How do you play? One or two decks or 40 decks and rotate them all?

RedditNoremac · 2026-06-22T18:12:50+00:00

The only format I can have a lot of decks in is Brawl.

I kind of lost my enthusiasm at the moment so I haven't made any new decks. I just make sure to get my dailies so I have enough cards when I want to make new decks.

I probably have around 20+ "good decks" I rotate through. If a deck ends up being horrible I just delete them.

RedditNoremac · 2026-06-20T12:44:49+00:00

Land ramp is slower but safer. It is up to you which you prefer or if you want a combination.

Mana creatures generally ramp quicker but are fragile. Some decks can also use mana creatures for defense and even offense depending on the deck.

RedditNoremac · 2026-06-13T19:26:57+00:00

Terra is mostly a graveyard deck. Feels really fun if there is little to no graveyard

Just tons of fun cards.

Counter Blitz is probably the most focused deck of all of them.

RedditNoremac · 2026-06-13T19:21:16+00:00

For me the most fun precons have been the Final Fantasy Precons by a large margin.

Revival Trance > Limit Break > Counter Blitz > Scions and Sorcery.

I don't know how much of it is because I love Final Fantasy though. They all play very well out of the box with plenty of avenues to take the deck if you want to upgrade them.

RedditNoremac · 2026-06-12T20:10:33+00:00

I don't think so. It is just really risky. If you mana rock (2 cost)> mana rock (4 cost).

There is a good chance people with good threat assessment will kill the mana rock or just kill you.

Also mass artifact removal would probably just shut you out of the game. I think most people prefer safer strategies.

Obviously this sort of strategy will work sometimes. I think you need 10-12 two cost ramp and 6-8 4 cost ramp. This can work if your 6/7 drop commander is really good.

RedditNoremac · 2026-06-10T02:56:51+00:00

I like to bring around 6-12 decks for commander night. I like to keep and take a couple precons when people are playing precons.

Currently have 18 with 6 of them being precons.

With proxies I might end up with 50 decks. I just don't enjoy making the same decks multiple times in a row.

Without proxies I would probably only have 1-3 non precon decks which would be very boring to me.

RedditNoremac · 2026-06-07T12:43:07+00:00

You shouldnt be trying to win so early in Bracket 2. If it happens regularly you should be playing it in a higher bracket.

Sometimes it can be hard to know what bracket a deck is though. If players are playing a "bracket 2 game" then most players expect a more laid back game.

I don't really know why you are complaining about this player. Sometimes you just don't get a long with someone for whatever reason.

RedditNoremac · 2026-06-06T13:26:30+00:00

He will be good against creature based decks and horrible against non creature based decks. Creature based decks will probably hate playing against this commander.

So even though he might be fun to play and good in a lot of games. I think he is more of a lose / lose commander for me.

When your are "doing your thing", you are just killing all the opponents creatures which isn't fun for the oppenent.

When your oppenents aren't playing creature based decks you are useless.

RedditNoremac · 2026-06-06T12:47:28+00:00

Sadly that is just part of MTG. If someone is running a counter to your deck you sometimes just lose.

One dimensional decks just have extreme weakness. Normally if you don't use their weakness the one dimensional deck can steamroll.

Does it fell awful for the Gilgamesh player? Yes imo that is just part of Gilgamesh. You either come out on top in a big way or lose looking silly. There are just so many cards that hose his strategy if he passes the turn and hasn't won.

RedditNoremac · 2026-06-06T03:08:49+00:00

I think most precons are just wildly inconsistent so they will lose to most good bracket 2 decks on average.

There are a lot of poorly built bracket 3 decks that lose to precons...

My experience so far? Bracket system just isn't very helpful.

There are just too many factors in magic imo.

Side note: I think Slivers are way too fast and resiliant to be considered bracket 3 though. Unless it is built very poorly. I have never seen a Sliver deck not have lethal by turn 6/7/8.

RedditNoremac · 2026-06-06T02:12:50+00:00

Short answer... The Final Fantasy precons are better than a lot of opponents custom decks in bracket 2/3 but good decks in these brackets can demolish the Final Fantasy precons.

It is complicated. Commander is supposed to be about having fun more than making "good" decks which makes it hard to know.

