Similar to dirk and weebo I too have a box of cards for edh. I have very few duplicates and excluding g them I am sitting at around 2200 cards. I sort them by color but am trying to think of a better way right now as my fatpack boxes are getting kind of full.
I sort by color (including multicolor, colorless, and land), then creature/noncreature, then alphabetically. Multicolored creatures are further broken into legendary/nonlegendary, colorless noncreatures are further broken into equipment/nonequipment, and lands are organized by cycle where appropriate. I'm considering breaking the noncreature sides down further and going to full card type sorting which has been overkill so far. Everything is in a set of drawers in a shelving unit in my office, though a lot of it tends to end up in loosely themed stacks on my desk given enough time. I also track everything in a spreadsheet, which I've been debating adding some additional functionality to (I'm not sure if it's worth the effort over using one of the collection tracking sites, but it makes for a fun project). I wouldn't be able to find anything that I was looking for in a reasonable time frame without at least that level of organization.
I couldn't do fatpack boxes. Before the shelving unit, I was using a pair of 3k count boxes and even those felt a little unwieldy at times.
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Yikes, that seems like a lot of sorting. isn't it a pain to disassemble your decks? not sure I see the utility of sorting by card types - function seems way more likely to matter in terms of whether or not I'd include it in a deck. And alphabetizing I definitely don't understand.
I originally toyed with the idea of sorting into removal, wincons, tutors, draw, ramp etc but decided against it partly because so many things overlap.
I used to use 2.5 3K boxes (I think they were 3K, it's the BCW boxes with 4 rows) but recently switched to just a bunch of 900 boxes for the niche stuff (one per color), and 550 for the lands and general-purpose cards (1 per color), with 1 of each box left over to store all my multicolor cards, which I don't sort into niche/non-niche since they're so relatively few. It means a ton of boxes, but it also means I don't have to lift so many cards to make a deck. But mostly I did it because my gf wanted them to fit into our cabinet.
EDIT: oh, and I keep track of them in an app (decked or something).
Evergreen decks (they will be around forever) Wort, Boggart Auntie - goblins live, die, then repeat Nissa, Sage Animist - Started out as a throwaway deck (99 junk cards + general) but evolved into a group favorite. A straight up green good-stuff deck with a relentless general. Braids, Conjurer Adept - Krakens, Leviathans, and a bigg ass octopus. Loads of clones and the usual good blue stuff. Fallen into a nice groove of fun with potential for broken starts. Also it has a Grozoth package which i am a huge fan of. Dromoka, the Eternal - Everything tribal. Has all the changelings and a wealth of different tribal generals. Also can be an explosive GW deck that just cranks out nice dragons. Deck is tuned up and good to go for a while.
Enjoyable decks that may be retired eventually: Bartel Runeaxe - Mono Axe control. A Jund good stuff deck with small giant theme. If a more interesting general presents itself i could re-tool this deck. Dakkon Blackblade - Land Ho! Esper Landfall control deck. Pretty good deck but might get dull eventually and re-tooled. Fills a nice void in our playgroup (aka has answers to things) so it might be around for the long haul. Anafenza, Kin-Tree Spirit - Cheesy White Beats. Nuff said. Pia and Kiran Nalaar - Mono red artifacts. If an izzet arifact general comes along this deck would probably evolve. Also might get taken apart to help the new 4-c artifact general.
Decks i am on the fence about Mizzix of the Izmagnus- X spells are the focus but its just a "spell deck". Played it the other day and won convincingly but didnt feel great about it. Might retire soon. Volrath the Fallen - Sometimes its a voltron deck and sometimes its a black creature based good stuff deck. I keep improving it bit by bit, but not 100% on the concept Ishkanah, Grafwidow - Bug/Graveyard theme. Trying to max out the value of Swarmyard on this deck. Have proxied the general because i dont want to pay $10 for it. Rashmi, Eternities Crafter - Just built, no idea if the deck is good or even interesting. Atarka, World Render - Only played a couple games, can be explosive but might not be interesting enough. Adriana, Captain of the Guard - A few games under her belt including a win or two. Wanted to test Melee as a mechanic. Going to push this deck a bit further. Suffers from the classic "combat or bust" Boros issue.
