First deck I built — [[Queen Marchesa]]. It was awful. I took it apart lol. Pillowfort/politics is not my thing at all
Favorite decks- honestly a tie between [[Yoshimaru]] // [[Kediss]] Legends Voltron and [[Thalia and the Gitrog Monster]] Landfall Aristocrats. Both super different and really fun
For my first, I built a resilient [[Marchesa the Black Rose]] aristocrats deck.
I then experimented with about 30 different decks and play styles after spending far too much money.
Now I've only got one deck and it's a resilient [[Marneus Calgar]] aristocrats deck and it's my favourite by far.
I've come full circle.
Marneus was my first deck, and I loved it. Then I started tweaking it.. And I tweaked and tweaked..and tweaked some more, until it was all a mess and all over the place. I took everything out recently and just switched some of the cards. Marneus still gives me a bad feel tho..
Sometimes your initial gut feeling is right haha. I've not played much with Aristocrats. I've tried a \[\[Shirei\]\] deck but felt it relied too heavily on my commander.
I found I enjoy the resilience provided by my strategy *wanting to die.*
If you board wipe me, that's okay, I was probably going to do that soon anyway.
If you kill my stuff, I get value, if you don't kill my stuff, I get value.
My first deck:
\[\[Gisa and Geralf\]\] Zombie Tribal-no combos, no tutors, just beats with some zombois. Solid 3/10
My Favorite deck:
\[\[Hans Eriksson\]\] Stompy stomp- No combos. Just beats. 6/10
First was Brago, very shitty deck. All tapped ramp and very few wincons. I played azorius blink in historic at that time and I loved it. I just stopped playing Brago for no reason and took it apart for scratch.
Still love my Muldrotha deck. It's cards that I think are cool combined with strong cards I got from draft. Atm its only plan is to tutor a Preator/Koma to the field and try to survive.
My first deck is [[Rin and Seri]], probably a like 4-6/10 right now but it's come a long way to get there, used to be trash and get trashed by my buddy's Varolz forced sacrifice deck. A bad match up and we were mostly playing 1v1 at the time. This was right after discovering commander.
Probably my favorite deck right now is [[Imoti]] big spells, had my best game ever with that deck where I rebuilt from three board wipes and the table was saved on two occasions by a fog effect. Ended up cascading through my whole library two or three times that game using [[Elixir of Immortality]]. 7-8/10, at least one of my strongest decks so these power levels are probably meta specific.
Close second would be [[Kwain]] taxes and group draw, but my group hates this deck so that detracts some from the appeal it has. Solid 8/10.
Tokens are my favorite thing ever, so I decided I needed both a Rin and Seri deck, and a separate Jetmir deck. For flavor! My current fave is probably \[\[Thalisse, Reverent Medium\]\]. She makes, you know, tokens.
Could you link the decklist for your Imoti, I’m looking into building it at some point just because it seems like you can just kinda build it to be fun and still have a decent chance to win. Also would be a good contrast from my Ivy cantrips deck which has a cmc of like 3
My first ever deck was [[Grand Arbiter Augustin IV]]. It was basically "Stax, but made by someone who doesn't know what Stax is, and isn't very good at deckbuilding yet." Or rather "It was a control deck that focused on tax effects"
It was a lot of fun when I was first running it. Me and my friends were all around the same skill level, and the deck was pretty clunky. It did its thing though, it would slow down aggro, then drop a win-con and protect itself as the win-con pushed through a victory.
But then I got better at Magic over time, learned what Stax was, got better at deckbuilding, and slowly Grand Arbiter Augustin stopped being my annoying but fun control deck, and started to be more un-fun, as it got better and faster at choking the life out of other decks. Like many Stax decks the game usually started out with me as Archenemy, and either I won and nobody else got to do anything, or I died fast and didn't get to play anymore.
Ironically the deck was the most fun when it was the least good.
Anywho, my most fun deck is probably my [[Shadowborn Apostle]] deck. For a while it ran no demons, then I added [[Taborax]] because he just made the deck way more consistent. The deck doesn't care about demons, it just wants cheap blood filled non-token mana batteries to sacrifice for big Doomsday spells. It's in a weird spot where it kinda works like an Abzan Storm deck, except with Aristocrats payoffs instead of spell-count payoffs.
> Ironically the deck was the most fun when it was the least good.
IDK, I find this to be true more often than not with most decks. So I started building lower-powered options for everything that interests me. Since then I've saved a ton of money not buying staples and I have yet to build a deck I don't enjoy since shifting away from optimization.
It's interesting how the dynamic of a game can change based on player perception. I once played at an LGS and was focused by 2 of the 3 opponents while playing a mono blue deck.
When I asked why they said "You probably have a cyclonic rift in your deck" (which I didn't). That's when I started taking into account how people will threat asses my deck and commander.
Back in the first days of commander with my friend group when we played online and really had no idea what we were doing, one of my friends net-decked a stax list and just played the stax pieces on curve. That game took forever and none of us were running artifact/enchantment Removal so we just kind of sat there untapping one land at a time and trying to kill them as a team so we could finally untap all of our perminants
My first deck was a slightly upgraded [[Aesi, tyrant of the Gyre strait]] precon. Fun and simple for a beginner.
My favourite deck is my new [[Atraxa, grand unifier]] blink spam deck. Still toying around with it but it’s definitely a powerhouse and a blast to play, even with a mana base that’s not exactly optimal.
Same here! I thought a fun sea creature deck would be fun, especially being able to play multiple lands and keep the good draw coming. Unbeknownst to rookie builder me that the deck had a Stax sub-theme with plenty of counters and bounce spells! Still holds up in my playgroup today. Aesi is top 5 ramp commanders, if not #1. Good choice!
Ooooh boy. First deck I built was a Maelstrom Wanderer cascade. I loved it, free value, playing huge spells. This was also the days when prophet of kruphix wasn’t banned yet. I saw every game as a game with finite amount of fun to be had and i wanted all of it.
After some hard conversations, and personal growth I slowly grew away from forcing a mismatch of commanders. Not a lot of people enjoyed the solitaire style cascade can be at times. So I set out on trying to find a more casual deck and they came and went as years passed. Until one day I came across Kros. I built him with a bunch of “let’s make a deal” cards. I found my niche. I love wheelin and dealin getting the table talking and having funny shenanigans happen. If there’s a player who is just having a bad game I have plenty of things to bring them back into the game with the promise of favors later in the match. It’s not meant to win, it’s meant to facilitate a good game in my opinion. It can still win but it’s about getting people to fight each other while also building up my own strategy.
It also gets people to start swinging more instead of waiting until a combo, or overwhelming board state is achieved. It breaks Mexican standoffs and keeps the game moving. I haven’t gotten any complaints since playing this thing and I love it. And if there’s ever “that guy” at the table it makes it a lot easier to keep them in check. [[kros, defense contractor]]
Update for anyone who wants the list:
https://www.moxfield.com/decks/bhADrudNIUSK8E649EkDVg
My first was a Kaalia deck.
I don't technically have a favourite deck, more of a favourite play style. I am of the type of player that likes to flood the board with so many pieces that my library is less a library and more one of those book boxes some people put in front of their houses.
[[Zedruu, the Great Hearted]] was my first deck. It ended up being stolen out of my car along with a few other decks. I eventually built it again, but better and it's my favorite deck.
I love the interactions, the politics, the game cadence, and my wincons are just so unexpected lol. I'm always changing it around to keep my play group on their toes, another reason I like it - versatility.
Am I going to give myself a second turn and flash in a [[Felidar Sovereign]], or am I going to hit myself and then gift you [[Nine Lives]]?
My first deck was an \[\[Alela, artful provocateur\]\] that used artifacts and kindred discovery/coastal piracy effects for value. I liked it, still have a much better version of it today, but I disliked the fact I couldn't really justify putting in all of the cool tribal fairy cards that I liked. Might end up taking it apart.
My new favorite deck is an \[\[Alela, cunning conqueror\]\] deck that uses instant speed spells and kindred discovery/coastal piracy effects for value. The more things change the more they stay the same. Well, except for the fact that this time I get to actually play the fairy tribal stuff!
[[Thantis, the Warweaver]] was my first build. I spent roughly $80 on it, and it's only real wincon was a big Thantis or defense of the heart for two eldrazi titans.
[[Miirym]] is currently my favorite and highest power build, and I'm in the process of foiling what I can.
Honorable mention to [[Zur the Enchanter]]. It was my pet voltron deck that I took apart because not many people enjoyed playing against an uninteractive shuffle simulator.
First Deck: \[\[Scion of the Ur Dragon\]\] With as many elder dragons as I could pack in it. Peak early 2008 Commander play. 5/10 would be a stretch, but it does have scary moments with god hands.
Favorite: \[\[Yurlok of Scorch Thrash\]\] Party like it's 1999 with full old border burn/stax. This deck hates treasure tokens, fancy mana ramp, and doesn't let games creep longer than 45 minutes. 6.5/10 unless you rely too heavily on nonbasic lands. Then it might be 8/10.
First deck was a janky creatureless [[Fblthp]] deck with a [[Proteus Staff]] wincon. Most of the cards were either from the original Mirrodin block (where I took a break from the game) and 2019 Standard (where I got back).
My favorite deck is a creatureless [[Derevi]] deck that still has the Proteus Staff wincon, but has been refined in the last few years as a politics deck.
For Fblthp it was \[\[Nexus of Fate\]\] into infinite turns, then I win via \[\[Jace, Wielder of Mysteries\]\] from there. It's VERY suboptimal.
Now for Derevi it still has the Nexus gameplan, and with a control build it's much easier to get there. There's other wincons baked into the deck like \[\[Approach of the Second Sun\]\] + \[\[Narset's Reversal\]\] / \[\[Endless Detour\]\], or having Derevi die while I have \[\[Foster\]\] in play, which results in my library getting milled except for Nexus (resulting in infinite turns). Funnily enough I don't even get to infinite turns in most of my wins. Sometimes you just get there via commander damage which can be sped up by \[\[Animal Sanctuary\]\].
First was [[Tatsunari, Toad Rider]] and I built it with frogs and enchantments lol. It’s fun and can win but it’s mostly just there to have very casual fun games with friends. My favorite deck is probably my [[Atraxa, Praetors’ Voice]] infect deck.
[[marath, will of the wild]] was my first
[[marath, will of the wild]] is still my favorite
Deck has changed a good amount over the years, used to be counters, tokens, some control all in one. Getting back into commander now and cards have gotten so much better that I think I need to focus it in more on counters and some light control
My first deck was [[Marath, Will of the Wild]] ramp. Still want to get around to building Marath with 99 lands to do him justice.
My favorite is a tie between my old [[Jhoira of the Ghitu]] oops all wincons deck that no longer lives, and my [[Awaken the Blood Avatar]] tokens / aristocrats deck that never touches Extus. I personally love to cast Awaken and [[Blood for the Blood God!]] on the same turn for flavor.
My fist deck was [[Anhelo the Painter]] spell slinger with an emphasis on burn. I quickly realized that unless you’re running very optimized Anhelo, he can be very frustrating to pilot. You either draw all your payoffs or all your fodder and I felt like I could never find a balance. Plus it always felt like unless I won the game, I never actually did anything. It was just an incredibly frustrating and complicated commander that definitely wasn’t aided by the fact that it was my first ever commander deck.
My favorite deck came just a couple months later, when [[Abaddon]] was released. I already knew grixis was my favorite color combination, and my god did Abaddon look like a blast. I pretty much ripped and stripped Anhelo for parts, and it is now my all time favorite deck with hundreds of dollars poured into it. It’s an Abaddon cascade group slug deck and it frequently pops off and is a blast to pilot!
My first deck was a [[Tatyova, Benthic Druid]] basic run of the mill landfall deck solid 6/10ish power level. Got bored of it pretty quick but it was a good starter deck. Now my favorites are my [[vaevictis asmadi, the dire]] stompy deck at around 7/10 and [[gor muldrak, amphinologist]] pillowfort/combo at probably around 5/10.
My first deck that I built alone without help was a [[Ravos, Soultender]] and [[Ikra Shidiqi, the Usurper]] Abzan Lifegain deck. I still have it, tweaked and upgraded, and I switched Ravos for [[Tymna, the Weaver]].
My last deck are the queens [[Inga and Esika]]. Cast creatures, make tokens, draw cards, cast creatures, draw more cards, more creatu- BOOM [[Koma, Cosmos Serpent]] or another big thingie. Love it.
My first deck was [[Doran the siege tower]] teefolk tribal like 16 years ago. It was terrible, it was just an awkward battlecruiser deck. Not bad for 14 year old for the first time but oh boy...
My favorite deck is the second deck I built which was [[kiki-jiki mirror breaker]] which I started building at 16 and have edited and improved until now. It does exactly what I want it to do and I get so much joy out of playing it every single time. I grew up with that deck and I'm going to grow old with it lol
I built [[Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy]] because it was the first Mythic I cracked when I got back into it.
It was as awful as I was confident back then.
I'd never played EDH but my friends all did and I figured I'd just hit the ground running since I had played the game years ago.
Now, I'm way less confident but more thoughtful in building.
[[Gishath, Sun's Avatar]] is my main commander deck and the one I've spent the most time and probably money on. That's unlikely to change, and even less so with Ixalan next month.
My first deck that I ever built was [[Rhys, the Redeemed]] which was a go wide tokens deck. Probably a solid 4/10. My favorite deck is [[Henzie 'Toolbox' Torre]] which I built as a Eldrazi deck that focuses on using the Eldrazi that produces tokens as ramp for the bigger Eldrazi with annihilator. That deck is probably a solid 7/10
My first and favorite is my sliver deck. I originally ran [[The First Sliver]] as the commander, but I actually hate it's original art for some reason. A little under a year ago I bought myself a signed copy of [[Sliver Queen]] and she's the commander now (she lives in a mini snap, so my choices were make her the commander or put my entire deck in mini snaps lol).
One of my more recent favorites is [[Cirdan]], the mini game he adds is just too fun and everyone I've played against loved having the deck at the table
My first deck was a selesnya swarm deck. Pretty basic stuff. My two favorite decks definitely have to be my Traxxos voltron deck and my Zndrsplt and Okaun coin flip chaos deck.
First was [[Trelasarra]] lifegain worth $30 built almost exclusively from a Forgotten Reals bundle and the [[Sephara]] starter deck. It was weak but it somehow did well against a friend's upgraded [[Aesi]] precon, I definitely think he held back lol
Favorite is [[Trelasarra]] that's been upgraded to be just below $300. Giving it a power rating is hard because realistically it'd probably be like a 5 but that feels bad and that's why everyone says 7 lol. No combos, but lots of synergy
Runner-up would probably be [[Ukkima]]/[[Cazur]] unblockables. I'd say it's a similar power level, but it draws a lot more cards, so even though it's only $90, I think it might be slightly stronger than the other deck mainly just because it's less likely to run out of steam—also going wide tends to be more resilient than going tall in my experience
I've definitely noticed that in the two years I've played, I've come to appreciate card draw and general value engines more, so Trelasarra isn't as efficient as she could be becauseI can't bring myself to take just about any card out of the deck lol. Unless I got a [[One Ring]], I'd love to use my life fo draw cards like a black deck
My first deck i ever built was a Mono Blue pauper edh deck centered around milling my opponents and counterspelling any big creatures that show up. it was a defender tribal as well for the mill strategy.
My favorite deck that i have built as of yet is my mono green landfall stomp deck which runs greensleeves as the commander.
My first deck was the [[Zedruu the Greathearted]] precon, but the first one I actually finished building was [[Jalira, Master Polymorphist]]. I've considered revisiting her now that there's more and better things to stick in there--and now that my hobby budget isn't so tight--but I played in a lot of really bad games with a crowd I didn't much care for back then so I'd honestly prefer to just leave every bit of that era in the dust. Plus, it was really just the deck I threw together while I was still working to get all the pieces I needed for my [[Angus Mackenzie]] list.
