Control for similar reasons.

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