(1)Boggart Avalanche -- Black/Red Goblin Aristocrats with Wort, Boggart Auntie. My first and most expensive deck. Emphasis on anthems, recursion, and black utility cards on a mostly-red goblin aggro chassis. One of my few decks that runs infinite combos. Could use even more tutors! My pride and joy. Trying to slowly bling it out too.

(2)The Braided Siren's Song (Show n' Tell Theft) -- A theft-themed deck that has group-hug elements and Braids, Conjurer Adept to encourage people to play steal-able win-cons. Results in fun, chaotic games, if not wins... One of my pet decks that has a low-ceiling commander at the helm but I love it so I keep pumping upgrades into it. Definitely one of my blingin' decks.

(3)Magitek Machinations (Feldon Dragons) -- Cheat out fatties from the graveyard, but in mono-Red! Feldon of the Third Path burns the countryside down to base carbon with a dragon-subtheme. One of my favorite decks and also one I will continuously bling out and upgrade.

(4)Roses of May -- (Marchesa Threaten) -- Reanimator aggro with Marchesa, the Black Rose. A ragtag group of critters and minions that serve their master loyally and repeatedly. Small ETB focus but mostly aggro with value/recursion. Not super heavy on sacrifice loops but they're there.

(5)Fochlucan Lyrist -- (Yisan Elves) -- One of my spikiest decks, this Yisan, the Wanderer Bard deck has an elf theme along with your standard toolkit creature base. Tons of enchantment and artifact removal. I can't stop singing! One of my favorite decks as well.

(6)Tall Mizzix'd Cocktail With A Sidecar -- Instants, sorceries, and lots of burn at a discount--both mana-wise with Mizzix of the Izmagnus and dollar-wise. Not a storm or combo deck. Who says burn doesn't work in EDH?

(7)Sith Mind-Tricks -- (Esper Reanimator +Theft) -- My attempt Esper Control in EDH. Lots of removal, card draw, a few fun non-combat win-conditions, and a handful of tutors. A medium-sized "Merieke Ri Berit suite" to keep creatures or untap for multiple thefts, but not as heavy on Merieke's ability as some decks.

(8)Zadonkadonk -- (Budget-ish Zada Aggro) -- I had a ton of leftover goblins from building my main goblin deck so I threw together a Zada, Hedron Grinder deck for a song. Wins out of nowhere with surprising frequency, considering the deck's price. Par for the course for a Zada deck.

(9)Titan's Revenge -- (Giant Tribal/Voltron) -- 1/2 giant tribal, 1/2 voltron deck. I loves me some Amazons so why not build the queen of the giants, Kalemne, Disciple of Iroas? The deck started off as a very budget build but I had lots of great cards in my collection to add. The deck kicks in dicks extremely hard and fast for its budget.

(10)Rooftop Experiments (Zombie Tribal) -- Dimir Zombie Tribal with Gisa and Geralf. A deck I wanted to make since I started brewing EDH decks. Slight amount of self-mill but it's mostly vanilla zombie tribal. Deck is based around Rooftop Storm and if I could afford more tutors to find it I would get 'em! Tried to put as many of the good Blue zombies in as I could but they are a lot weaker than the classic Black zombie all-stars. This deck is basically all about going to value-town--not super heavy into token generation. One infinite combo but it takes a lot of set-up.

(11)Token Concern For Safety -- (Burn & Tokens) -- Spellslinging and tokens with Wort, the Raidmother. This is another one of the decks I built mostly with cards already on-hand in my collection. Ramp into explosions or go wide with tokens. Small Goblin subtheme, but only because I'm running red and I need tokens. On the fence with the ratio between burn and tokens. I like the idea of having the deck be a bit of a hybrid in that sense. Not a ton of token-boosting cards in my collection though, and I'd prefer the deck to be spell-slinging primarily.