Sorting isn't too bad after it's done once. Throw on netflix, sort into piles, sort each pile. It takes about as long as unsleeving the cards would take. The point of all of the organization is that I can find any card I'm looking for in a few seconds. It's great if I'm rebuilding a list, which happens fairly often for non-EDH formats, or if I want to try a particular card I didn't pull when building a deck. It also helps to keep track of multiple copies, which is relevant for my box.
Tracking via spreadsheet instead of app is mostly because I started with a spreadsheet and don't want to reenter everything now. It's more work to maintain, but I have a lot of freedom in deciding how I want things sorted so I can mirror my physical collection more closely. It theoretically offers more powerful tools as well, but I have to put in the time to make them happen if I want them. It's nice to have the option even if I've mostly been lazy about that so far.
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I have 17 Commander decks all in the same sleeves so I can switch cards between as I need. Certain staples to my voltron decks such as the Sword cycle I switch around frequently.
Sorting isn't too bad after it's done once. Throw on netflix, sort into piles, sort each pile. It takes about as long as unsleeving the cards would take. The point of all of the organization is that I can find any card I'm looking for in a few seconds. It's great if I'm rebuilding a list, which happens fairly often for non-EDH formats, or if I want to try a particular card I didn't pull when building a deck. It also helps to keep track of multiple copies, which is relevant for my box.
Tracking via spreadsheet instead of app is mostly because I started with a spreadsheet and don't want to reenter everything now. It's more work to maintain, but I have a lot of freedom in deciding how I want things sorted so I can mirror my physical collection more closely. It theoretically offers more powerful tools as well, but I have to put in the time to make them happen if I want them. It's nice to have the option even if I've mostly been lazy about that so far.
Nice thing about the app is, I can export it to a spreadsheet if I want. But mostly it's just handy to have on-hand when trading at a store or whatever.
I guess I don't bother because I so rarely rebuild my decks. Even if I do build a deck with the same commander, I prefer to look at all the cards anyway to see if I've changed my mind about any of my choices. Also it seems like rebuilding a full 100 cards would take a long time going alphabetically. I guess if you've got the list sorted alphabetically that makes it easier though.
Out of curiosity - double or single sleeving? I'm debating whether or not to spring for double sleeving, but I'm concerned about how much more space it'll take up for shuffling and storage.
Nice thing about the app is, I can export it to a spreadsheet if I want. But mostly it's just handy to have on-hand when trading at a store or whatever.
I guess I don't bother because I so rarely rebuild my decks. Even if I do build a deck with the same commander, I prefer to look at all the cards anyway to see if I've changed my mind about any of my choices. Also it seems like rebuilding a full 100 cards would take a long time going alphabetically. I guess if you've got the list sorted alphabetically that makes it easier though.
Out of curiosity - double or single sleeving? I'm debating whether or not to spring for double sleeving, but I'm concerned about how much more space it'll take up for shuffling and storage.
I'm using Google sheets for the spreadsheet so I have access and edit powers on my phone, though it's easier on a computer. Half the reason for tracking the collection is to not make duplicate purchases, so that was a must for me. I also don't trade which means I don't need to check it all that often.
I almost never rebuild EDH decks as is, but I do it whenever I feel like playing some legacy or (in very, very rare cases) modern. Those lists are a lot more static. It's infrequent enough that it doesn't make sense to leave them assembled, but I appreciate being able to put the deck together from scratch in 10 minutes when I want to. Lists are also sorted into the same categories and alphabetically, when I use them.
I'm mostly single sleeved. My Jaya list is double sleeved, but it spends most of it's time together, is worth a fair amount, and was once attacked by a cup of coffee. I have no interest in double sleeving everything, mostly for shuffling reasons. I have plenty of storage space, but shuffling double sleeved 100 card stacks is a huge pain.
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Similar to dirk and weebo I too have a box of cards for edh. I have very few duplicates and excluding g them I am sitting at around 2200 cards. I sort them by color but am trying to think of a better way right now as my fatpack boxes are getting kind of full.
I sort by color (including multicolor, colorless, and land), then creature/noncreature, then alphabetically. Multicolored creatures are further broken into legendary/nonlegendary, colorless noncreatures are further broken into equipment/nonequipment, and lands are organized by cycle where appropriate. I'm considering breaking the noncreature sides down further and going to full card type sorting which has been overkill so far. Everything is in a set of drawers in a shelving unit in my office, though a lot of it tends to end up in loosely themed stacks on my desk given enough time. I also track everything in a spreadsheet, which I've been debating adding some additional functionality to (I'm not sure if it's worth the effort over using one of the collection tracking sites, but it makes for a fun project). I wouldn't be able to find anything that I was looking for in a reasonable time frame without at least that level of organization.
