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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...

When I built my first Rohgahh deck in January of 2022, I did not anticipate that I'd be running a Kobolds deck again within the same year, let alone another Rohgahh deck. Well, WotC gave us a new version of Rohgahh, so now we're doing this. We're making this happen. Both decks are running a...

Last year's Halloween deck didn't have enough blood in it. This one is way bloodier. So very much blood. Commander: 1 Extus, Oriq Overlord 1 Abyssal Gatekeeper 1 All Hallow's Eve 1 Angel of Despair 1 Anguished Unmaking 1 Arid Mesa 1 Ashnod's Altar 1 Aura of Silence 1 Avatar of Woe 1 Badlands 1...

Mostly, I just want to visit attractions. Commander: 1 Myra the Magnificent 1 Academy Ruins 1 Arcane Signet 1 Bamboozling Beeble 1 Barbarian Class 1 Birgi, God of Storytelling 1 Brainstorm 1 Capture of Jingzhou 1 Chaos Warp 1 Clock of Omens 1 Command Performance 1 Copy Artifact 1 Cyclonic Rift...

I was recently playing an EDH game in which I had a Drannith Magistrate on the battlefield, and the creature’s presence complicated things for my opponents. In a format that revolves around commanders, locking your opponents out of being able to cast their commanders from the command zone is...

The deck name is a geology pun, and not even a very good one. Anyway, last year I built a deck helmed by the old Hazezon, but that one sacrificed its own sand warrior tokens to make big plays. This time around, I'll probably be attacking with them. Also, I have a few ways to give one of my...

Despite my misgivings, Warhammer 40,000 precons have arrived. Frustratingly, they're really quite good. The art direction is spectacular, the flavor is cogent, the reprints are decent, and the new cards are generally powerful. I was going to steer clear of this release entirely, but am...

https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/news/october-10-2022-banned-and-restricted-announcement Standard: The Meathook Massacre is banned. Modern: Yorion, Sky Nomad is banned.

I already did Shadowborn Apostles with the original Lady Orca back in May of this year (2022). Now that there's a new Lady Orca out with an ability that has an obvious Shadowborn Apostle synergy, I'm returning to this concept. There's a lot of overlap with the older deck, with the chief...

Yeah, Tobias is never going to be the most popular of the Legends Retold. But I had an idea for this deck and it's an excuse to run Iridescent Drake, so here we are. Basically, my commander is a worse version of Caller of the Claw, but in Azorius colors. I've got plenty of sac outlets and...

I wanted to build a deck themed around spore counters. There aren't that many cards that use spore counters, but they do have a commander. Because this was bound to be a black/green deck and I lack imagination, I also went with a Loam package. Still, I think this one could be fun and it is my...

Abilities. Who needs 'em? Not my maindeck creatures, that's for sure. Commander 1 Jasmine Boreal of the Seven 1 Abundance 1 Anointed Procession 1 Arid Mesa 1 Ashnod's Altar 1 Aura of Silence 1 Bala Ged Recovery 1 Barbary Apes 1 Beast Within 1 Boseiju, Who Endures 1 Craw Wurm 1 Crop Rotation 1...

Jacques le Vert has one of the most relevant abilities among all the original legendary creatures. Is it worth building around that ability? Probably not, but I'm doing so anyway. Commander: 1 Jacques le Vert 1 Abundance 1 Academy Rector 1 Arid Mesa 1 Aura of Silence 1 Aura Shards 1 Bala Ged...

Who needs blue to make a deck that steals other players' stuff? Not me. And not Jerrard. Forget five-finger discounts. The closed-fist discount is way more macho. The main gameplan here is to get Willow Satyr and steal a commander that is better than Jerrard. Failing that, I guess I turn stuff...

I am attempting to bring my love of Jeskai Ascendancy to EDH. Usually, decks built around this enchantment run green for mana dorks, but the color identity aspect of the rules in EDH makes that cumbersome. So this is a proper Jeskai deck. I realize that Jeskai Ascendancy gets a lot better with...

I've said before that I'm convinced the very first Magic card I saw was Teremko Griffin. It's quite likely that I was shown multiple cards from Mirage on that occasion, but Martin McKenna's striking art with the eagle head in the extreme foreground, the distinctive spotted coat in the middle...