(12)Tazri's Allied Goon Squad (Ally Tribal) -- Budget-ish Ally tribal with General Tazri. Regular Ally aggro--no Food Chain wankery. Very creature heavy, light on blinking and very few non-Ally creatures. I didn't want to include Xenograft, Conspiracy, or Arcane Adaptation since I can't afford to add tutors for them--severely reducing their effectiveness by my eyes. Sure, lots of creatures can make sensational honorary Allies and they go infinite with Turntimber Ranger but whatever.

(13)Double-Visionary -- Clone tribal and draw-go-ish control with Rashmi, Eternities Crafter. Goal is to clone and control my way to victory and, if I get lucky, win with Biovisionary. I don't have the best tutors so that particular gimmick is unreliable but the deck is solid. I wanted a Planar Bridge and Paradoxical Outcome for flavor but they don't actually fit the deck well.

(14)Advanced Woodshop -- Mass tokens with Oviya Pashiri, Sage Lifecrafter. Tokens on tokens on ramp on overruns. I want to make it an artifacts-matter deck (which I think would be super novel in Green. I wanna see Fangren Marauder pop off!) but I would have to buy a fair amount of irreplaceable artifact cards and I want to invest Magic money elsewhere at the moment. The pile of tokens cost more than I spent on the deck (not including cards I already owned) and there's almost 100 of them. The deck and tokens barely fit in the box! Very casual deck but it certainly scares people.

(15)Warriors of the World United -- Five-color Warrior tribal with none other than Najeela, the Blade-Blossom at the helm. Lots of effects to make my Warriors hard or impossible to block and trample effects. A few combo cards with Najeela but relatively fair and casual for a Najeela deck.

(16)Tidal Trouble -- My second iteration of seamonster tribal. This time I'm using Arixmethes, Slumbering Isle instead of Thassa, God of the Sea. Deck is very similar but with land ramp instead of artifact ramp and some different utility cards.

(17)Special Snowflakes -- Legendary tribal with Sisay, Weatherlight Captain. I had a four-color deck that was mostly a legendary tribal so I converted commanders to Sisay once she was released. The deck is now also a secret-Marchesa, the Black Rose deck with a +1/+1 counter theme. Decent amount of toolbox stuff as well.

(18)Junk in the Trunk -- I bought the precon for Saheeli, the Gifted and I finally threw together a deck. Pretty normal Saheeli stuff: go wide and use Saheeli's discount to knock out big beaters and -spells. Trying to include as many Thopters as I can for fun. A bit of a Kaladesh-theme deck too.

(19)Optimation Agency (Sphinx Tribal) -- Sphinx tribal with Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign. Many of the best Sphinxs are even CMC but I just skew the utility cards odd. Should work with enough manipulation like Scry and Soothsaying. Trying to blend a full-on sphinx tribal and full-on odd-CMC bombs.

(20)The Revolving-Door Afterlife - Mono-White reanimator combo with Teshar, Ancestor's Apostle *f-pre*. Durdling and removing threats until combo pieces are put in place. There are so many interactions! Originally going to be more of a value-y white-weenie deck but going combo isn't expensive with Teshar and I didn't really have a deck like that so I went in the combo direction.

(21)Blood Diamonds - Mono-Black goodstuffs/midrange with lots of ramp and draw, with Vilis, Broker of Blood leading. Tons of removal and card draw to get Vilis into play, and the classic suite of finishers (or large demons) to hopefully squeeze a win out.

(22)Fight Milk: For Bodyguards, By Bodyguards - Gruul (barely) Stompy and Fightclub with Neyith of the Dire Hunt. Mostly green ramp into bombs with lots of fight cards and creatures that fight. Hopefully the card advantage takes me across the finish line. Originally a mono-green deck with Rhonas the Indomitable in the command zone.

(23)Steeped in Misery -- Golgari groupslug and lifegain with Dina, Soul Steeper. I love tea and manage a tea shop so I basically had to build the deck. Grindy, but can ocassionally win. Intentionally not running Exquisite Blood.

(24)Rarefied Atmosphere -- Classic Azorius Flyers, but with Linvala, Shield of Sea Gate as commander instead of one of the usual suspects. No party mechanic, just flying aggro with a respectably-costed Selfless Spirit in the command zone. Aiming for an above-average amount of hate-bears; figure they're just as good as anything with anthems. This deck was inspired greatly by my desire to have a general drawn by my favorite Magic artist: Wayne Reynolds.

