But why no Foglio commander for the Foglio tribal deck?
Also, do you have your K&T list somewhere? I just finished my Tamanoa enrage deck and I was really tempted to add blue for Swans of Bryn Argoll and Nin, the Pain Artist. I am curious as to how you built it.
Riku of Two Reflections - Copy, then copy again | Shattergang Brothers - Token Sac&Recur | Gahiji, Honored One - Multiple attack steps | Karametra, God of Harvests - Landfall, Creaturefall, Shroud | Ruhan of the Fomori - Stop hitting yourself | Zurgo Helmsmasher - Equipment&Wraths | Crosis, the Purger - Dragon Tribal Reanimator | Derevi, Empyrial Tactician - No stax, just tap and untap fun | Anafenza, the Foremost - Enduring Ideal Enchantress | Sharuum, the Hegemon - Sphinx Tribal Control | Noyan Dar - Spellslinger | The Mimeoplasm - Counterpalooza
Lists can be found here.
Still convinced the guy on Beseech the Queen is wearing a Mitra-type hat. Wake up sheeple!
So.ple answer. He has 32 decks. If I go by how regularly I play. It will take me 7 weeks to play each one. (Average 5 games a week. And I like playing my decks more than once a night. So yea easily 7 weeks. Maybe more.
He .ight play more often than k do but that is still probably gonna be a few weeks.
I play 2-4 games on Wednesdays after work, and all afternoon Sundays at my LGS. (The Commander start time is officially 1pm, and we get kicked out at 10pm if we're still there, which occasionally happens.) I only carry 5 decks with me at any given time.
Congrats dude, my question is how you decided which commanders to use to make it worth doing. Ive been trying for a while but find that the deck end up overlapping too much to make them unique.
Just waiting until a legend comes out that I didn't already have a deck for, which struck my fancy. For my mono-color decks, after building Thada and Jaya, I specifically made them a cycle of 2/2 creatures that cost 1 generic and 2 colored mana.
well money might contain that creativity, or even just a lack of motivation after 40+ he had other decks in place of the ones before, and who is to say previous ones were not made before he started going for 32.
Money is not likely to contain my creativity. I'm single and make a 6-figure income.
But why no Foglio commander for the Foglio tribal deck?
Because the only legendary creatures they've done are Ramirez DePietro and Orim, Samite Healer. I already had both Soraya and Wrexial when I decided to build my Foglio deck (and Orim isn't a 2/2), and I needed 3 colors to have enough card depth to build a deck.
Also, do you have your K&T list somewhere? I just finished my Tamanoa enrage deck and I was really tempted to add blue for Swans of Bryn Argoll and Nin, the Pain Artist. I am curious as to how you built it.
well money might contain that creativity, or even just a lack of motivation after 40+ he had other decks in place of the ones before, and who is to say previous ones were not made before he started going for 32.
Money is not likely to contain my creativity. I'm single and make a 6-figure income.
I don't make that much. So yea i am kinda tight on budget.
I've had the 32-34 decks (have had some color doubles here and there) for years, but the iterating and re-iterating never ever stops. Just today I scrapped my Gishath deck when I realized it shared way too much playstyle with couple other decks; gave some of the tools in that deck to other decks where they fit (Zedruu now has a Sunforger package, and Dromoka sports even more "why won't you DIE?" tools) and started from scratch with Naya. After few hours of brainstorming, decided to give an old idea with currently no deck another go - Gahiji, Honored One, with the general idea of 'attacking me is a bad idea and you can see it on the board'.
I am slowly but somewhat surely getting to the point where between 33 decks(currently two Abzan decks) no two decks play the same, have different themes and philosophies, and the amount of cards that are in multiple decks are down to things like Cultivate, Sol Ring, signets, common draw and removal etc, for the most part. A point where each deck is unique, a solid deck to pilot. Most of them are also synergistic snowball inevitability engines because I love those probably too much ^^;
I've stuck to Sheldon's philosophy of each new card going to only one deck for a long time, and that really helps keep the decks separate from each other. And makes me think where a card is the best fit, which in turn makes it easier to actually finding spots for all the new goodies. (I also tend to cut cards that I know I'm playing elsewhere, though as said that list is getting pretty small)
Granted, this is the kind of project for people who have the time and money, and enjoy deckcrafting at least as much (if not more) than actual playing...