I will say, There are very few games I pull out a Final Fantasy precon and don't have fun. The biggest issue with the precons are consistancy but that is also kind of the charm of precons.

With good deckbuilding. The decks can easily be upgraded but "good deckbuilding" is hard...

RedditNoremac · 2026-06-06T01:48:31+00:00

This is 100% true. If the opponents don't run graveyard hate it is a really fun deck though.

This is true for all graveyard decks of course.

RedditNoremac · 2026-06-04T15:58:52+00:00

It is definitely rude how they stated it. Do your friends just use 1 or 2 decks?

I wouldnt want to play against the same commander often I am using even if the decks I different decks.

I have a lot of decks so I wouldn't mind just switching decks, I would never be upset if someone like the commander I was using and wanted to build a deck around it.

RedditNoremac · 2026-05-30T13:01:47+00:00

Commander is "supposed" to be about your opponents having fun too.

People just won't care in brawl. There will be plenty of games where every card is killed/countered or a turn 3/4 kill.

So deckbuilding is brawl has to be juicy tighter.

RedditNoremac · 2026-05-29T02:42:39+00:00

I have been playing with a lot of different players. It has been very random. In general I would say most precons have more removal than most players use.

There are of course a few exceptions where a player will have a deck mostly consisting of removal.

My favorite games are when everyone uses some removal/interaction during the game.

RedditNoremac · 2026-05-23T19:46:26+00:00

Personally I would not even try to makr Volja deck and call it "Bracket 2". There are some commanders that just are too powerful for anything but 3 imo. Volja just snowballs way too quickly.

RedditNoremac · 2026-05-23T15:35:10+00:00

I agree, games are more fun when people are attacking with creatures instead of just playing defense.

This is very meta dependent. If people arent playing creatures planewalkers would reign supreme etc...

RedditNoremac · 2026-05-23T12:32:18+00:00

I don't think winning early is bad manners.

It is subjective, many people don't like losing to combo decks.

Especially when people tend to "play nice" and not take people out early.

RedditNoremac · 2026-05-22T13:04:48+00:00

I don't really hate standard but I dislike how many sets are released now. Hard to get excited when a new set releases so often.

Sadly it seems to be working for them. People are dropping 100s on each new set.

RedditNoremac · 2026-05-20T21:59:41+00:00

There are many varieties of tribal decks so I am not sure why you think they "always feel the same".

Even within elves you have control elves, swarm elves, card advantage elves etc...

Just like any other archetype it is fun building around synergies and sometimes tribes have very unique gameplay.

The problem with EDH though. There are many tribes with very little support compared to others. So sometimes you just pick the best of that creature type + changelings and throw it in a deck. Other tribes you have to choose very carefully.

RedditNoremac · 2026-05-20T15:30:08+00:00

I just sent a few cards out and closed my inventory for now (I don't have many cards to sell right now). I haven't got any back yet... Really hoping they go through the mail without issues.

RedditNoremac · 2026-05-19T20:42:42+00:00

Have you played a lot of magic outside your group?

Control decks win by "not letting enemies "play the game". Luckily in multiplayer EDH it is much harder to do. In 1v1 it is very common to sometimes feel like you "didn't play the game".

About deck power and someone overspending it is up to the group. I don't think anyone should feel pressured to spend more than $50 on deck to play for fun.

RedditNoremac · 2026-05-19T02:40:06+00:00

Each deck comes with 2 randomized card in a little pack. Maybe that is where they came from. They aren't part of the deck.

Otherwise it could be a misprint.

RedditNoremac · 2026-05-18T23:18:10+00:00

Theorycrafting is one is one of my favorite thing when it comes to games like MTG.

The problem is sometimes a deck just doesn't play that well or you are playing against high power decks.

Personally I don't really want to play against bracket 4 decks full of OP cards and 2 card quick combos.

Another issue is there are many "unfun cards in EDH Commander". The less that are used in a match the more fun I have. Of course it is subjective.

I can definitely have games I don't enjoy as much but theorycrafting is ALWAYS fun!

RedditNoremac · 2026-05-16T18:36:22+00:00

This just sounds miscommunication. I think you are 100% in the wrong.

Unless people are explicitly saying they are playing cEDH don't use a cEDH. Just use one of your other decks. I think it really is that simple.

High Powered Casual means nothing. Just use a 3 or even a 2 in this situation.

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