(25)Blue Fancy Pants (Selenia Life Swapping) -- Lifegain/loss and life manipulation with Selenia, Dark Angel. Bunch of draw and removal and life-loss combos.

(26)Deep Trax -- Colorless aggro/voltron with Traxos, Scourge of Kroog. Pretty much what you'd expect from a Traxos list. I just really wanted a colorless commander! My Karn, Silver Golem needed a home too.

(27)It Sucks As It Cuts! -- I pulled a promo Vona, Butcher of Magan and was quite inspired. I always wanted a life-control deck and she seemed like a very fun way to pilot such a deck. I took apart the original deck to make my lifegain/drain combo deck, but resurrected the idea and made this more focused lifegain/aggro deck. It's basically Lifelink-Tribal. Most of the legendary creatures can be the commander (which was an explicit goal) but Liesa, Shroud of Dusk is the most reliable and probably the best. Vona can still step up if need be.

(28) I Feel It In My Gut (Skeletons & Aristocrats) -- Rakdos aristocrats with Gut, True Soul Zealot and Agent of the Iron Throne. Lots of classic aristocrats cards and lots of treasure for sacrificing. Fairly budget.

(29) The Salty Garrison (Soldier Tribal) -- Jeskai Soldier tribal. Originally lead, back when it was just a thought experiment, with Numot, the Devastator. Now lead by Immard, the Stormcleaver.

(30) Turbulent Juice (Dragon Tribal) -- Jund Dragon Tribal with Vial Smasher the Fierce and Ikra Shidiqi, the Usurper. I thought it would be fun to have two legends from Tarkir head a dragon deck.

Bramble Blast -- $40 Skullbriar Voltron -- I made a Skullbriar, the Walking Grave deck for a friend of mine as a Christmas gift 2016. I think it turned out well for its budget. The deck definitely suffers from my early levels of deck-building skill, and Ikoria added a ton of toys, but the deck remians as-is for posterity.

Bad Bitch Witch (Ayara Aristocrats) -- Aristocrats with Ayara, First of Locthwain. Built this deck for my girlfriend for Halloween 2022. Pretty standard Ayara list with a special emphasis on Devotion because she loves Gary. A lot of the deck was proxies since she's just starting out, but she has started to replace the proxies with the real cards.

Toki-Doki -- Legendary-creatuers-matter Naya aggro with Yoshimaru, Ever Faithful and Tana, the Bloodsower. I built this deck for my girlfriend in November 2022. She has a darling Shiba Inu named Toki so we built a deck in her honor. We often let her sub out Tana for Anara, Wolvid Familiar and Kediss, Emberclaw Familiar for some triple-partner action.

Give Me Dragons Or Give Me Death -- pure Dragon Tribal with Nicol Bolas. Edward P Beard Junior is my girlfriend's favorite artist so she wanted a dragon deck.

I Would Still Love You If You Were A Wurm -- Wurm Tribal! Made this budget deck out of the blue for my girlfriend as a joke. It's decent!

No Relation to Big Jake Dracula -- Human Tribal with Kyler, Sigardian Emissary for one of my best friends. Powerful for its budget!

EDH Card-Draw Master List -- A repository for almost every draw spell viable in EDH. Same philosophy as above.

The Barbarian Queen's Horde -- Took it apart for parts to make my newer Warrior tribal (Warriors of the World United). Lovisa Coldeyes is a pet card of mine but she doesn't make a great commander. I had fun with the deck and won a game or two but there are better ways to go Mono-Red as well as Warrior tribal. Lovisa now has a loving home in my other deck.

