Michael Celani
@gamesfreaksa.bsky.social
I'm Michael (he/him)! Card games, computers, and comedy. Writer for EDHREC. Check out all my stuff at https://gamesfreaksa.info.
Hey Voltron players: All your creatures died thanks to board wipes? No problem, equip your opponents creatures instead: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nrmf...
The Commander Deck That Equips Enemy Creatures — Magic: the Gathering Commander Goad Deck
YouTube video by GamesfreakSA
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November 7, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Hey Voltron players: All your creatures died thanks to board wipes? No problem, equip your opponents creatures instead: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nrmf...
We're live! Come watch me play Dan Lewis!
Tonight at 10:30pm est join Me @renothevast.bsky.social @gamesfreaksa.bsky.social @sylverdreamer.bsky.social as we sling some Commander casually over on twitch.tv/trivialencounters
October 29, 2025 at 2:42 AM
We're live! Come watch me play Dan Lewis!
Tempting Licid is my favorite card and here’s why: youtube.com/shorts/uXKUw...
Control Combat With This Old Card! Neat Magic: the Gathering Tech #mtg #mtgcommander
YouTube video by GamesfreakSA
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October 28, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Tempting Licid is my favorite card and here’s why: youtube.com/shorts/uXKUw...
Reposted by Michael Celani
This ten dollar Commander deck is probably the strongest thing I'll ever build and it's not even close.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXwd...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXwd...
Commander's CHEAPEST Storm Deck — Magic: the Gathering Ultra Budget Commander Deck
YouTube video by GamesfreakSA
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October 20, 2025 at 7:23 PM
This ten dollar Commander deck is probably the strongest thing I'll ever build and it's not even close.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXwd...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXwd...
This ten dollar Commander deck is probably the strongest thing I'll ever build and it's not even close.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXwd...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXwd...
Commander's CHEAPEST Storm Deck — Magic: the Gathering Ultra Budget Commander Deck
YouTube video by GamesfreakSA
www.youtube.com
October 20, 2025 at 7:23 PM
This ten dollar Commander deck is probably the strongest thing I'll ever build and it's not even close.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXwd...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXwd...
Reposted by Michael Celani
Come watch an awesome #edh game for a cause!
Boros Beats Breast Cancer!
Livan VS Cadric VS Kolodin VS Korvath and Sylvia
twitch.tv/unsummonedsk...
Boros Beats Breast Cancer!
Livan VS Cadric VS Kolodin VS Korvath and Sylvia
twitch.tv/unsummonedsk...
October 17, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Come watch an awesome #edh game for a cause!
Boros Beats Breast Cancer!
Livan VS Cadric VS Kolodin VS Korvath and Sylvia
twitch.tv/unsummonedsk...
Boros Beats Breast Cancer!
Livan VS Cadric VS Kolodin VS Korvath and Sylvia
twitch.tv/unsummonedsk...
Ever wonder if blocking creatures could deal combat damage to your opponents? Find out how:
www.youtube.com/shorts/VsBG1...
www.youtube.com/shorts/VsBG1...
Deal Combat Damage to Players While Blocking! Neat Magic: the Gathering Tech #mtg #mtgcommander
YouTube video by GamesfreakSA
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October 12, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Ever wonder if blocking creatures could deal combat damage to your opponents? Find out how:
www.youtube.com/shorts/VsBG1...
www.youtube.com/shorts/VsBG1...
In this installment of *How They Brew It,* a deck that wins by making tons and tons of doggos. Just, an extraordinary amount of dogs, like, hundreds of pounds of pooch. Problem is, they're all legendary, so they kinda go to the pound the instant they're born. Oops.
www.reddit.com/r/EDH/commen...
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October 10, 2025 at 4:38 PM
In this installment of *How They Brew It,* a deck that wins by making tons and tons of doggos. Just, an extraordinary amount of dogs, like, hundreds of pounds of pooch. Problem is, they're all legendary, so they kinda go to the pound the instant they're born. Oops.
www.reddit.com/r/EDH/commen...
www.reddit.com/r/EDH/commen...
