I am so far more interested in getting these decks than I have been in a couple of years. I'm pondering between Marisi, Atla Palani and my old Gahiji to lead my Naya rattlesnake/goad/enrage type 'passive aggressive' deck, since all three kind of cover different aspects of that. I've liked the design...

Evil Twin is fun, and flavor fun too. On your average game, the weirdest creatures have evil twins lurking about, it seems. And if nothing else, it's a handy clone of your own stuff with a spiffy flavor.

I admit I am somewhat tempted to build Ghired, just a big dumb stompy proactive deck that locates the silliest biggest creature tokens across Magic's history (looking at you, Ajani Goldmane ). Since my current Naya deck ( Gahiji, Honored One rattlesnakes) has a mild problem of being up the creek wit...

As with a lot of cards... the cards aren't the problem so much as people who feel the need to frequently go for them, to combo off as fast as possible. I see no need to ban these cards, as on their own they aren't problematic. They're merely somewhat emblematic of the type of player who wants to go ...

I find it tough to enjoy games at tables where people think their pet hates about the game's various elements are more important than a pleasant shared experience. would love to find players who'd relax in the face of their least favourite cards instead of immediately taking a soapbox about things ...

When deck powerlevels don't match. Too many times I've brought my casual tribal jank into a table that gets wrath-spammed into an infinite combo or a competition between two combo decks. Sadly a bit of a problem at my local store at the moment. Another thing that's more of my pet peeve is when peopl...

I hope they at least slightly look beyond the expected obvious color pairs, even if the decks mostly are those colors. The mechanics all have at least indirect support in all colors, and the commander decks have been relatively open-ended theme-wise anyway. As always, mostly looking forward for new ...

...given that I was already considering combining my Prime Speaker Zegana and Arcades the Strategist decks into one bant-creature-spam deck, this was... uh, a very convenient spoiler. Spam creatures to spam creatures to spam creatures. Win probably with sheer critical mass of creature/card advantage...

I do pretty much constant re-toolings, although rarely with just swapping a commander without changing anything else about the deck. There's pretty much always cards that are in the deck because they work with that particular legendary, which are then swapped for stuff that works with the new comman...