I am constantly building Commander decks at home. Every preview season, if there is any newly unveiled legendary creature that I think is cool, I immediately start pulling piles and piles and cards from my collection to sit around until those new toys are officially released and I can assemble the decks I’ve envisioned for weeks. And then I play them all once and take them apart because something just doesn’t jibe the way that I expected. It is a vicious cycle. Rarely does anything stay together for more than a week or so, and the routine of collating, unsleeving and resleeving cards takes up very real time and headspace. It gets so easy to feel burnt out on the format, and also to buy into the idea that there isn’t a deck out there that’s just right for you. In a format built on self-expression, that can be a pretty alienating feeling!

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