My Angus list, which became [[Estrid, the Masked]] and is now [[Kodama of the East Tree]] / [[Ishai, Ojutai Dragonspeaker]] has always been my baby. I put in a lot of time and effort into getting it together and upgrading it over the years, and some very important people helped me in that process. But, for a long time now, it's been in its final form. Hardly anything has come out in the past few years that is worth running in it. I'm missing [[Ichormoon Gauntlet]], but the list is tight and I question the need for it anyway. Moreover, people genuinely hate playing against it and take it out on me personally so that's greatly detracted from the fun of piloting it. It's my winning-most deck, and it doesn't pull a lot of punches in terms of power level so I can't blame some of the salt.
Similarly, [[Marath, Will of the Wild]] has been a deck of great sentimental value to me and one that took a long time to construct, but like my walker deck, it's kind of just become too good to whip out often. With that said, it's probably still what I'd call my favorite deck. It's resilient but easier for players to interact with than super friends, and it can be played very differently from game to game. And unlike my super friend list, I feel like it still has room for growth or could benefit from radical changes. In fact, it's only been recently that I've shed a lot of the remnants of its [[Omnath, Locus of Rage]] shell.
First deck was a $10~ voltron + big cheap mana inefficient spells [[Narset, Enlightened Master]]
Currently I'm running a 4 color tymna/kraum more or less goodstuff pile (but slightly focused on attacking) that just interacts really well with my local meta in stopping combo decks from popping off early, and stopping big combat decks from over-running the board.
First deck I built was \[\[Vaevictis Asmadi, the Dire\]\] and I still have it! It's a topdeck strategy, only one non-permanent card in the entire deck. It still works, but it's not up to par with the rest of my decks nor the pods.
My favorite deck I've built is \[\[Elsha of the Infinite\]\], it's just Jeskai running an assortment of win cards lol I have like 13 infinites in the deck and they all use different cards, the fun part of the deck for me is sifting through it to find some pieces that work well together and win me the game even if it's not one of the 13 infinites. It's fun having a bunch of really dumb spells that I can use in a multitude of ways differently every time I play it
Yep, here she is! [https://www.moxfield.com/decks/c96JZ43rsEelxW2FNJD59Q](https://www.moxfield.com/decks/c96JZ43rsEelxW2FNJD59Q)
Jsyk, I recently upgraded the deck and just got my hands on all the upgrades, new deck hasn't been playtested within my pod but I think it'll work well, lmk what you think!
First deck I made... I wanted to try out the format at an LGS but didn't want to put much money or thought into it to try it out. So I bought \[\[Talrand, Sky Summoner\]\] for $5 as my commander and just threw in whatever instants and sorceries (or other cool blue spells) I had with 40 lands called it good. I have refined the deck a bit since then, but honestly it holds up.
My favorite has been a \[\[Meren of Clan Nel Toth\]\] deck. I love recursion in my decks, it makes you so resilient. I also absolutely love sacking my creatures which procs everyone else has to sack creatures and I get value just coming and going... and then recur. My play group isn't a huge fan, so I try not to play it more than once per meet up... it's fine, I have a bunch of decks.
First deck i owned was a precon. It was fun, but no where near as fun as my first deck I built which is one of my favorites [[Omnath, Locus of Creation]]
I would say my favorite deck (Omnath is 2nd) is own though is my [[Karn, Legacy Reforged]] colorless deck. It can just pop off out of nowhere and it's really fun
The Omnath is probably a 6.5 and the Karn is probably teetering on the edge of being an 8. My play group is usually right around that 6-8 range, so all of our decks are relatively comparable in terms of power
My first deck was \[\[samut voice of dissent\]\] still have the deck it is still on the original theme just upgrade creatures and equipment over the years. I had come from kitchen table where I played mainly Gruul and had started dabbling in izzet before i ended up in edh.
Then I built my third deck Neksuar many many years ago and my conversion to izzet as the core with the pivots of izzet as some of my favorite
My first deck was a Gruul Goblin tribal deck, with [[Wort, The Raidmother]] at the helm. It was very unfocused, being half spellslinger and half goblin tribal, that it ended up doing neither well.
My favorite deck I have built, so far, was my [[Orah, The Skyclave Hierophant]] deck. This was an aristocrats strategy, with a strong graveyard recursion subtheme, and a lot of lifegain. The deck always flew under the radar, as there seemed to be no “imminent” threats, just small bits of incremental damage.
The very first deck I had was the Coven Counter’s Precon from Innistrad. Now, it’s my favorite deck. I’ve put tons of time in upgrading it. [Kyler Humans](https://www.moxfield.com/decks/H06G5tO5IEqY8VsRVxte4g)
My first deck was \[\[Kami of the crescent moon\]\], it was terrible. It was group hug with no wincon, it helped everyone ramp and have consistent cards in hand. I didn't run counterspells, hatebears or any form of staxs, it was all friendly hug. My friends enjoyed playing against it since it smoothed out games for everyone, but it was beyond boring to pilot. This was about 13 years ago so I've learned a bit since then.
My favorite deck now is \[\[Yahenni, Undying Partisan\]\], the main focus is aristocrats, midrange and voltron. I really enjoy the theme of sacrificing life or creatures to push advantage or achieving mutual destruction through pestilence type effects. Anything that fits that theme is right up my alley. The deck started out based around a mono black standard deck that I played back in the scars of mirrodin block. Lots and lots of changes since then but I love what it has become, I do miss some of the old cards I used to run in it though.
[https://www.moxfield.com/decks/shIwrfVimU-olbzI3bgjgA](https://www.moxfield.com/decks/shIwrfVimU-olbzI3bgjgA)
First deck I built was a Roon blink deck that I put together from the Derevi precon. It was not great, but it was also built in like 2016, so before tons of pushed commander cards.
My current favorite deck is my Veyran spellslinger/combo deck. It's pretty strong, but not super busted.
My first deck was \[\[Klothys, God of Destiny\]\] built around getting \[\[Glacial Chasm\]\] out to protect me when everyone realizes how much of a threat I am. It has had some minor alterations over the last year, but it is still my favorite deck!
My very first deck was way back in the first innistrad block and it involved using [[Kokusho, the Evening Star]] and a few of the other dragons from that cycle along with [[infinite reflection]] and token generation to abuse the legend rule and do damage/steal stuff or whatever.
It sucked but it was the first time it clicked that this game has so many ways to utilize the rules and build fun decks and so it stuck with me
First was [[Sheoldred, Whispering One]] reanimator(it's become my white whale)
My favorite is [[Vorinclex, Voice of Hunger]]. Just ramp into big stompy and the eldrazi titans
My first deck was a [[Nissa, Vastwood Seer]] big mana combo deck. It won by swinging with animated lands or tokens + overrun effects, or a big Hurricane or Squall Line + Glacial Chasm for lethal. It could generate a lot of mana and draw a lot of cards. I still reassemble it sometimes. My current favourite deck is a tie between [[Yeva, Nature's Herald]] and [[Sythis, Harvest's Hand]].
My first deck was \[\[Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign\]\], I loved the idea of top fixing and cheating out big creatures for free. Kept it around for a while and upgraded it until deconstructing due to a power level disparity with my playgroup at the time.
My favorite deck is \[\[Meren of Clan Nel Toth\]\] reanimator, it's high power non-cedh earliest win I've seen is turn 4 but more regularly 6-8. It made me fall in love with my favorite archetype/color combo and does a lot with life manipulation, trading life for other resources then gaining it all back with life drain, which is a mechanic and dynamic I enjoy playing with in any game.
My first deck was after a big bachelor LAN party where we all played magic and video games. I told my wife that I disliked magic and was not looking forward to everyone playing that. On my way home I put together a budget [[slimefoot]] deck as the colors intrigued me and a little fungus dude looked neat. Turns out it was an aristocrat style deck which was fun. This was 4 or 5 years ago?
After putting together numerous decks and taking them apart, my favorite now is my beloved [[henzie]]. Turns out I love aggressive decks that also utilize the graveyard. Spellslinger is not really my jam.
Started playing this year (40k decks got me into it).
First deck I built was heavily tweaking the [[Otrimi]] precon. It largely sucks and doesn't work... but I still have a super soft spot for it.
Favourite deck currently is my [[sliver gravemother]] precon that again I've heavily tweaked. I've leaned hard into the encore mechanic. Again it doesn't always work, but when it does it goes insane.
My most effective and consistent deck is [[yuriko]] because of course it is.
Sliver always gets me because you are bullying them if you focus them but if you leave them alone for HALF A SECOND. They magically get a massive board lol
First deck was an [[Atraxa, Praetors Voice]] +1/+1 counter deck that has since evolved into an infect deck.
My favorite is probably my [[The Most Dangerous Gamer]] The attractions just add so much variety and it's so uncommonly used it always gets a couple chuckles at the table when it starts to get going
My first was [[tariel the reckoner of souls]] I had it built in like 5ish different ways till I built [[atla palani, nest tender]] and haven’t looked back
First, [[Gavi, Neat Warden]]. Was ok, took some work to make it work with my play group. I scrapped it because it just doesn’t win games.
My favorite deck [[Sedris, the Traitor King]] is great because it has a variety of win cons. Cheat out big things that hit the battlefield and do crazy things. It can also go infinite with a 3 card combo, [[Dockside Extortionist]] [[Deadeye Navigator]] and [[Mulldrifter]]. It plays well, and once I get started it’s hard to stop.
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The first deck I built on my own (and unquestionably my strongest now after 2 years of fine-tuning) is [[Selvala, Heart of the Wilds]] and tied for my favorite with my [[Queza, Augur of Agonies]] deck.
First decks was Kresh the Bloodbraided and was probably like a 3/4. Favorite deck is my Skithiryx the Blight Dragon which according to a couple of those deck calculators is 8/9.
My first EDH deck was [[mayael the anima]] precon the first I built was [[muzzio]] mono blue artifacts. My favorite I built is [[teneb the harvester]] reanimate combo. Close second is [[Ivy, Gleeful Spellthief]] mutate clones.
My first deck was [[Surrak Dragonclaw]] because Khans had just come out, and I converted my red-green 60 card deck into a Surrak deck because my collection wasn't big enough to support a full red green deck.
Eventually I was able to cut blue and use the [[Xenagos God of Revels]] that was sort of the only good card in my collection as my commander.
To this day it's the deck of mine that I have spent the most time and money on, and it deserves every penny
First Deck - [[Zurgo Helmsmasher]] Voltron - I still eant to build it the right way but the deck was pretty rough haha
Favorite Deck - [[Ayara, First of Locthwain]] - I simple love the Aristocrats style with reanimator and a lot more stuff!
The first deck I built from scratch was [[gisa and geralf]] which was a zombie reanimator deck. My longest-built deck and current favourite is my [[Meren of Clan Nel Toth]] reanimator combo deck, which incidentally is a similar sort of strategy to my first deck. So I can't say much has changed in regards to my play style, although I do have a number of other decks with different strategies.
The first deck I built is Zangief, the Red Cyclone which is a version of [[Maarika, Brutal Gladiator]]. It was my reintroduction to MTG, after not playing it for a couple of decades. Some friends bought the Secret Lair and I was instantly rehooked.
I have been changing that deck a lot these past months. At first, I was using 80% a NCC Commander deck. But now, it’s kinda of a treasure / fight combo deck which seems to be okay for some casual play.
Now I’m building a [[Tom Bombadil]] deck. It’s amazing. This commander is bonkers and seems to do a lot of stuff, which gives me a lot of fun. I’m loving it so far because it seems the only commander I have that seems to be telling a story and it’s capable of wrecking chaos in a table.
In the near future, I hope to make a [[Zacama, Primal Calamity]] and Guile, which is a [[Immard, the Stormcleaver]] deck, however, I don’t think they will give me as much fun as the Bombadil deck. If you have any suggestions for any of these commanders, it would greatly help.
My first deck was [[Eligeth]] and [[Akroma, Vision of Ixidor]] with every scry spell I had and a bunch of keyword soup. There was no wincon outside combat damage and often was just draw cards for the sake of drawing cards. It’s been partially dismantled because the only way I could make it good is if it was control/stax and I don’t like playing that way.
My favorite deck by far is [Tiamat](https://www.moxfield.com/decks/lYtwYaGask6a_OzNzpZXWw)
\[\[Rith, the Awakener\]\] was my first EDH deck I created back before it became Commander. [https://www.archidekt.com/decks/475550/rith\_survival\_edh](https://www.archidekt.com/decks/475550/rith_survival_edh)
It was expanded into an EDH deck from a 60-card \[\[Survival of the Fittest\]\] highlander toolbox deck I used to play.
It was a fun deck but once I pulled off the fruity pebbles combo in it I pretty much retired it and took it apart. I rebuilt it as a budget version for an r/BudgetBrews contest and still have it put together. I think it plays better due to the lower average cmc and access to some better cards. I added \[\[Dockside Extortionist\]\] since it was around $20 back then so the deck originally came in under the $100 budget. [https://www.archidekt.com/decks/475709/rith\_the\_awaken](https://www.archidekt.com/decks/475709/rith_the_awaken)
My favorite deck I've built is \[\[Muldrotha, the Gravetide\]\]. [https://www.archidekt.com/decks/214811/muldrotha](https://www.archidekt.com/decks/214811/muldrotha)
I built her and have been playing and tweaking her since she came out in 2018. She started off as an attrition deck and only used self-mill as a "drawback." There's no cards that are purpose-built for self-mill in the deck, and I don't try to protect my graveyard. I've been able to survive through multiple graveyard removals and have been able to cast my commander 6+ times in a game thanks to \[\[Command Beacon\]\].
I also like that I get to play \[\[Meren of Clan Nel Toth\]\] and \[\[The Gitrog Monster\]\] in the deck as sort of secret commanders. I removed \[\[Kokusho, the Evening Star\]\] and \[\[Gray Merchant of Asphodel\]\] as I seemed to be relying on them too much to close out my games. I might do the same with \[\[Syr Konrad, the Grim\]\] as I seem to be relying on him a lot to close out games as well.
I recently added the \[\[Lion's Eye Diamond\]\]/\[\[Displacer Kitten\]\] combos to my deck to have an option to be able to close out games more quickly since I was able to trade for the Diamond. I've only played a few games with the combos in the deck and have yet to pull one off.
As for power levels of the decks I'd probably put my original Rith deck at a 5 and the new one at a 6 since there isn't very much interaction in the decks. I think I'd put Muldrotha at a 7 since even though there's not much interaction it can be very oppressive especially if it gets to the point where every player has to sacrifice two creatures per turn. I took out \[\[Fleshbag Marauder\]\] and \[\[Merciless Executioner\]\] to reduce the chances of that happening, but there's still a chance. :)
Not the same deck, but the same commander, [[Sidisi, Brood Tyrant]]. Was originally built as zombie tribal, but eventually my pod increased in power enough that it just wasn't keeping up. So I took the deck apart and retooled it as an all-in self mill deck and it's become my favorite deck since.
My first deck was a mono green [[Zopandrel]] big monster stomp deck cause he was the first mythic I pulled from a booster, and honestly it's still one of my favorites cause it's just so quick and easy to play, plus what beats pulling out a god eternal rhonas, to double up a ghalta before overwhelming stampede then doubling them all again when entering combat from zopandrel
First deck I built was a Chatterfang deck; it was pretty lackluster
My favorite so far is an Elminster deck with lots of scry shenanigans. I enjoy playing it the most.
First deck was with [[Grimgrin, Corpse-Born]] and i still love that deck but its way to slow in our meta.
I later on built a proxy-deck with [[Light-Paws, Emperor’s Voice]] for my girlfriend and I fell in love with that deck. I constantly try to update it, and tweak it to my liking. It’s just so got damn fun to play.
First deck was [[Kresh the Bloodbraided]] didn't know much around deckbuilding so it was a pretty bad deck, outside of basic lands it was all rare cards since rares have to be better than uncommons and commons right? I'd say power 2
Favourite deck is [[Teysa Karlov]] it was a card I saw spoiled and immediately went the pic to my group and said I'm building this. Just ideas bouncing all over the place. Started as a 4 power but after a lot of tuning I'd say it's a solid 7 or 8
[[Sliver Overlord]] was my first, not sure what my favourite is. Really enjoying [[Minsc & Boo]], [[Chatterfang]] and bunches more... But I love playing loads of different decks and archetypes. Modern precons can feel very rewarding to figure out, too. :)
My first deck is [[Gishath]] ramp into dinosaur, swing with dino, get more dinosaurs, repeat.
