So uhhhhhhh hi. If you're here, what are you doing with your life there's much better things to do with your time, but thanks for wasting it on me! I love this game and ofc have nobody to play it with! So instead, I spend my time staring at cards on a screen and building decks. All public decklists are open to criticism and advice, in fact I encourage it :>

All decks look perfect at 3am, after staring at them and thousands of cards for 5 hours straight, so please tell me how terrible mine are and help me improve at the game

I love me some shenanigans. In the near future I plan on adding some paper commander decks I own as decklists (not optimized or anything, just the cards I've collected over the years). I've also got a standard deck, which will be rotating very soon, to add on here. I love mean decks, but playing them in dumb and less mean ways. I like stacks, control, discard, etc. I encourage you to hate me for it! Regardless, I will always have the most fun building my decks around interaction and require much more risky thought out plays. I hate games that feel like 2 players taking turns playing by themselves, which is why I stopped playing Yu-Gi-Oh. I will fall in love with you if you make a Hedron Alignment deck. It is my favorite card, and my only build around it is incredibly outdated and budget. My first deck I fell in love with was Dimir pirate control, featuring Revel In Riches, that I played in my first ever standard tournaments after Ixalan's release. It was based around my draft deck for Ixalan, my very first event, first time playing with someone outside of my family, and an unforgettable memory. In recent months, I've turned it into a Grixis pirate theft commander deck and it made me fall in love with the game all over again.

Prior to re-entering the MTG community, my only hope for playing the game was budget standard decks that I barely enjoyed. Safe to say this made me hate the game, especially with the direction in which Wizards is taking product design. I'm doing my best to ignore it for the most part and stick to the things I love. I've been getting more into pauper and casual play which is far safer from cash grab promos, Universes Beyond, and cowboy hats thrown onto returning characters. Don't get me wrong, I'm not entirely opposed to some of these products as, being a nerd, some crossovers have appealed to my other interests. I just personally think that this emphasis is spelling the demise of MTG, once a fantasy card game with deep meaningful lore, compelling characters, and charming artwork. It makes me sad that regular bordered cards have almost become nostalgic to me, and just goes to show how much Wizard's priorities have shifted.

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That last paragraph in your description echoes many of my own thoughts and feelings about this game, where we’ve come from and where we’re headed. I wish I could upvote your profile page lol

May 7, 2025 8:52 p.m.

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Personally I like Lush Growth over Abundant Growth to enable your creatures and this deck is just naya anyways so it's a lot better than it is in 4 or 5 color domain. I would maybe consider some tapped duals that have basic land types so you can have a swamps or islands for domain without banking on drawing Nylea's Presence. 6 copies of Terramorphic Expanse/Evolving Wilds are pretty slow already so swapping them for tap lands doesn't seem like too much of a loss. Running the swamp type on a few lands + 4 Nylea's Presence in the deck would make running some copies of Snuff Out pretty consistent. Having premium removal that costs 0 mana seems great for a creature heavy aggro deck. I don't see too much of a point in Kor Skyfisher as you really have no good targets to bounce. It's a niche combo with rancor since bouncing the enchanted creature puts it in the graveyard, then back into your hand, but it seems like too much of a tempo loss to have to bounce your own beaters. I guess you can also bounce a land and replay it if you miss a land drop but if that's what you're going for I would suggest going down to 18 lands and cutting 1-2 Matca Rioters to run more aggressive 1 drop creatures. Spark Elemental, Jungle Lion, Jackal Familiar, Goblin Cohort, Clockwork Percussionist, Fanatical Firebrand, or Gingerbrute are all aggressive 1 drops that come to mind. Clockwork Percussionist in particular provides card advantage which is very good and can help you hit land drops if you choose to run a lower land count.

Deck looks cool and keep in mind these are just suggestions, have a nice day <3

May 7, 2025 12:15 p.m.

I would recommend Myr Kinsmith for consistency in tutoring Myr Landshaper, and maybe Galvanic Key to help you delete more than one land a turn, though its a bit of a mana sink. Could probably do with some more ramp that isn't just putting a land from your hand into play. I would focus less on the lots of creatures idea and go more towards mono green control with some fogs and cards like Sprout Swarm. If you felt like branching into other colors red is obvious for more direct land destruction but white could be pretty cool and budget for more board protection and better costed token generators like Recruit the Worthy. Overall, pretty neat!

May 1, 2025 3:43 p.m.

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