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I've had the 32-34 decks (have had some color doubles here and there) for years, but the iterating and re-iterating never ever stops. Just today I scrapped my Gishath deck when I realized it shared way too much playstyle with couple other decks; gave some of the tools in that deck to other decks where they fit (Zedruu now has a Sunforger package, and Dromoka sports even more "why won't you DIE?" tools) and started from scratch with Naya. After few hours of brainstorming, decided to give an old idea with currently no deck another go - Gahiji, Honored One, with the general idea of 'attacking me is a bad idea and you can see it on the board'.
I am slowly but somewhat surely getting to the point where between 33 decks(currently two Abzan decks) no two decks play the same, have different themes and philosophies, and the amount of cards that are in multiple decks are down to things like Cultivate, Sol Ring, signets, common draw and removal etc, for the most part. A point where each deck is unique, a solid deck to pilot. Most of them are also synergistic snowball inevitability engines because I love those probably too much ^^;
I've stuck to Sheldon's philosophy of each new card going to only one deck for a long time, and that really helps keep the decks separate from each other. And makes me think where a card is the best fit, which in turn makes it easier to actually finding spots for all the new goodies. (I also tend to cut cards that I know I'm playing elsewhere, though as said that list is getting pretty small)
Granted, this is the kind of project for people who have the time and money, and enjoy deckcrafting at least as much (if not more) than actual playing...
I am at 14 decks and not in a hurry to ever get to 32, but other than that you describe my deckbuilding/balancing process perfectly.
Riku of Two Reflections - Copy, then copy again | Shattergang Brothers - Token Sac&Recur | Gahiji, Honored One - Multiple attack steps | Karametra, God of Harvests - Landfall, Creaturefall, Shroud | Ruhan of the Fomori - Stop hitting yourself | Zurgo Helmsmasher - Equipment&Wraths | Crosis, the Purger - Dragon Tribal Reanimator | Derevi, Empyrial Tactician - No stax, just tap and untap fun | Anafenza, the Foremost - Enduring Ideal Enchantress | Sharuum, the Hegemon - Sphinx Tribal Control | Noyan Dar - Spellslinger | The Mimeoplasm - Counterpalooza
Lists can be found here.
Still convinced the guy on Beseech the Queen is wearing a Mitra-type hat. Wake up sheeple!
Just got back my altered Isamaru today:
I've got plans for at least 12 more alters going into the deck, too.
Your alter is gross. (I prefer to just have bordeless alters as opposed to having full art changes. I would never have art changes on the card.
(One time i did enjoy the alter, it was a Kami of the crescent moon, altered to look like Kenny (from south park)
I also enjoy digital alters of existing commanders, but since the actual card is not being altered, it is a different story.
Personally I would liek t get all Generals Altered, but that also means i have to find non foil versions of Some of them (Like The Ur-Dragon and Atraxa, Praetors' voice)
Congrats on the accomplishment! I'd do this, but I tend to pay more attention to if a Commander sounds fun to me than what colors I don't have yet, so sometimes I build within color combinations I have existing decks for, but that play much differently
Your alter is gross. (I prefer to just have bordeless alters as opposed to having full art changes. I would never have art changes on the card.
(One time i did enjoy the alter, it was a Kami of the crescent moon, altered to look like Kenny (from south park)
I also enjoy digital alters of existing commanders, but since the actual card is not being altered, it is a different story.
Personally I would liek t get all Generals Altered, but that also means i have to find non foil versions of Some of them (Like The Ur-Dragon and Atraxa, Praetors' voice)
Wow that is stone cold.
Looks like a pretty decent alter to me. Imo border extensions are fine but not particularly interesting most of the time. Original art can really make a card awesome and special.
Those digital sticker alters are tacky garbage imo. No skill or artistry required. Plus they're virtually all generic fantasy garbage that looks like it's marketed to a 13-year-old's definition of "cool". Never see any of them trying something interesting or artistic. Mandatory klug mention:
OK I'm done.
