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I'm excited to be back again for my fifth annual entry in this series. I don't really know whether it's true, but I feel like I'm getting better at putting these together. In fact, when I collapsed all of the thousands of individual spreadsheet cells into a column for tallying up card usage for...

https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/announcements/card-updates-coming-with-khans-of-tarkir-on-mtg-arena I honestly don't know whether to be annoyed or fascinated with this stuff. It feels like if I were to try and guess which things WotC would retroactively decide were offensive, I'd fail...

Somehow, I almost went through the entirety of 2023 without playing a Grixis deck. Well now, we can't have that. While not technically a "Legends Retold" commander, this new Sol'Kanar is a fun take on a classic legend, and perfect for a deck that trades stuff with others. If I don't die right...

https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/announcements/december-4-2023-banned-and-restricted-announcement Standard: No changes Pioneer: Karn, the Great Creator is banned. Geological Appraiser is banned. Smuggler's Copter is unbanned. Modern: Fury is banned. Up the Beanstalk is banned. Legacy: No...

As soon as I saw Xolatoyac, I had visions of untapping a bunch of stupid lands with different kinds of counters on them. This deck won't be very good, but I am compelled to try the concept anyway. Maybe I'll even pull off a win with Simic Ascendancy. Commander: 1 Xolatoyac, the Smiling Flood 1...

I'm on a roll with PreDH decks. For this one, I've brought back one of my old favorites from 2021, which was basically an improved version of one of my decks from 2020. Whatever. This should be fun. The theme of sacrificing Spine of Ish Sah to Barrin repeatedly is still at the core of my deck...

This one probably isn't going to make sense. I'll just say up front that until 2018, I forgot that Tuknir Deathlock existed. Then when I started to get interested in building EDH decks helmed by "Legends Legends" and I saw Tuknir Deathlock, my immediate thought was "goblins." Why? I have no...

Some of the players at my LGS have been getting pods together for "preDH" games. I'm excited to try that, and if participation in this variant continues, I'll keep building decks for it. Here's my first attempt. Commander: 1 Savra, Queen of the Golgari 1 Abundance 1 Abyssal Gatekeeper 1...

When the "Time Spiral Remastered" set came out in 2020, I pulled an old-frame copy of Alesha, Who Smiles at Death. Because Alesha is remarkably good with several old creatures that normally don't see play in EDH, I came up with the idea of building an Alesha deck consisting exclusively of cards...

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Somehow, I hadn't already built a Johan deck. Oops. Well, I threw this together. Mostly, I just want to win with Mayael's Aria. That's the goal. Commander: 1x Johan 1 Abundance 1 Academy Rector 1 Archangel of Thune 1 Arid Mesa 1 Bala Ged Recovery 1 Basri's Lieutenant 1 Beast Within 1...

In my years of playing EDH, I've built three different incarnations of my Ramses Overdark deck. Earlier this year, I was rocking a Hakim, Loreweaver deck. So when a new aura-based commander came out, I couldn't resist. There were so many auras that I wanted to incorporate into this deck, but...

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I was so drawn to the silly idea of an Adventure deck that I once built such a deck helmed by Kasimir the Lone Wolf. And I've been biding my time since then. At long last, here we are. Commander: 1 Beluna Grandsquall 1 Amethyst Dragon 1 Aquatic Alchemist 1 Arid Mesa 1 Beanstalk Giant 1...

For the second time in 2023, I find myself bringing an unmodified precon to local EDH games. The five-color goodstuff deck was starting to feel repetitive. So I'm swapping it out for this concoction. And hey, perhaps I'll make some of my own revisions to this one after testing it out. I know I...

My Omarthis deck was originally named "Unbound and Down" as a play on the name of the precon (Eldrazi Unbound) and the song "East Bound and Down." I took it apart. About six months later, I used many of the same cards to build a similar Omarthis deck, one that used fewer elements from the precon...

https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/announcements/august-7-2023-banned-and-restricted-announcement Modern: Preordain is unbanned. Legacy: Mind's Desire is unbanned.

Back in 2019, I officially embarked on my journey of trying to build EDH decks helmed by each of the original 55 legendary creatures. Then in 2022, WotC released the glorious "Legends Retold." This gave us 20 brand new reimagined versions of a selection of the original 55. I was hooked...

In my ongoing quest to build EDH decks led by each of the original 55 legendary creatures, I've noticed my overall lack of consideration for Halfdane, which is easily one of the most interesting and powerful of the bunch. Back when this whole endeavor was confined to the West Coast Commander...

Rosie may be a peasant, but she has a robot army too, somehow. Commander: 1 Rosie Cotton of South Lane 1 Adeline, Resplendent Cathar 1 Ancient Tomb 1 Animation Module 1 Archangel Elspeth 1 Argivian Find 1 Ashnod's Altar 1 Aura of Silence 1 Basri's Lieutenant 1 Brimaz, King of Oreskos 1 Castle...