Just an old school player who very much enjoys the new life that commander has brought to magic.

hootsnag says... #1

Latest deck is posted. Probably won't be making a new one for a while.

December 11, 2025 2:29 a.m.

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Happy new year everyone!

January 1, 2026 1:33 p.m.

I playtested it and decided against it. Thanks for the suggestions though!

December 30, 2025 9:41 a.m.

In all of my playtesting, I actually dump my hands very quickly. I usually have very few cards. If I did have larger draw cards or run more cards like Retract, I would probably try running Gamble. I just wind up having so few cards in hand as the deck is currently designed. This design limits the amount of non-artifact cards in the deck so I rely on fewer spells. Urza's Saga also can pull a 1 mana artifact. This includes cards like Conjurer's Bauble or Sensei's Divining Top which can draw on their own even if my commander is dead or not played yet.

December 28, 2025 1:27 p.m.

Tolaria West either comes into play tapped or takes 2 blue and 1 colorless to transmute. It just takes too long I think. I'm trying to speed this deck up as much as possible. I can see edge use cases for it but overall it will probably slow me down more than just a regular Island or fetch land. Gamble is one of those cards I just can't run. I wished the discard wasn't random lol.

December 28, 2025 1:12 p.m.

Actually. I think I will add Paradigm Shift and take out Mystic Forge for it.

December 28, 2025 1:05 p.m.

I cut out as many nonbasic lands as feasible so I could cycle basic lands out faster with fetch lands and deplete the total number of lands in my deck quicker. Tolaria West isn't that helpful. I don't really need any zero cast spells. I put Muddle the Mixture in to help me find Mana Severance faster. Flash enabling cards aren't that useful either. If anything, I want a bit more draw and search. I just don't know what to remove and all of the remaining search cards have huge downsides. I'm trying to run the deck with as few non-artifact cards as possible also.

December 28, 2025 1 p.m. Edited.

I saw this and decided it was a bit too risky to run. If I don't draw well or find the right cards quick enough, it's a dead slot unfortunately. I slimmed down to only win conditions and search cards instead.

December 28, 2025 12:31 p.m.

Said on SufferFromEDHD...

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Hope you had a good Christmas! I made a Jhoira deck in the meantime. Probably still need to optimize it a touch further.

December 27, 2025 11:06 a.m.

Said on THE OLOROFORT...

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I respect the hustle. I'm pretty mean. I enjoy getting kicked out of play groups haha.

December 22, 2025 5:18 p.m.

Said on THE OLOROFORT...

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Oloro decks are my favorite. I may need to revise mine at some point. You ever consider running Nevinyrral's Disk since you run Avacyn?

December 21, 2025 8:41 p.m.

I purposefully left cards like Aetherflux Reservoir and Longshot, Rebel Bowman out of this version. Sometimes you don't get to cast as many spells in a single turn as you want unless you can get Mana Severance early on. I know a lot of others that have Jhoira decks use this combo but all of my playtesting has shown Reservoir to be a bit inconsistent. Thanks for the feedback!

December 20, 2025 3:47 p.m.

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