Cool collection, I haven't been able to get inspired by most of the 4-colors yet to finish my cycle (though I also don't keep decks together so finishing it is just an exercise for the mind, anyway).
Your alter is gross. (I prefer to just have bordeless alters as opposed to having full art changes. I would never have art changes on the card.
(One time i did enjoy the alter, it was a Kami of the crescent moon, altered to look like Kenny (from south park)
I also enjoy digital alters of existing commanders, but since the actual card is not being altered, it is a different story.
Personally I would liek t get all Generals Altered, but that also means i have to find non foil versions of Some of them (Like The Ur-Dragon and Atraxa, Praetors' voice)
Wow that is stone cold.
Looks like a pretty decent alter to me. Imo border extensions are fine but not particularly interesting most of the time. Original art can really make a card awesome and special.
Those digital sticker alters are tacky garbage imo. No skill or artistry required. Plus they're virtually all generic fantasy garbage that looks like it's marketed to a 13-year-old's definition of "cool". Never see any of them trying something interesting or artistic. Mandatory klug mention:
OK I'm done.
Cool collection, I haven't been able to get inspired by most of the 4-colors yet to finish my cycle (though I also don't keep decks together so finishing it is just an exercise for the mind, anyway).
I wasn't meant to be that cold but really don;t like alters like that, Scooby-doo has no reason to be in MTG.
As for Adun, also not a fan of it. Noble Hierarch and hatred are not bad. I am sad to see yosei look like that. It is abomination.
I wasn't meant to be that cold but really don;t like alters like that, Scooby-doo has no reason to be in MTG.
As for Adun, also not a fan of it. Noble Hierarch and hatred are not bad. I am sad to see yosei look like that. It is abomination.
Oh man, words cannot express how much I disagree with you. A classic legends legend, given art that matches its venerability, perfectly executed, versus a tacky sticker with generic "cool" fantasy crap on it?
I wasn't meant to be that cold but really don;t like alters like that, Scooby-doo has no reason to be in MTG.
As for Adun, also not a fan of it. Noble Hierarch and hatred are not bad. I am sad to see yosei look like that. It is abomination.
Oh man, words cannot express how much I disagree with you. A classic legends legend, given art that matches its venerability, perfectly executed, versus a tacky sticker with generic "cool" fantasy crap on it?
I mean, I know art is subjective, but yikes.
Yeah, that Adun is a really cool effect. And the stickers are pretty much universally trash, on top of being guaranteed tournament-illegal. (Not that every alter I like is necessarily tournament-legal, but at least the traditional art alters have a chance.)
I wasn't meant to be that cold but really don;t like alters like that, Scooby-doo has no reason to be in MTG.
As for Adun, also not a fan of it. Noble Hierarch and hatred are not bad. I am sad to see yosei look like that. It is abomination.
Oh man, words cannot express how much I disagree with you. A classic legends legend, given art that matches its venerability, perfectly executed, versus a tacky sticker with generic "cool" fantasy crap on it?
I mean, I know art is subjective, but yikes.
Yeah, that Adun is a really cool effect. And the stickers are pretty much universally trash, on top of being guaranteed tournament-illegal. (Not that every alter I like is necessarily tournament-legal, but at least the traditional art alters have a chance.)
I just do not like seeing pop culture characters on MTG cards. It just doe snot fit.
I just do not like seeing pop culture characters on MTG cards. It just doe snot fit.
I still prefer borderless alters, like my Vela
I mean, I don't think putting scooby doo on isamaru is high art or anything, but I see no reason why alters can't just be fun and silly.
Kind of irrelevant but that's not the greatest border extension I've seen tbh. The sparkles look pretty good but the brush strokes are really obvious on the left side, and a lot of the border is messy.
Not that all alters need to be perfect or anything, I'm just confused why you'd show it off as an example instead of, say, this desertion (not mine btw)
I just do not like seeing pop culture characters on MTG cards. It just doe snot fit.