I couldn't do fatpack boxes. Before the shelving unit, I was using a pair of 3k count boxes and even those felt a little unwieldy at times.
I have a couple boxes that are like 4x 3000 count boxes. So in total that is about 24000. I think i will use those. Maybe also use a spreadsheet, Sort it like you do (Creature, legendary non-legendary, equipment, non equipment. Sorceresses and Instants, enchantments. ETC. Then i will remove all duplicate cards, and make a spreadsheet to tell me if I have the card and if It is in the box or in a deck. It will also prevent me from having multiple proxies running around and if I get bored with a deck or do not like it, I can simply dismantle and not waste any money. It will be a weekend project.
I have ten Commander decks that I have built since I began playing the format in 2013.
My two most powerful are Zur, the Enchanter (Ad Nauseam/Doomsday Zur, mostly fully decked out, but missing Mana Drain, Flusterstorm, Imperial Seal) and Arcum Dagsson, the latter of which was my first deck built to enter the format.
My other decks are mostly tier 2 and 3 Commanders. I have a Ghave deck that aims to form an infinite combo before turn 5, and it is complete with Mana Crypt and Gaea's Cradle, every non Imperial Seal tutor I could find, and was the second deck I ever made in EDH. Roon of the Hidden Realm is your typical blink value deck, aiming to be roughly comparable to average-powered decks. It's basically value effects and removal to fun police the game and prevent quick wins from infinite combos, but is a 75% deck, which is a term I think people use around these parts. It wins with the Reveillark combo, chaining Time Warps, etc., and has every tutor in green I could fit.
After that, I built Sliver Overlord because a friend told me I couldn't make an aggro deck (and I had 1 each of the duals sitting in other decks, so why not), I built Uril, the Miststalker to be my Voltron deck and then later Kemba, Kha Regent afterwards to have a weaker Voltron Commander. I built Chainer, Dementia Master to be my control deck for Commander, and made Nekusar, the Mindrazer somewhere around this time but it may be the first of my decks I actually take apart because I have absolutely no fun playing it (either I succeed in chaining wheels and nobody else has fun, or I get stopped repeatedly and religiously and I can't have any fun either). My wife's deck was Ezuri, Renegade Leader, but while she enjoyed the power of it, the consistency issues bothered her (and again, every single green tutor we own is in it, from Chord, Defense of the Heart, Zenith, Natural Order, Tooth and Nail, Worldly and Sylvan, Summoner's Pact, Crop Rotation to get Cradle etc.) because sometimes she would end games on the fourth turn, and other times she'd have to wait until the eighth turn. Because of this, we switched the Commander to Yisan, the Wanderer Bard, made a few different accommodations, and she still has her Elf Commander deck in a mildly unoptimized Yisan list, but she's now never without a Priest of Titania for any length of time which is all she really wanted anyway. My wife's deck is probably the strongest of this entire paragraph, as I feel pretty comfortable playing the rest listed here knowing that I won't be oppressive to a meta game, unlike what I can do with Zur.
Right now I'm kicking around the idea of building a new Commander, but I just moved and got into a new meta game so I don't know if I should bother. I've been thinking about building Thrasios or Breya, or just scrapping that idea and making a crappy Commander deck using Karlov just in case my new meta is very low-powered.
