I've played kitchen table magic for many years now. I started playing during the original Mirrodin block (specifically around the release of Darksteel), where I built a ridiculous 80-card Elf deck, an equally bad Samurai/Barbarian deck, and a super janky Dragon deck. Needless to say, these were some pretty bad decks haha.

I then played off and on again for a while, visiting Kamigawa and Ravnica the first time, then finally quitting at Time Spiral (The joys of High School). I picked it back up again with Return to Ravnica, but only stuck around until the beginning of Theros.

I finally came back full-time with Shadows over Innistrad and Eldritch Moon and playing since then.

As far as formats, I've played a little bit of Standard: from Eldritch Moon, through Kaladesh, then stopped after Hour of Devastation. I'll play a pre-release event every now and then, but since the release of Commander 2016 and my fateful encounter with Atraxa, Praetors' Voice, I've been a Commander/EDH-focused player, and I don't plan on looking back!

The first commander deck I ever bought, and my gold standard against which I judge all cards and commanders. Whenever a new set comes out, my first thought is how it will work with Atraxa, Praetors' Voice. This deck shows an homage to the corruption of Mirrodin, the first plane I ever visited, and was the first EDH deck I ever bought and built. This deck focuses on the glory of Phyrexia: Infect/Toxic with a subtheme of +1/+1 Counters.

A rebuild of the first commander deck I made from scratch. Originally helmed by Lazav, Dimir Mastermind, this deck focuses on Milling out our opponents and Horrors, but it is also a Vorthos-styled deck based on the works of H.P. Lovecraft, specifically his Cthulhu Mythos stories.

This deck harkens back to my early kitchen-top deck that I built, except it's actually playable. This deck is very straightforward. Ramp, Play Dragons, Turn them Sideways, ???, Profit!

One of the first cards I ever got when I was drafting as a kid was Glissa Sunseeker. When I came back to playing MTG and saw that she had become corrupted, I was initially saddened by her fate, but that didn't last very long. She is an excellent value/combo engine piece. Green isn't well known for Artifacts, so she represents a fairly unique take on the artifact deck style. She has multiple infinite combos that can loop and quickly knock out all my opponents.

This deck focuses on Landfall and other powerful Enter-the-Battlefield effects, and aims to win by having explosive turns and overwhelming our opponents with value, infinite mana, or infinite combat damage! I took it apart a few years ago because I felt it didn't have a solid core theme beyond 'good ETB effects'. Focusing the deck on Landfall effects makes the deck feel a little more streamlined.

Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths is one of my favorite planes we've visited. I was working through my Wildlife Ecology Master's degree when this set was released, so it holds an especially special place in my heart. This deck wants to get targeted creatures with great keywords into the graveyard to boost Kathril, Aspect Warper to a one-hit KO monster.

Another commander from Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths. I had originally bought the Kalamax, the Stormsire precon for the face commander, but when I saw this Snake Leviathan, I was hooked. He looks to generate tons of Snake tokens through Wheels, then we can win through either combat damage or Impact Tremors-esque effects.

I've tried for years to get my wife to play MTG with me, and this was the result of one such attempt. I wanted to make a low-power Humans deck that would be easy to play. When that didn't work, I decided to power it up a little to be more on par with my other decks. This deck seeks to play out tons of Humans, power them up with Anthem effects and additional keywords, and then swing out for the win. Has a few backup combo loops in case things get too tough for us.

What drew me to this initially was the artwork. I'm a huge fan of Seb McKinnon's artwork, and this artwork just drew me in. Ironically, the limited amount of lore about her made me even more interested in her haha. This deck aims to use/abuse Blinking permanents for tons of value, including a slew of Planeswalkers.

A deck centered around Doubling Counters and using alternative win-cons to defeat our opponents. And if that doesn't work, we have a plethora of +1/+1 Counter creatures to overwhelm our opponents!

A deck focused on creating an army of creature tokens, pumping them up, swinging for massive turns, then sacrificing them to gain additional value!

The natural evolution of my old Lord Windgrace deck. This lands deck focused on sacrificing your own lands for value, generating loops to bring land in and out of the graveyard while burning out our opponents.

• Lazav, Eldritch Mastermind *Retired*

• Etali, Primal Chaos *Retired*

• Tekuthal, Dominus of Proliferation *Retired*

• Windgrace, Roar of the Land *Retired*

• Isshin, Dual Wielding the Heavens *Retired*

• Hinata, the Morning Star *Retired*