As the observant will have noticed first versions of the dragons tribal, mono red and elves tribal Commander decks have been created and the deck lists shared on here. Plus if I remember correctly a deck list for a dinosaur tribal brawl deck has also been shared.

As a disclaimer this post and all my others are really my notes for me to refer back to. I’m nearly 50, my memory ain’t that great at this most ancient of ages and this is where I record things I want to remember. Having said that here are the things I want to remember about decks I’m building.

In very early planning stages, which basically means I have a handful at most of possible cards to use put to one side, no commander decided yet:

• Death and Taxes deck
• Angel deck

I’m also rebuilding the Scarab God deck. But not really spent much time on that.

Ideas I’ve had for decks include the following:

• Wither/infect
• Carebear
• Abuse etb triggers
• Saproling and fungus

Depending on how the mood takes me, one or two of the ideas could jump ahead of those that I mentioned above.

I’m not sure when I will finish those decks. I suppose it depends on how much MtG and particularly Commander I get to play after I move jobs. The two MtG Leagues I ran were well attended, and 2 Commander sessions were fairly successful around the same time. However since then I’ve tried to get a couple of sessions of Commander running but the lack of response has been disappointing. I’ve had to cancel them. Commander is my favourite format for the game. Obviously within Fenland Gamers not so much. I have a Brawl event set up for next Sunday. So that’s (and it’s not as if Magic players need it) an excuse to play with the new cards that they have just got at the Prerelease events. At the moment it’s looking like it too will be cancelled. Which is a bit disappointing. Will this push me into MtG: Arena?

I’d love to see WotC reprint in some way the Vanguard cards, and the Archenemy scheme cards. Ideally the Conspiracy conspiracies cards would also be nice (but a set of these can still be picked up easily and cheaply so less pressure on these). If WotC were clever they would do a box set that gathers these multiplayer formats altogether, print a nice little rules booklet, add in one or two multiplayer formats (see that Commandzone podcast on spicing up Commander for some of those) with some tokens to support them, like role cards for the one based on Bang!