Derium's CCGs

The release of Commander 2016 was mostly uneventful for me, though I did switch out a couple of cards; the one that made it into this particular deck is the new Stonehoof Chieftain, which replaced one of my pet cards I probably shouldn't have kept around as long as …

It's been long enough since I added some of these cards that I no longer remember what I cut to make room for them, so this will mostly just be a list of what's changed since the last card I mentioned swapping out.

• Ayli, Eternal Pilgrim - …

Oh man, I had SUCH high hopes for the new Conspiracy set, and while my not so secret desire to perhaps see Commander-only printings I play now get foil versions was pretty much entirely foiled (ha ha) in that CN2 reprinted none of those, it DID introduce some rad new …

Primer updated to current state of deck including Core Creature section and revised Creature Discussion section. Primer slowly growing to be more informative. Deck still getting better.

So my dream scenario, a return to Innistrad where I got to add more actual werewolves to this deck, has totally happened, and all 12 of the new werewolves, along with a few appropriate support cards, are now in this deck. The werewolf planeswalker Arlin Kord isn't currently, but that's …

Since I was swapping Taurean Mauler out of my werewolf deck, where it had been acting as my "20th" werewolf, in favor of adding an actual transforming werewolf now that they printed a bunch more, I had an extra "samurai" that was ridiculously better than some of the …

I've been intermittently replacing lands that come in tapped with lands that don't, so the mana-base has changed a bit. More interestingly though, due to Shadows over Innistrad giving me so many goodies for my other Gruul deck (and basically none at all for this one, unless I wind up …

For the first time since I started playing Magic, the EDH rules committee banned a card I actually used, namely Prophet of Kruphix, which was a trifle annoying because I wasn't really breaking it or anything, and combining Kruphix and his prophet was definitely a flavor win.

In the grand …

Now that the full set has been spoiled, it turns out there's only 1 card in Oath of the Gatewatch that I wanted to add to this deck, but of course doing so meant cuts and reworking stuff and so I changed a few cards around in the meantime.

So after playing around with Filigree Angel since the deck started out life as the original pre-con, I've finally decided that it was too over-costed for the effect it provided (and certainly for the body that comes with the ETB) - there were scenarios where it put in work, but …

As neat as a re-useable Pacifism was, I decided to replace Cage of Hands with Ghostly Prison. Likewise, Hold the Line was an incredible combat trick but really not what the deck wanted to be doing, so I swapped in a card from the new Commander set, Grasp …

Battle for Zendikar, fortunately for the state of my wallet, didn't wind up having a whole bunch of cards I needed, but there were a few. While I'm still on the fence about picking up Lumbering Falls for this deck (the forthcoming Simic "untapped if you have 2 basic lands" …

The upcoming release of Battle for Zendikar and that kickass new Omnath have me practically giddy. But more specifically, it's prompted me to retire a card that I'm quite fond of, namely Rubblebelt Raiders. As much as I love that card, it relies too much on other factors …

Magic: Origins had a lot of interesting cards in it, and I considered a number of them for various other decks, but apart from a wolf that got lost on the way to Innistrad the release of Origins didn't herald much in the way of changes for my various commander …

As per the deck's (sort of) theme, here are some more cards passed along from my other decks that don't use them anymore (in most cases because I replaced them with a shiny version) since the last time I posted an update:

• Balefire Dragon - replaces Windreader Sphinx, which …