A deck with seven commanders and one 99: youtu.be/nn5OqyPq9Vg?...
The Commander Deck with SEVEN Commanders — Magic: the Gathering Commander Deck
YouTube video by GamesfreakSA
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October 7, 2025 at 2:24 PM
A deck with seven commanders and one 99: youtu.be/nn5OqyPq9Vg?...
Reposted by Michael Celani
Today’s episode is live! @gamesfreaksa.bsky.social and I talk about a mailbag submission to the column that’s a little too long for an article. Get into it!
youtu.be/LE1X7O82DdE?...
youtu.be/LE1X7O82DdE?...
Am I The Bolcast? - Episode 55 - Mailbag - Tony, Tony, Tony
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October 7, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Today’s episode is live! @gamesfreaksa.bsky.social and I talk about a mailbag submission to the column that’s a little too long for an article. Get into it!
youtu.be/LE1X7O82DdE?...
youtu.be/LE1X7O82DdE?...
Reposted by Michael Celani
Everyone's got that one card, that one effect that would be great to see in the command zone. @gamesfreaksa.bsky.social 's assembled a list; are any of your pet cards on it? #EDH #EDHREC #Commander #CMDR
Cards That Should Be Commanders | EDHREC
Everyone's got that one card, that one effect that would be great to see in the command zone. Michael's assembled a list; are any of your pet cards on it?
edhrec.com
August 22, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Everyone's got that one card, that one effect that would be great to see in the command zone. @gamesfreaksa.bsky.social 's assembled a list; are any of your pet cards on it? #EDH #EDHREC #Commander #CMDR
How to use name stickers to bamboozle your opponents: gamesfreaksa.info/blog/how-the...
How They Brew It: Get Ready for a Name Changer
Could one of Magic's most maligned mechanics be the key to brewing Yenna, Redtooth Regent?
gamesfreaksa.info
August 20, 2025 at 8:04 PM
How to use name stickers to bamboozle your opponents: gamesfreaksa.info/blog/how-the...
What's the most interesting, cool, and unique strategies for every commander in Edge of Eternities? I have no idea, but here's what I think the answers are. Read the Edge of Eternities Jank Rank now: gamesfreaksa.info/blog/edge-of...
Jank Rank - Edge of Eternities
Find out which commanders are jank and which commanders are good in Michael Celani's Jank Rank for the Magic: the Gathering Egde of Eternities set.
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July 18, 2025 at 5:45 PM
What's the most interesting, cool, and unique strategies for every commander in Edge of Eternities? I have no idea, but here's what I think the answers are. Read the Edge of Eternities Jank Rank now: gamesfreaksa.info/blog/edge-of...
Reposted by Michael Celani
On this How They Brew It, Michael takes a group of unsuspecting adventurers into the land of Yasharn, Implacable Earth. Will they survive? By @gamesfreaksa.bsky.social #Commander edhrec.com/articles/yas...
Yasharn, Implacable Earth - How They Brew It | EDHREC
On this How They Brew It, Michael takes a group of unsuspecting adventurers into the land of Yasharn, Implacable Earth. Will they survive?
edhrec.com
June 27, 2025 at 5:37 PM
On this How They Brew It, Michael takes a group of unsuspecting adventurers into the land of Yasharn, Implacable Earth. Will they survive? By @gamesfreaksa.bsky.social #Commander edhrec.com/articles/yas...
Making my own card recommender at home! gamesfreaksa.info/blog/edhrec-...
EDHREC at Home: Part 1
Recreating a popular Magic: the Gathering website at home.
gamesfreaksa.info
June 26, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Making my own card recommender at home! gamesfreaksa.info/blog/edhrec-...
Reposted by Michael Celani
What are the best enter the battlefield (ETB) effects in Commander? Michael Celani's here with a Top 10 list, and he dares you to disagree. By @gamesfreaksa.bsky.social #EDH #Commander edhrec.com/articles/the...