After coming back from a MTG hiatus in 2012 i started playing EDH only. Ever since then i built a total of 7 decks of which 5 still exist:
1. Oona, Queen of the Fae
Had her laying around in my collection. Started out as a typical Dimir Control deck with a Faerie Subtheme. Changed its theme to Acquire/Bribery/... kind of effects. Recently tore her apart for a more fitting mono-U commander. Power | Flavor-Level: 7/10 | 7/10
2. Rhys the Redeemed
Second Shadowmoor Legend i had and wanted to build. Tried to make it work as an Elfball deck revolving around Imperious Perfect/Elvish Promenade/... kind of effects. White was only in it as a splash color and tbh, it didn't work out at all. Got torn apart for a way better mono-G Elfball commander. Power | Flavor-Level: 5/10 | 8/10
3. Prossh, Skyraider of Kher
Got the Precon for my birthday, loved it from the start and successively upgraded it. The deck i have that's closest to what i'd consider "perfect". The mana base still needs some tweaking, but it's as consistent as it gets. Power | Flavor-Level: 9/10 | 6/10
4. Brago, King Eternal
I always loved the deck tech but greatly disliked the obvious Stax lists, so i decided to play him durdely, without infinites but with a sub-theme of Token Spam. When it comes to constantly brewing and finding new ideas this is one big entertaining WIP. Endless hours of enjoyable research and brewing and i'm yet to call this thing "done". No wonder this commander inspired my username around here. Power | Flavor-Level: 8/10 | 10/10
5. Omnath, Locus of Rage
Loved the spoiler and started brewing before the actual release for the first time ever. It lacks the fetches and a few key pieces like Crucible of Worlds and Oracle of Mul Daya but is already pretty strong. Tends to end games quickly, if it doesn't it loses about half its matches in the late game though. Power | Flavor-Level: 7/10 | 6/10
7. Talrand, Sky Summoner
Re-evaluating my decks i was looking for a commander that fit a mono-U (nearly counterless) spellslinger theme and he was just perfect for that. Love how the deck just durdles to gain board control, swamps the place with flyers and makes it easy to goldfish to wins. Power | Flavor-Level: 7/10 | 7/10
I'm studying at the moment, and every wave of assignments or exams I'm driven to create new decks as a way to procrastinate and get my mind off of the task. I've built a lot of decks and do so with the knowledge that most of them will be taken apart after a few months - but who cares, the deckbuilding experience is half the fun.
I have two longstanding decks, having recently dismantled Nekusar, the Mindrazer for the exact same reason Pook & Pie mentioned. The decks are Kurkesh, Onakke Ancient (Artifacts, synergy and engines) and Xira Arien (Jund beatdown). Xira has the title of being my only zero proxy deck, having previously shared that with Nekusar. Kurkesh is close, I think I just need like 3 cards. But I have very proxy friendly playgroups and don't abuse printed cards to run stuff that costs $100s of dollars or is very strong and nasty.
Latest build is mono-green Yeva which is ready to go. I have my eye on Heliod "engines" as mono-white and a mono-blue fatties deck based around Rayne, Academy Chancellor. That of course requires that I would make a black deck in order to have a "cycle" of all five colours in mono.
I'm a big red fanboy, and the partners and 4 colour options have seen me adding red to my nonred decks. Esper saboteurs became WRUB saboteurs and I also have a mind to change Dralnu, Lich Lord into Vial Smasher + Ludevic grixis spellslinger.
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No, Kozilek is high tier, put all of my strong cards in there.
I think its Nekusar after, almost high but not mid
then Azami is mid, its not that strong but let it do its thang and, well...
Mikaeus mid
Dakkon Blackblade is LOW, very low.
What are the purposes of each deck?
Kozilek is a ramp/stax/voltron deck, lots of unfair cards and manaramp and its my pet deck.
Nekusar is there to punish tutors and let less active players to draw cards, and ofc eventually kill off everybody at the table.
Azami is just azami, sadly enough.
Mikaeus is monoblack goodstuff without infinite combos, its just a nice deck.
Dakkon is oldborder only deck, 7th edition and back, pillowfort enchantress deck. Its just a yanky pillowfort deck with some
lockdown effects like Mist of Stagnation and Planar Void / Tormod's Crypt and the wincon is usually Dakkon, and he gets bigger with lands, and there's a reason
the deck is called esperlands: It doesen't do much x) But i've pulled off some cool wins with it.
I try to have a diverse and different playstyle/deck as i can and its not often any of the decks has many cards in common, atleast i think so, and their goal is different for each and everyone of them.
Sure, some of them are obvious, and its a thing i dislike about EDH that all decks look the same... goodstuff etc but i can't deny that mine are kinda goodstuff as well. I don't know, but i like what i got going here, they're quite different, powerlevel wise and playstyle.
I couldn't do fatpack boxes. Before the shelving unit, I was using a pair of 3k count boxes and even those felt a little unwieldy at times.
I originally toyed with the idea of sorting into removal, wincons, tutors, draw, ramp etc but decided against it partly because so many things overlap.
