Greetings!
Welcome to my profile page!
In here I keep my current and past commander deck lists. I welcome suggestions to the lists I have entered on this site. Keep in mind my decks lean toward a casual end and are not intensely competitive. They can do powerful things, but the emphasis is on the play group having a good time.
For those interested in my history with MTG and commander journey read below, otherwise scroll down the wall of text to find the decklists:
I have been playing since Ice Age, but took some time off periodically. In 2009 I saw Magic 2010 and the Zendikar set. I decided to finally come back for good as I was interested in experiencing the rules updates that occurred during the standard era from that change and encompassed Shards of Alara block, Magic 2010, and Zendikar.
Eventually, I got into commander. Ultimately, really aided by the pre-constructed commander decks that first appeared in 2011 with the Riku of Two Reflections Mirror Mastery deck. I had wanted to get a copy of Counterpunch or Political Puppets. Since I could not find them anywhere, I was a bit discouraged and my mirror mastery precon sat on the shelf to get used much later. I then decided to be more on top of finding the next wave of precons. Starting in 2012 with the 2013 "Shard" commanders I have picked up copies of all commander precons that have been released (excluding reprinted anthologies). This was an effort to figure out what type of deck(s) I would decide playing in commander. It also gave me time to pick up many valuable cards that I knew would come in handy once I finally settled on lists to play. When Theros block came out in 2013 and it was announced Minotaurs were going to be a theme, I set out to finally find a copy of the card Zedruu, the Greathearted. Now having a purpose toward building one of the decks I had wanted - I was finally ready to fully dive into all commander could be. Honorable mentions roughly around this time were, Daakon Blackblade, Sydri Galvanic Genious, Ghave, Guru of Spores, and Kaalia of the Vast. Daakon would get set aside quickly once Sydri released as I loved the artifact theme. Landfall creatures and effects from Zendikar block would be set aside for Daakon for years to come. Ghave and Kaalia had to wait since I had a difficult time getting those cards back then.
My goal with commander (like many other magic players) then became to make 12 unique commander lists and I feel I have achieved this. There are 10 lists that each make up a tricolor deck i.e. the "shards" and "wedges", a 5 color deck, and a colorless deck. If you don't see all of them listed click on the "all decks" button to view them all. I am in the process of adding new decks and will be updating this page.
There are some bonus lists like a Jeskai (Narset and Zedruu's enchantments). This was my first list posted to this site. It is a snapshot in time of where my first Jeskai commander deck evolved into. In time, it became the Narset Super Friends NO Extra Turns/Attack Steps list I have today. What had started as a minotaur kindred/tribal focus evolved. I realized the Minotaur kindred/tribal theme from Theros was not as impactful as I hoped, so I explored Zedruu's other ability in donating things. Once I realized all the good enchantments that worked with her, I turned the list toward a full enchantment/donate style of deck. Khans of Tarkir was released and Narset quickly became the new commander. It was time for Zedruu to sadly be replaced, but not forgotten. This story is a reminder to me not to forget where I started in the commander format. That I should focus on what are aspects of commander that I enjoy most, which for me is deck building and the experience of playing it with others. Similarly, you will find a Sydri List that was discontinued as well.
In recent years, I have been expanding my catalogue of commander decks to also encompass versions of casual lists for upgraded planeswalker intro decks and casual kindred/tribal creature deck lists.
The intro planeswalker decks have evolved over time
starting with Chandra & Nissa in Kaledesh block. Ever since, there has become a nice stockpile of themes and planeswalker specific spells and cards that are featured in each intro planeswalker decklist. The power level of these were intentionally low since they were introductory lists. My thinking was, couldn’t they be better and not so watered down as to be nearly unplayable? My goal for these was to develop what I would consider to be an ideal or closer to standard variation of intro planeswalker decks. I am glad to have access to them, but hope that if they ever are released again, perhaps they could increase their viability and include actual playsets of cards as well as more clear, cohesive, and thematic cards that relate to and tell a backstory relevant to the planeswalker they are contained in.
Interestingly enough, the casual creature kindred/tribal decks I built were designed before the intro planeswalker decks. I was inspired when when Magic Origins came out to finally make a planeswalker theme deck. The first drafts of planeswalker theme decks I tried used the transform creatures into planeswalkers like Nissa, Jace, Liliana, Chandra, and Kytheon. But when I looked for other themed cards to use (i.e. Gideon's lawkeeper) I found that there was not nearly enough to draw upon. So instead I tried to force a kindred/tribal theme upon each of the planeswalkers instead.
those I first focused on were Soldiers, Illusions, Zombies, Phoenix's, and Elves.
Over time these kindred/tribal themes pushed out the actual transform creature to planeswalker cards, because thematically those didn't fit well with the decks. Zombies was the most successful, but the others especially Jace and Chandra were having issues with the card pool at that time. Eventually, illusions became merfolk to draw upon a greater density of creatures to use as did the phoenix tribal became goblins for similar reasons. Once this occurred I turned to identifying & developing kindred/tribal lists for each color pairing mono color, dual color, and tricolor lists. Eventually, I planned to revisit the colorless and five color at some point, but that will come down the road. For now, the main stipulation I have is that I want to include at least 1 or more (or all in some cases) of the legendary creatures in each of these tribes as a one of card. The other non-legendary cards can be 1-4 cards, but legendary creatures will only be one ofs from a creative and design perspective to balance the lists. Planeswalkers at this time are not included nor are equipment.
As such, when I shelved the idea for the Origin planeswalker decks, I was really happy to learn about the intro planeswalker decks that would allow me to revisit and create the ones I have made thus far.
Thank you for stopping by and enjoy reading through the decks I have here.
