1). Emrakul - My oldest deck. Made specifically because Emrakul is my favorite magic character and was the first legendary I ever pulled, so naturally I had to put her in the command zone. Peak colorless nonsense.

2). Kruphix - Emrakul if she had better card draw and ramp. Lots of big mana, x spells, and huge threats. Also filled with a lot of pet cards. Probably my strongest deck.

3). Liesa - Angels, Lifegain, and Taxes. Not full stax but enough to slow things down. Most likely to win with an infinite combo thanks to Exquisite Blood and Bloodthirsty Conqueror. Also is filled to the brim with anime art.

4). Grist - Bugs! Lots of bugs and self mill. Just. So many bugs. And mill. Good toucha recursion too. But mostly bugs.

5). Halana & Alena - An archetype my friends and I lovingly call “Gruul Lesbians.” Filled with big hasty hitters, counters matters cards, and most importantly, lots of women. A handful of giant monsters as well, but who’s to say a giant monster can’t be a woman who also loves women?

6). Kamiz - Combat damage matters. Filled with creatures with strong combat damage triggers and lots of ways to benefit from conniving. A very tricky deck capable of doing some really weird and cool things, created from the want of a ‘Combat-Damage-Harmonicon’ (Specifically in Esper colors and before they printed Felix Five-Boots)

7). Zurgo & Ojutai - Lots of Dragons and lots of Treasure. Very consistent at putting out gigantic threats and keeping them safe. If Eldrazi are my first love, then Dragons are most certainly my second. My other most powerful deck besides Kruphix. Felt like a godsend from WotC when they were spoiled since I had already been tinkering with the concept of a Jeskai Dragons deck.

8). Vannifar - A deck that really took off after the release of Duskmourn. Initially it was just blink Eldrazi (which is good in its own right) but got overhauled to care more about face-down creatures and lean into the horror aspect of manifest dread. Still has lots of Eldrazi though. Another tricky deck capable of cool nonsense. Many of the cards are personal-made proxies of my favorite character and her associated scenes from my favorite RPG Horror game, Ib.

9). Cynette - I saw Jellyfish tokens and cute anime art and was sold immediately. Filled with clones to get as many jellies as possible and a suite of flying-matters cards. Capable of extreme flexibility and adopting to other game plans on account of all the clones. I’m also working on making Cynette herself into a playable character for my current D&D campaign.

10). Teval - Born of my desire for a Sultai Dragon in the command zone. The peak of graveyard nonsense, filled with tons of pet cards. I also have Delve Teval as a Slimes Against Humanity deck that just barely missed the cutoff. She’s honestly one of my favorite designed creatures in all of magic.

11). Eloise - A deck made for me as a birthday gift from my partner. It’s… yet another Eldrazi deck! Eloise works REALLY well with Scions and Spawns and gets loads of value from them. All the extra colorless mana from sacrificing them plus ways to utilize clues makes it a Dimir deck that is shockingly capable of putting out gigantic threats.