Hullo! I'm learning commander after a big break from Magic completely. Pre-con commander decks are pricey is what I'm mainly learning XD

Stuff general about me: - Me pronouns are they/fae/he - I'm from the UK - I work in a museum and in teaching heritage crafts (I think this does inform some of my deck building choices)

I learnt to play by myself, no access to an LGS or the internets and only my sister who I dragged in by dangling a pretty elf (Nissa) and fire lady (Chandra) in front of her. I heard tell once when I was in a game shop on holiday in Wales of a format called "Legacy" and I was like hey, I like the older cards I found in charity shops and antique fairs, I must be a legacy player. Well yes but also heavily NO. I don't have the money to be a "true" legacy player so I guess I am technically a casual format player who has a preference for older cards and will save money for the occassional expensive one (or proxy it in the meantime). I am not rich. My most expensive cards have either be obtained via months of saving or lucky finds/pulls.

I love theming my decks, so much an optimal but incohesively themed deck is unplayable to me. I've tried it, so so hard, but I just never want to play with them, I have no fun. I would much rather play with a deck I have a small chance of winning with that has a story or theme than a deck that wins 80% of the time but is just the 'best' cards smushed together in a deck.

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I realised I never linked my deck for the re-jigged format (my sister has changed her decks several times and doesn't stay the same for longer than two days atm so I haven't made any of her newer decks on here yet) so here's mine Headache? [Silversmith]

I do have a second one that I myself am tweaking a lot at the moment but the deck I linked I can win with consistantly by turn 6, often winning at turn 5.

September 29, 2025 4:22 p.m.

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That looks great! I think blue and black both have cards that work really well for the format.

I'd say if you're playing online, yes cus its an uncommon you can access, so I see no problems with that!

September 13, 2025 12:04 p.m.

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Thanks LinkOpensChest_wav that would be great, just gotta work out what to cut to squeeze it in

September 12, 2025 4:18 p.m.

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Yeah... I have several and I'd switched them all off but one for this website as it was causing problems earlier on, I hadn't realised one was still on XD

Thank you! The issue is resolved now I've worked that out

September 12, 2025 4:16 p.m.

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I have regained the ability to search cards and most decks seem to have their correct pie charts again but Wizard of the North is still broken for me and has no pie chart at all. I was starting to think it was a me thing cus I had very big thunderstorms yesterday and everything else is fixed but that deck is still being weird for me. Thank you!

September 12, 2025 2:56 a.m.

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Another update, not had chance to build a proper deck around it, but the current rules we're working with are:

  • 34 card deck of uncommon cards (except basic lands)
  • you must have 9 artifacts, one is a 'Trinket' which is a zero or one mana artifact which is a little bit like a commander as it doesn't have to go to the graveyard when destroyed and can instead be cast again for a cost of one more each time
  • you have 25 other cards
  • 9 and 25 are referring to 925, the parts per thousand required to be sterling silver
  • I recommend 12-14 land cards

Me and my sister are finding this is quicker and a lot more silly and fun with this many cards in a deck. When I have the time (and the deck editor is behaving, I'm having problems rn) I'll post an updated deck for Silversmith

September 11, 2025 5:36 a.m.

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So the website is being very very weird for me today, it keeps removing the pie charts or putting on pie charts from an obviously completely different deck and now its not letting me search any cards in the deck editor. I saw that people were having problems a week ago but this has just started for me this morning. Dunno if this is a known bug but I'm very confused.

September 11, 2025 5:27 a.m.

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Finished Decks 30
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Playing since Ixalan
Avg. deck rating 2.50
T/O Rank 18
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Favorite formats Modern, Legacy
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