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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...

https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/announcements/may-29-2023-banned-and-restricted-announcement Standard: Fable of the Mirror-Breaker // Reflection of Kiki-Jiki is banned. Invoke Despair is banned. Reckoner Bankbuster is banned. Effective Date: Tabletop and Magic Online: May 29, 2023 MTG...

I bought this precon and now I'm going to play it. This is the first time in several years that I'll be playing an unmodified precon. Might make my own revisions over time. We'll see. It seems that Esika is the default commander, but Sisay is the better option, so I put Esika in the maindeck...

I don't do gimmick decks often enough anymore. So here's one! The whole gameplan here is to use some sort of fetchland to trigger landfall twice in the same turn, which should guarantee that my commander can find Thicket Elemental, which gets kicked and finds Cultivator Colossus. From there, I...

Out of all my decks in 2022, the Jeskai Ascendancy deck helmed by Gnostro, Voice of the Crags turned out to be my most dismal failure. In 2023, one of the new precons has helpfully provided a new spin on what already failed for me last year. Apparently I'm a glutton for punishment. We'll see how...

I wasn't necessarily disappointed by the commander options with the latest set, but I wasn't really impressed either. The main legend that stuck out to me was "Zimone and Dina." If I'll pulled that card in a booster pack, I'd have felt obligated to build a deck around it. Well, I didn't pull the...

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...