{"ops":[{"insert":"My first prerelease was with Avatar the Last Airbender where I got the Zuko box which came with the Ran and Shaw promo card. My teammate and I got second place and we won a lot of play boosters from it. They also gave me the bulk after taking the good cards out of their packs, so I decided I wanted to make my own commander deck. After looking through a lot of the cards I won, I realized many of the cards from different colors worked well together. Because of this, I decided to make it a five color deck. Choosing my commander was tough because many of the available options were either too expensive or I didn’t know of a way to get them so I chose Progenitus. Then, Progenitus got temporarily lost in transit so I had to find a backup. Niv-Mizzet was my new choice because of its abilities. Because they only work with exactly two-colored permanents, I decided to get most of the creatures and enchantments with two colors and allies to go with the Avatar theme. The original draft was not very good due to low land draw, not having the right lands, and getting demolished by my opponents who sometimes had super overpowered decks, so I had to get more dual lands and get stronger stuff. I did win a few games but that was because I got lucky.\n\n I then went to a Strixhaven prerelease where I got the Silverquill box which. We weren’t playing two headed giant for this prerelease so I was alone up against some basically unbeatable opponents since some of the paradigm cards were too overpowered in the prerelease because they kept bringing things back out of the graveyard each turn and not allowing me to play any creatures or counter spells. I didn’t get any paradigm cards, but the Silverquill and Witherbloom cards including Foggy Swamp Visions (which can basically take over the entire board to use opponents creatures against themselves) were still a few cool upgrades which helped make my deck function much better. I also got a few more dual lands so that made it easier to play cards in my deck. After coming home from the prerelease, Progenitus finally arrived and I got Silverquill, the Disputant from a pack from my winnings at the prerelease so I knew it was time to lean more to dragons. I had bought the Tarkir Abzan Armor precon awhile ago so I did some editing to that deck to make way for the dragons in my avatar deck. Another reason I wanted dragons was because of Ran and Shaw in Avatar. Eventually, I decided to get some Tarkir Dragonstorm play boosters a couple days ago to try and get better stuff. Somehow, it worked and I was able to get a few cards that compliment each other well and chose to finalize the deck. So now this brings things to the important stuff:\n\nThe 3 main functions of this deck are ramping up to use expensive enchantments and creatures, putting lessons in the graveyard to utilize the Avatar cards to their fullest like Ran and Shaw, and getting counter multipliers with multiple cards that give things trample so you can destroy your opponents while not having long or upsetting turns and not being too overpowered. There is however a scenario where you will be basically so overpowered but it is a highly unlikely scenario. This is where you get all the dragon related enchantments which will make it so dragons are free to be placed, all earn hexproof (possibly even from multiple things), and trample so you can send a flying horror dragonstorm straight at your opponents while also having enough permanents that are exactly two colors to pump up the damage from Niv-Mizzet and give yourself a lot of life gain and card draw. I have playtested against a few other decks and have only been in this situation once but it is very hard to get into if you don’t have hexproof early enough since the cards are so overpowered that people will want to remove them as soon as possible. \n\nSince adding enough dual lands there should be little to no issue with land draw. The only issue you may encounter is that most of the dual lands enter tapped so it may take an extra turn to get something bigger but can breath easy knowing you won’t have too many mountain or plains which was my original issue. Anyways, if you do decide to try out my deck I hope you enjoy and fine tune it to your liking as there is always room for improvement. I was limited to my smaller collection but I also have a lot of other good cards I felt were hard to take out so don’t be afraid to take out any or all of the lockets as I’ve heard they’re not always helpful. Also feel free to let me know in the comments what I might want to change based on the main theme types I have:\nTales of Middle Earth"},{"attributes":{"list":"true"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Aetherdrift"},{"attributes":{"list":"true"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Tarkir Dragonstorm (new and old)"},{"attributes":{"list":"true"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Secrets of Strixhaven"},{"attributes":{"list":"true"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Avatar: The Last Airbender"},{"attributes":{"list":"true"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"There are a few I have less of including a bulk box of random stuff but these are just the ones I have the most variety of.\n"}]}