Pharaoh of Atlantis -- (Budget Brago ETB Abuse) -- Your standard Brago, King Eternal blink deck. Started as a budget deck with some teeth. As a budget deck it performed well enough--especially as I was just getting into EDH. Kind of oppressive once the Brago-pin starts and most wins came from concession. A lot of times, though, Brago would just spin his wheels and nothing would happen and if Brago was shut down too many times in a row the deck was quite useless. A significantly higher budget with more combo elements and more control would make the deck extremely competitive, as Brago's tier ranking demonstrates, but that takes more money and effort than I felt it would be worth. Not as fun as it was at first and it was full of powerful cards that had grown greatly in value so I scrapped it for parts. Perhaps Brago will find a home in my Ally deck?

Coral Capers -- (Budget Seamonsters) -- Seamonster tribal! Thassa, God of the Sea steers this ship. Big ramp into mono-blue aggro. Simple and clean and tons of fun. I took it apart to use Arixmethes, Slumbering Isle as the commander, so the deck lives on in another form! I can always go back if I like Thassa more.

Ankle-Shanking -- Basically an aggro deck made with cards I already owned and Saskia the Unyielding. Synergy-light goodstuffs/hatebears. Aimed for a barbarian-horde feel. It's sort of a legendary tribal. Very much a "trade-binder" kind of deck. Isn't that what EDH is for though? Once Sisay, Weatherlight Captain was spoiled I decided to convert this deck over, so it lives on.

Reaping the Rewards -- Teneb, the Harvester and "other peoples' graveyards" is the theme. I love graveyard shit and I want a deck with an actual dragon at the helm--Teneb seems fine. Built a decent deck just with stuff on-hand, though I wish Mesmeric Orb wasn't so expensive! Seemed underpowered and waaay slow but it's made of mostly bulk I had on hand. It wasn't an awful deck but it wasn't super fun either. Scrapped for parts but many pieces aren't in use so it could be rebuilt one day. I might do a different commander if I wanted to do graveyard stuff, though "opponent's graveyard" is particularly well-done by Teneb, the Harvester.

Indomitable Stomps -- (Fight Club/Stompy) -- Rhonas the Indomitable's mono-Green stompy. Made mostly from my collection of bulk rares. Fight sub-theme as well. The amount of fight cards kept creeping up so once Neyith of the Dire Hunt was released I swapped the commander over.

From the Mucky Muck (Budget Muldrotha) -- Sultai graveyard value/goodstuffs with Muldrotha, the Gravetide. Pulled a Muldrotha and just had to build her. I had tons in my collection that would fit but I bought some of the cheap Muldrotha staples like Seal of Primordium, Sylvok Replica, etc. and already owned lots of great staples like River Kelpie, Sakura-Tribe Elder, Mystic Remora, Mulldrifter, and the like. The deck was mostly goodstuff and value--no heavy sac loops or anything. Thought of making it an Enchantment/Enchantress deck to be different.

Khanate of the Golden Headbutt (Artifact Voltron) -- Equipment-based voltron deck featuring Zurgo Helmsmasher. Lots of board-wipes and equipment synergy. Used to be a Warrior tribal but felt too unfocused. More of a board-wipe and indestructible-creature tribal now. Stomps face. I never really played the deck after a few years since it's so unfun to play against. As one of my first decks, it will always have a forehead-shaped spot in my heart.

Turbulent Juice (Spellslinger) -- The first paper iteration of a deck I've been mulling over for years. Felt a bit too much like another deck of mine, and I didn't want to completely copy the deck it was based on. Overhaul is different enough to warrant a new deck page.

I've put together at least a partial physical prototype for most of these (or at least could):

That's "Treasure Hunter!" ☣ -- I want a mono-blue theft-themed deck that is all-in on the theft. My original deck, deck:the-braided-sireds-song has a lot of theft cards but it needs a baseline of bombs for Braids, Conjurer Adept to cheat in as well as support cards to make the Braids plan more reliable. I feel like I need to up the bomb and utility-card count so I'm paring back the theft subtheme a bit. If I make this deck the original deck will still have theft cards, just fewer of them.

Filthy Lucre ☣ -- If I get a brawl deck it will be Korvold, Fae-Cursed King. I like the general vibe of the deck. Korvold is kind of played out now, though.