I still prefer borderless alters, like my Vela
I mean, I don't think putting scooby doo on isamaru is high art or anything, but I see no reason why alters can't just be fun and silly.
Kind of irrelevant but that's not the greatest border extension I've seen tbh. The sparkles look pretty good but the brush strokes are really obvious on the left side, and a lot of the border is messy.
Not that all alters need to be perfect or anything, I'm just confused why you'd show it off as an example instead of, say, this desertion (not mine btw)
possibly becasue I am fodn of it. i mean yea you can see the brush strokes on the left side. Thr ight you have to really focus to see them. The girl who did the alter did it in less than an hour so I am not complaining. It is just a border alter anyway. If i was the type to enjoy putting Garfield on top of Arahbo, Roar of the World i would make sure the person who did the alter can draw Garfield. (Plus it is nicer to be able to see the person work on your card, or just get it done in a couple hours than to have to send it in, wait for them to alter it and then wait to get it back.)
I just wish WotC gave us non foil version of our commander in the pre-cons, I would love to get my The Ur-Dragon Altered. but she can't work with foils.
I just wish WotC gave us non foil version of our commander in the pre-cons, I would love to get my The Ur-Dragon Altered. but she can't work with foils.
That we can definitely agree on. Foil-only cards are laaaaame.
I just wish WotC gave us non foil version of our commander in the pre-cons, I would love to get my The Ur-Dragon Altered. but she can't work with foils.
That we can definitely agree on. Foil-only cards are laaaaame.
I've been on the opposite end of that spectrum for years and am technically still suffering because not all the new Commander Cards (as in cards debuting in Commander, not the Legendaries) are available in foil and I do want to eventually foil out everything in my EDH decks, so while we're on opposite sides, the pain we feel is in reality not so different.
I really wished they just printed the decks non-foil and released a yearly Arsenal with a full foil set of the new cards debuting that year instead. Yes it sounds biased towards myself (so I can get all the new cards easily), but if you think about it the reverse idea just doesn't work out because selling full-foil decks for what is intended to be an introductory product is just not the most logical of decisions.
I've been on the opposite end of that spectrum for years and am technically still suffering because not all the new Commander Cards (as in cards debuting in Commander, not the Legendaries) are available in foil and I do want to eventually foil out everything in my EDH decks, so while we're on opposite sides, the pain we feel is in reality not so different.
I really wished they just printed the decks non-foil and released a yearly Arsenal with a full foil set of the new cards debuting that year instead. Yes it sounds biased towards myself (so I can get all the new cards easily), but if you think about it the reverse idea just doesn't work out because selling full-foil decks for what is intended to be an introductory product is just not the most logical of decisions.
Well....thing is, duals and other reserved list staples will never be printed in foil, so trying - or even hoping - to go "all foil" is fruitless unless you're willing to gimp your decks in order to do so.
That said I'd be happy with any solution that allows me to get non-foils of the commander cards. If I didn't have to buy all the reprint cards along with them that'd be ideal, but beggars can't be choosers.
Well....thing is, duals and other reserved list staples will never be printed in foil, so trying - or even hoping - to go "all foil" is fruitless unless you're willing to gimp your decks in order to do so.
That said I'd be happy with any solution that allows me to get non-foils of the commander cards. If I didn't have to buy all the reprint cards along with them that'd be ideal, but beggars can't be choosers.
In a fit of irony (for someone foiling out his deck), I usually try to avoid spending 3 digits (or near 3 digits) on single cards, so Duals themselves aren't actually on in the plan. I even usually wait it out for 50-60 dollar foils until reprints dent their value, unless the card has visibly shown to withstand the that test consistently (Cryptic Command as an example).
I say usually because I already made exceptions before (I caved in and bought a foil Palinchron at around 120 because I foresaw the imminent incoming Reserved List Spike) and might continue to make minor concessions on that front (Mana Crypt as the most obvious culprit taunts me more than the Duals) in the future. Of course, there are long gone cases like Gaea's Cradle (missed the boat for the foil one by a country mile), so I already settled for budget versions already, so yeah, optimization isn't a focus of mine (I do try to make as 75% as possible in relation to my meta though).
