Commander

[[Isperia the Inscrutable]]

This is the only commander deck I've consistently kept around over the years. I don't remember how I discovered this card, but I think it's a neat ability and the commander itself feels flavourful and badass. I started playing during Return to Ravnica, which perhaps added a bonus feeling of "wow, it's the original Isperia!".

My deck isn't terribly good since I don't play Commander very competetively. I've tried to have sphinxes and stuff that feel badass and fitting for the deck instead of busted combos or whatever. [[Medomai the Ageless]] is a typical target to search for.

The only "combo" I can think of off the top of my head (been a while since I've played the deck) is [[Bruna, the Fading Light]] and [[Gisela, the Broken Blade]]. I think that combo is hilarious due to the name of the melded card: Brisela. We ship Brisela.

For me it's anything with [[Stitcher's Supplier]] in it. Right now I really love trying to make Dredge work in Historic and soon Pioneer.

E: didn't see this was in Commander. That would be Kenrith, the Returned King 😛

[[Selvala, Explorer Returned]] group hug. It's all about just speeding the game up and giving everybody a bunch of stuff. Nobody ever wants to kill Selvala because everyone gets to draw cards. It's so much fun as long as you don't care about winning.

I built a [[Multani, Yavimaya's Avatar]] $50 budget deck a number of years back that is just a mono green spell slinger build. It is pretty simple to play for new people and resilient enough to play with my normal group.

Being a budget deck I even run it unsleeved and get that nostalgia of playing kitchen table magic as a kid.

[[Captain Ripley Vance]] it goes hard and fast, and by far it's my best deck for coming in third. I've had to pull back its explosiveness, because it's no good to take someone out on the third turn only to be stuck out of gas as archenemy. It can still wreck face out of nowhere, though, and most of my pod gives the deck a healthy dose of respect. I love it so much I got a custom alter of the commander and now I joke I own the most expensive copy of the card in the world, which may not be too far off from the truth.

Atla Palani for me. It's actually not a bad deck, in fact I would probably say it's at about a 6 or 7/10. It was what I turned my Captain Sisay deck into after paradox engine got banned. I love that deck. I even have an Atla artist proof signed by the artist in Cyrillic since she lives in Russia.

[[Rakdos, Lord of Riots]] It’s a great icebreaker to get a pod moving and not be worried about attacking or “who’s the bad guy?” ‘Cause it’s me.

[[Jodah, Archmage Eternal]] would have to be my favorite edh deck. This has been the case from when I initially made it. As a timmy/spike hybrid, I love playing splashy spells, and Jodah let's me cast them without having to wait too late in the game. Where I play, people run a lot of infinite combos and semi-competitive decks, so you get punished for playing strategies I prefer ("battlecruiser edh").

[[Trostani, Selesnya's Voice]] and [[Queen Marchesa]] Long may she reign! These were two of the first decks I built by myself and countless decks have been built and taken apart since them and they're still here and still get played.

I love my Akiri Line-Slinger + Silas-Ren deck. It's not the best in terms of win rate but it's always fun to play as both the commanders are so cheap to cast.

[[Vorinclex, Monstrous Raider]] and his friend [[Triumph of the Hordes]]

You can randomly come out of nowhere and kill everyone in a single combat and it's amazingly glorious (and salt-generating) when it goes off.

My oldest deck is [[Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait]] which has turned into a bit of a monster since I added a few cards that happen to create a bunch of ways to make infinite Landfall combos. It could probably be even stronger if I took out some of the high-cost sea monsters to focus just on Landfall, but I like big sea monsters.

After that my [[Gishath, Sun's Avatar]] deck is pretty new, I just made it this year, but I already love it. Big dinos!

I've almost always had some sort of durdly artifact deck built. Started with Kurkesh "Tinker Toys" where it was just a bunch of things that could fit together into whacky Rube-Goldberg machine combos. Eventually moved it to Breya when she released and the deck became much more powerful and streamlined. Later on, I put together Osgir + Zirda and also Urza, Lord High Artificer, featuring mostly old-bordered artifacts and pre-BRO cards that reference him as a character. I joke that the deck is about a 4 and 3.5 of that is Urza himself. Nowadays, I've achieved my final form and I'm playing 5C Legendary Artificer tribal with Ramos, trying to recapture some of that weirdness of Kurkesh. Has been a fun time!

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