Stu’s Decks

When I first got into magic it was during the Innistrad Midnight Hunt Set. The Wilhelt precon was a perfect starting place for me. The commander combined two of my favourite things – Zombies and drawing cards! 

Slowly over time I’ve added and tweaked this deck. I’ve enjoyed finding lots of different cool zombies with different effects to stuff in here. It’s now a very synergistic tribal deck that makes the most of lots of zombie lord effects as well as some fun ETB and death triggers on my zombies. It’s lots of fun to play and will always be one of my favourites as my original deck.

I some how opened not one but two Sheoldred the Apocalyspes when cracking boosters and one happened to be a beautiful full art phyrexian version. So it was clearly a sign to build this deck. I love drawing cards and having a glutton of options on any given turn. Plus I get to be the nice guy and help everyone out by drawing them cards too (at a small cost of course…) This deck is probably my strongest deck with a refined game plan, an insane amount of draw, some tutors and a decent amount of powerful interaction.

I mostly play black or blue decks and so wanted to try out some red cards for a change! Thought I’d throw together a mono red deck and Torbran seemed like a fun candidate. This deck definitely runs out of steam but can have some really explosive turns! It all hinges around Torbran’s ability to add 2 damage to any red source of damage, so need to be careful when to play him out as he’s no good dead in the command zone! 

I opened this stunning full art alternative Gandalf the White and decided I had to build a deck around it. I leant into the artifact side of this card as I didn’t really have an artifact themed deck and wanted to try out some of the cool artifact combos.

It’s a challenging deck to play as there’s so many triggers and sequencing is really important. It’s a slower deck to play for sure but when it gets going it really gets going! It’s a combo deck and can feel a bit like playing solitaire sometimes but is a lot of fun and now I’m more familiar with it my turns don’t take as long!

I bought this as a pre-con to strip out and use for other decks but played a couple test games with it and found it could do some big stupid turns and was a lot of fun. Being simic just makes it powerful anyway but this deck can get pretty out of control with lots of token copying effects. It’s not that refined a deck list as I don’t play it that often and needs updated with some new cards. I’ve added some more clone effects and tokens pay off cards alongside cards that you want to copy to do some broken and fun things!

Prosper can be quite the competitive commander from what I’ve seen from some other peoples versions of the deck. This version is not so competitive but arguable way more fun. The aim of this deck is really just to exile lots of cards both from my deck and opponents deck and see what the luck of the cards brings. There’s also a few cards that are in it just for the pure chaos of it. Definitely not a deck that can be played over spelltable! No two games are the same and it really spices up a game night.