I love my Banner, and apparently so do a lot of other people.
No, I did not draw the images. I found them on Pixiv and the artist deserves all the credit for the art.
Yes, I did edit the pictures to make the Banner.
Yes, I have the original images.
Yes, my Pojo Account has all five.
The reason I picked the 3 in my banner has no deep meaning. Those were the first three that showed up. Nissa and Elspeth came out later than the other three.
I am thinking of dropping the two Surgical Extractions (Sideboarding them) for a Sword of Feast/Famine and Body/Mind.
I am well aware of some the card choices.
I have the 4th Darkslick Shores and Inkmoth incoming, so they will be added when I get them and I will drop the clones for Phyrexian Metamorphs once I get them.
Aether Vial
Ashnod’s Altar
Braingeyser
Brainstorm
Coat of Arms
Commune with Nature
Congregation at Dawn
Concentrate
Diabolic Tutor
Eladamri's Call
Farseek
Green Sun Zenith
Harmonize
Heartstone
Lightning Greaves
Mana Echoes
Path to Exile
Ponder
Preordain
Primal Command
Reap and Sow
Rhystic Study
Summoner's Pact
Summoning Trap
Swords to Plowshares
Sylvan Scrying
Tidings
Training Grounds
Wargate
Worldly Tutor
I am not talking about giving away the crap cards from a draft, but rather sitting down with a player who does not have the best deck and working with that person. Telling that person what cards work and don't work in their deck, and what strategies work in their deck and what combos, no matter how neat, are not that great.
The last thing is to improve their deck by adding cards from your collection to build their deck up. This is the key thing to myself. It is one thing for a person to talk to the person being helped and spend time improving the person's abilities, but it is another to actually give them cards to help them. Obviously, the limit to what you give is up to you, as my own personal limit is cards that are not going to trade otherwise and I don't need.
You should try it out at the next time you go to your local. It is quite rewarding, for both parties.
Yesterday, I played my first EDH game. It was a different experience.
I do not have an EDH deck, but a person at my local card shop let me borrow his deck. I enjoyed playing, despite having a 14/14 Trample, Shroud, Double Strike General coming at me and only having targeting removal.
I want to build a fun EDH deck, so do I go with my original idea of Elves or try Memnarch?