I used to use 2.5 3K boxes (I think they were 3K, it's the BCW boxes with 4 rows) but recently switched to just a bunch of 900 boxes for the niche stuff (one per color), and 550 for the lands and general-purpose cards (1 per color), with 1 of each box left over to store all my multicolor cards, which I don't sort into niche/non-niche since they're so relatively few. It means a ton of boxes, but it also means I don't have to lift so many cards to make a deck. But mostly I did it because my gf wanted them to fit into our cabinet.
EDIT: oh, and I keep track of them in an app (decked or something).
EDH Primers
Phelddagrif - Zirilan
EDH
Thrasios+Bruse - Pang - Sasaya - Wydwen - Feather - Rona - Toshiro - Sylvia+Khorvath - Geth - QMarchesa - Firesong - Athreos - Arixmethes - Isperia - Etali - Silas+Sidar - Saskia - Virtus+Gorm - Kynaios - Naban - Aryel - Mizzix - Kazuul - Tymna+Kraum - Sidar+Tymna - Ayli - Gwendlyn - Phelddagrif 4 - Liliana - Kaervek - Phelddagrif 3 - Mairsil - Scarab - Child - Phenax - Shirei - Thada - Depala - Circu - Kytheon - GrenzoHR - Phelddagrif - Reyhan+Kraum - Toshiro - Varolz - Nin - Ojutai - Tasigur - Zedruu - Uril - Edric - Wort - Zurgo - Nahiri - Grenzo - Kozilek - Yisan - Ink-Treader - Yisan - Brago - Sidisi - Toshiro - Alexi - Sygg - Brimaz - Sek'Kuar - Marchesa - Vish Kal - Iroas - Phelddagrif - Ephara - Derevi - Glissa - Wanderer - Saffi - Melek - Xiahou Dun - Lazav - Lin Sivvi - Zirilan - Glissa
PDH - Drake - Graverobber - Izzet GM - Tallowisp - Symbiote Brawl - Feather - Ugin - Jace - Scarab - Angrath - Vraska - Kumena Oathbreaker - Wrenn&6
Evergreen decks (they will be around forever)
Wort, Boggart Auntie - goblins live, die, then repeat
Nissa, Sage Animist - Started out as a throwaway deck (99 junk cards + general) but evolved into a group favorite. A straight up green good-stuff deck with a relentless general.
Braids, Conjurer Adept - Krakens, Leviathans, and a bigg ass octopus. Loads of clones and the usual good blue stuff. Fallen into a nice groove of fun with potential for broken starts. Also it has a Grozoth package which i am a huge fan of.
Dromoka, the Eternal - Everything tribal. Has all the changelings and a wealth of different tribal generals. Also can be an explosive GW deck that just cranks out nice dragons. Deck is tuned up and good to go for a while.
Enjoyable decks that may be retired eventually:
Bartel Runeaxe - Mono Axe control. A Jund good stuff deck with small giant theme. If a more interesting general presents itself i could re-tool this deck.
Dakkon Blackblade - Land Ho! Esper Landfall control deck. Pretty good deck but might get dull eventually and re-tooled. Fills a nice void in our playgroup (aka has answers to things) so it might be around for the long haul.
Anafenza, Kin-Tree Spirit - Cheesy White Beats. Nuff said.
Pia and Kiran Nalaar - Mono red artifacts. If an izzet arifact general comes along this deck would probably evolve. Also might get taken apart to help the new 4-c artifact general.
Decks i am on the fence about
Mizzix of the Izmagnus- X spells are the focus but its just a "spell deck". Played it the other day and won convincingly but didnt feel great about it. Might retire soon.
Volrath the Fallen - Sometimes its a voltron deck and sometimes its a black creature based good stuff deck. I keep improving it bit by bit, but not 100% on the concept
Ishkanah, Grafwidow - Bug/Graveyard theme. Trying to max out the value of Swarmyard on this deck. Have proxied the general because i dont want to pay $10 for it.
Rashmi, Eternities Crafter - Just built, no idea if the deck is good or even interesting.
Atarka, World Render - Only played a couple games, can be explosive but might not be interesting enough.
Adriana, Captain of the Guard - A few games under her belt including a win or two. Wanted to test Melee as a mechanic. Going to push this deck a bit further. Suffers from the classic "combat or bust" Boros issue.
Penta-Decks. Designed to be played against each other in pentagram format.
Thassa, God of the Sea - Blue trickery with magical hack.
