As for preferred colors, I think I lean towards blue and then black overall. I don't have a good hierarchy for the color combos though as I do tend to try to find interesting commanders in color combinations I don't have yet. I will say that Red tends to the least prevalent in my builds and I reall...

Simic is my least favored combination personally. It's unfettered access to everything it could ever want leads me to boredom frankly. I've never had a Temur deck, nor Sultai; the latter I would like to try but can't find a commander that speaks to me. I came close to pulling the trigger or Tevesh ...

That is true that online is certainly going to play a bit differently in regards to certain things but Jar is certainly going to be better there in most situations. But the biggest thing, either way, is what you pointed out: hopefully I have enough mana production that I can use the bulk of the new ...

ISBPathfinder I did think of Dark Deal but left it out for now based on my reservations with Puzzle Box itself. If I find Puzzle Box performing admirably I will likely revisit Dark Deal as a secondary, one-shot option. It is certainly a good call out. Hmm, I hadn't looked at Pestilence effects. I c...

I seem to be on quite the deckbuilding kick lately and this is my newest endeavor. I can't say this will survive for long but it gets me back to a mono-color deck which I have 0 of right now (I put together Daretti, Scrap Savant online but never did it in paper so I am not counting it at the moment)...

I have decided to swap out Rage Forger for Surrak Dragonclaw in the 99 in paper. This is going to create a bit of confusion with the list due to Magus Lucea Kane not being online but I want to have some record of which card online is the card being swapped in for Lucea's absence. Hopefully I don't i...

Another round of changes: CUTS 1 Protean Hydra 1 Primeval Protector 1 Tempt with Vengeance 1 Nissa, Voice of Zendikar ADDS 1 Spiteful Banditry 1 Three Visits 1 Rampant Growth 1 Nature's Lore I don't think I had quite enough ramp in the deck so I am going to add in some old standbys. I am also adding...

There are so many good cards for this deck to come out of the LOTR sets that I can't try them all. And even some that I do want to try ends up pushing out some other good cards. But, I am going to try them anyway so here is what I am thinking: CUTS 1 Urabrask, Heretic Praetor 1 Nahiri, the Harbinger...

I am going to try out the following cuts in order to try some of the newer cards above: CUTS 1 Szat's Will 1 Mogis, God of Slaughter 1 Nighthawk Scavenger 1 Henrika Domnathi 1 Valki, God of Lies ADDS 1 Cavern-Hoard Dragon 1 Spiteful Banditry 1 Witch-King of Angmar 1 Lobelia Sackville Baggins 1 Gollu...

I am going to try out this change: CUTS 1 Elder Gargaroth ADDS 1 Radagast the Brown I can't really find a good spot for Entish Restoration so I am just going to try out Radagast. I feel like Radagast can provide more consistency with ensuring I have creatures in hand than Gargaroth's one card per tu...

I am going to try out the following changes: CUTS 1 Exploration 1 Cultivate 1 Last One Standing 1 Kamahl's Will 1 Elder Gargaroth 1 Torment of Hailfire 1 Apex Devastator ADDS 1 Wrenn and Six 1 Entish Restoration 1 Genesis Wave 1 Last March of the Ents 1 Radagast the Brown 1 Sméagol, Helpful Guide 1 ...

I am going to try out this change: CUTS 1 Empty the Laboratory ADDS 1 Sauron's Ransom I am not sure what really to cut here so I went with Laboratory as I have never cast it and the times I had it in hand, I didn't have a good opportunity to fire it off. I like the card but I guess I like the rest b...

I am going to try these changes out: CUTS 1 Hullbreaker Horror 1 Cosima, God of the Voyage ADDS 1 The Watcher in the Water 1 Samwise the Stouthearted The two adds were talked about above and I think they make sense in the deck. Hullbreaker Horror is just expensive and can be tough to really get goin...

After a couple early games, I am going to make the following changes: CUTS 1 Helix Pinnacle 1 Rishkar's Expertise 1 Jaya's Immolating Inferno ADDS 1 Mountain 1 Island 1 Forest Pinnacle just isn't good enough, even in this deck. It takes too long and takes too much mana. It was worth a try but I thin...

I have been trying to restructure my deck "catalogue" to phase out a couple decks I don't tend to use much. I generally want to stick to 9-11 decks (mostly 9 at this time) and I have been finding that I have no URx decks in my rotation. Now, the biggest thing for me is that I don't really ...

Here are my thoughts regarding Lord of the Rings and the LOTR Commander set: Multicolor Cards Sauron's Ransom - This looks like a pretty good card overall for this deck. A Fact or Fiction variant that also has the Ring Tempt me isn't awful. And at least the opponent chooses with one pile blind which...

Here are my thoughts regarding Lord of the Rings and the LOTR Commander set. By the very nature of this set and this deck, there are a ridiculous number of options so there is likely no way I am going to be able to try all of them out.: White Cards Boromir, Warden of the Tower - Another legendary cr...

Here are my thoughts regarding Lord of the Rings and the LOTR Commander set: Black Cards Gollum, Scheming Guide - He could be a good option for card draw or at least setting up future draws. Because he is so cheap, I think he is worth trying out to see what happens. Lobelia, Defender of Bag End - I ...

Here are my thoughts regarding Lord of the Rings and the LOTR Commander set: Green Cards Entish Restoration - This is a slightly better Harrow (even though these enter tapped) and a better Roiling Regrowth . I don't run the latter but there might be a good reason to run this over something like Cult...

Here are my thoughts regarding Lord of the Rings and the LOTR Commander set:
Radagast the Brown - This can really help keep my hand full and ensure that my hand is creatures. I think this is a good enough card to try out in a few decks.

Here are my thoughts regarding Lord of the Rings and the LOTR Commander set: Green Cards Delighted Halfling - This is the one deck that I actually use mana dorks in and I don't know that I actually want this. The uncounterable is pretty good but in most cases it isn't ramping me into what I want. No...

Here are my thoughts regarding Lord of the Rings and the LOTR Commander set: White Cards Samwise, the Stouthearted - Having Flash is a big deal here and even using him to get back a fetchland to ensure another land drop is decent. The ceiling of course being much higher. I will see if I can find roo...

That might be the most obvious choice and one that works well in almost every situation. As a comparison to Last One Standing, it will cost 3 mana in almost every case where I want to cast it. I think in all 3 instances I cast Last One Standing the other day, there were 6 creatures, 8 creatures, and...

I honestly had thought about creating Food which might have been the better option considering my life total. I was leaning hard on my sac lands for life and I just went with Treasures because, well, who doesn't like more mana? :) But yeah, the Food option is certainly there and thinking about it af...

I ended up playing this deck last night and it went very well overall. Note that I did not add in Genesis Wave yet since I forgot about it. The game started off somewhat slow and I just ramped. Titania, Protector of Argoth helped me ramp a little and Last One Standing wrathed the board 3 separate ti...