I also jumped the gun a bit when declaring all-foil though, to honor the fact I already spent the money on the entire 2014 set of Commander decks (the only year I did and in fact I ceased buying precons from then, opting only for singles, to be fair back then I haven't established what I wanted from the format as well as I do now), I decided I will always run the 5 planeswalkers of the set in my decks and since they couldn't be foiled (until Freyalise came along in Anthology 1, which I actually did foil out because she is also the only one among the 5 I run as a Commander and I do want my Commanders foiled, so I made a double-exception), I decided all planeswalkers in my EDH decks will be nonfoil. It helps that a friend did a huge favor by selling me the Ugin's Fate Ugin to me at the low, low price of 40, so that was the final straw for that decision for this exception (I have this strong feeling that Ugin isn't going ever be foiled anyway).
So yeah, I'm probably going to get annoyed looks from both optimal deckbuilders and people who really foil everything, but hey it's my own suite of decks, I decide what makes me happy after all.
Although, nearly 3 years ago I lost faith that my flagship Commander will be foiled, so I decided to have it altered (I otherwise avoid alters because I believe they heavily conflict with decisions when the ever-changing nature of the format strikes every time new cards come out, even with Commanders, but my Flagship was granted the title precisely because it stuck with me from the beginning, so it's the only exception I made so far, and for now is likely to be the only one to be), and now, Masters 25 just happened (All that being said, I'm not bothering acquiring a foil because precisely I consider alters to conflict with card-changing as a reason not to alter cards, a card I already had altered would holds much more value than a foil to me).
I've been on the opposite end of that spectrum for years and am technically still suffering because not all the new Commander Cards (as in cards debuting in Commander, not the Legendaries) are available in foil and I do want to eventually foil out everything in my EDH decks, so while we're on opposite sides, the pain we feel is in reality not so different.
I really wished they just printed the decks non-foil and released a yearly Arsenal with a full foil set of the new cards debuting that year instead. Yes it sounds biased towards myself (so I can get all the new cards easily), but if you think about it the reverse idea just doesn't work out because selling full-foil decks for what is intended to be an introductory product is just not the most logical of decisions.
Well....thing is, duals and other reserved list staples will never be printed in foil, so trying - or even hoping - to go "all foil" is fruitless unless you're willing to gimp your decks in order to do so.
The only two non-foils in my Oloro deck are Basalt Monolith and Thought Vessel. Monolith was printed before foil was a thing, and in Commander precons. Vessel was printed in Commander precons. I would love to get foils of those two.
I did decide to use an Alpha Monolith to get as much bling factor as I could, though.
But why no Foglio commander for the Foglio tribal deck?
Also, do you have your K&T list somewhere? I just finished my Tamanoa enrage deck and I was really tempted to add blue for Swans of Bryn Argoll and Nin, the Pain Artist. I am curious as to how you built it.
Tamanoa - Welcome to the Jungle
Lists can be found here.
now to make 1 ultra competitive and 1 ultra casual deck per colour combination..
..and then later, expand it to one deck per legendary creature in the game..
..and after that, one deck per block-tribal in the game!
Legacy - Solidarity - mono U aggro - burn - Imperial Painter - Strawberry Shortcake - Bluuzards - bom
I play 2-4 games on Wednesdays after work, and all afternoon Sundays at my LGS. (The Commander start time is officially 1pm, and we get kicked out at 10pm if we're still there, which occasionally happens.) I only carry 5 decks with me at any given time.
Just waiting until a legend comes out that I didn't already have a deck for, which struck my fancy. For my mono-color decks, after building Thada and Jaya, I specifically made them a cycle of 2/2 creatures that cost 1 generic and 2 colored mana.
Money is not likely to contain my creativity. I'm single and make a 6-figure income.
Because the only legendary creatures they've done are Ramirez DePietro and Orim, Samite Healer. I already had both Soraya and Wrexial when I decided to build my Foglio deck (and Orim isn't a 2/2), and I needed 3 colors to have enough card depth to build a deck.
