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Commander deck challenge

Build 32 different decks for Magic: the Gathering’s most popular casual format

The format

Commander is a Magic: the Gathering format where you choose a legendary creature to lead your deck, and the build a deck of exactly 100 cards around that creature. Cards cannot be repeated, other than basic lands. This leads to a great variety among decks, even between two decks with the same commander.

About the format


The challenge

The Commander deck challenge is where you build one deck of each colour combination in Magic. That’s a total of 32 decks.

For my version of the challenge, I will restrict myself to cards already in my collection, and commanders which are outside the 5 most popular commanders for that colour combination on the website EDHrec. I aim to bring these decks in at a range of 3-6 on the Commander power scale.


The decks

As I go through the decks, the links here will turn blue and you can check them out individually. Or you can click here to see all deck articles.

Mono

Black

Blue

Colorless

Green

Red

White

Two-colour

Azorius

Boros

Dimir

Golgari

Gruul

Izzet

Orzhov

Rakdos

Selesnya

Simic

Three-colour

Abzan

Bant

Esper

Grixis

Jeskai

Jund

Mardu

Naya

Sultai

Temur

Four-colour

No-black

No-blue

No-green

No-red

No-white

Five-colour

Five colour


Other resources

A couple of websites are especially helpful to me in deckbuilding and this series generally. They are:

EDHrec

Scryfall


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