The Top Ten ETB Effects In Commander | EDHREC
What are the best enter the battlefield (ETB) effects in Commander? Michael Celani's here with a Top 10 list, and he dares you to disagree.
edhrec.com
June 6, 2025 at 3:14 PM
What are the best enter the battlefield (ETB) effects in Commander? Michael Celani's here with a Top 10 list, and he dares you to disagree. By @gamesfreaksa.bsky.social #EDH #Commander edhrec.com/articles/the...
Reposted by Michael Celani
What kind of tricks can Vivi Ornitier from Final Fantasy pull off in a Commander deck? Let's find out with this deck tech from @gamesfreaksa.bsky.social #Commander #MTGxFinalFantasy
edhrec.com/articles/viv...
edhrec.com/articles/viv...
Vivi Ornitier Commander Deck Tech | EDHREC
What kind of tricks can Vivi Ornitier from Final Fantasy pull off in a Commander deck? Let's find out with this deck tech.
edhrec.com
May 20, 2025 at 3:17 PM
What kind of tricks can Vivi Ornitier from Final Fantasy pull off in a Commander deck? Let's find out with this deck tech from @gamesfreaksa.bsky.social #Commander #MTGxFinalFantasy
edhrec.com/articles/viv...
edhrec.com/articles/viv...
I’ve stopped saying food I don’t like tastes bad and instead say “it’s not for me”
Feels more accurate
Feels more accurate
May 8, 2025 at 9:10 PM
I’ve stopped saying food I don’t like tastes bad and instead say “it’s not for me”
Feels more accurate
Feels more accurate
I think my box paid for itself guys
April 7, 2025 at 6:35 PM
I think my box paid for itself guys
Two mana ramp isn’t the gold standard and I’m tired of pretending it is: commandersherald.com/play-less-tw...
You Should Play Less Two-Mana Ramp | Commander's Herald
Three-mana ramp is better than two-mana ramp, and Michael Celani is tired of pretending it isn't.
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March 25, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Two mana ramp isn’t the gold standard and I’m tired of pretending it is: commandersherald.com/play-less-tw...
Rare insults: I hope you always feel the secondhand embarrassment of being in a theme restaurant and having the kid next to you awkwardly sung at by unenthusiastic staff on their second birthday
March 14, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Rare insults: I hope you always feel the secondhand embarrassment of being in a theme restaurant and having the kid next to you awkwardly sung at by unenthusiastic staff on their second birthday
Aetherdrift: meh to bad
Duskmorn: meh
Bloomburrow: amazing
Outlaws: good
Murders: bad
Ixalan: good
What can we learn from this?
Duskmorn: meh
Bloomburrow: amazing
Outlaws: good
Murders: bad
Ixalan: good
What can we learn from this?
February 25, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Aetherdrift: meh to bad
Duskmorn: meh
Bloomburrow: amazing
Outlaws: good
Murders: bad
Ixalan: good
What can we learn from this?
Duskmorn: meh
Bloomburrow: amazing
Outlaws: good
Murders: bad
Ixalan: good
What can we learn from this?
The most jank commanders in Aetherdrift, objectively: commandersherald.com/aetherdrift-...
Aetherdrift Jank Rank - Part 1 | Commander's Herald
Ever wanted a review of half the commanders in a set? Read part one of Michael Celani's Aetherdrift Jank Rank review!
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February 24, 2025 at 8:51 PM
The most jank commanders in Aetherdrift, objectively: commandersherald.com/aetherdrift-...
Finally swapped out the Twitter link on my website for Bluesky. Now absolutely nothing is tying me to that hellsite
February 24, 2025 at 5:55 AM
Finally swapped out the Twitter link on my website for Bluesky. Now absolutely nothing is tying me to that hellsite
I need to do more YouTube stuff
February 24, 2025 at 3:22 AM
I need to do more YouTube stuff