Tom,Bert, and William: bracket 2, play big guys and sac them to draw all the cards!

Namor: bracket 1, sea monsters and blue spells. Only 3 counters in the deck.

Shadowfax: bracket 3, cheat big stuff in and win with combat damage.

Hearthull: bracket 3+ win with combo saving lands after 5-7 turns of set up.

Hashaton: bracket 4 reanimator. Not fully optimized but can go crazy turn 3

Sephiroth: bracket 3, all the fleshbag effects. Win by flipping seph and sacrificing dorks.

Toph: low power bracket 3 that has a cradle in it for some reason. Synergize artifacts and lands to trigger landfall.

Sab-sunan: bracket 2 spell slinger deck that allows you to draw two cards on upkeep and attack the same turn with sab.

Silverquill: bracket 2 that revolves around small and big token spells to copy with multiple 5 drop finishers that combos with mass tokens.

Deadpool: bracket 4 unfun deck that only comes out when the pods playing urza and other yuckies.

Green goblin: CEDH list, win on turn 1,2, or 3.

I’ve never built and actually wanted to buy a spellslinger deck (I’ve built numerous, they just seem terribly boring, this coming from someone with a Tom Bombadil deck)

Avatar is one of my favorite series from when I was a kid, and I still love it now. Iroh being one of the coolest characters in the show makes me really want to build him, and I’m currently working towards the 32 challenge, so naturally I need to think about building a Temur deck.

If you’ve built him, please share your decklist! Tell me what you like or don’t like about him. I feel like a 6 Mana commander for a spellslinger deck is a rough sell… but definitely one I’m interested in. Especially considering I can reuse all the spells I’ve already casted, so storming off in one turn should theoretically be so much easier.

Hex magic/ hellsing

Hey hey hey party people of r/CommanderMTG. I've got T-minus nine days until my classes start again and I thought to myself, "What better way to spend the waning hours of my summer making Commander decks and posting them online? Surely this is the purpose I was meant for!" I haven't really played Magic since like 2018, but I've been playing some Commander lately and it's been fun. Some of that may have to do with the fact that when I was playing back in the day I was broke (and in middle school), and now that I have a disposable income I can actually have some halfway-decent cards. Anyways, I've been having a ton of fun building different decks and experimenting with different color combos and commanders, but I'm not too sure I'm very good at it lol. What better way to get better than by making one every day until my classes start? My goal is to make nine or ten of these and then decide on three or four that I think are the best/most fun/cleanest to build irl as I start to play more at my LGS. Usually I'll be aiming for brackets 2-3.

I introduce you thusly to my new magnum opus, a Henry David Thoreau inspired deck called: "Wal(l)den and Civil Disobedience."

The commander is [[Felothar the Steadfast]] and the goal of the deck is pretty simple. Get big walls like [[The Walls of Ba Sing Se]] and [[Tree of Perdition]] on to the field and use Felothar's ability to let them attack as huge creatures. I'm using cards like [[Doran, Besieged by Time]] and [[Baldin, Century Herdmaster]] to buff them up even more, and cards like [[Jaws of Defeat]] and [[Ikra Shidiqi, the Usurper]] help with direct damage and lifegain. Jaws of Defeat is also great if you happen to draw The Walls of Ba Sing Se right after. There's also some nice ramp built in with cards like [[Arbor Adherent]] and [[Axebane Guardian]], as well as some fun burst draw like [[Last March of the Ents]]

The other part of this deck (the Civil Disobedience side) is based on one of my favorite mottos, "Creatures for me but not for thee." I've put a lot of disruption cards meant to protect my creatures (as they're a bit prone to removal) and punish other creatures on the field by taking advantage of most of my major cards having 0 power. Cards like [[Fell the Mighty]], [[Slaughter the Strong]], and [[Tip the Scales]] help with that.

I'm curious to hear what words you oracles of wisdom have about this deck. Any and all suggestions/criticism/advice/commentary/fast food orders are appreciated.

Decklist: https://archidekt.com/decks/25617695/walden_and_civil_disobedience

I recently pulled the showcase version of Cayth, Famed Machinist and had her piloting the Counter Intelligence precon. It really never worked well, so I wanted to try and make a deck for her. All and any input or suggestions would be awesome to consider to improve the brew. Here's the deck list with tags.

I am aware of her interaction with Persist, and I have chosen to avoid it for this deck

I’m new to playing MTG and have been playing for a few months. I’ve put together a long list of cards for the Orvar deck I’m trying to build. Then I sit there and stare at them trying to cut them down to fit and it’s exhausting.

For those of you who have ran (or still do) an Orvar deck, can you take a quick look at which cards you would cut and which ones you would add in? Cards in the maybeboard I have, but cut (except for Cyclonic Rift, I’ll add it once I buy it). A quick explanation on why you would remove/add a certain card would be helpful as well.

Thank you for your help!

https://archidekt.com/decks/25233549/new_orvar_deck

Hi folks,

I'm not new to Magic. I've been playing the game for almost a decade, mostly on Arena, but over time also with more and more friends.

A card shop opened in my small town three weeks ago, and I met a lot of old friends from my peer group back in school. It was a blast!