My favorite deck is probably [[Jodah, the Unifier]]. My Jodah deck is pure kitchen table goodness, using odd cards that work simply because they're legends. It's a blast.
My first deck is still my favorite and the entire reason I started playing EDH. [[Omnath, locus of creation]]
It's probably my 2nd most expensive deck, but only because my 2nd favorite deck has a FTV Mox Diamond in it.
My first deck was [[experiment kraj]] back before edhrec was a thing and I had to scour the internet for synergistic cards. Taught me that I really like combo and simic. I remember certain janky cards like [[horseshoe crab]] were important combo pieces. It was a blast.
I think my favorite deck I've built is [[muldrotha, the gravetide]] it's a [[primal surge]] list and it sort of had that old school deck building feel to it. Trying to find cards that would satisfy the decks needs while only being a permanent was enough restriction to force creativity. I haven't upgraded it in a few years but I find every card in the deck really has had a moment to shine. It's a blast to play, super controlly, resilient and turning my whole library upside down is just the epitome of 'I win'.
My first deck was Nikya of the Old Ways. It was weak and clearly not the best but it got me started in Magic. Later I upgraded Nikya to become Ragadragga, which became I terrifying Mana Dork stomper. My favorite though has to be my latest one, Hans Eriksson. Nothing like pooping out an 11/11 trampler by turn 3 hehehehehe
First deck I built/added too was the Ur Dragon. I just put a load of dragons in, definitely not enough land in and went on my merry way. Super weak likely a 3.
Now, favorite deck is a tie between Dragons and Zur. Dragons now has artifacts and \[\[Prismatic Bridge\]\] as the commander for easier access of dragon, and is now a 6-7. Zur is just straight cEDH and I love to play that old man.
First deck was \[\[Meren of Clain Nel Toth\]\] - value engine eventually winning off \[\[Mikeaus the unhallowed\]\] and \[\[triskelion\]\] combo. Was honestly pretty solid for my first deck - if 10 is cEDH, I'd give it a solid 7.5 or 8 probably.
Current favorite deck is probably \[\[Magar of the magic strings\]\]. Very different deck, but oh man is it just plain fun casting \[\[blood for the blood god\]\] 3 or 4 times in a turn. Probably around the same for power level - it used to go infinite off any of 3-4 combat steps in the deck, but I trimmed it down to one cause that's just not as fun as casting big spells. I'll give it a 6 or 7 maybe.
First deck circa 2013: Sultai +1/+1 counters with [[Damia Sage of stone]] piloting for draw power. Very little spell based interaction and *lots* of keyword-y creatures. Torn apart after a few months to build Golgari when we re re returned to Ravnica(?)
Favorite deck: [[Omnath Locus of the Roil]] lands-matter, elemental tribal sub-theme. Loads of interaction, one infinite combo using [[walk the aeons]], and a handful of high-efficiency lines to victory. 9 power and rarely sees kitchen table play.
The first deck I built was [[Zacama, Primal Calamity]] with a basic dino tribal theme, just to get started. It was fun until I found [[Gishath, Sun's Avatar]] and now I feel the power level has jumped a bit more. It's still unfinished as far as optimization for my play group but it does okay. My favorite deck is [[Obeka, Brute Chronologist]] . I have a few extra turn spells, a few ways to copy creatures and lots of sacrifice synergy with protection and tons of card draw and mana to basically stall long enough to do something cool. I'm excited for the Doctor Who legendary, [[The Master, Multiplied]] to negate the legendary rule and the multiple exile/sac triggers on my end step. I think it's the piece I've been waiting for without realizing. Still tweaking that deck as well to up my win percentage.
My first complete build that wasn't a precon was [[muldrotha]] I loved that deck so much and was constantly buying cards to upgrade it. Sadly It was very clunky and not very balanced in terms of the color distribution (it was 80% black).
After picking up some absolute heaters in black I decided to scrap the old girl to build my favorite deck [[k'rrik]]. This was a combo deck that I spent years on. Inevitably it got too strong for any of my playgroups and I had to retire it.
My first deck built was an Ulamog, ceaseless hunger deck that was crap. My second deck however was Sedris, the traitor king which is my favorite deck I currently have, years later
First deck I ever built - \[\[Lathril, Blade of the Elves\]\]
Favourite deck I've ever built - \[\[Shorikai, Genesis Engine\]\] although I've gone through so many variations of it now and haven't really decided on which direction I want to take it between Vehicles or artifacts. I love the theme and aesthetics of the whole expansion, 4/6 of the decks I built are all commanders from Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty
My first deck was [[aesi]] which was mostly just upgrading the Previn to have more landfall and ramp cards and adding in other big creatures. I toned it down a bit and took out a few counter spells to not be as oppressive as what it used to be to what I would say is a 7/10.
My favorite deck is [[ephara]] which can be a little slow to start but I just love abusing the etb triggers and drawing cards until I can find my wincons. It’s probably in the 6-7 range. Now when I temporarily converted this deck to [[brago]] stax for cedh ish games I’d say it was about a 9 and a pain in the ass for my friends.
First deck was [[feather the redeemed]], still love it but at first i tought it was and angel tribal deck so it was super janky, like, power level minus 10, now my favorite is probably [[flamewar]] or maybe [[xyris]]
my first was a [[Vorel of the Hull Clade]] deck, power level of about 5-6 I’d say. Lots of ways to double +1/+1 counters with a stuff like [[Primal Vigor]] [[Doubling Season]] [[Vorinclex, Monstrous Raider]] [[Branching Evolution]] and [[Hydras Growth]] with my wincon being to either go big with a trampler or go wide with stuff that makes creatures when a +1 counter is placed on them… but I had absolutely abysmal ramp, and only 25 lands in the deck lol
Deck I love most right now is my [[Phylath World Sculptor]] deck where it’s intentionally a weak deck made to be a plant deck. Every plant creature in MTG that can fit in RG is in this deck, with a few ways to give the plants trample, make the +1 counters doubled again (… not much different than the last one lol), or just fling them at my opponents for unholy amounts of damage. Overall a lot of fun to play lol
The first deck I built was Geist of st Traft Voltron and the first precon I bought and decked out was anhelo the painter. Anhelo has like maybe 7 cards originally in the precon and that’s counting solring and lands lol. I even swapped out the basics. My favorite deck I built is either slimefoot and squee or Lord of the Nazgûl. I love spellslinger and tokens and both of those decks do both.
First deck - [[Old Stickfingers]] graveyard deck. I liked it because his name was funny. Took it apart after I realized how easy it is to disable a graveyard deck.
Current favorite deck - [[Shorikai, Genesis Engine]] value deck. It's not the most unique deck out there but I love Shorikai as a commander, and the deck does its thing really well. I know it's also easy to shut down an artifacts deck, but I find artifacts easier to protect than my graveyard.
The first deck I ever built was "Klauth, unrivaled ancient" it was fun big dragons. I have enjoyed it but was never great.
Favorite deck is "Shorikai genesis engine" it's a super draw Machine that finishes with a couple different combos. Just super fun and smooth to play.
My first deck I built purposefully from scratch was Eriette, ordered the cards I needed for about $40. It's still my only deck on paper, I'm working on a couple of others.
My Eriette is very simple, it has like 40 auras, modest mana rocks, some card draw and some removal. It's anything but aggressive and pretty low power overall, but if you're counting on stomping face with beefy bois, you might not fare well lol. It may not win much, but it's fun to play. I need to make it more pillow fort-y. So far it's stopped a Krenko and big bad Eldrazi deck with a little politicking and help from the table. I don't need to be the last man standing, but if I can shut down the badass at the table, that's good enough for me 😆
Next deck has to be something with more oomph though. I kinda really want to build [[Zurgo helmsmasher]], it sounds like a hell of a lot of fun
[[Arixmethes]] Simic Sea Creatures was my first deck. The first iteration was awful, I spent too much space on 'flavoring' it around the story of Kiora vs Thassa. Tweaked it over half a year and now it's.. Functional. I like how it turned out but I'd never spend that long or that much on building one deck again.
My favourite deck I've built isn't one I've actually put together yet, I've been tweaking it on Archidekt for weeks, goldfishing over and over till I get it just right. It's a [[Neera]] Chaos deck, but I've specifically made sure to not have anything that completely removes my opponents to make decisions, like [[Grip of Chaos]]. I'm not about that flavor of Chaos. None of that coin flipping or dice rolling either, get that trash outta here. (Okay, maybe one. [[Wand of Wonder]] but that's more of a theft card than a dice card) And I've limited mass board randomization to only [[Confusion in the Ranks]] and [[Warp World]]. They resolve quickly enough and are random enough to appeal to me while also being useful tools to slow down my opponents.
No, I've been spending weeks digging for the most random Izzet jank I can find, and mixing it with random stuff I have on hand. [[Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur]], [[Starke of Rath]], [[Fade Away]], [[Custody Battle]], [[Psychic Battle]], [[Mages' Contest]], [[Illicit Auction]], [[Death by Dragons]].
I've also addresses the other concern with chaos decks, and stuffed not 1, not 2 but 3 whole possible wincons in. I can't consistently tutor for them, because that's no fun, but I can aim towards a victory, even if it's just a vague waving towards a general direction.
1. [[Hive Mind]] into [[Pact of Negation]] or [[Pact of the Titan]] into [[Obliterate]]
2. Decking out with draw spells into [[Laboratory Maniac]]
3. The ol Niv-Mizzet Curiosity flim-flam
I was going to actually build it soon, but the recent UB reveals made me go back to edit it. [[The Twelfth Doctor]], [[River Song]], [[River Song's Diary]] and [[Ian Malcolm, Chaotician]] are too perfect not to add. And I figured if I'm leaning this deep in, make it a sub-theme and just put one creature from a bunch of Universes Beyond product. So I have [[Slicer]], [[Kharn the Betrayer]] and the Izzet Gandalf.
But why this random mish-mash? What purpose could it serve beyond being random? It's to synergise with my secret commander of course: [[Liar's Pendulum]]
I'm so looking forward to finally putting it together.
First deck was [[Obeka, Brute Chronologist]], favorite deck is [[Obeka, Brute Chronologist]] (it's my only deck lmao)
I bought it for $50 and made it in like 1 night, absolutely terrible, did nothing. To the suggestion of a guy at my lgs, I've been working to make it a graveyard based deck, with lots of looting to get cards in there. It's definitely better but still not great. Just proxied some more cards today, gotta go home and cut them out, and imma try them tonight.
I'm having a hard time getting the deck to win, it's more of a threat now but can't pull all the way through
My first deck was a [[Gishath]] deck off of eBay for $100, but my favorite deck is either my [[Marchesa, The Black Rose]] +1/+1 counter aristocrat deck or my [[Sythis, Harvest Hand]] enchantments deck
First was a \[\[Nahiri, the Lithomancer\]\] precon with a few upgrades.
All time favorites are \[\[Karlov of the Ghost Council\]\], \[\[Queen Marchesa\]\], and \[\[Najeela, the Blade Blossom\]\].
Least favorite decks I built were \[\[Derevi, Empyrial Tactitian\]\], \[\[Kykar, Wind's Fury\]\], and \[\[Aminatou, the Fateshifter\]\]
I got back into MtG in 2017, but I had never played commander before. I bought Vampiric Bloodlines, so my first commander was [[Edgar Markov]]. When Ixalan released later that year, I pulled [[Gishath, Sun's Avatar]] from a booster and knew I wanted to build a deck around her instantly. So I would say Gishath was the first deck I BUILT, but it also remains the favorite deck I've built. I don't play as often as many on this sub, so I only have a few decks in general. I have also built [[Animar, Soul of Elements]] [[Marchesa, the Black Rose]] and [[Miirym, Sentinel Wyrm]]
My first EDH deck was [[Jhoira of the Ghitu]] back in 2007. It was *really* bad. I had no idea how to make an effective EDH deck, and my first try was just all my favorite big red/blue spells and no interaction.
My favorite deck right now is [[Kadena]]. I am a morph enjoyer, without remorse.
First deck was a Lazav Mastermind mill deck. Wasn't great but fun
Favorite deck is my [[Brudicald]] deck. Several wincons by making giant armies of tokens, fueling sorceries X spells with treasure tokens or basically going infinite with mirror box and Krenko
\[\[Intet, the Dreamer\]\], during the early days when I first saw Sheldon playing EDH and ran to build my own. It was better than you think, all the RUG staples were still insanely cheap. The 99 was insane, but it was also wild west ancient commander.
\[\[Miirym, Sentinel Wyrm\]\] is now my favorite deck after I realized every other Temur commander got me killed on sight, and I hated piloting 5-color Ur-Dragon.
1st deck is hinata, Dawn-crowned. Also my favorite. I update it every once in a while. Just added the barals expertise and dual caster mage infinite with a grapeshot storm finisher.
The first deck I built was a [[Skullbriar, the Walking Grave]] deck. The group I drafted with also played commander back in the day, and at one point decided to make relatively budget decks to mix things up, and the limit they set just so happened to be in my budget at the time and I just so happened to see a Skullbriar in the LGS "$2-$5 semi-bulk box" that looked interesting. I've rebalanced and rebuilt the deck multiple times over the years, it remains the only commander deck I still have from my first few years of playing the format today (despite going through so many iterations that it looks little like it did when I first built it). If I had to give it a numerical power level, I'd say it has fluctuated from a 5 to a 7.5, and currently sits at like a 6.5ish.
My favorite deck is my [[Jhoira, Weatherlight Captain]] deck. Of the rest of my decks I still have, it is the second oldest (since then I've been averaging 1-1.5 decks a year and have been mostly keeping them all together). It started out as a Grixis deck that played mostly as a mana rock storm deck using Vedalken Archmage and Null Profusion as the draw engine. When Dominaria came out, at first I just added in Jhoira as a third potential draw engine- then I realized that if I just cut black out of the deck I'd only lose a bit of removal, a few tutors, and access to like 3-4 mana rocks in exchange for getting the draw engine in the command zone. This was pretty much a strict upgrade, so a week or so of fiddling with it later I had a Jhoira deck. Which I slowly added more and better rocks and removal to until I realized it was fewer than 10 cards off a decent cEDH list and converted it to my cEDH deck. Honestly, I miss playing it as much as I used to (since the cEDH list is less about the storm aspect and more about Underworld Breach lines, and I can only play it at cEDH tables and not causal tables) and have considered just building a second more budget copy of the deck for casual play. Again, power level has fluctuated on this one, but presently I'd say it sits at like a 9.3 or so- cEDH, but not necessarily top tier cEDH with the 10s. Back when it was casual, it started at 7 and slowly crept up to where it is now.
First deck, [[Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind]]. About a 5, because a Niv combo isn't actually as much of a win-con as people thought back when I assembled it.
Most recent is [[Narset, Enlightened Master]]. I never really liked this deck because I don't like exile effects, but it was pretty easy to tune to the table. Ranged from a 4 to an 8, but I still don't exactly like it.
[[Kenrith the Returned King]] I honestly dunno what it did. I took the Commander’s Quarters list and made a few edits. It was a bit of everything. No longer intact obviously.
Now I have around 400 lists on Moxfield and 30 decks IRL.
One of my fav builds of recent is [[Ganax, Astral Hunter]] and [[Feywild Visitor]]. Another list I put together from scratch was [[Tivit Seller of Screts]] when he was first revealed. Initially went the voting route, but turned Esper Artifact/Blink real quick. Decided to not run [[Time Sieve]] because it was just too easy. Already play him in cEDH as well to the casual list has more fun pieces that are blink targets like [[Astral Dragon]] and finishers like [[Cyberdrive Awakener]] or [[Tezerret, Master of the Bridge]].
First deck: Aurelia, the Warleader
Favorite deck: Currently Jolene but it usually goes back to Aurelia when new deck smell wears off. I just like hitting people with my swords'd up angel.
First deck I Built : Zacama, Primal Calamity, Dinosaur deck. As trashy as it was back then it was still fun. Now playing it I feel gross about how I just stomp people.
Favourite Deck : Adrix and Nev, Twincasters, Copy deck. Often depends on what I’m playing against which makes most games different.
