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Back in 2020, I build a lands deck helmed by Torsten Von Ursus. Of course, I had no idea that we'd later get a new version of Torsten, one that actually makes sense as the commander of a land-themed deck. Continuing my gradual progress on eventually building EDH decks helmed by every one of the...

I'll just pretend that I totally wanted to do another "Legends Retold" deck, as it had been a while since the last one. After all, my most recent new deck for that series was my General Marhault Eldsdragon deck, way back in November of 2022. So it would totally make sense. The reality is...

https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/announcements/march-6-2023-banned-and-restricted-announcement Expressive Iteration is banned. White Plume Adventurer is banned. So, this is where we're at now. I've become jaded about Legacy in the past, and have said so. Even so, I somehow thought that it...

This is my fourth attempt at a "Hellbent" EDH deck, but it's the first one I'm taking somewhat seriously. Gone (for now) are the days of me trying to jam stuff like Grafted Skullcap and Avaricious Dragon into a deck helmed by something like Pavel Maliki. On the one hand, I'm building my third...

I guess I just got tired of winning or something. This deck is pretty bad. I was going through the commander options from the new set and trying to brainstorm ideas for a new deck. I don't have a concrete rule that I always build a deck with one of the commanders from a newly released set, but I...

Inspired by my "Defense of Efrava" deck from 2022, I'm giving Tameshi, Reality Architect my crude attempt at a deck of the LandStill genre, but in a format where that hasn't normally been a thing. It's going to be slow and clunky, but could be a fun challenge. Commander: 1 Tameshi, Reality...

I happened across my old Magic Memories thread for Mogg Fanatic. Although I did dedicate part of that thread to the card's role in Goblin-based decks, most of the thread touched on topics unrelated to the Goblins archetype, Goblin Tribal, Tribal Goblins, or whatever you want to call it. So I...

Welcome to my Fourth Annual EDH Statistics Report. This is my biggest, bestest statistical rundown ever. First, let's start with some convenient links. 2019 Report. 2020 Report. 2021 Report. My decks on Moxfield. I'll briefly recap some of the distinguishing aspects of previous years, but...

Test complete?

It's my final EDH deck of 2022. For a while, I had been operating under the assumption that I'd revisit God-Eternal Oketra again. I wanted to do one more mono-white deck, and other commanders were not jumping out at me as interesting. Reviewing my options, my interest was piqued when I noticed...

Ho, ho, ho! Merry Christmas. Zedruu is here to give my opponents lots of presents, whether they like it or not. Commander: 1 Zedruu the Greathearted 1 Akroan Horse 1 Arbiter of Knollridge 1 Arcane Denial 1 Arid Mesa 1 Avaricious Dragon 1 Bazaar Trader 1 Bloodstained Mire 1 Brainstorm 1...

I had this idea in the early months of 2022, but didn't own all of the various auras I thought that I might want to run, so I abandoned the deck idea at the time. Well, I'd only run a single mono-blue deck all year (The Reality Chip), and felt like doing another one. So, here we are. I've never...

I'm kind of phoning this one in, but I'd been wanting to do that for a while now, and this seems like as good a time as any. All of my most recent EDH decks, with the sole exception of poor Rohgahh, have done well for themselves. So now I'm building some jank that can lose more games and give me...

After waiting nearly a year since I ordered it, I finally got my Secret Lair commander deck. This is the adjusted version I devised early in 2022, when I labored under the foolish misapprehension that I'd get my hands on the Secret Lair much earlier. The list you're seeing here is different from...

Mostly, I just thought that a deck built around Queen Kayla bin-Kroog seemed like an interesting and unique challenge. I don't usually find myself drawn to commanders in this color combination, so I'm trying something a little different. This will be my 49th EDH deck of 2022, and if it's more of...

At long last, I've done it. Weirdly, I've probably built colorless or effectively colorless decks for other Highlander formats more times than most people have ever built a colorless deck, but up until now, I had not actually built a colorless deck for the EDH/Commander format. I kept saying...

It's my 2022 Thanksgiving holiday theme deck! I didn't build around food tokens last year, but I sure did this year. And now I get to run Killer Service. I don't expect much, but if I don't get to make a lot of food tokens, then there will be a reckoning. Commander: 1 Adun Oakenshield 1...

This one has been a long time coming. I was in an early market research playtest for The Brothers' War and just so happened to pull both Titania and Argoth in the same sealed pool. I never managed to meld them in that test, but I knew right then that I was going to build an EDH deck with this...

I've already built decks helmed by five of the twenty "Legends Retold." That's not enough of them! I need to do more. I'd been contemplating a Marhault Elsdragon deck for a while, and this new version presents an interesting puzzle. The original Marhault only has Rampage 1 to distinguish itself...

Probably everyone who still visits the CPA has noticed my incessant posting of my EDH decklists, at a rate of about one new deck per week. There's no rule for how long each deck sticks around, but I try to give them a chance to shine, to do their thing to my satisfaction, before moving on and...