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In the early 00's, I had a white/blue/black deck for the now-defunct Seattle 150-card Highlander format. One of this deck's silly tricks was to use Rootwater Matriarch with Kjeldoran Pride. This dubious combo worked better when combat damage went on the stack, but even back then it was not...

I'm just going to pretend that the Eggs deck I built back in March of last year (helmed by Ayesha Tanaka, Armorer) was totally planned as an Easter Holiday deck. This year, I was a bit more deliberate, but didn't actually construct a deck until the *day of* the holiday. Usually I aim to get some...

As soon as I saw the Preston Garvey card spoiled, I knew what I had to do. This deck isn't a labor of love. It's not really powerful and maybe it's not even fun. That's not what any of this is about. I must do my duty for the Commonwealth Minutemen and for auras that go on lands. Also, another...

Standard: No changes Pioneer: No changes Modern: Violent Outburst is banned. Legacy: No changes Vintage: Ponder is unrestricted. Explorer: No changes Pauper: No changes

Oops. I still haven't posted this deck here. Crap. Um, I might just possibly be playing Last Epoch too much. So, for this one, I've got to be honest with you guys. I promised myself that I'd build a deck with one of the new commanders coming out in Ravnica: Clue Edition. But then I got hooked...

I always try to build some sort of deck corresponding with major set releases. For Murders at Karlov Manor, I was immediately drawn to The Pride of Hull Clade. Since the commander is so unusual and since the ability offers so many options, I went for something that I believed would really stand...

Recently, the Commander Rules Committee completed a project in which their website was updated to provide brief explanations for all of the cards on the ban list. The results of the project look pretty nice, and I'm sure that the new blurbs would be informative for new players or those curious...

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...

https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/announcements/october-16-2023-banned-and-restricted-announcement

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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