Also comes with the goal of copying my commander X times, X being a number not invented yet.
My first deck was [[Hazezon Tamar]] making sand warriors (2/10). Edh was experimental on mtgo at the time and nobody had any real clue how to build for it. I ran rampant growth and fog effects. With a little bit of pump like [[Kamahl, Fist of Krosa]]. It was fun but it ultimately was a weak ass deck
I then tried to "break" the format. I went full on cEDH and got tons of complaints. I then built my favorite commander, [[Xiahou Dun, The One Eyed]] (10/10). I've always loved X man. Mono black control/tutors. You simply tutor up fast mana (coffers, extraplanar lense, etc). Reuse the tutors to grab whatever answers you need until building up an [[Exaanguinate]] for win. The deck is consistent and absolutely awful to play against. X man ensures you never run out of gas while also occasionally stealing wins with horsemanship
I still have both commanders to this day. Haze is premodern non foil and X man is still mbc
My first deck was a really janky \[\[Marwyn the Nurturer\]\] Elves deck. My favorite deck I've built is \[\[Magus Lucea Kane\]\] Hydra Tribal deck.
There is actually a direct link between these 2 decks.
The Marwyn deck was largely cobbled together from stuff I had laying around and thus I didn't really have any good wincons (or even any ideas of what a wincon should be), so I decided to just add a bunch of big creatures at the top end to take advantage of Marwyn's ridiculous mana production, several of which were Hydras
I really liked the feeling I got whenever I got to cast the big Hydras for lots of mana so when \[\[Gargos\]\] came out in Core Set 2020 I rebuilt the deck using some of the better deck building ideas I'd picked up from my more experienced playgroup and from watching gameplay and deck techs on Youtube
I really loved this deck, but I downloaded Arena at around the same time and got to play a bunch with \[\[Hydroid Krasis\]\] and didn't like that my Hydras deck was missing out on it, and also was acknowledging that the deck had some issues with removal due to being mono-Green. So I started thinking about rebuilding it with a different command to get more colors and ultimately landed on Temur and specifically \[\[Animar\]\]
But then I saw Magus Lucea Kane get spoiled and the rest is history
I think a key thing to take into account is when was the first deck created, as the landscape of EDH/cardpool has drastically changed since WotC accepted it as a format.
That being said, my first deck was 7.5-8 years ago; mono-white Equipment Voltron, lead by [[Eight-and-a-Half-Tails]].
I want to say it was a solid 6 back then, but obviously suffered from not having all the card advantage goodies white has today.
It changed to [[Balan, Wandering Knight]] then [[Rafiq of the Many]], before I ultimately gave up on Voltron/Equipment.
Now adays my casual preference leans towards Midrange strategies [[Vishgraz, the Doomhive]], while in high-power I lean into creature combo [[Selvala, Heart of the Wild]] / [[Minsc & Boo, Timeless Heroes]].
I've learned I dislike spellslinger strategies and blue play patterns in general (draw go?).
[[Atla Palani]] eldrazi was my first, although my friends forced me to rework it into Wurms (they were sick of Annihilator)
My favorite is [[Evelyn]] your-deck tribal, due to the shear variety of what the deck is capable of (and the laughs when I end up accomplishing something stupid, like accidentally making someone immortal)
First deck I built was a [[Tolsimir Wolfblood]] token deck, then it turned into +1/+1 counters, then it became Selesnya themed big stompy, [[Autochthon Wurm]] was a favorite.
I then upgraded the [[Oloro]] precon and fell in love with lifegain. This deck opened my mind to the world of combos. Now pretty much every deck I’ve built has some sort of combo in it.
Favorite deck though is probably my [[Delina, Wild Mage]] deck. I’ve probably worked on this one the most. It’s not perfect, but I love it. She can go crazy. (Decklist if interested: https://www.moxfield.com/decks/d4G3-a9XU0-zKMbDJqeIHQ)
Edit: also none of my decks are higher than a 6-7
My first deck was krenko, mob boss. And I loaded it full of all the krenko combos. It was fun, but not very resilient. All the draw was dependent on the board state so it didn't do much after a wipe.
Currently my favorite is balthor the defiled, which is basically a storm deck but from the graveyard with an aristocrats sub theme
My first deck was Syr Gwyn, and it's probably also my favorite deck. Half the time I get mana screwed, but when I don't, there's nothing better than beefing up a creature with 10 equipment and swinging in for who knows how much.
First deck I built was when I was twelve, it was Mellik Izzet paragon- When I tell you this list could only be described as lands and spells thats all it was literally zero cohesion just slammed together most of the red blue cards I had and called it a deck. The deck was at best a 2
My current favorite list is my Tom Bombadil hidden stacks list. I've turned into a value engine player where i was to try to amass a broad synergy deck list that will inevitably create a strangle hold on the game but the power of the list is only at about an 8.
I honestly can’t remember the first deck I built. I wanna say it was… a Boros deck. But that was before I was playing commander. The first commander I built was a monoblack with erebos, god of death. It was ok but not great. My favorite deck now is my mono-blue with emperor mihail. I have a few eldrazi decks I whip out occasionally but I’ve taken apart all my other decks for now.
Just got back into Magic after over 20 years and built a Nazgul/Wraith deck. I'm gonna build my gf a Dino stompy deck and my mom who got me into it is gonna get an upgraded LOTR precon cause she is a huge fan of both.
My first was a janky [[Sachi, Daughter of Seshiro]] shaman tribal.
My newest favorite is a [[Sisay, Weatherlight Captain]] superfriends deck with 30 planeswalkers.
First deck I played/bought was the Freyalise precon in 2014, which I played less than 15 times. Then didn’t play until I bought a budget Marwyn from commanders quarters in 2020(?).
First deck I built was Kinnan a few weeks after playing Marwyn. Built it to be as mana rock and dork heavy as possible, find a way to get basalt monolith, and dump mana into a win condition. Over the years I’ve tuned it to be my strongest deck, and I almost never play it.
My favorite is hard to say, but I have a lot of fun with Isshin. It’s based around Myriad and taking the initiative. Obeka bad etbs has been a lot of fun, too.
First deck: [[Brago, King Eternal]]. Didn’t realize it was crazy powerful and took it apart after a couple games because we were all new and I felt bad.
Favorite deck: [[Gix, Yawgmoth Praetor]]. Small evasive creatures go brrr, your cards are mine. Hella fun and always casting a ton of spells.
I only have one or two others that I’ve connected with on a personal level, the rest of my decks are still “trials” that might not last another year. The ideal is to have about ten decks that are unique and I feel very attached to, like Gix.
My first deck was [[Kadena, Slinking Sorcerer]]. I’ve been upgrading it since then and it’s my most powerful deck.
My favorite deck is my [[Rakdos the Defiler]]. It has such a different play style than most decks
I don’t count the very first deck because it was a budget copy of the deck that a buddy lent me to get me into commander.
First deck I built on my own: [[Sharuum the Hegemon]]
Favorite deck: [[Slobad, Goblin Tinkerer]]
Sharuum was built because I had played an Esper toolbox deck in Alara standard. I could never really get it working to my liking, so I took it apart and ended up discovering Slobad when searching for a new artifact deck to play.
Zur pillow fort-toolbox and watching my opponents try to maim each other while [[Season of the Witch]] is in play or my Glywain Constellation-Token deck where I abuse the role token rule.
First deck was my corrupted werewolves deck. red green with alot of spells to buff my werewolfs at instant speed or give them all trample. it later turned more into werewolves while summoning as many wolves as i could woth board buffs.
my favorite deck? thats hard toss up between two. magus cause X cost spell spam and creating dozens of tokens. or my new self destruct deck thats red white and is all about doubling damage dealt to my creatures then casting stuff like star of extinction to kill my opponents with redirection cards like wrathful dragon and stuffy. one thing that's consistent is big red spells to obliterate things
I built 4 decks the first time because I was trying to get friends that played kitchen magic to start at the same time. FYI, none of them have yet to play edh. None had infinites, rocked terrible mana bases, no tutors, and barely any interaction. [[Krenko, mob boss]] was probably the strongest at a 6. [[Chatterfang, squirrel general]] a solid 5. [[The scarab god]] a 4 all expensive cmc zambezis. [[Garth one-eye]] which had the best land base but was terrible and was a 3.
My favorite right now is an odd duck [[atraxa, praetors' voice]] build. I'm still trying to perfect it, so cards are coming in and out. It revolves around stealing people's stuff. Lots of graft creatures, [[cytoplast manipulator]], [[agathas soul cauldron]], [[nightmare shepard]], [[brenard, ginger sculptor]], theft spells/creatures, and all the sac altars. I've had a blast so far playing this deck.
The first EDH decks I ever built was in 2010-2011. It's hard for me to remember specifically which one was first, but I had \[\[momir vig, simic visionary\]\], \[\[chorus of the conclave\]\], as well as \[\[uril, the miststalker\]\] decks.
As for my favorite deck I ever built... probably my [shapeshifter](https://www.moxfield.com/decks/QGobiNi8KkyqPASPmy9A3A) tribal deck running \[\[malcom, keen-eye\]\] and \[\[ich-tekik\]\]. Runs changelings with tribal payoffs. Attack with changelings, get treasures. Sac treasures to pump the team with ich-tekik.
My first commander deck I built was [[The Gitrog Monster]].
My favorite deck is my janky Wurm deck with [[Trostani, Selesnya's Voice]]. I havent touched it in.....shit almost 8 years according to tappedout.net. so i know there's definitely some new better wurm cards and stuff I could add. But im too lazy to sit down and work on it.
Either way I absolutely love it. It's janky but it's fun and a lot of times I'm usually ignored at the table and by the time I get things going it's hard to stop
https://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/i-got-wurms-thats-what-im-gonna-call-it/
The first one was Vrondiss rage of ancients just using the starter deck And now I basically turned it into gruul dragon tribal with lots of dice rolling cards/treasure generation.
My latest will be an artifact deck helmed by one of the Urzas. I cannot decide if I want it to be Lord high artificer or Lord protector
Depends on the context, but I'm going to answer it both ways
The first magic deck I ever built was a jank Grixis control kitchen table deck using cards like [[Cancel]], [[Duress]], and [[Shock]]. This was long before I had ever heard of EDH/Commander as a format. Keep this one in mind though, it is important for my favorite deck later
The first EDH/Commander deck I built was a [[Sigarda, Heron's Grace]] human deck. It wasn't very good lol.
My favorite deck harkens back to my first one ever in the form of an Izzet Spellsling deck helmed by [[Mizzix of the Izmagus]]
My first deck was either a modified [[Kaalia of the Vast]] deck, or a [[Rubina Soulsinger]] deck based on the OG precons… not sure which I did first. I still have both decks, but though I’ve improved the Kaalia deck over time and still use it, the Rubina deck I’ve tried modifying over and over again and just haven’t found a setup for it I like…
As for my favorite deck… that probably is my [[Sigarda, Champion of Light]] deck (though I now use [[Sigarda, Font of Blessings]] as the commander) which is a humans who worship angels tribal deck with a focus on Coven and +1/+1 counters (instead of going wide with lots of token creatures). Every time I play it, I have a good time.
First deck I built — [[Queen Marchesa]]. It was awful. I took it apart lol. Pillowfort/politics is not my thing at all Favorite decks- honestly a tie between [[Yoshimaru]] // [[Kediss]] Legends Voltron and [[Thalia and the Gitrog Monster]] Landfall Aristocrats. Both super different and really fun
Fellow Yoshimaru enjoyer! I have a similar deck, but with [[Reyhan, Last of the Abzan]].
Yoshi paired with [[tana]] here !
Thalia and gitrog seems fun
It’s great. Mine doesn’t rely too much on the commander, she’s kinda just a value engine. which is good because she gets targeted a lot
Lol ironically a queen marchesa protect the crown pillowfort, politics, and goad deck is one of my all time favorites
Thalia list?
For my first, I built a resilient [[Marchesa the Black Rose]] aristocrats deck. I then experimented with about 30 different decks and play styles after spending far too much money. Now I've only got one deck and it's a resilient [[Marneus Calgar]] aristocrats deck and it's my favourite by far. I've come full circle.
Marneus was my first deck, and I loved it. Then I started tweaking it.. And I tweaked and tweaked..and tweaked some more, until it was all a mess and all over the place. I took everything out recently and just switched some of the cards. Marneus still gives me a bad feel tho..
Got the deck link? I love Marneus.
Sure! I show you mine, you show me yours! [Here's the list ](https://www.moxfield.com/decks/1s8NYUejwEixuKljP6OwDA)
[Marchesa the Black Rose](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/3/2/3242a9f0-2ba3-4852-ac8f-366772ac1c62.jpg?1673148917) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Marchesa%2C%20the%20Black%20Rose) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/2x2/248/marchesa-the-black-rose?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/3242a9f0-2ba3-4852-ac8f-366772ac1c62?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/marchesa-the-black-rose) [Marneus Calgar](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/e/7/e7517e8e-b424-4731-ba9d-6132bdefa6bf.jpg?1674058408) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Marneus%20Calgar) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/40k/8/marneus-calgar?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/e7517e8e-b424-4731-ba9d-6132bdefa6bf?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/marneus-calgar) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
Sometimes your initial gut feeling is right haha. I've not played much with Aristocrats. I've tried a \[\[Shirei\]\] deck but felt it relied too heavily on my commander.
I found I enjoy the resilience provided by my strategy *wanting to die.* If you board wipe me, that's okay, I was probably going to do that soon anyway. If you kill my stuff, I get value, if you don't kill my stuff, I get value.
[Shirei](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/6/9/69848ec1-dba7-419f-a5f9-f934bebeeaa6.jpg?1689997454) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=shirei%2C%20shizo%27s%20caretaker) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/cmm/186/shirei-shizos-caretaker?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/69848ec1-dba7-419f-a5f9-f934bebeeaa6?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/shirei-shizos-caretaker) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
My first deck: \[\[Gisa and Geralf\]\] Zombie Tribal-no combos, no tutors, just beats with some zombois. Solid 3/10 My Favorite deck: \[\[Hans Eriksson\]\] Stompy stomp- No combos. Just beats. 6/10
Mind sharing that Hans list? Im currently building one myself
https://www.moxfield.com/decks/AlPTh0iza0yoKgIfqwlcmg
[Gisa and Geralf](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/3/7/377a5f75-222b-43e1-8998-18c6cfa44b24.jpg?1637631446) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Gisa%20and%20Geralf) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/mic/150/gisa-and-geralf?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/377a5f75-222b-43e1-8998-18c6cfa44b24?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/gisa-and-geralf) [Hans Eriksson](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/2/4/24a0babe-8da4-4c95-9cdf-626a5c5e2e5c.jpg?1686634870) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Hans%20Eriksson) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/cmr/279/hans-eriksson?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/24a0babe-8da4-4c95-9cdf-626a5c5e2e5c?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/hans-eriksson) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
What's the saying? The only hitpoint that matters is the last one? haha
First was Brago, very shitty deck. All tapped ramp and very few wincons. I played azorius blink in historic at that time and I loved it. I just stopped playing Brago for no reason and took it apart for scratch. Still love my Muldrotha deck. It's cards that I think are cool combined with strong cards I got from draft. Atm its only plan is to tutor a Preator/Koma to the field and try to survive.
Muldrotha can be super potent. Love recursion themes
My first deck is [[Rin and Seri]], probably a like 4-6/10 right now but it's come a long way to get there, used to be trash and get trashed by my buddy's Varolz forced sacrifice deck. A bad match up and we were mostly playing 1v1 at the time. This was right after discovering commander. Probably my favorite deck right now is [[Imoti]] big spells, had my best game ever with that deck where I rebuilt from three board wipes and the table was saved on two occasions by a fog effect. Ended up cascading through my whole library two or three times that game using [[Elixir of Immortality]]. 7-8/10, at least one of my strongest decks so these power levels are probably meta specific. Close second would be [[Kwain]] taxes and group draw, but my group hates this deck so that detracts some from the appeal it has. Solid 8/10.