Heliod, God of the Sun - White Weenies
Purphoros, God of the Forge - Tokens
Nylea, God of the Hunt - Big boom booms
Erebos, God of the Dead - Loads of removal
In Progress
GBIshkanah, Grafwidow ~ BWGRTymna the Weaver & Tana, the Bloodsower ~ UGRashmi, Eternities Crafter ~ RGAtarka, World Render
Tracking via spreadsheet instead of app is mostly because I started with a spreadsheet and don't want to reenter everything now. It's more work to maintain, but I have a lot of freedom in deciding how I want things sorted so I can mirror my physical collection more closely. It theoretically offers more powerful tools as well, but I have to put in the time to make them happen if I want them. It's nice to have the option even if I've mostly been lazy about that so far.
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Commander
RGOmnath, Locus of Rage Grenades! EDHGR
UWSygg's Defense, EDH - Voltron & ControlWU
BUGMimeoplasm EDH ft. Ifnir Cycling-discard comboBUG
WBTeysa, Connoisseur of CullingBW
BWSelenia & Recruiter of the Guard suicice combo EDHWB
UBRWGO-Kagachi - 5 Color Enchantments - EDHUBRWG
I guess I don't bother because I so rarely rebuild my decks. Even if I do build a deck with the same commander, I prefer to look at all the cards anyway to see if I've changed my mind about any of my choices. Also it seems like rebuilding a full 100 cards would take a long time going alphabetically. I guess if you've got the list sorted alphabetically that makes it easier though.
Out of curiosity - double or single sleeving? I'm debating whether or not to spring for double sleeving, but I'm concerned about how much more space it'll take up for shuffling and storage.
EDH Primers
Phelddagrif - Zirilan
EDH
Thrasios+Bruse - Pang - Sasaya - Wydwen - Feather - Rona - Toshiro - Sylvia+Khorvath - Geth - QMarchesa - Firesong - Athreos - Arixmethes - Isperia - Etali - Silas+Sidar - Saskia - Virtus+Gorm - Kynaios - Naban - Aryel - Mizzix - Kazuul - Tymna+Kraum - Sidar+Tymna - Ayli - Gwendlyn - Phelddagrif 4 - Liliana - Kaervek - Phelddagrif 3 - Mairsil - Scarab - Child - Phenax - Shirei - Thada - Depala - Circu - Kytheon - GrenzoHR - Phelddagrif - Reyhan+Kraum - Toshiro - Varolz - Nin - Ojutai - Tasigur - Zedruu - Uril - Edric - Wort - Zurgo - Nahiri - Grenzo - Kozilek - Yisan - Ink-Treader - Yisan - Brago - Sidisi - Toshiro - Alexi - Sygg - Brimaz - Sek'Kuar - Marchesa - Vish Kal - Iroas - Phelddagrif - Ephara - Derevi - Glissa - Wanderer - Saffi - Melek - Xiahou Dun - Lazav - Lin Sivvi - Zirilan - Glissa
PDH - Drake - Graverobber - Izzet GM - Tallowisp - Symbiote Brawl - Feather - Ugin - Jace - Scarab - Angrath - Vraska - Kumena Oathbreaker - Wrenn&6
I almost never rebuild EDH decks as is, but I do it whenever I feel like playing some legacy or (in very, very rare cases) modern. Those lists are a lot more static. It's infrequent enough that it doesn't make sense to leave them assembled, but I appreciate being able to put the deck together from scratch in 10 minutes when I want to. Lists are also sorted into the same categories and alphabetically, when I use them.
I'm mostly single sleeved. My Jaya list is double sleeved, but it spends most of it's time together, is worth a fair amount, and was once attacked by a cup of coffee. I have no interest in double sleeving everything, mostly for shuffling reasons. I have plenty of storage space, but shuffling double sleeved 100 card stacks is a huge pain.
I have a couple boxes that are like 4x 3000 count boxes. So in total that is about 24000. I think i will use those. Maybe also use a spreadsheet, Sort it like you do (Creature, legendary non-legendary, equipment, non equipment. Sorceresses and Instants, enchantments. ETC. Then i will remove all duplicate cards, and make a spreadsheet to tell me if I have the card and if It is in the box or in a deck. It will also prevent me from having multiple proxies running around and if I get bored with a deck or do not like it, I can simply dismantle and not waste any money. It will be a weekend project.