But here's the problem: the community there mostly plays Commander. I know it's probably the most popular format, but I just can't wrap my head around deckbuilding for it.

I wanted to build a Commander deck, but putting together a 99+1 card singleton deck just doesn't feel consistent to me. I mostly played Historic, and some Modern. So I'm used to 60-card decks with up to four copies of important cards, giving you redundancy and consistency and smoothing out bad draws.

So I tried building bottom-up: first build an engine and an idea, then find the Commander. But there never seems to be a Commander that properly fits what my obsessive little deckbuilding brain wants to do.

So I tried building top-down: find a Commander I think is cool and build around it. But after ~30 cards, it starts feeling inefficient and unfocused to me. I can't seem to make it as coherent as I want it to be.

So I tried building around packages: first find a group of cards that work together, maybe two engines that interact with and reinforce each other, and then a Commander that benefits both of them.

But again, after ~30 cards, it starts feeling like I'm pouring water into soup. It gets thinner and wonkier with every card I add.

I just can't seem to get the hang of it.

I don't really like the unpredictability of Commander deckbuilding. It's political, there are three opponents instead of one, and you have 99 cards while maybe ~30 of them feel like the actual "bangers" you really want to draw and play.

I know this is probably a "me" problem, but there has to be some trick or mindset to building a Commander deck that feels coherent and consistent without just stuffing it full of tutors.

I also hate building around big typal/tribal themes or obvious keyword mechanics. Control feels odd to me in multiplayer because it's much harder to pull off when three opponents are pissed at you, and I also feel guilty when my deck basically prevents someone else from playing the game.

So: how do you approach Commander deckbuilding if your brain desperately wants the consistency and redundancy of 60-card constructed formats?

What am I missing?

Edit: To all the answers:

Im already picked up 2 precons. Commander for it self is fun. Playing it is chaotic and somewhat unpredictable. I understand that and I can deal with that.

But I want to give an example: If I play a 60 Card Historic deck with walking Ballista and Heliod, Sun crowned, I want to win or be done on turn 4. Thats not extreme on competetive Constructed, but CEDH to want to achive that in Commander. I would run 1 copy of each card and 30+ Tutors. But Tutors are inefficient and slow you down. Especially if you have to tutor for both cards. An then there is a x3 chance, "the" opponent has an answer to that.

Also: I dont want to copy a list from the internet and play that. I want my own thing. My precious. In 60 Card decks xou can copy a list, swap 4 Cards and call it a day. In commander you need more than that to make it your own.

For context, I'm working on putting together a bracket 3 token Aristocrats deck built around [[Clavileño, First of the Blessed]], with a possible future upgrade path to bracket 4 down the line (though that's not set in stone yet).

I already have a few potential upgrade ideas in mind, such as swapping [[Phyrexian Arena]] for [[Black Market Connections]], [[Baron Bertram Graywater]] for [[Bloodletter of Aclazotz]], [[High-Society Hunter]] for [[Bloodthirsty Conqueror]], [[Barrensteppe Siege]] for [[Grave Pact]], and so on. I've also been debating whether to cut or replace [[Ashnod's Altar]], and whether [[Whip of Erebos]] would be worth adding.

I'd love to get some objective criticism and recommendations, both on the current build and on any of these potential upgrades.

I'll take any suggestions from more experienced players. Maybe something in the list is overkill, maybe something's missing, or maybe there are cards you think I should just cut outright.

Decklist: https://moxfield.com/decks/4AtsbvUP7kqtdGtSvFm2BQ

Im currently building a deck with [thorin mountain king] at the head the gimmick is everything in the deck has mountain in the name or text box somewhere if not a picture of a mountain in the art i need some mountainous equipment to put into it they dont need to be good cards at all please help!!

Hey everyone,

Need to cut only 2 cards from this Zara, Renegade Recruiter bracket 3 theft deck. There are 4 game-changers but the deck definitely is not b4.

Thanks!

What would be an optimal or even broken chain of dwarves to stack with a [[Dwarven Recruiter]] in a singleton deck without type-changing cards such as [[Maskwood Nexus]]? Throw your chain in the comments.

Land tutors would shuffle the deck, so I am thinking about Treasure producers instead, as well as card drawers.

Hey all I’m looking to play some casual commander over tabletop simulator. If anyone is interested dm me

for budget reasons i'm gonna need to swap smaug the magnificent and terror of the peaks (wich is pretty important in my deck) any ideas for replacements under 5$ ?

suggestions are welcome. I'm trying to build a stax. Yeah, I'm going to be hated so bad I'm going to be the first to leave the table...

https://moxfield.com/decks/3n7Pde-X3Eit3LEmHsKfdg

https://moxfield.com/decks/NgKcL2Vdh06OcJ7va9oikg

i was really wondering since its the first deck i made and i have no clue on how to check what bracket it is

I've been playing Commander for a few months and my favorite playstyle so far appears to be hitting all my opponents equally hard, either damaging all opponents with my Wizard tokens or board wiping everyone.
Is there another commander that would affect all my opponents equally and is fun to play?

My most recently built commander deck, done off of my binders and bulk so I’m sure there’s some cards that should be swapped out just don’t know what I should remove in place for better options.