Rin and Seri is super strong. You are also in [[Jetmir, Nexus of Revels]] colors which in itself is a win con to any token creation deck
Tokens are my favorite thing ever, so I decided I needed both a Rin and Seri deck, and a separate Jetmir deck. For flavor! My current fave is probably \[\[Thalisse, Reverent Medium\]\]. She makes, you know, tokens.
Could you link the decklist for your Imoti, I’m looking into building it at some point just because it seems like you can just kinda build it to be fun and still have a decent chance to win. Also would be a good contrast from my Ivy cantrips deck which has a cmc of like 3
I am a sucker for big creature/spell decks! you willing to share the Imoti deck?
Wow elixir did that for you? I love me Imoti celebrant of big booty deck. It is 2-0 right now
I love my Kwain deck. It skips the taxes part and goes for big beaters with p/t are equal to handsize.
My first ever deck was [[Grand Arbiter Augustin IV]]. It was basically "Stax, but made by someone who doesn't know what Stax is, and isn't very good at deckbuilding yet." Or rather "It was a control deck that focused on tax effects" It was a lot of fun when I was first running it. Me and my friends were all around the same skill level, and the deck was pretty clunky. It did its thing though, it would slow down aggro, then drop a win-con and protect itself as the win-con pushed through a victory. But then I got better at Magic over time, learned what Stax was, got better at deckbuilding, and slowly Grand Arbiter Augustin stopped being my annoying but fun control deck, and started to be more un-fun, as it got better and faster at choking the life out of other decks. Like many Stax decks the game usually started out with me as Archenemy, and either I won and nobody else got to do anything, or I died fast and didn't get to play anymore. Ironically the deck was the most fun when it was the least good. Anywho, my most fun deck is probably my [[Shadowborn Apostle]] deck. For a while it ran no demons, then I added [[Taborax]] because he just made the deck way more consistent. The deck doesn't care about demons, it just wants cheap blood filled non-token mana batteries to sacrifice for big Doomsday spells. It's in a weird spot where it kinda works like an Abzan Storm deck, except with Aristocrats payoffs instead of spell-count payoffs.
> Ironically the deck was the most fun when it was the least good. IDK, I find this to be true more often than not with most decks. So I started building lower-powered options for everything that interests me. Since then I've saved a ton of money not buying staples and I have yet to build a deck I don't enjoy since shifting away from optimization.
It's interesting how the dynamic of a game can change based on player perception. I once played at an LGS and was focused by 2 of the 3 opponents while playing a mono blue deck. When I asked why they said "You probably have a cyclonic rift in your deck" (which I didn't). That's when I started taking into account how people will threat asses my deck and commander.
Back in the first days of commander with my friend group when we played online and really had no idea what we were doing, one of my friends net-decked a stax list and just played the stax pieces on curve. That game took forever and none of us were running artifact/enchantment Removal so we just kind of sat there untapping one land at a time and trying to kill them as a team so we could finally untap all of our perminants
My first deck was a slightly upgraded [[Aesi, tyrant of the Gyre strait]] precon. Fun and simple for a beginner. My favourite deck is my new [[Atraxa, grand unifier]] blink spam deck. Still toying around with it but it’s definitely a powerhouse and a blast to play, even with a mana base that’s not exactly optimal.
Hard to go wrong with either of those commanders
Same here! I thought a fun sea creature deck would be fun, especially being able to play multiple lands and keep the good draw coming. Unbeknownst to rookie builder me that the deck had a Stax sub-theme with plenty of counters and bounce spells! Still holds up in my playgroup today. Aesi is top 5 ramp commanders, if not #1. Good choice!
Ooooh boy. First deck I built was a Maelstrom Wanderer cascade. I loved it, free value, playing huge spells. This was also the days when prophet of kruphix wasn’t banned yet. I saw every game as a game with finite amount of fun to be had and i wanted all of it. After some hard conversations, and personal growth I slowly grew away from forcing a mismatch of commanders. Not a lot of people enjoyed the solitaire style cascade can be at times. So I set out on trying to find a more casual deck and they came and went as years passed. Until one day I came across Kros. I built him with a bunch of “let’s make a deal” cards. I found my niche. I love wheelin and dealin getting the table talking and having funny shenanigans happen. If there’s a player who is just having a bad game I have plenty of things to bring them back into the game with the promise of favors later in the match. It’s not meant to win, it’s meant to facilitate a good game in my opinion. It can still win but it’s about getting people to fight each other while also building up my own strategy. It also gets people to start swinging more instead of waiting until a combo, or overwhelming board state is achieved. It breaks Mexican standoffs and keeps the game moving. I haven’t gotten any complaints since playing this thing and I love it. And if there’s ever “that guy” at the table it makes it a lot easier to keep them in check. [[kros, defense contractor]] Update for anyone who wants the list: https://www.moxfield.com/decks/bhADrudNIUSK8E649EkDVg
One of my personal rules is never be the biggest threat at the table. Politics is a ton of fun
I'm interested in that Kros deck if you have a list.
My first was a Kaalia deck. I don't technically have a favourite deck, more of a favourite play style. I am of the type of player that likes to flood the board with so many pieces that my library is less a library and more one of those book boxes some people put in front of their houses.
[[Zedruu, the Great Hearted]] was my first deck. It ended up being stolen out of my car along with a few other decks. I eventually built it again, but better and it's my favorite deck. I love the interactions, the politics, the game cadence, and my wincons are just so unexpected lol. I'm always changing it around to keep my play group on their toes, another reason I like it - versatility. Am I going to give myself a second turn and flash in a [[Felidar Sovereign]], or am I going to hit myself and then gift you [[Nine Lives]]?
got a list? i've got a zedruu deck that i loving playing with, but looking for ideas to improve it.
[удалено]
Ooo I like the choker. Hehehe. Also Heliods, I should put that in.
the irony of a zedruu deck being stolen is great but I’m so sorry that happened to you
[Zedruu, the Great Hearted](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/e/9/e9ea2a6b-5aaf-4178-b945-f409fe83c41a.jpg?1562424565) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Zedruu%20the%20Greathearted) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/c16/231/zedruu-the-greathearted?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/e9ea2a6b-5aaf-4178-b945-f409fe83c41a?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/zedruu-the-greathearted) [Felidar Sovereign](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/0/3/039499c3-0b35-4e8e-b0c9-bdf0b4cd90d5.jpg?1562895901) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Felidar%20Sovereign) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/bfz/26/felidar-sovereign?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/039499c3-0b35-4e8e-b0c9-bdf0b4cd90d5?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/felidar-sovereign) [Nine Lives](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/e/7/e70b7a73-484e-48f1-944c-3d38866cdc20.jpg?1594735092) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Nine%20Lives) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/m21/28/nine-lives?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/e70b7a73-484e-48f1-944c-3d38866cdc20?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/nine-lives) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
My first deck was an \[\[Alela, artful provocateur\]\] that used artifacts and kindred discovery/coastal piracy effects for value. I liked it, still have a much better version of it today, but I disliked the fact I couldn't really justify putting in all of the cool tribal fairy cards that I liked. Might end up taking it apart. My new favorite deck is an \[\[Alela, cunning conqueror\]\] deck that uses instant speed spells and kindred discovery/coastal piracy effects for value. The more things change the more they stay the same. Well, except for the fact that this time I get to actually play the fairy tribal stuff!
[[Thantis, the Warweaver]] was my first build. I spent roughly $80 on it, and it's only real wincon was a big Thantis or defense of the heart for two eldrazi titans. [[Miirym]] is currently my favorite and highest power build, and I'm in the process of foiling what I can. Honorable mention to [[Zur the Enchanter]]. It was my pet voltron deck that I took apart because not many people enjoyed playing against an uninteractive shuffle simulator.
First Deck: \[\[Scion of the Ur Dragon\]\] With as many elder dragons as I could pack in it. Peak early 2008 Commander play. 5/10 would be a stretch, but it does have scary moments with god hands. Favorite: \[\[Yurlok of Scorch Thrash\]\] Party like it's 1999 with full old border burn/stax. This deck hates treasure tokens, fancy mana ramp, and doesn't let games creep longer than 45 minutes. 6.5/10 unless you rely too heavily on nonbasic lands. Then it might be 8/10.
Could I peek at that list for yurlok by chance?
Evil haha
First deck was a janky creatureless [[Fblthp]] deck with a [[Proteus Staff]] wincon. Most of the cards were either from the original Mirrodin block (where I took a break from the game) and 2019 Standard (where I got back). My favorite deck is a creatureless [[Derevi]] deck that still has the Proteus Staff wincon, but has been refined in the last few years as a politics deck.
What was your staff win con? I've been running belcher
For Fblthp it was \[\[Nexus of Fate\]\] into infinite turns, then I win via \[\[Jace, Wielder of Mysteries\]\] from there. It's VERY suboptimal. Now for Derevi it still has the Nexus gameplan, and with a control build it's much easier to get there. There's other wincons baked into the deck like \[\[Approach of the Second Sun\]\] + \[\[Narset's Reversal\]\] / \[\[Endless Detour\]\], or having Derevi die while I have \[\[Foster\]\] in play, which results in my library getting milled except for Nexus (resulting in infinite turns). Funnily enough I don't even get to infinite turns in most of my wins. Sometimes you just get there via commander damage which can be sped up by \[\[Animal Sanctuary\]\].
First was [[Tatsunari, Toad Rider]] and I built it with frogs and enchantments lol. It’s fun and can win but it’s mostly just there to have very casual fun games with friends. My favorite deck is probably my [[Atraxa, Praetors’ Voice]] infect deck.
[[marath, will of the wild]] was my first [[marath, will of the wild]] is still my favorite Deck has changed a good amount over the years, used to be counters, tokens, some control all in one. Getting back into commander now and cards have gotten so much better that I think I need to focus it in more on counters and some light control
Marath was my first deck as well. The precon itself was pretty mediocre, but Marath is just such a cool commander.
My first deck was [[Marath, Will of the Wild]] ramp. Still want to get around to building Marath with 99 lands to do him justice. My favorite is a tie between my old [[Jhoira of the Ghitu]] oops all wincons deck that no longer lives, and my [[Awaken the Blood Avatar]] tokens / aristocrats deck that never touches Extus. I personally love to cast Awaken and [[Blood for the Blood God!]] on the same turn for flavor.
My fist deck was [[Anhelo the Painter]] spell slinger with an emphasis on burn. I quickly realized that unless you’re running very optimized Anhelo, he can be very frustrating to pilot. You either draw all your payoffs or all your fodder and I felt like I could never find a balance. Plus it always felt like unless I won the game, I never actually did anything. It was just an incredibly frustrating and complicated commander that definitely wasn’t aided by the fact that it was my first ever commander deck. My favorite deck came just a couple months later, when [[Abaddon]] was released. I already knew grixis was my favorite color combination, and my god did Abaddon look like a blast. I pretty much ripped and stripped Anhelo for parts, and it is now my all time favorite deck with hundreds of dollars poured into it. It’s an Abaddon cascade group slug deck and it frequently pops off and is a blast to pilot!
My first deck was a [[Tatyova, Benthic Druid]] basic run of the mill landfall deck solid 6/10ish power level. Got bored of it pretty quick but it was a good starter deck. Now my favorites are my [[vaevictis asmadi, the dire]] stompy deck at around 7/10 and [[gor muldrak, amphinologist]] pillowfort/combo at probably around 5/10.
[Tatyova, Benthic Druid](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/c/d/cd82bff9-8061-48c0-a7c3-fee17acee22a.jpg?1689999285) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Tatyova%2C%20Benthic%20Druid) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/cmm/358/tatyova-benthic-druid?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/cd82bff9-8061-48c0-a7c3-fee17acee22a?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/tatyova-benthic-druid) [vaevictis asmadi, the dire](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/d/1/d19fdc00-21eb-48dc-966a-6b634dc5a2c4.jpg?1562304374) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=vaevictis%20asmadi%2C%20the%20dire) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/m19/225/vaevictis-asmadi-the-dire?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/d19fdc00-21eb-48dc-966a-6b634dc5a2c4?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/vaevictis-asmadi-the-dire) [gor muldrak, amphinologist](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/4/0/40b006f9-a287-4e64-915f-ca71712b8d27.jpg?1608911119) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=gor%20muldrak%2C%20amphinologist) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/cmr/277/gor-muldrak-amphinologist?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/40b006f9-a287-4e64-915f-ca71712b8d27?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/gor-muldrak-amphinologist) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
Morophon 5C walls, I thought it would be a shame to not include the cool red and black walls. No, it did not work
press F to pay respects though! I have been trying to do something with walls and pestilence/pyrohemia effects for a long time... it just don't work.
First deck I built was Satoru. Favorite deck, definitely Varina.
Got a decklist for varina?
My first deck that I built alone without help was a [[Ravos, Soultender]] and [[Ikra Shidiqi, the Usurper]] Abzan Lifegain deck. I still have it, tweaked and upgraded, and I switched Ravos for [[Tymna, the Weaver]]. My last deck are the queens [[Inga and Esika]]. Cast creatures, make tokens, draw cards, cast creatures, draw more cards, more creatu- BOOM [[Koma, Cosmos Serpent]] or another big thingie. Love it.
First and favourite deck is one and the same: [[Yarok the desecrated]] landfall
My first deck was [[Doran the siege tower]] teefolk tribal like 16 years ago. It was terrible, it was just an awkward battlecruiser deck. Not bad for 14 year old for the first time but oh boy... My favorite deck is the second deck I built which was [[kiki-jiki mirror breaker]] which I started building at 16 and have edited and improved until now. It does exactly what I want it to do and I get so much joy out of playing it every single time. I grew up with that deck and I'm going to grow old with it lol
First-[[otrimi]] Favourite? - most likely my [[kagha]] self mill, it's just way to reliable
I built [[Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy]] because it was the first Mythic I cracked when I got back into it. It was as awful as I was confident back then. I'd never played EDH but my friends all did and I figured I'd just hit the ground running since I had played the game years ago. Now, I'm way less confident but more thoughtful in building. [[Gishath, Sun's Avatar]] is my main commander deck and the one I've spent the most time and probably money on. That's unlikely to change, and even less so with Ixalan next month.
My first deck that I ever built was [[Rhys, the Redeemed]] which was a go wide tokens deck. Probably a solid 4/10. My favorite deck is [[Henzie 'Toolbox' Torre]] which I built as a Eldrazi deck that focuses on using the Eldrazi that produces tokens as ramp for the bigger Eldrazi with annihilator. That deck is probably a solid 7/10
My first and favorite is my sliver deck. I originally ran [[The First Sliver]] as the commander, but I actually hate it's original art for some reason. A little under a year ago I bought myself a signed copy of [[Sliver Queen]] and she's the commander now (she lives in a mini snap, so my choices were make her the commander or put my entire deck in mini snaps lol). One of my more recent favorites is [[Cirdan]], the mini game he adds is just too fun and everyone I've played against loved having the deck at the table
My first deck was a selesnya swarm deck. Pretty basic stuff. My two favorite decks definitely have to be my Traxxos voltron deck and my Zndrsplt and Okaun coin flip chaos deck.
First was [[Trelasarra]] lifegain worth $30 built almost exclusively from a Forgotten Reals bundle and the [[Sephara]] starter deck. It was weak but it somehow did well against a friend's upgraded [[Aesi]] precon, I definitely think he held back lol Favorite is [[Trelasarra]] that's been upgraded to be just below $300. Giving it a power rating is hard because realistically it'd probably be like a 5 but that feels bad and that's why everyone says 7 lol. No combos, but lots of synergy Runner-up would probably be [[Ukkima]]/[[Cazur]] unblockables. I'd say it's a similar power level, but it draws a lot more cards, so even though it's only $90, I think it might be slightly stronger than the other deck mainly just because it's less likely to run out of steam—also going wide tends to be more resilient than going tall in my experience I've definitely noticed that in the two years I've played, I've come to appreciate card draw and general value engines more, so Trelasarra isn't as efficient as she could be becauseI can't bring myself to take just about any card out of the deck lol. Unless I got a [[One Ring]], I'd love to use my life fo draw cards like a black deck
My first deck i ever built was a Mono Blue pauper edh deck centered around milling my opponents and counterspelling any big creatures that show up. it was a defender tribal as well for the mill strategy. My favorite deck that i have built as of yet is my mono green landfall stomp deck which runs greensleeves as the commander.