UB Vela the Night-Clad BUDecklist
WBG Ghave, Guru of Spores GBW
WUBRGThe Ur-DragonWUBRGDecklist
My two most powerful are Zur, the Enchanter (Ad Nauseam/Doomsday Zur, mostly fully decked out, but missing Mana Drain, Flusterstorm, Imperial Seal) and Arcum Dagsson, the latter of which was my first deck built to enter the format.
My other decks are mostly tier 2 and 3 Commanders. I have a Ghave deck that aims to form an infinite combo before turn 5, and it is complete with Mana Crypt and Gaea's Cradle, every non Imperial Seal tutor I could find, and was the second deck I ever made in EDH. Roon of the Hidden Realm is your typical blink value deck, aiming to be roughly comparable to average-powered decks. It's basically value effects and removal to fun police the game and prevent quick wins from infinite combos, but is a 75% deck, which is a term I think people use around these parts. It wins with the Reveillark combo, chaining Time Warps, etc., and has every tutor in green I could fit.
After that, I built Sliver Overlord because a friend told me I couldn't make an aggro deck (and I had 1 each of the duals sitting in other decks, so why not), I built Uril, the Miststalker to be my Voltron deck and then later Kemba, Kha Regent afterwards to have a weaker Voltron Commander. I built Chainer, Dementia Master to be my control deck for Commander, and made Nekusar, the Mindrazer somewhere around this time but it may be the first of my decks I actually take apart because I have absolutely no fun playing it (either I succeed in chaining wheels and nobody else has fun, or I get stopped repeatedly and religiously and I can't have any fun either). My wife's deck was Ezuri, Renegade Leader, but while she enjoyed the power of it, the consistency issues bothered her (and again, every single green tutor we own is in it, from Chord, Defense of the Heart, Zenith, Natural Order, Tooth and Nail, Worldly and Sylvan, Summoner's Pact, Crop Rotation to get Cradle etc.) because sometimes she would end games on the fourth turn, and other times she'd have to wait until the eighth turn. Because of this, we switched the Commander to Yisan, the Wanderer Bard, made a few different accommodations, and she still has her Elf Commander deck in a mildly unoptimized Yisan list, but she's now never without a Priest of Titania for any length of time which is all she really wanted anyway. My wife's deck is probably the strongest of this entire paragraph, as I feel pretty comfortable playing the rest listed here knowing that I won't be oppressive to a meta game, unlike what I can do with Zur.
Right now I'm kicking around the idea of building a new Commander, but I just moved and got into a new meta game so I don't know if I should bother. I've been thinking about building Thrasios or Breya, or just scrapping that idea and making a crappy Commander deck using Karlov just in case my new meta is very low-powered.
Sig and Avatar drawn by me.
1. Oona, Queen of the Fae
Had her laying around in my collection. Started out as a typical Dimir Control deck with a Faerie Subtheme. Changed its theme to Acquire/Bribery/... kind of effects. Recently tore her apart for a more fitting mono-U commander.
Power | Flavor-Level: 7/10 | 7/10
2. Rhys the Redeemed
Second Shadowmoor Legend i had and wanted to build. Tried to make it work as an Elfball deck revolving around Imperious Perfect/Elvish Promenade/... kind of effects. White was only in it as a splash color and tbh, it didn't work out at all. Got torn apart for a way better mono-G Elfball commander.
Power | Flavor-Level: 5/10 | 8/10
3. Prossh, Skyraider of Kher
Got the Precon for my birthday, loved it from the start and successively upgraded it. The deck i have that's closest to what i'd consider "perfect". The mana base still needs some tweaking, but it's as consistent as it gets.
Power | Flavor-Level: 9/10 | 6/10
4. Brago, King Eternal
I always loved the deck tech but greatly disliked the obvious Stax lists, so i decided to play him durdely, without infinites but with a sub-theme of Token Spam. When it comes to constantly brewing and finding new ideas this is one big entertaining WIP. Endless hours of enjoyable research and brewing and i'm yet to call this thing "done". No wonder this commander inspired my username around here.
Power | Flavor-Level: 8/10 | 10/10
5. Omnath, Locus of Rage
Loved the spoiler and started brewing before the actual release for the first time ever. It lacks the fetches and a few key pieces like Crucible of Worlds and Oracle of Mul Daya but is already pretty strong. Tends to end games quickly, if it doesn't it loses about half its matches in the late game though.
