MTG Salvation

Having completed Brudiclad a few days ago, I am now at 63 active EDH decks, with several more at different stages of consideration or building. I have been spending some of my time off during the holidays updating and revising some of my older decks, as I periodically do, swapping in some cards from recent sets and this year's Commander product. Lots of Guilds of Ravnica cards finding homes, along with Rampaging Brontodon.

I have retired only a few Commander decks, once built. Several others I have rebuilt over time to such a degree that they aren't the same deck at all. This is especially true of my first few decks, as I was becoming more familiar with the then-current card pool and as I came to better understand the goals and nature of the format. Now it is fairly rare for me to completely dismantle a deck; more commonly I switch the commander to someone better (Isperia II --> Azor) or maybe drop one or more minor aspects of a deck to focus it a bit more. And I am constantly updating my decks, albeit slowly. Some only rarely change - it is rare that something new is released that is good enough to earn a place in my Nath stax deck or my Heidar mono-blue control deck - while others seem to get something new in almost every set. Most sets have a new hydra and we have been getting some good cheap card draw of late, so Animar hydra tribal often gets updates, and I am constantly swapping cards in and out of my Atraxa counters deck, testing out the many potential options presented by the near-endless number of cards which interact in some way with proliferate.

I have 62 active EDH decks and counting. Proxies are played only on a temporary basis, so if I don't have an actual copy of a card I want for a deck, I play a different card in its place. I have a pretty deep card pool and a pretty good budget, but this still means most of my decks aren't completely optimized. Still, with 5+ of each of the original duals, 3 copies of Mana Drain and so forth, my decks are usually pretty strong.