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AuthorAbe Sargent

A Commander and casual Magic lover who calls all of West Virginia his hometown, Abe Sargent moved to Michigan for a time, working there for eleven years before heading off to seminary in the North Philly suburbs before finally heading to southwestern Connecticut. He's still not sure how a state the size of Connecticut has its own distinct regions. If you face Abe in a duel, be prepared to face his notorious work of art, Abe's Deck of Happiness and Joy.

Khans Commander! Ghave, Guru Of Spores!

Abe has taken the Abzan gang and introduced them to an old favorite they may get along with! Check out Abe’s latest Commander project!

Revelations: Ten Years Later

Abe Sargent is a veteran of writing for this website, and nobody has done more to open up about Magic’s greater contexts. In this reflective work, he revisits his past in order to tell you how it gave him his present and his future.

Time For Another Random Commander!

Abe Sargent is ready for a challenge! The Random Card function on Gatherer is ready to provide him with a crazy new commander to build around!

Impossible Commander #4: Starke Raving Mad!

Red mages have it too rough in Commander. What should they do about it? Go crazy, that’s what! Here, Abe gives you another underrated fun commander that you can use to bring chaos to your next group game!

New Commander Cube Changes!

Some people think Cube is the most fun format in Magic. Others feel that title belongs to Commander. Fortunately, we don’t have to choose! Abe brings you up to speed on an increasingly awesome format!

Destroying Evil The Caleria Way

Enough about the manly heroes of the Multiverse! It’s time for the relentless ladies of Magic to join forces in the latest of Abe Sargent’s Random Commander challenges!

The Power Hungry Repack

Abe Sargent decides to take some official products and tweak them to his liking! See how Abe rearranged Commander 2013 to give himself a wallet-friendly and fun alternative!

Impossible Commander 3: Hazduhr The Awesome!

Tired of the same old Commander? Tired of the same old Commander games? Check out Abe’s brilliant old school take on the format as well as his ongoing Impossible Commander series!

Bennie’s Yisan, the Wanderer Bard

Abe pushes the boundaries of what’s possible in Commander after being inspired by fellow EDH author Bennie Smith! Abe explains how to stray away from running into the same old boring Commander cards again and again!

Return of the Commander Cube!

This week, Abe breaks out one of the coolest casual formats around: Commander Cube! Abe shares his list and explains his choices along with some evaluations of brand new M15 cards!

The Kitchen Table: Retiring The Most Underused Cards Of All Time – Entry XI

In this ten-year anniversary of Retiring The Most Underused Cards Of All Time, Abe lists ten cards from Scars of Mirrodin Block and tells you why he feels they’re underused.

The Kitchen Table: Commanding Jalira

Abe takes a new legendary creature from Magic 2015 out for a spin, trying out Jalira, Master Polymorphist in a quirky, fun Commander deck centered on taking other people’s stuff and Polymorphing it into something of your own!

The Kitchen Table: Look Ma, No Hand

Abe takes a trip in the Wayback Machine to revisit the Tempest Block-era preconstructed deck “Migraine” and builds a hand-size-control Commander deck based around Malfegor and a whole host of cards that care about drawing and forcing discards.

Conspiracy, Commander, and Cube!

Magic’s three most popular Casual formats are clashing together! Abe reviews his Conspiracy choices for inclusions into his popular Commander Cube! What has to go? What gets to stay? His Cube is enclosed for your viewing pleasure!

The Kitchen Table: Random Commander #3- Thriss, Nantuko Primus

Abe Sargent likes to use Gatherer’s Random Card function to find himself new and interesting Commanders! See what happens when Gatherer chooses Thriss, Nantuko Primus!