I started playing back when 8th Edition was still new. I was around 10 or 11 years old. My uncle introduced my cousin, my brother, and me to the game and bought us our first structure decks. He asked what colors we wanted, and I said (my favorite color at the time) having no idea what any of the colors in Magic did or meant. My brother got the deck and my cousin the . I almost never won. I remember the deck had a few counters and bounce spells with mostly flying creatures, but it wasn't as fast as my brother's deck or as hard-hitting as my cousin's deck. Really it was a watered-down version of what should be. It may have been this that gave me an aversion to control and in general in the years to come. When 9th Edition was released, I got the green deck and never looked back. Green as fit me as a color more than the others, and I had always wanted to build an elf deck. My first "good" kitchen table deck was an elf tribal deck that finally had some goodies in it when the Elves vs Goblins duel decks were released. My favorite part was generating the mass amounts of mana with which I could do anything I wanted. Besides elves I found I really liked fungus cards when I got the structure deck from Time Spiral. Since then I developed a love for playing with counters and tokens that has carried into how I play today.
My favorite color combination is Abzan as you can tell from my name which is a portmanteau of Abzan and Azkaban. I used to be all about with Selesnya's ability to make lots of tokens and counters, but over the years I've starting taking more to . In recent years I have found that I love the Aristocrats strategy of sacrificing creatures, and it has become my dominant archetype. I mostly just played kitchen table casual, but my decks usually followed Modern rules. My tastes have turned more toward EDH because of the crazy ridiculous things I like to do in my decks, and only the commander format really supports that kind of whacky interactions.

Ghave That Bitch an Infinite Combo [Primer]

Commander / EDH Abzkaban

SCORE: 662 | 378 COMMENTS | 117891 VIEWS | IN 255 FOLDERS


My pride and joy! Ghave is my favorite commander in my favorite colors. The deck is built around combo synergy where you can replace one combo piece with several others and achieve a similar result. It is my hope that this is the definitive primer on TappedOut for playing Ghave.

You Just Activated My Trap Card!

Commander / EDH Abzkaban

SCORE: 241 | 43 COMMENTS | 17517 VIEWS | IN 63 FOLDERS


This is perhaps the most fun deck I have ever built. Besides having a freaking awesome Yu-Gi-Oh! theme complete with alter and card sleves, the deck is straight up value town. If Prophet of Kruphix were ever unbanned (which it absolutely should not be) then this is where it would find its home.

Bringing an Army to a Duel

Commander / EDH Abzkaban

SCORE: 82 | 38 COMMENTS | 4718 VIEWS | IN 23 FOLDERS


A deck I built for my wife who liked the cat precon in 2017 and wanted a deck built around Mirri, Weatherlight Duelistfoil. This is a tokens decks that heavily abuses the combat step.

A Game of Thrones

Commander / EDH Abzkaban

SCORE: 74 | 15 COMMENTS | 8450 VIEWS | IN 22 FOLDERS


This Aikido-style Marchesa deck has become one of my favorites to play. The original deck was not mine, but I credit the deckbuilder responsible in the description. Recently another aikido player created a discord server for this specific deck and playstyle which has only helped the deck grow.

The Flash

Commander / EDH Abzkaban

SCORE: 41 | 1 COMMENT | 1579 VIEWS | IN 4 FOLDERS


This deck was not built by me, and all credit goes to Inkmoth. This is just my physical copy of the deck which has had some upgrades from his budget version.

The Claw Machine

Commander / EDH Abzkaban

SCORE: 37 | 7 COMMENTS | 2371 VIEWS | IN 4 FOLDERS


Elves were among the first of my casual decks when I began playing. In fact they were what I originally wanted to build when I found out about the game. Therefore it was fitting that I took all my unused elf cards and slammed them together into this fun elf tribal deck. I also had two Mardu decks at the time of this deck's inception, so it helped balance my color pie.

War in Heaven

Commander / EDH* Abzkaban

SCORE: 8 | 466 VIEWS


This is another deck that I technically didn't build...my wife did. It was her first one. I gave her advice for the deck and that was about it. It's pretty mean as Kaalia tends to be.

Specialties

Commander / EDH - Aristocrats, Commander / EDH - BGW (Abzan, Junk), Commander / EDH - Infinite Combo, Commander / EDH - Primer, Commander / EDH - Tokens

MTG Decks

The Flash

Commander / EDH Abzkaban

SCORE: 41 | 1 COMMENT | 1579 VIEWS | IN 4 FOLDERS

A Game of Thrones

Commander / EDH Abzkaban

SCORE: 74 | 15 COMMENTS | 8450 VIEWS | IN 22 FOLDERS

What the Fox? | Light-Paws Voltron [Primer]

Commander / EDH Abzkaban

SCORE: 16 | 6 COMMENTS | 1527 VIEWS | IN 5 FOLDERS

King Under the Mountain

Commander / EDH Abzkaban

SCORE: 1 | 188 VIEWS

You Just Activated My Trap Card!

Commander / EDH Abzkaban

SCORE: 241 | 43 COMMENTS | 17517 VIEWS | IN 63 FOLDERS

The Dungeon Master | Sefris Reanimator

Commander / EDH Abzkaban

SCORE: 63 | 24 COMMENTS | 8908 VIEWS | IN 20 FOLDERS

The Bridge to Yggdrasil

Commander / EDH Abzkaban

SCORE: 21 | 20 COMMENTS | 3111 VIEWS | IN 4 FOLDERS

Ghave That Bitch an Infinite Combo [Primer]

Commander / EDH Abzkaban

SCORE: 662 | 378 COMMENTS | 117891 VIEWS | IN 255 FOLDERS

Finished Decks 38
Prototype Decks 20
Drafts 0
Playing since Eighth Edition
Points 15
Avg. deck rating 56.52
T/O Rank 752
Helper Rank 436
Favorite formats Commander / EDH
Cards suggested / good suggestions 46 / 26
Cards Added/Fixed 1
Joined 10 years