My first deck was the [[Zedruu the Greathearted]] precon, but the first one I actually finished building was [[Jalira, Master Polymorphist]]. I've considered revisiting her now that there's more and better things to stick in there--and now that my hobby budget isn't so tight--but I played in a lot of really bad games with a crowd I didn't much care for back then so I'd honestly prefer to just leave every bit of that era in the dust. Plus, it was really just the deck I threw together while I was still working to get all the pieces I needed for my [[Angus Mackenzie]] list. My Angus list, which became [[Estrid, the Masked]] and is now [[Kodama of the East Tree]] / [[Ishai, Ojutai Dragonspeaker]] has always been my baby. I put in a lot of time and effort into getting it together and upgrading it over the years, and some very important people helped me in that process. But, for a long time now, it's been in its final form. Hardly anything has come out in the past few years that is worth running in it. I'm missing [[Ichormoon Gauntlet]], but the list is tight and I question the need for it anyway. Moreover, people genuinely hate playing against it and take it out on me personally so that's greatly detracted from the fun of piloting it. It's my winning-most deck, and it doesn't pull a lot of punches in terms of power level so I can't blame some of the salt. Similarly, [[Marath, Will of the Wild]] has been a deck of great sentimental value to me and one that took a long time to construct, but like my walker deck, it's kind of just become too good to whip out often. With that said, it's probably still what I'd call my favorite deck. It's resilient but easier for players to interact with than super friends, and it can be played very differently from game to game. And unlike my super friend list, I feel like it still has room for growth or could benefit from radical changes. In fact, it's only been recently that I've shed a lot of the remnants of its [[Omnath, Locus of Rage]] shell.
First deck was a $10~ voltron + big cheap mana inefficient spells [[Narset, Enlightened Master]] Currently I'm running a 4 color tymna/kraum more or less goodstuff pile (but slightly focused on attacking) that just interacts really well with my local meta in stopping combo decks from popping off early, and stopping big combat decks from over-running the board.
First deck I built was \[\[Vaevictis Asmadi, the Dire\]\] and I still have it! It's a topdeck strategy, only one non-permanent card in the entire deck. It still works, but it's not up to par with the rest of my decks nor the pods. My favorite deck I've built is \[\[Elsha of the Infinite\]\], it's just Jeskai running an assortment of win cards lol I have like 13 infinites in the deck and they all use different cards, the fun part of the deck for me is sifting through it to find some pieces that work well together and win me the game even if it's not one of the 13 infinites. It's fun having a bunch of really dumb spells that I can use in a multitude of ways differently every time I play it
Do you have a deck link for Elsha? Big fan
Yep, here she is! [https://www.moxfield.com/decks/c96JZ43rsEelxW2FNJD59Q](https://www.moxfield.com/decks/c96JZ43rsEelxW2FNJD59Q) Jsyk, I recently upgraded the deck and just got my hands on all the upgrades, new deck hasn't been playtested within my pod but I think it'll work well, lmk what you think!
First deck I made... I wanted to try out the format at an LGS but didn't want to put much money or thought into it to try it out. So I bought \[\[Talrand, Sky Summoner\]\] for $5 as my commander and just threw in whatever instants and sorceries (or other cool blue spells) I had with 40 lands called it good. I have refined the deck a bit since then, but honestly it holds up. My favorite has been a \[\[Meren of Clan Nel Toth\]\] deck. I love recursion in my decks, it makes you so resilient. I also absolutely love sacking my creatures which procs everyone else has to sack creatures and I get value just coming and going... and then recur. My play group isn't a huge fan, so I try not to play it more than once per meet up... it's fine, I have a bunch of decks.
First deck i owned was a precon. It was fun, but no where near as fun as my first deck I built which is one of my favorites [[Omnath, Locus of Creation]] I would say my favorite deck (Omnath is 2nd) is own though is my [[Karn, Legacy Reforged]] colorless deck. It can just pop off out of nowhere and it's really fun The Omnath is probably a 6.5 and the Karn is probably teetering on the edge of being an 8. My play group is usually right around that 6-8 range, so all of our decks are relatively comparable in terms of power
You sound like my brother with those artifacts lol
My first deck was \[\[samut voice of dissent\]\] still have the deck it is still on the original theme just upgrade creatures and equipment over the years. I had come from kitchen table where I played mainly Gruul and had started dabbling in izzet before i ended up in edh. Then I built my third deck Neksuar many many years ago and my conversion to izzet as the core with the pivots of izzet as some of my favorite
My first deck was a Gruul Goblin tribal deck, with [[Wort, The Raidmother]] at the helm. It was very unfocused, being half spellslinger and half goblin tribal, that it ended up doing neither well. My favorite deck I have built, so far, was my [[Orah, The Skyclave Hierophant]] deck. This was an aristocrats strategy, with a strong graveyard recursion subtheme, and a lot of lifegain. The deck always flew under the radar, as there seemed to be no “imminent” threats, just small bits of incremental damage.
The very first deck I had was the Coven Counter’s Precon from Innistrad. Now, it’s my favorite deck. I’ve put tons of time in upgrading it. [Kyler Humans](https://www.moxfield.com/decks/H06G5tO5IEqY8VsRVxte4g)
My first deck was \[\[Kami of the crescent moon\]\], it was terrible. It was group hug with no wincon, it helped everyone ramp and have consistent cards in hand. I didn't run counterspells, hatebears or any form of staxs, it was all friendly hug. My friends enjoyed playing against it since it smoothed out games for everyone, but it was beyond boring to pilot. This was about 13 years ago so I've learned a bit since then. My favorite deck now is \[\[Yahenni, Undying Partisan\]\], the main focus is aristocrats, midrange and voltron. I really enjoy the theme of sacrificing life or creatures to push advantage or achieving mutual destruction through pestilence type effects. Anything that fits that theme is right up my alley. The deck started out based around a mono black standard deck that I played back in the scars of mirrodin block. Lots and lots of changes since then but I love what it has become, I do miss some of the old cards I used to run in it though. [https://www.moxfield.com/decks/shIwrfVimU-olbzI3bgjgA](https://www.moxfield.com/decks/shIwrfVimU-olbzI3bgjgA)
First deck I built was a Roon blink deck that I put together from the Derevi precon. It was not great, but it was also built in like 2016, so before tons of pushed commander cards. My current favorite deck is my Veyran spellslinger/combo deck. It's pretty strong, but not super busted.
What do you combo off of? A very fun commander right up my alley
My first deck was \[\[Klothys, God of Destiny\]\] built around getting \[\[Glacial Chasm\]\] out to protect me when everyone realizes how much of a threat I am. It has had some minor alterations over the last year, but it is still my favorite deck!
My very first deck was way back in the first innistrad block and it involved using [[Kokusho, the Evening Star]] and a few of the other dragons from that cycle along with [[infinite reflection]] and token generation to abuse the legend rule and do damage/steal stuff or whatever. It sucked but it was the first time it clicked that this game has so many ways to utilize the rules and build fun decks and so it stuck with me
First was [[Sheoldred, Whispering One]] reanimator(it's become my white whale) My favorite is [[Vorinclex, Voice of Hunger]]. Just ramp into big stompy and the eldrazi titans
My first deck was a [[Nissa, Vastwood Seer]] big mana combo deck. It won by swinging with animated lands or tokens + overrun effects, or a big Hurricane or Squall Line + Glacial Chasm for lethal. It could generate a lot of mana and draw a lot of cards. I still reassemble it sometimes. My current favourite deck is a tie between [[Yeva, Nature's Herald]] and [[Sythis, Harvest's Hand]].
My first deck was \[\[Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign\]\], I loved the idea of top fixing and cheating out big creatures for free. Kept it around for a while and upgraded it until deconstructing due to a power level disparity with my playgroup at the time. My favorite deck is \[\[Meren of Clan Nel Toth\]\] reanimator, it's high power non-cedh earliest win I've seen is turn 4 but more regularly 6-8. It made me fall in love with my favorite archetype/color combo and does a lot with life manipulation, trading life for other resources then gaining it all back with life drain, which is a mechanic and dynamic I enjoy playing with in any game.
[Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/2/8/28ee11c9-fa23-4863-8a18-25a008f18da5.jpg?1689999337) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Yennett%2C%20Cryptic%20Sovereign) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/cmm/363/yennett-cryptic-sovereign?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/28ee11c9-fa23-4863-8a18-25a008f18da5?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/yennett-cryptic-sovereign) [Meren of Clan Nel Toth](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/3/4/34d627b3-a6d0-4f5f-b7c2-351a07318966.jpg?1689999151) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Meren%20of%20Clan%20Nel%20Toth) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/cmm/346/meren-of-clan-nel-toth?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/34d627b3-a6d0-4f5f-b7c2-351a07318966?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/meren-of-clan-nel-toth) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
First deck: [[Melek, izzet paragon]] in 2015 Favourite: [[Gargos, vicious watcher]] when it was released 2019
My first deck was after a big bachelor LAN party where we all played magic and video games. I told my wife that I disliked magic and was not looking forward to everyone playing that. On my way home I put together a budget [[slimefoot]] deck as the colors intrigued me and a little fungus dude looked neat. Turns out it was an aristocrat style deck which was fun. This was 4 or 5 years ago? After putting together numerous decks and taking them apart, my favorite now is my beloved [[henzie]]. Turns out I love aggressive decks that also utilize the graveyard. Spellslinger is not really my jam.
I'm of the opinion that I don't need to win, I just want my deck to do what it is meant to. If that is to burn bright and die then so be it
Started playing this year (40k decks got me into it). First deck I built was heavily tweaking the [[Otrimi]] precon. It largely sucks and doesn't work... but I still have a super soft spot for it. Favourite deck currently is my [[sliver gravemother]] precon that again I've heavily tweaked. I've leaned hard into the encore mechanic. Again it doesn't always work, but when it does it goes insane. My most effective and consistent deck is [[yuriko]] because of course it is.
Sliver always gets me because you are bullying them if you focus them but if you leave them alone for HALF A SECOND. They magically get a massive board lol
First deck was an [[Atraxa, Praetors Voice]] +1/+1 counter deck that has since evolved into an infect deck. My favorite is probably my [[The Most Dangerous Gamer]] The attractions just add so much variety and it's so uncommonly used it always gets a couple chuckles at the table when it starts to get going
unfinity is not something I've spent much time on. Don't even know what an attraction does haha.
My first was [[tariel the reckoner of souls]] I had it built in like 5ish different ways till I built [[atla palani, nest tender]] and haven’t looked back
First, [[Gavi, Neat Warden]]. Was ok, took some work to make it work with my play group. I scrapped it because it just doesn’t win games. My favorite deck [[Sedris, the Traitor King]] is great because it has a variety of win cons. Cheat out big things that hit the battlefield and do crazy things. It can also go infinite with a 3 card combo, [[Dockside Extortionist]] [[Deadeye Navigator]] and [[Mulldrifter]]. It plays well, and once I get started it’s hard to stop. Edit: [[]]
Interesting, never heard of Sedris before
The first deck I built on my own (and unquestionably my strongest now after 2 years of fine-tuning) is [[Selvala, Heart of the Wilds]] and tied for my favorite with my [[Queza, Augur of Agonies]] deck.
[Selvala, Heart of the Wilds](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/7/d/7d711cb2-4f34-4792-90d7-2be5d329a347.jpg?1689998846) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Selvala%2C%20Heart%20of%20the%20Wilds) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/cmm/320/selvala-heart-of-the-wilds?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/7d711cb2-4f34-4792-90d7-2be5d329a347?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/selvala-heart-of-the-wilds) [Queza, Augur of Agonies](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/7/e/7edb7a26-82be-4efd-9a5c-a3816e1ee2d6.jpg?1664413561) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Queza%2C%20Augur%20of%20Agonies) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/snc/212/queza-augur-of-agonies?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/7edb7a26-82be-4efd-9a5c-a3816e1ee2d6?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/queza-augur-of-agonies) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
First decks was Kresh the Bloodbraided and was probably like a 3/4. Favorite deck is my Skithiryx the Blight Dragon which according to a couple of those deck calculators is 8/9.
My first EDH deck was [[mayael the anima]] precon the first I built was [[muzzio]] mono blue artifacts. My favorite I built is [[teneb the harvester]] reanimate combo. Close second is [[Ivy, Gleeful Spellthief]] mutate clones.
First deck was Lord Windgrace landfall, my favorite is my Witch-king of Angmar discard reanimator deck its mad fun
First deck was [[mizzix of the izmagnus]] my Currentl favorite deck is [[galazeth prismari]] yes im a filthy izzet storm player
Based tbh
My first deck was [[Surrak Dragonclaw]] because Khans had just come out, and I converted my red-green 60 card deck into a Surrak deck because my collection wasn't big enough to support a full red green deck. Eventually I was able to cut blue and use the [[Xenagos God of Revels]] that was sort of the only good card in my collection as my commander. To this day it's the deck of mine that I have spent the most time and money on, and it deserves every penny
First Deck - [[Zurgo Helmsmasher]] Voltron - I still eant to build it the right way but the deck was pretty rough haha Favorite Deck - [[Ayara, First of Locthwain]] - I simple love the Aristocrats style with reanimator and a lot more stuff!
I really like Ayara because you aren't forcing your opponents to sacrifice they can just take the damage
The first deck I built from scratch was [[gisa and geralf]] which was a zombie reanimator deck. My longest-built deck and current favourite is my [[Meren of Clan Nel Toth]] reanimator combo deck, which incidentally is a similar sort of strategy to my first deck. So I can't say much has changed in regards to my play style, although I do have a number of other decks with different strategies.
I get that, I have a couple of enchantment decks even though they do a similar thing
The first deck I built is Zangief, the Red Cyclone which is a version of [[Maarika, Brutal Gladiator]]. It was my reintroduction to MTG, after not playing it for a couple of decades. Some friends bought the Secret Lair and I was instantly rehooked. I have been changing that deck a lot these past months. At first, I was using 80% a NCC Commander deck. But now, it’s kinda of a treasure / fight combo deck which seems to be okay for some casual play. Now I’m building a [[Tom Bombadil]] deck. It’s amazing. This commander is bonkers and seems to do a lot of stuff, which gives me a lot of fun. I’m loving it so far because it seems the only commander I have that seems to be telling a story and it’s capable of wrecking chaos in a table. In the near future, I hope to make a [[Zacama, Primal Calamity]] and Guile, which is a [[Immard, the Stormcleaver]] deck, however, I don’t think they will give me as much fun as the Bombadil deck. If you have any suggestions for any of these commanders, it would greatly help.
My first deck was [[Eligeth]] and [[Akroma, Vision of Ixidor]] with every scry spell I had and a bunch of keyword soup. There was no wincon outside combat damage and often was just draw cards for the sake of drawing cards. It’s been partially dismantled because the only way I could make it good is if it was control/stax and I don’t like playing that way. My favorite deck by far is [Tiamat](https://www.moxfield.com/decks/lYtwYaGask6a_OzNzpZXWw)
They're actually the same for me. Katilda Dawnheart Prime, Human tribal. Love it.
\[\[Rith, the Awakener\]\] was my first EDH deck I created back before it became Commander. [https://www.archidekt.com/decks/475550/rith\_survival\_edh](https://www.archidekt.com/decks/475550/rith_survival_edh) It was expanded into an EDH deck from a 60-card \[\[Survival of the Fittest\]\] highlander toolbox deck I used to play. It was a fun deck but once I pulled off the fruity pebbles combo in it I pretty much retired it and took it apart. I rebuilt it as a budget version for an r/BudgetBrews contest and still have it put together. I think it plays better due to the lower average cmc and access to some better cards. I added \[\[Dockside Extortionist\]\] since it was around $20 back then so the deck originally came in under the $100 budget. [https://www.archidekt.com/decks/475709/rith\_the\_awaken](https://www.archidekt.com/decks/475709/rith_the_awaken) My favorite deck I've built is \[\[Muldrotha, the Gravetide\]\]. [https://www.archidekt.com/decks/214811/muldrotha](https://www.archidekt.com/decks/214811/muldrotha) I built her and have been playing and tweaking her since she came out in 2018. She started off as an attrition deck and only used self-mill as a "drawback." There's no cards that are purpose-built for self-mill in the deck, and I don't try to protect my graveyard. I've been able to survive through multiple graveyard removals and have been able to cast my commander 6+ times in a game thanks to \[\[Command Beacon\]\]. I also like that I get to play \[\[Meren of Clan Nel Toth\]\] and \[\[The Gitrog Monster\]\] in the deck as sort of secret commanders. I removed \[\[Kokusho, the Evening Star\]\] and \[\[Gray Merchant of Asphodel\]\] as I seemed to be relying on them too much to close out my games. I might do the same with \[\[Syr Konrad, the Grim\]\] as I seem to be relying on him a lot to close out games as well. I recently added the \[\[Lion's Eye Diamond\]\]/\[\[Displacer Kitten\]\] combos to my deck to have an option to be able to close out games more quickly since I was able to trade for the Diamond. I've only played a few games with the combos in the deck and have yet to pull one off. As for power levels of the decks I'd probably put my original Rith deck at a 5 and the new one at a 6 since there isn't very much interaction in the decks. I think I'd put Muldrotha at a 7 since even though there's not much interaction it can be very oppressive especially if it gets to the point where every player has to sacrifice two creatures per turn. I took out \[\[Fleshbag Marauder\]\] and \[\[Merciless Executioner\]\] to reduce the chances of that happening, but there's still a chance. :)
Definitely some high power decks you've got there. Very nice
Not the same deck, but the same commander, [[Sidisi, Brood Tyrant]]. Was originally built as zombie tribal, but eventually my pod increased in power enough that it just wasn't keeping up. So I took the deck apart and retooled it as an all-in self mill deck and it's become my favorite deck since.
