So, since I read about EDH on the mothership site, I looked through my pile of rares, found Borborygmos, built a deck, and haven't looked back since.
I now have a Riku deck and a Kamahl, Fist of Krosa deck in addition to my first one. And they've all gone through their own evolution. Since the beginning I have pretty much only played red, blue, and green, so of course I had to get the commander deck with those colors (that's the Riku pre-constructed deck: Mirror Mastery released by Wizards). Then one night I wanted to play 3-way, but I only had two decks, so I built my Kamahl deck the next day so that that would never happen again.
My Borborygmos deck has turned into a land/artifact hate deck with cards like Shatterstorm and Ruination. Mostly because when I was building it I was jealous of other EDH decks and all their cool artifact toys, and fancy non-basic lands. Well, if I can't have it, then no one can! I also put in a bunch of board sweepers, and then just plan on Voltroning my Borborygmos for General damage (Swiftfoot boots, Darksteel Plate, Sword of Vengeance).
Kamahl is actually a pretty scary aggro commander. With Elves he can easily hit the table on turn 4, and start swinging with an army doing 20+ damage on turn 5. The deck consisted of basically every elf I owned, some other random ramp, some flier hate, some artifact/enchantment hate, and some card draw and utility. For being thrown together in a couple of hours, this deck is surprisingly strong.
Then there's my Riku deck. This is my pet project. It has a bunch of equipment for Riku to suit up in, a bunch of variety hate (artifacts, enchantments, graveyard, counters, fliers), a bunch of clones and other copying spells like Rite of Replication, Parallel Evolution, and Followed Footsteps. Then it also has a bunch of cantrips, and a few tutors and combos. The tutors are Mystical Tutor, Worldly Tutor (which surprisingly I just had laying around - I've never played an eternal format before, so I never really even looked at them), Fauna Shaman, Birthing Pod, and Tooth and Nail. The combos are Spliter Twin/Kiki-Jiki + Deceiver Exarch/Pestermite. So I can either Combo out, get multiple copies of whatever bomb someone else is playing via clones, Rite, etc, or just Parallel Evolution and copy it with Riku to make 4x all my already copied spells, then 16x after flashback.
The Riku deck's variety hate is mostly in the form of creatures (Druid Lyricist, Manic Vandal, Veridian Shaman, Aether Adept) so when I Parallel Evolution it can get pretty fun. I also have Call to Mind, Eternal Witness, and Elven Cache (I know, I need Regrowth) for recursion.
I've gotten a lot of my tech from listening to CommanderCast, but I'm pretty brand new at this (like 1-2 months old) so don't blame my crap decks/decisions on them. But all the good stuff you can probably attribute to them. No, I'm a pretty smart guy in general, being a Software Engineer and a Mathematician, but I'm just not all that experienced at Magic, despite having played it since I was 8 or 9. I'm just saying, those guys who have been playing for the last 20 years straight are obviously way better than me.
Even though I just picked up Magic again 3 months ago, and EDH even more recently than that though, having played it before, and always been very interested in the rules, in deck construction, and in the mathematical analysis of the game (mana curves, expected damage by turn X for aggro decks, etc). I guess I've always strayed away from control strategies because they're difficult to analyze mathematically.
When I started this blog I thought all I would be doing is playing Standard. But EDH is way more fun. Its so weird, I thought Standard was the coolest thing ever, but now I don't even want to play it. It seems boring to me in the blink of an eye.
That's all for now folks. I guess I am too lazy/don't care enough to deck out this blog with any kind of images/cool appropriate fonts etc. so I'm just leaving everything at default now. Mostly I just care about writing as a creative outlet. Maybe someone will read this and enjoy it too. Probably not though unless I advertise somehow, but I'm not that interested. I'm not trying to make money, or make a name for myself or anything. I'm just having fun. And that's why I like EDH. Its just about having fun.
Ttyl.