Orim did make the 99, though.
http://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/08-01-18-rage/
Two Score, Minus Two or: A Stargate Tail
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I don't make that much. So yea i am kinda tight on budget.
UB Vela the Night-Clad BUDecklist
WBG Ghave, Guru of Spores GBW
WUBRGThe Ur-DragonWUBRGDecklist
It's a fun (if more than mildly eternal) project.
I've had the 32-34 decks (have had some color doubles here and there) for years, but the iterating and re-iterating never ever stops. Just today I scrapped my Gishath deck when I realized it shared way too much playstyle with couple other decks; gave some of the tools in that deck to other decks where they fit (Zedruu now has a Sunforger package, and Dromoka sports even more "why won't you DIE?" tools) and started from scratch with Naya. After few hours of brainstorming, decided to give an old idea with currently no deck another go - Gahiji, Honored One, with the general idea of 'attacking me is a bad idea and you can see it on the board'.
I am slowly but somewhat surely getting to the point where between 33 decks(currently two Abzan decks) no two decks play the same, have different themes and philosophies, and the amount of cards that are in multiple decks are down to things like Cultivate, Sol Ring, signets, common draw and removal etc, for the most part. A point where each deck is unique, a solid deck to pilot. Most of them are also synergistic snowball inevitability engines because I love those probably too much ^^;
I've stuck to Sheldon's philosophy of each new card going to only one deck for a long time, and that really helps keep the decks separate from each other. And makes me think where a card is the best fit, which in turn makes it easier to actually finding spots for all the new goodies. (I also tend to cut cards that I know I'm playing elsewhere, though as said that list is getting pretty small)
Granted, this is the kind of project for people who have the time and money, and enjoy deckcrafting at least as much (if not more) than actual playing...
Tamanoa - Welcome to the Jungle
Lists can be found here.
I've got plans for at least 12 more alters going into the deck, too.
Two Score, Minus Two or: A Stargate Tail
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Your alter is gross. (I prefer to just have bordeless alters as opposed to having full art changes. I would never have art changes on the card.
(One time i did enjoy the alter, it was a Kami of the crescent moon, altered to look like Kenny (from south park)
I also enjoy digital alters of existing commanders, but since the actual card is not being altered, it is a different story.
Personally I would liek t get all Generals Altered, but that also means i have to find non foil versions of Some of them (Like The Ur-Dragon and Atraxa, Praetors' voice)
UB Vela the Night-Clad BUDecklist
WBG Ghave, Guru of Spores GBW
WUBRGThe Ur-DragonWUBRGDecklist
(Also known as Xenphire)
Looks like a pretty decent alter to me. Imo border extensions are fine but not particularly interesting most of the time. Original art can really make a card awesome and special.
Those digital sticker alters are tacky garbage imo. No skill or artistry required. Plus they're virtually all generic fantasy garbage that looks like it's marketed to a 13-year-old's definition of "cool". Never see any of them trying something interesting or artistic. Mandatory klug mention:
OK I'm done.
Cool collection, I haven't been able to get inspired by most of the 4-colors yet to finish my cycle (though I also don't keep decks together so finishing it is just an exercise for the mind, anyway).
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 wasn't meant to be that cold but really don;t like alters like that, Scooby-doo has no reason to be in MTG.
As for Adun, also not a fan of it. Noble Hierarch and hatred are not bad. I am sad to see yosei look like that. It is abomination.
UB Vela the Night-Clad BUDecklist
WBG Ghave, Guru of Spores GBW
WUBRGThe Ur-DragonWUBRGDecklist
I mean, I know art is subjective, but yikes.
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
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I just do not like seeing pop culture characters on MTG cards. It just doe snot fit.
I still prefer borderless alters, like my Vela
UB Vela the Night-Clad BUDecklist
WBG Ghave, Guru of Spores GBW
WUBRGThe Ur-DragonWUBRGDecklist
Kind of irrelevant but that's not the greatest border extension I've seen tbh. The sparkles look pretty good but the brush strokes are really obvious on the left side, and a lot of the border is messy.
