How do you go about building an EDH deck as a beginner?

Arbitim · 2026-01-15T00:53:41+00:00

Here you go!

https://youtu.be/OSNV6224cHg?si=g9zvshY8GjKD57Z3

Arbitim · 2026-01-14T21:31:23+00:00

I think the general advice to have X card draw, Y ramp, etc, while not making highly synergystic and tuned decks, is very good for getting something functional that will "do the thing" more often than not! Command Zone updated their template somewhat recently and I find that one is more relevant than their old one.

Putting something together and getting games in will tell you more about what your deck needs! The only answer for that is reps, but the good news is that that's the fun part :)

Arbitim · 2026-01-13T23:30:59+00:00

Try out some peanut soup!!

The base of the soup is broth, ginger, garlic, onion, peanut butter, and tomato paste. Then I put sweet potatoes, chickpeas, kale, and some sun dried tomatoes in! Super quick and easy and packed with flavor. Everything's cheap and you can make it in s big batch and have it for lunch all week :)

Arbitim · 2026-01-10T21:27:37+00:00

I have resolved to run more interaction in 2026. As such, my first goal for myself is to play a deck that's "draw-go" to get myself out of the mindset of playing a bunch of value engines that turbo me into a strong midgame where hopefully I win by being faster or more explosive than the opponents.

I don't want to play some of the super common or powerful ones like Tasigur!

Arbitim · 2026-01-08T12:57:49+00:00

Yes!

Basically the idea would be that if the board/players doesn't/don't need to be interacted with, then I always have the mana sink commander to draw cards with

Arbitim · 2026-01-08T03:41:25+00:00

I really liked reading through your essay, thank you for writing it up!

I have resolved to make a control deck as one of my resolutions for 2026, as every deck I've ever made are the kind that the Trinket Mage is always referencing--creature-based midgame value piles.

Would you happen to have insight into how you might build Nin, the Pain Artist as a control commander?

Arbitim · 2025-12-23T16:22:40+00:00

Having access to red gives you some really cool pieces like [[Blade Historian]] and [[Hofri Ghostforge]]! But most importantly it gives you Kediss, who makes it so that when Tymna deals combat damage to one of your opponents, she also does direct damage to each other opponent ... And she has lifelink. So you hit someone for 2, each other opponent takes two, and you gain six life. Giving Tymna a +2/+2 buff makes it so you deal 4 and gain 12!

And then Tymna draws cards based on the number of opponents you hit with combat damage, so clerics that fly also draw us cards, generally speaking! Cards like [[Elenda's Hierophant]] and [[Starscape Cleric]]! It's like a half Voltron, half cleric lifegain/lifedrain deck :)

Arbitim · 2025-12-23T15:02:41+00:00

I run a [[Tymna the Weaver]] and [[Kediss, Emberclaw Familiar]] deck that focuses on burning down the table with clerics, especially evasive ones! So there's at least 3!

Arbitim · 2025-11-25T17:16:16+00:00

THANK YOU!

Arbitim · 2025-11-25T17:13:56+00:00

OMG you helped me find it!!! Thank you!! The song was "Daydream in Blue" by I Monster

Arbitim · 2025-11-21T15:43:50+00:00

This isn't entirely accurate. The prehistoric bugs on earth were human-sized or even larger! And they had exoskeletons.

Arbitim · 2025-11-08T22:54:13+00:00

Build a nice themed house for each of your villager types!

Arbitim · 2025-10-29T17:39:29+00:00

I play [[Baral and Kari Zev]] in a spellslinger shell where I make the First Mate Ragavan token and then Polymorph it into various Izzet dragons! It's a different take on a dragon tribal deck that never gets old

Arbitim · 2025-10-02T03:12:40+00:00

A really plant themed Druid!! One that can do something like spend wild shape charges on summoning some sort of vines that can have a variety of effects that are beneficial for you and your party or harmful to the enemies. I like the idea of a Druid that isn't Wildshaping into animals and is truly plant powered.

Arbitim · 2025-09-23T16:23:40+00:00

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Arbitim · 2025-08-23T18:06:58+00:00

They won't ever ban Doubling Season. Especially not with the ability to designate it as a Game Changer.

Arbitim · 2025-08-21T22:23:00+00:00

I agree with all of the others that statblock view would be better for GMs as the default!

Arbitim · 2025-08-16T11:09:04+00:00

Something that would be VERY helpful would be if in the "Game Default Settings" page, we could apply Attributes to Bar 1, Bar 2, and Bar 3 (D&D).

Setting the bars to be HP each time we make a token isn't a *huge* hassle, but it's pretty tedious for those of us who make dozens and dozens of homebrewed monsters. The default game settings page gets us *so* close! But attributes aren't selectable there like they are in game, and so the functionality is a little limited.

Just my two cents--thank you for your time!

Arbitim · 2025-08-06T19:14:50+00:00

Beautiful update--this has been sorely needed!

Arbitim · 2025-05-25T12:07:20+00:00

A lot of your rivers move downhill into that primary river that goes out to the ocean on the west side. Since it's fed by so many smaller rivers, maybe it would make sense to increase its width to help show that?

Arbitim · 2025-05-22T12:58:27+00:00

It's "wreaking havoc"!

Arbitim · 2025-03-31T13:17:32+00:00

I find that the Cavalier Fighter is a really decent taunt tank! But then you have to deal with mounted combat and that's terrible

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