Banter and Repartee ☣ (Wizard Tribal) -- Bant Wizard tribal. I Have a Tamiyo, Field Researcher that needs a home so I thought Derevi, Empyrial Tactician would make a fun Wizard-tribal commander. The goal was to focus on unblockable and flying-men-type Wizards to make use of Derevi's ability then use/abuse tap-abilities (like Arcanis the Omnipotent, Beguiler of Wills, and Intrepid Hero). Avoiding stax and locks--would play more like an Edric, Spymaster of Trest/flying men deck to make use of things like Coastal Piracy and Bident of Thassa. Almost built it, but it seemed underpowered and not actually all that fun. Unlikely to return to it--despite coming so tantalizingly close to assembling it.

Green Turbulent Juice ☣ -- Big-mana groupslug/spellslinging with Vial Smasher the Fierce and Ikra Shidiqi, the Usurper. Original list is deck:real-turbulent-juice but no real point in not having another partner, especially to add Green for utility and ramp, though the Rakdos list could have Kaervek the Merciless or Tsabo Tavoc swap in as commanders, which is cool.

Tools of the Trade ☣ -- Artifact/Enchantment value with Hanna, Ship's Navigator. My worry is that since I made an Izzet Artifact deck there would be a lot of overlap, though this one would have plenty of enchantments too. The win-cons would most likely be artifact-creature beats, which is all I could afford since artifact combo is kinda pricey and many "one-card win-con" enchantments are Red and Black. I kind of want to make a Pacifism tribal.

Pain Builds Character ☣ (Darien Budget Soldiers) -- Soldier tribal with Darien, King of Kjeldor. Vanilla go-wide and self-damaging Darien stuff. I have a decent amount of what I would need to make this deck but not a ton. Haven't begun building the deck but I have the beginnings of a good budget-ish list here on Tappedout.

The Price of Fast Living ☣ (King Macar Vehicles) -- Mono-Black artifacts-matter and vehicles with King Macar, the Gold-Cursed. I could definitely build the deck today but due to the deck's gimmicky-ness and low power-ceiling I kind of want to handcraft the 99 instead of use my bulk-rare collection. I still have a lot of what I want and need though. Some of the new Pirate and Treasure cards from Ixalan look like tons of fun and potentially synergistic to boot--Revel in Riches anyone? GET IN MACAR!! The physical deck was taken apart for a few spare parts. I'll keep the list up and many cards are still available so the deck idea isn't killed.

Most of these are abandoned prototypes. Some I still revisit if a new card comes out and is perfect. These are in no order.

Stabby-Heads (Budget Slivers) ☣ -- My attempt at budget Slivers from a few years ago. Hard to believe it used to be under $100. Little has changed in the last few years--haven't updated it much.

The Grimmest Black Magicks ☣ -- Budget Syr Konrad, the Grim. Aristocrats/group-slug--his natural build. Seeing what a budget list would look like with a few power cards I know are in my collection.

deck:sword-point-diplomacy-1 -- A casual Equipment- and Enchantment-heavy aggro deck with Heiko Yamazaki, the General and Norika Yamazaki, the Poet. Suit up some Warriors and Samurai and hope that the recursion wins us a grindy game.

Tinker and Wrench ☣ -- Izzit artifact goodstuffs/cheerios with Jhoira, Weatherlight Captain. Got close to wanting to build this, but decided it would be too similar to another deck of mine.

Knight Terrors ☣ (Knight Tribal) -- I always liked the idea of Knights as a tribe. There has always been a bit of support. The deck started off with Tymna the Weaver and Ravos, Soultender as commanders. Aryel, Knight of Windgrace became the commander once Dominaria dropped. Valiant Knight was a great addition from M19! Now, with Throne of Eldraine, Syr Gwyn, Hero of Ashvale is the natural commander.

Nürburgring Nordschleife ☣ (Dwarf+Vehicle Tribal) -- Dwarves and Vehicles with none other than Depala, Pilot Exemplar. I never updated it much after Aether Revolt came out! I was going to though. Perhaps I will on a rainy day. This is a deck where I'm very proud of the name so I'd like to keep it around. Maybe the Ixalan and Kamigawa vehicles and Parhelion II will make it in?