Not that all alters need to be perfect or anything, I'm just confused why you'd show it off as an example instead of, say, this desertion (not mine btw)
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
possibly becasue I am fodn of it. i mean yea you can see the brush strokes on the left side. Thr ight you have to really focus to see them. The girl who did the alter did it in less than an hour so I am not complaining. It is just a border alter anyway. If i was the type to enjoy putting Garfield on top of Arahbo, Roar of the World i would make sure the person who did the alter can draw Garfield. (Plus it is nicer to be able to see the person work on your card, or just get it done in a couple hours than to have to send it in, wait for them to alter it and then wait to get it back.)
I just wish WotC gave us non foil version of our commander in the pre-cons, I would love to get my The Ur-Dragon Altered. but she can't work with foils.
UB Vela the Night-Clad BUDecklist
WBG Ghave, Guru of Spores GBW
WUBRGThe Ur-DragonWUBRGDecklist
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've been on the opposite end of that spectrum for years and am technically still suffering because not all the new Commander Cards (as in cards debuting in Commander, not the Legendaries) are available in foil and I do want to eventually foil out everything in my EDH decks, so while we're on opposite sides, the pain we feel is in reality not so different.
I really wished they just printed the decks non-foil and released a yearly Arsenal with a full foil set of the new cards debuting that year instead. Yes it sounds biased towards myself (so I can get all the new cards easily), but if you think about it the reverse idea just doesn't work out because selling full-foil decks for what is intended to be an introductory product is just not the most logical of decisions.
That said I'd be happy with any solution that allows me to get non-foils of the commander cards. If I didn't have to buy all the reprint cards along with them that'd be ideal, but beggars can't be choosers.
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
In a fit of irony (for someone foiling out his deck), I usually try to avoid spending 3 digits (or near 3 digits) on single cards, so Duals themselves aren't actually on in the plan. I even usually wait it out for 50-60 dollar foils until reprints dent their value, unless the card has visibly shown to withstand the that test consistently (Cryptic Command as an example).
I say usually because I already made exceptions before (I caved in and bought a foil Palinchron at around 120 because I foresaw the imminent incoming Reserved List Spike) and might continue to make minor concessions on that front (Mana Crypt as the most obvious culprit taunts me more than the Duals) in the future. Of course, there are long gone cases like Gaea's Cradle (missed the boat for the foil one by a country mile), so I already settled for budget versions already, so yeah, optimization isn't a focus of mine (I do try to make as 75% as possible in relation to my meta though).
I also jumped the gun a bit when declaring all-foil though, to honor the fact I already spent the money on the entire 2014 set of Commander decks (the only year I did and in fact I ceased buying precons from then, opting only for singles, to be fair back then I haven't established what I wanted from the format as well as I do now), I decided I will always run the 5 planeswalkers of the set in my decks and since they couldn't be foiled (until Freyalise came along in Anthology 1, which I actually did foil out because she is also the only one among the 5 I run as a Commander and I do want my Commanders foiled, so I made a double-exception), I decided all planeswalkers in my EDH decks will be nonfoil. It helps that a friend did a huge favor by selling me the Ugin's Fate Ugin to me at the low, low price of 40, so that was the final straw for that decision for this exception (I have this strong feeling that Ugin isn't going ever be foiled anyway).
So yeah, I'm probably going to get annoyed looks from both optimal deckbuilders and people who really foil everything, but hey it's my own suite of decks, I decide what makes me happy after all.
Although, nearly 3 years ago I lost faith that my flagship Commander will be foiled, so I decided to have it altered (I otherwise avoid alters because I believe they heavily conflict with decisions when the ever-changing nature of the format strikes every time new cards come out, even with Commanders, but my Flagship was granted the title precisely because it stuck with me from the beginning, so it's the only exception I made so far, and for now is likely to be the only one to be), and now, Masters 25 just happened (All that being said, I'm not bothering acquiring a foil because precisely I consider alters to conflict with card-changing as a reason not to alter cards, a card I already had altered would holds much more value than a foil to me).
EDIT: Fixed Phrasing Errors
I did decide to use an Alpha Monolith to get as much bling factor as I could, though.
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