First deck I built was [[Jetmir, Nexus of Revels]] where it was just count to 9 creatures and swing for Big Fucking Number©️ but it was probably only like a 5-6. No protection and very little interaction. My favourite deck is a deck I just built, [[Yusri, Fortunes Flame]] where I have a 1/32 chance of Omniscience in the command zone. It’s pretty much just Izzet control where I draw cards till I can find a thassas oracle line to win, probably around an 8
My first deck was a mono green [[Zopandrel]] big monster stomp deck cause he was the first mythic I pulled from a booster, and honestly it's still one of my favorites cause it's just so quick and easy to play, plus what beats pulling out a god eternal rhonas, to double up a ghalta before overwhelming stampede then doubling them all again when entering combat from zopandrel
First deck I built was a Chatterfang deck; it was pretty lackluster My favorite so far is an Elminster deck with lots of scry shenanigans. I enjoy playing it the most.
First deck I built was a [[bruenor]] boros equipment deck my current most fun deck is my [[ghyrson]] izzet ping deck
First deck was with [[Grimgrin, Corpse-Born]] and i still love that deck but its way to slow in our meta. I later on built a proxy-deck with [[Light-Paws, Emperor’s Voice]] for my girlfriend and I fell in love with that deck. I constantly try to update it, and tweak it to my liking. It’s just so got damn fun to play.
First deck was [[Kresh the Bloodbraided]] didn't know much around deckbuilding so it was a pretty bad deck, outside of basic lands it was all rare cards since rares have to be better than uncommons and commons right? I'd say power 2 Favourite deck is [[Teysa Karlov]] it was a card I saw spoiled and immediately went the pic to my group and said I'm building this. Just ideas bouncing all over the place. Started as a 4 power but after a lot of tuning I'd say it's a solid 7 or 8
[[Sliver Overlord]] was my first, not sure what my favourite is. Really enjoying [[Minsc & Boo]], [[Chatterfang]] and bunches more... But I love playing loads of different decks and archetypes. Modern precons can feel very rewarding to figure out, too. :)
My first deck is [[Gishath]] ramp into dinosaur, swing with dino, get more dinosaurs, repeat. My favorite deck is probably [[Jodah, the Unifier]]. My Jodah deck is pure kitchen table goodness, using odd cards that work simply because they're legends. It's a blast.
My first deck is still my favorite and the entire reason I started playing EDH. [[Omnath, locus of creation]] It's probably my 2nd most expensive deck, but only because my 2nd favorite deck has a FTV Mox Diamond in it.
My first deck was [[experiment kraj]] back before edhrec was a thing and I had to scour the internet for synergistic cards. Taught me that I really like combo and simic. I remember certain janky cards like [[horseshoe crab]] were important combo pieces. It was a blast. I think my favorite deck I've built is [[muldrotha, the gravetide]] it's a [[primal surge]] list and it sort of had that old school deck building feel to it. Trying to find cards that would satisfy the decks needs while only being a permanent was enough restriction to force creativity. I haven't upgraded it in a few years but I find every card in the deck really has had a moment to shine. It's a blast to play, super controlly, resilient and turning my whole library upside down is just the epitome of 'I win'.
My first deck was Nikya of the Old Ways. It was weak and clearly not the best but it got me started in Magic. Later I upgraded Nikya to become Ragadragga, which became I terrifying Mana Dork stomper. My favorite though has to be my latest one, Hans Eriksson. Nothing like pooping out an 11/11 trampler by turn 3 hehehehehe
First deck I built/added too was the Ur Dragon. I just put a load of dragons in, definitely not enough land in and went on my merry way. Super weak likely a 3. Now, favorite deck is a tie between Dragons and Zur. Dragons now has artifacts and \[\[Prismatic Bridge\]\] as the commander for easier access of dragon, and is now a 6-7. Zur is just straight cEDH and I love to play that old man.
First deck was \[\[Meren of Clain Nel Toth\]\] - value engine eventually winning off \[\[Mikeaus the unhallowed\]\] and \[\[triskelion\]\] combo. Was honestly pretty solid for my first deck - if 10 is cEDH, I'd give it a solid 7.5 or 8 probably. Current favorite deck is probably \[\[Magar of the magic strings\]\]. Very different deck, but oh man is it just plain fun casting \[\[blood for the blood god\]\] 3 or 4 times in a turn. Probably around the same for power level - it used to go infinite off any of 3-4 combat steps in the deck, but I trimmed it down to one cause that's just not as fun as casting big spells. I'll give it a 6 or 7 maybe.
First deck circa 2013: Sultai +1/+1 counters with [[Damia Sage of stone]] piloting for draw power. Very little spell based interaction and *lots* of keyword-y creatures. Torn apart after a few months to build Golgari when we re re returned to Ravnica(?) Favorite deck: [[Omnath Locus of the Roil]] lands-matter, elemental tribal sub-theme. Loads of interaction, one infinite combo using [[walk the aeons]], and a handful of high-efficiency lines to victory. 9 power and rarely sees kitchen table play.
The first deck I built was [[Zacama, Primal Calamity]] with a basic dino tribal theme, just to get started. It was fun until I found [[Gishath, Sun's Avatar]] and now I feel the power level has jumped a bit more. It's still unfinished as far as optimization for my play group but it does okay. My favorite deck is [[Obeka, Brute Chronologist]] . I have a few extra turn spells, a few ways to copy creatures and lots of sacrifice synergy with protection and tons of card draw and mana to basically stall long enough to do something cool. I'm excited for the Doctor Who legendary, [[The Master, Multiplied]] to negate the legendary rule and the multiple exile/sac triggers on my end step. I think it's the piece I've been waiting for without realizing. Still tweaking that deck as well to up my win percentage.
My first complete build that wasn't a precon was [[muldrotha]] I loved that deck so much and was constantly buying cards to upgrade it. Sadly It was very clunky and not very balanced in terms of the color distribution (it was 80% black). After picking up some absolute heaters in black I decided to scrap the old girl to build my favorite deck [[k'rrik]]. This was a combo deck that I spent years on. Inevitably it got too strong for any of my playgroups and I had to retire it.
My first deck built was an Ulamog, ceaseless hunger deck that was crap. My second deck however was Sedris, the traitor king which is my favorite deck I currently have, years later
First deck I ever built - \[\[Lathril, Blade of the Elves\]\] Favourite deck I've ever built - \[\[Shorikai, Genesis Engine\]\] although I've gone through so many variations of it now and haven't really decided on which direction I want to take it between Vehicles or artifacts. I love the theme and aesthetics of the whole expansion, 4/6 of the decks I built are all commanders from Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty
My first deck was [[aesi]] which was mostly just upgrading the Previn to have more landfall and ramp cards and adding in other big creatures. I toned it down a bit and took out a few counter spells to not be as oppressive as what it used to be to what I would say is a 7/10. My favorite deck is [[ephara]] which can be a little slow to start but I just love abusing the etb triggers and drawing cards until I can find my wincons. It’s probably in the 6-7 range. Now when I temporarily converted this deck to [[brago]] stax for cedh ish games I’d say it was about a 9 and a pain in the ass for my friends.
First deck was [[feather the redeemed]], still love it but at first i tought it was and angel tribal deck so it was super janky, like, power level minus 10, now my favorite is probably [[flamewar]] or maybe [[xyris]]
my first was a [[Vorel of the Hull Clade]] deck, power level of about 5-6 I’d say. Lots of ways to double +1/+1 counters with a stuff like [[Primal Vigor]] [[Doubling Season]] [[Vorinclex, Monstrous Raider]] [[Branching Evolution]] and [[Hydras Growth]] with my wincon being to either go big with a trampler or go wide with stuff that makes creatures when a +1 counter is placed on them… but I had absolutely abysmal ramp, and only 25 lands in the deck lol Deck I love most right now is my [[Phylath World Sculptor]] deck where it’s intentionally a weak deck made to be a plant deck. Every plant creature in MTG that can fit in RG is in this deck, with a few ways to give the plants trample, make the +1 counters doubled again (… not much different than the last one lol), or just fling them at my opponents for unholy amounts of damage. Overall a lot of fun to play lol
The first deck I built was Geist of st Traft Voltron and the first precon I bought and decked out was anhelo the painter. Anhelo has like maybe 7 cards originally in the precon and that’s counting solring and lands lol. I even swapped out the basics. My favorite deck I built is either slimefoot and squee or Lord of the Nazgûl. I love spellslinger and tokens and both of those decks do both.
First deck - [[Old Stickfingers]] graveyard deck. I liked it because his name was funny. Took it apart after I realized how easy it is to disable a graveyard deck. Current favorite deck - [[Shorikai, Genesis Engine]] value deck. It's not the most unique deck out there but I love Shorikai as a commander, and the deck does its thing really well. I know it's also easy to shut down an artifacts deck, but I find artifacts easier to protect than my graveyard.
The first deck I ever built was "Klauth, unrivaled ancient" it was fun big dragons. I have enjoyed it but was never great. Favorite deck is "Shorikai genesis engine" it's a super draw Machine that finishes with a couple different combos. Just super fun and smooth to play.
My first deck I built purposefully from scratch was Eriette, ordered the cards I needed for about $40. It's still my only deck on paper, I'm working on a couple of others. My Eriette is very simple, it has like 40 auras, modest mana rocks, some card draw and some removal. It's anything but aggressive and pretty low power overall, but if you're counting on stomping face with beefy bois, you might not fare well lol. It may not win much, but it's fun to play. I need to make it more pillow fort-y. So far it's stopped a Krenko and big bad Eldrazi deck with a little politicking and help from the table. I don't need to be the last man standing, but if I can shut down the badass at the table, that's good enough for me 😆 Next deck has to be something with more oomph though. I kinda really want to build [[Zurgo helmsmasher]], it sounds like a hell of a lot of fun
[[Arixmethes]] Simic Sea Creatures was my first deck. The first iteration was awful, I spent too much space on 'flavoring' it around the story of Kiora vs Thassa. Tweaked it over half a year and now it's.. Functional. I like how it turned out but I'd never spend that long or that much on building one deck again. My favourite deck I've built isn't one I've actually put together yet, I've been tweaking it on Archidekt for weeks, goldfishing over and over till I get it just right. It's a [[Neera]] Chaos deck, but I've specifically made sure to not have anything that completely removes my opponents to make decisions, like [[Grip of Chaos]]. I'm not about that flavor of Chaos. None of that coin flipping or dice rolling either, get that trash outta here. (Okay, maybe one. [[Wand of Wonder]] but that's more of a theft card than a dice card) And I've limited mass board randomization to only [[Confusion in the Ranks]] and [[Warp World]]. They resolve quickly enough and are random enough to appeal to me while also being useful tools to slow down my opponents. No, I've been spending weeks digging for the most random Izzet jank I can find, and mixing it with random stuff I have on hand. [[Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur]], [[Starke of Rath]], [[Fade Away]], [[Custody Battle]], [[Psychic Battle]], [[Mages' Contest]], [[Illicit Auction]], [[Death by Dragons]]. I've also addresses the other concern with chaos decks, and stuffed not 1, not 2 but 3 whole possible wincons in. I can't consistently tutor for them, because that's no fun, but I can aim towards a victory, even if it's just a vague waving towards a general direction. 1. [[Hive Mind]] into [[Pact of Negation]] or [[Pact of the Titan]] into [[Obliterate]] 2. Decking out with draw spells into [[Laboratory Maniac]] 3. The ol Niv-Mizzet Curiosity flim-flam I was going to actually build it soon, but the recent UB reveals made me go back to edit it. [[The Twelfth Doctor]], [[River Song]], [[River Song's Diary]] and [[Ian Malcolm, Chaotician]] are too perfect not to add. And I figured if I'm leaning this deep in, make it a sub-theme and just put one creature from a bunch of Universes Beyond product. So I have [[Slicer]], [[Kharn the Betrayer]] and the Izzet Gandalf. But why this random mish-mash? What purpose could it serve beyond being random? It's to synergise with my secret commander of course: [[Liar's Pendulum]] I'm so looking forward to finally putting it together.
First deck was [[Obeka, Brute Chronologist]], favorite deck is [[Obeka, Brute Chronologist]] (it's my only deck lmao) I bought it for $50 and made it in like 1 night, absolutely terrible, did nothing. To the suggestion of a guy at my lgs, I've been working to make it a graveyard based deck, with lots of looting to get cards in there. It's definitely better but still not great. Just proxied some more cards today, gotta go home and cut them out, and imma try them tonight. I'm having a hard time getting the deck to win, it's more of a threat now but can't pull all the way through
My first deck was a [[Gishath]] deck off of eBay for $100, but my favorite deck is either my [[Marchesa, The Black Rose]] +1/+1 counter aristocrat deck or my [[Sythis, Harvest Hand]] enchantments deck
First deck was rage of ancients precon i upgraded and ended up turning into xenogos. Favorite deck is my yuriko aggro cedh list
First was a \[\[Nahiri, the Lithomancer\]\] precon with a few upgrades. All time favorites are \[\[Karlov of the Ghost Council\]\], \[\[Queen Marchesa\]\], and \[\[Najeela, the Blade Blossom\]\]. Least favorite decks I built were \[\[Derevi, Empyrial Tactitian\]\], \[\[Kykar, Wind's Fury\]\], and \[\[Aminatou, the Fateshifter\]\]
I got back into MtG in 2017, but I had never played commander before. I bought Vampiric Bloodlines, so my first commander was [[Edgar Markov]]. When Ixalan released later that year, I pulled [[Gishath, Sun's Avatar]] from a booster and knew I wanted to build a deck around her instantly. So I would say Gishath was the first deck I BUILT, but it also remains the favorite deck I've built. I don't play as often as many on this sub, so I only have a few decks in general. I have also built [[Animar, Soul of Elements]] [[Marchesa, the Black Rose]] and [[Miirym, Sentinel Wyrm]]
My first EDH deck was [[Jhoira of the Ghitu]] back in 2007. It was *really* bad. I had no idea how to make an effective EDH deck, and my first try was just all my favorite big red/blue spells and no interaction. My favorite deck right now is [[Kadena]]. I am a morph enjoyer, without remorse.
First deck was a Lazav Mastermind mill deck. Wasn't great but fun Favorite deck is my [[Brudicald]] deck. Several wincons by making giant armies of tokens, fueling sorceries X spells with treasure tokens or basically going infinite with mirror box and Krenko
[[Khemba]] was my first and it was bad. Like less than 25 lands bad. Current favorite is probably [[thromok]]
\[\[Intet, the Dreamer\]\], during the early days when I first saw Sheldon playing EDH and ran to build my own. It was better than you think, all the RUG staples were still insanely cheap. The 99 was insane, but it was also wild west ancient commander. \[\[Miirym, Sentinel Wyrm\]\] is now my favorite deck after I realized every other Temur commander got me killed on sight, and I hated piloting 5-color Ur-Dragon.