Power | Flavor-Level: 7/10 | 6/10
6. Ezuri, Renegade Leader
The perfect commander my love for Elves (see above) needed. Even without a Gaea's Cradle, Earthcraft and the infinites i tend to avoid, it is insanely fast, surprisingly sturdy and a lot of fun to play. Propably my most competitive-like deck.
Power | Flavor-Level: 10/10 | 9/10
7. Talrand, Sky Summoner
Re-evaluating my decks i was looking for a commander that fit a mono-U (nearly counterless) spellslinger theme and he was just perfect for that. Love how the deck just durdles to gain board control, swamps the place with flyers and makes it easy to goldfish to wins.
Power | Flavor-Level: 7/10 | 7/10
You're curious and i like that!
I think I'ma go for Lin Sivvi, Rebel Hero next since I love monowhite. Cards are in the mail!
Tymna & Ishai, ie Esper Edric
Crosis Turbotrash
I have two longstanding decks, having recently dismantled Nekusar, the Mindrazer for the exact same reason Pook & Pie mentioned. The decks are Kurkesh, Onakke Ancient (Artifacts, synergy and engines) and Xira Arien (Jund beatdown). Xira has the title of being my only zero proxy deck, having previously shared that with Nekusar. Kurkesh is close, I think I just need like 3 cards. But I have very proxy friendly playgroups and don't abuse printed cards to run stuff that costs $100s of dollars or is very strong and nasty.
Latest build is mono-green Yeva which is ready to go. I have my eye on Heliod "engines" as mono-white and a mono-blue fatties deck based around Rayne, Academy Chancellor. That of course requires that I would make a black deck in order to have a "cycle" of all five colours in mono.
I'm looking to eventually do the same using artifacts, running UW (Hanna, Ship's Navigator), GB (Glissa, the Traitor) and maybe even colourless (Karn, Silver Golem) in order to have artifact decks with every colour represented.
I'm a big red fanboy, and the partners and 4 colour options have seen me adding red to my nonred decks. Esper saboteurs became WRUB saboteurs and I also have a mind to change Dralnu, Lich Lord into Vial Smasher + Ludevic grixis spellslinger.
RRGrenzo plays your deck, GGYeva's mono green control, WW9-tails trys desperately for monowhite not to suck
RWBUTymna and Kraum's saboteur tribal, UWG Kestia's Enchantress Aggro, RUB Jeleva casts big dumb spells, RGB Vaevictis' big critters can kill your critters hard
Arena Standard
UUUU Tempo, since before it was cool
Various Wx decks running Fountain of Renewal and Day of Glory
Anything I can cram Chaos Wand in to
Right now i got 5 decks assembled, before i had about 10 or so and i've rotated through a bunch of generals...
Are they on roughly equal power levels?
No, Kozilek is high tier, put all of my strong cards in there.
I think its Nekusar after, almost high but not mid
then Azami is mid, its not that strong but let it do its thang and, well...
Mikaeus mid
Dakkon Blackblade is LOW, very low.
What are the purposes of each deck?
Kozilek is a ramp/stax/voltron deck, lots of unfair cards and manaramp and its my pet deck.
Nekusar is there to punish tutors and let less active players to draw cards, and ofc eventually kill off everybody at the table.
Azami is just azami, sadly enough.
Mikaeus is monoblack goodstuff without infinite combos, its just a nice deck.
Dakkon is oldborder only deck, 7th edition and back, pillowfort enchantress deck. Its just a yanky pillowfort deck with some
lockdown effects like Mist of Stagnation and Planar Void / Tormod's Crypt and the wincon is usually Dakkon, and he gets bigger with lands, and there's a reason
the deck is called esperlands: It doesen't do much x) But i've pulled off some cool wins with it.
I try to have a diverse and different playstyle/deck as i can and its not often any of the decks has many cards in common, atleast i think so, and their goal is different for each and everyone of them.
Sure, some of them are obvious, and its a thing i dislike about EDH that all decks look the same... goodstuff etc but i can't deny that mine are kinda goodstuff as well. I don't know, but i like what i got going here, they're quite different, powerlevel wise and playstyle.
Who needs Colours?
My most played EDH deck:
X Kozilek, the Great Distortion
UBR Nekusar, the Mindrazer