Bounty-Hunting ☣ -- Control/pillowfort with Mathas, Fiend Seeker. There was a time where I wanted to build this but my brother made a sick Mathas deck. Saved for posterity.

Render Unto Pharaoh ☣ (Constellation Enchantments) -- Enchantments with Daxos the Returned. Pretty straight-forward. There was a time when I wanted to build this deck but my interest has waned.

Kavu Kavu Fever ☣ -- Kavu: overpowered tribe or most overpowered tribe?

Chariots of Glory ☣ -- +1/+1 counters and graveyard hate with Anafenza, the Foremost. Lots of Tarkir cards.

Saskia's Ankle-Shankers ☣ (Warrior Tribal) -- Warrior tribal with Saskia the Unyielding. I was going to build this deck but then I decided to just go for powerful legendarys and other humanoids instead of just Warriors. That deck was built: Ankle-Shanking. Then Najeela, the Blade-Blossom came out and completely killed the deck idea.

Plundering the Depths (Zareth San Reanimator) ☣ -- Rogue tribal and reanimation with Zareth San, the Trickster. I think this commander is underrated so I wanted to see what a budget build might look like.

Let These Wagons Through ☣ -- Was fooling around with a budget Subira, Tulzidi Caravanner list.

Survivor Guilt ☣ -- I kind of want to make a Varchild, Betrayer of Kjeldor deck but I already have some mono-Red decks.

Advanced Metalshop ☣ -- I wanted to see what an all-in artifact deck in mono-Green would be like, in juxtaposition with my somewhat artifact-y Advanced Woodshop (which I originally wanted to be like this). Doesn't seem to work great--surprise surprise.

Toshiro Umezawa proto ☣ -- I like Toshiro Umezawa a lot as a card, but I don't think he's a particularly powerful commander. Black gets more good instants every year but is it enough? It would certainly be a fun, flavorful deck. Seems hard to win with though--Voltron is hard enough even WITH good keywords on the general. Tomer sure is driving up the popularity of this guy! I feel like a bit of a Toshiro hipster.

Stormcloud Pingers ☣ -- Pinger tribal with Keranos, God of Storms leading. Seems like a decent enough general for pingers.

The Salty Garrison (Soldier Tribal) -- Jeskai Soldier tribal with Numot, the Devastator. No land destruction other than the commander; just pure tribal with as many fun Blue cards as I can squeeze in.

Party In Tow -- Superfriends with Rowan Kenrith and Will Kenrith. I just really like the commanders.

Target Market -- Trying to see what a budget-y Hinata, Dawn-Crowned would shape up to be.

I was going to buy a box of JumpStart to teach some friends magic but due to the supply issues I couldn't. Instead I spent the money on some Pauper decks. I went for one of each color for the first five.

They're all net-decked but I'm starting to follow the meta a little now. I don't play MTGO but I guess I could start...

In order of build date:

Grenades for Days -- Pauper Goblins. I wanted a deck that was as goblin-y as possible and I love Goblin Grenade!

Deepwood Sniper -- Pauper Elves. I splurged a bit on this one but I like the deck's style.

Gary's Pox -- The Tolarian Community College's Mono-Black Devotion deck. I wanted mono-black control but I didn't want Oubliette (it wasn't announced as a reprint in Double Masters when I built the deck). I also didn't want to do the more popular Orzhov pestilence deck to keep it mono-black.

The Blessed Chosen -- Mono-White Heroic. Cheap and simple. "We are the blessed, chosen few; All the rest are damned. There's plenty room in hell for you; we don't want heaven crammed"

Faerie Ninja Clan -- Mono-Blue Faeries. My original plan was to do a Delver deck since I already have two. After doing some research, it appears the Dimir Delver deck kicks the crap out of mono-blue now and mono-blue used to be good a few years ago pre-bans. this build is a bit more effective in mono-blue (apparently).