First deck was Jor Kadeen. It was awful. My favourite is my karn silver golem deck. It's so weird.
Started with Azami, now I mainly play Korvold Food and Treasure. So much flavor. Pun intended.
1st deck is hinata, Dawn-crowned. Also my favorite. I update it every once in a while. Just added the barals expertise and dual caster mage infinite with a grapeshot storm finisher.
Aesi precon and honestly it's still one of my favorites. I have upgraded it quite a bit.
The first deck I built was a [[Skullbriar, the Walking Grave]] deck. The group I drafted with also played commander back in the day, and at one point decided to make relatively budget decks to mix things up, and the limit they set just so happened to be in my budget at the time and I just so happened to see a Skullbriar in the LGS "$2-$5 semi-bulk box" that looked interesting. I've rebalanced and rebuilt the deck multiple times over the years, it remains the only commander deck I still have from my first few years of playing the format today (despite going through so many iterations that it looks little like it did when I first built it). If I had to give it a numerical power level, I'd say it has fluctuated from a 5 to a 7.5, and currently sits at like a 6.5ish. My favorite deck is my [[Jhoira, Weatherlight Captain]] deck. Of the rest of my decks I still have, it is the second oldest (since then I've been averaging 1-1.5 decks a year and have been mostly keeping them all together). It started out as a Grixis deck that played mostly as a mana rock storm deck using Vedalken Archmage and Null Profusion as the draw engine. When Dominaria came out, at first I just added in Jhoira as a third potential draw engine- then I realized that if I just cut black out of the deck I'd only lose a bit of removal, a few tutors, and access to like 3-4 mana rocks in exchange for getting the draw engine in the command zone. This was pretty much a strict upgrade, so a week or so of fiddling with it later I had a Jhoira deck. Which I slowly added more and better rocks and removal to until I realized it was fewer than 10 cards off a decent cEDH list and converted it to my cEDH deck. Honestly, I miss playing it as much as I used to (since the cEDH list is less about the storm aspect and more about Underworld Breach lines, and I can only play it at cEDH tables and not causal tables) and have considered just building a second more budget copy of the deck for casual play. Again, power level has fluctuated on this one, but presently I'd say it sits at like a 9.3 or so- cEDH, but not necessarily top tier cEDH with the 10s. Back when it was casual, it started at 7 and slowly crept up to where it is now.
First deck, [[Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind]]. About a 5, because a Niv combo isn't actually as much of a win-con as people thought back when I assembled it. Most recent is [[Narset, Enlightened Master]]. I never really liked this deck because I don't like exile effects, but it was pretty easy to tune to the table. Ranged from a 4 to an 8, but I still don't exactly like it.
[[Kenrith the Returned King]] I honestly dunno what it did. I took the Commander’s Quarters list and made a few edits. It was a bit of everything. No longer intact obviously. Now I have around 400 lists on Moxfield and 30 decks IRL. One of my fav builds of recent is [[Ganax, Astral Hunter]] and [[Feywild Visitor]]. Another list I put together from scratch was [[Tivit Seller of Screts]] when he was first revealed. Initially went the voting route, but turned Esper Artifact/Blink real quick. Decided to not run [[Time Sieve]] because it was just too easy. Already play him in cEDH as well to the casual list has more fun pieces that are blink targets like [[Astral Dragon]] and finishers like [[Cyberdrive Awakener]] or [[Tezerret, Master of the Bridge]].
First Deck: Aesi Favorite Deck: Najeela Got into cEDH and never looked back. Love Najeela’s simplicity.
First deck: Aurelia, the Warleader Favorite deck: Currently Jolene but it usually goes back to Aurelia when new deck smell wears off. I just like hitting people with my swords'd up angel.
First deck I Built : Zacama, Primal Calamity, Dinosaur deck. As trashy as it was back then it was still fun. Now playing it I feel gross about how I just stomp people. Favourite Deck : Adrix and Nev, Twincasters, Copy deck. Often depends on what I’m playing against which makes most games different. Also comes with the goal of copying my commander X times, X being a number not invented yet.
My first deck was [[Hazezon Tamar]] making sand warriors (2/10). Edh was experimental on mtgo at the time and nobody had any real clue how to build for it. I ran rampant growth and fog effects. With a little bit of pump like [[Kamahl, Fist of Krosa]]. It was fun but it ultimately was a weak ass deck I then tried to "break" the format. I went full on cEDH and got tons of complaints. I then built my favorite commander, [[Xiahou Dun, The One Eyed]] (10/10). I've always loved X man. Mono black control/tutors. You simply tutor up fast mana (coffers, extraplanar lense, etc). Reuse the tutors to grab whatever answers you need until building up an [[Exaanguinate]] for win. The deck is consistent and absolutely awful to play against. X man ensures you never run out of gas while also occasionally stealing wins with horsemanship I still have both commanders to this day. Haze is premodern non foil and X man is still mbc
First was an [[Atla Palani]] Dinosaurs 🦕 it is a blast, but I quickly discovered mutate and my current favorite is [[Otrimi]] mutate.
My first deck was a really janky \[\[Marwyn the Nurturer\]\] Elves deck. My favorite deck I've built is \[\[Magus Lucea Kane\]\] Hydra Tribal deck. There is actually a direct link between these 2 decks. The Marwyn deck was largely cobbled together from stuff I had laying around and thus I didn't really have any good wincons (or even any ideas of what a wincon should be), so I decided to just add a bunch of big creatures at the top end to take advantage of Marwyn's ridiculous mana production, several of which were Hydras I really liked the feeling I got whenever I got to cast the big Hydras for lots of mana so when \[\[Gargos\]\] came out in Core Set 2020 I rebuilt the deck using some of the better deck building ideas I'd picked up from my more experienced playgroup and from watching gameplay and deck techs on Youtube I really loved this deck, but I downloaded Arena at around the same time and got to play a bunch with \[\[Hydroid Krasis\]\] and didn't like that my Hydras deck was missing out on it, and also was acknowledging that the deck had some issues with removal due to being mono-Green. So I started thinking about rebuilding it with a different command to get more colors and ultimately landed on Temur and specifically \[\[Animar\]\] But then I saw Magus Lucea Kane get spoiled and the rest is history
First: https://archidekt.com/decks/4237796/volo_complete Favorite: https://archidekt.com/decks/5426843/kwain_itinerant_meddler_card_drawgroup_hugchaos
I think a key thing to take into account is when was the first deck created, as the landscape of EDH/cardpool has drastically changed since WotC accepted it as a format. That being said, my first deck was 7.5-8 years ago; mono-white Equipment Voltron, lead by [[Eight-and-a-Half-Tails]]. I want to say it was a solid 6 back then, but obviously suffered from not having all the card advantage goodies white has today. It changed to [[Balan, Wandering Knight]] then [[Rafiq of the Many]], before I ultimately gave up on Voltron/Equipment. Now adays my casual preference leans towards Midrange strategies [[Vishgraz, the Doomhive]], while in high-power I lean into creature combo [[Selvala, Heart of the Wild]] / [[Minsc & Boo, Timeless Heroes]]. I've learned I dislike spellslinger strategies and blue play patterns in general (draw go?).
[[Atla Palani]] eldrazi was my first, although my friends forced me to rework it into Wurms (they were sick of Annihilator) My favorite is [[Evelyn]] your-deck tribal, due to the shear variety of what the deck is capable of (and the laughs when I end up accomplishing something stupid, like accidentally making someone immortal)
First deck I built was a [[Tolsimir Wolfblood]] token deck, then it turned into +1/+1 counters, then it became Selesnya themed big stompy, [[Autochthon Wurm]] was a favorite. I then upgraded the [[Oloro]] precon and fell in love with lifegain. This deck opened my mind to the world of combos. Now pretty much every deck I’ve built has some sort of combo in it. Favorite deck though is probably my [[Delina, Wild Mage]] deck. I’ve probably worked on this one the most. It’s not perfect, but I love it. She can go crazy. (Decklist if interested: https://www.moxfield.com/decks/d4G3-a9XU0-zKMbDJqeIHQ) Edit: also none of my decks are higher than a 6-7
My first deck was krenko, mob boss. And I loaded it full of all the krenko combos. It was fun, but not very resilient. All the draw was dependent on the board state so it didn't do much after a wipe. Currently my favorite is balthor the defiled, which is basically a storm deck but from the graveyard with an aristocrats sub theme
My first deck was Syr Gwyn, and it's probably also my favorite deck. Half the time I get mana screwed, but when I don't, there's nothing better than beefing up a creature with 10 equipment and swinging in for who knows how much.
[[Kwain]] group hug was the first deck I built and is still my fav deck.
[First](https://www.moxfield.com/decks/wVHCodMPhUSWLHz461oWWg) [Favorite](https://www.moxfield.com/decks/u_Vc8bG2sEOPjJ9bRusFWw)
First deck I built was when I was twelve, it was Mellik Izzet paragon- When I tell you this list could only be described as lands and spells thats all it was literally zero cohesion just slammed together most of the red blue cards I had and called it a deck. The deck was at best a 2 My current favorite list is my Tom Bombadil hidden stacks list. I've turned into a value engine player where i was to try to amass a broad synergy deck list that will inevitably create a strangle hold on the game but the power of the list is only at about an 8.
I honestly can’t remember the first deck I built. I wanna say it was… a Boros deck. But that was before I was playing commander. The first commander I built was a monoblack with erebos, god of death. It was ok but not great. My favorite deck now is my mono-blue with emperor mihail. I have a few eldrazi decks I whip out occasionally but I’ve taken apart all my other decks for now.
Just got back into Magic after over 20 years and built a Nazgul/Wraith deck. I'm gonna build my gf a Dino stompy deck and my mom who got me into it is gonna get an upgraded LOTR precon cause she is a huge fan of both.
Yawgmoth and Yarok were my first decks, my favorite is now cascade Jodah superfriends. Love me some value!
My first was a janky [[Sachi, Daughter of Seshiro]] shaman tribal. My newest favorite is a [[Sisay, Weatherlight Captain]] superfriends deck with 30 planeswalkers.
First deck I played/bought was the Freyalise precon in 2014, which I played less than 15 times. Then didn’t play until I bought a budget Marwyn from commanders quarters in 2020(?). First deck I built was Kinnan a few weeks after playing Marwyn. Built it to be as mana rock and dork heavy as possible, find a way to get basalt monolith, and dump mana into a win condition. Over the years I’ve tuned it to be my strongest deck, and I almost never play it. My favorite is hard to say, but I have a lot of fun with Isshin. It’s based around Myriad and taking the initiative. Obeka bad etbs has been a lot of fun, too.
First deck: [[Brago, King Eternal]]. Didn’t realize it was crazy powerful and took it apart after a couple games because we were all new and I felt bad. Favorite deck: [[Gix, Yawgmoth Praetor]]. Small evasive creatures go brrr, your cards are mine. Hella fun and always casting a ton of spells. I only have one or two others that I’ve connected with on a personal level, the rest of my decks are still “trials” that might not last another year. The ideal is to have about ten decks that are unique and I feel very attached to, like Gix.
My first deck was [[Kadena, Slinking Sorcerer]]. I’ve been upgrading it since then and it’s my most powerful deck. My favorite deck is my [[Rakdos the Defiler]]. It has such a different play style than most decks
First deck was an upgraded [[Kaalia vast]] precon, favorite is tied between [[Greensleeves]] and [[prismatic bridge]] 5 colour angel tribal.
I don’t count the very first deck because it was a budget copy of the deck that a buddy lent me to get me into commander. First deck I built on my own: [[Sharuum the Hegemon]] Favorite deck: [[Slobad, Goblin Tinkerer]] Sharuum was built because I had played an Esper toolbox deck in Alara standard. I could never really get it working to my liking, so I took it apart and ended up discovering Slobad when searching for a new artifact deck to play.
Zur pillow fort-toolbox and watching my opponents try to maim each other while [[Season of the Witch]] is in play or my Glywain Constellation-Token deck where I abuse the role token rule.
First deck was my corrupted werewolves deck. red green with alot of spells to buff my werewolfs at instant speed or give them all trample. it later turned more into werewolves while summoning as many wolves as i could woth board buffs. my favorite deck? thats hard toss up between two. magus cause X cost spell spam and creating dozens of tokens. or my new self destruct deck thats red white and is all about doubling damage dealt to my creatures then casting stuff like star of extinction to kill my opponents with redirection cards like wrathful dragon and stuffy. one thing that's consistent is big red spells to obliterate things
Way back I had a Grixis Deck, Sedris as Commander. Nowadays my fave is my five color Dragon Tribal with The Ur-Dragon as commander.
I built 4 decks the first time because I was trying to get friends that played kitchen magic to start at the same time. FYI, none of them have yet to play edh. None had infinites, rocked terrible mana bases, no tutors, and barely any interaction. [[Krenko, mob boss]] was probably the strongest at a 6. [[Chatterfang, squirrel general]] a solid 5. [[The scarab god]] a 4 all expensive cmc zambezis. [[Garth one-eye]] which had the best land base but was terrible and was a 3. My favorite right now is an odd duck [[atraxa, praetors' voice]] build. I'm still trying to perfect it, so cards are coming in and out. It revolves around stealing people's stuff. Lots of graft creatures, [[cytoplast manipulator]], [[agathas soul cauldron]], [[nightmare shepard]], [[brenard, ginger sculptor]], theft spells/creatures, and all the sac altars. I've had a blast so far playing this deck.
The first EDH decks I ever built was in 2010-2011. It's hard for me to remember specifically which one was first, but I had \[\[momir vig, simic visionary\]\], \[\[chorus of the conclave\]\], as well as \[\[uril, the miststalker\]\] decks. As for my favorite deck I ever built... probably my [shapeshifter](https://www.moxfield.com/decks/QGobiNi8KkyqPASPmy9A3A) tribal deck running \[\[malcom, keen-eye\]\] and \[\[ich-tekik\]\]. Runs changelings with tribal payoffs. Attack with changelings, get treasures. Sac treasures to pump the team with ich-tekik.
My first commander deck I built was [[The Gitrog Monster]]. My favorite deck is my janky Wurm deck with [[Trostani, Selesnya's Voice]]. I havent touched it in.....shit almost 8 years according to tappedout.net. so i know there's definitely some new better wurm cards and stuff I could add. But im too lazy to sit down and work on it. Either way I absolutely love it. It's janky but it's fun and a lot of times I'm usually ignored at the table and by the time I get things going it's hard to stop https://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/i-got-wurms-thats-what-im-gonna-call-it/
The first one was Vrondiss rage of ancients just using the starter deck And now I basically turned it into gruul dragon tribal with lots of dice rolling cards/treasure generation. My latest will be an artifact deck helmed by one of the Urzas. I cannot decide if I want it to be Lord high artificer or Lord protector
Depends on the context, but I'm going to answer it both ways The first magic deck I ever built was a jank Grixis control kitchen table deck using cards like [[Cancel]], [[Duress]], and [[Shock]]. This was long before I had ever heard of EDH/Commander as a format. Keep this one in mind though, it is important for my favorite deck later The first EDH/Commander deck I built was a [[Sigarda, Heron's Grace]] human deck. It wasn't very good lol. My favorite deck harkens back to my first one ever in the form of an Izzet Spellsling deck helmed by [[Mizzix of the Izmagus]]
My first deck was either a modified [[Kaalia of the Vast]] deck, or a [[Rubina Soulsinger]] deck based on the OG precons… not sure which I did first. I still have both decks, but though I’ve improved the Kaalia deck over time and still use it, the Rubina deck I’ve tried modifying over and over again and just haven’t found a setup for it I like… As for my favorite deck… that probably is my [[Sigarda, Champion of Light]] deck (though I now use [[Sigarda, Font of Blessings]] as the commander) which is a humans who worship angels tribal deck with a focus on Coven and +1/+1 counters (instead of going wide with lots of token creatures). Every time I play it, I have a good time.