{"ops":[{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Fishing in Commander"},{"attributes":{"header":1},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"I love fishing. It's one of my favourite pass times, and it's the gateway to get me to try something. In my mind, if it's got fishing in it then it must be good.\nImagine my surprise when my playgroup showed me "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Fishing Gear"}},{"insert":" , and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Fishing Pole"}},{"insert":" . I wanted to make a deck around these two cards so badly. I would just ram them into any of the decks even if it didn't fit in thematically. I've been using Archidekt recently to get into making some decks of my own so I've been racking my brain trying to make a fishing themed commander deck.\n\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"What is fishing?"},{"attributes":{"header":2},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Not to get too philosophical here. But there really isn't an equivalent in MTG at least not traditionally. I've been told about Dandân and it seems pretty cool, but none of my playgroup plays that. We play a lot of casual commander!\n\nGoing into this I think it's important to define fishing in this deck.\nFirst things first, "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Deck Manipulation."},{"insert":" Looking at the top of your deck or cards that interact with yours or your opponents top card. \n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Fishing Gear"}},{"insert":" adapted it pretty well I think with the whole. \"What am I gonna catch\" feel the card design has. I like to think of it as reeling in something, "},{"attributes":{"italic":true,"bold":true},"insert":"Scry/Surveil/Explore"},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":". "},{"insert":"Illustrated perfectly in "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Sidequest: Catch a Fish // Cooking Campsite"}},{"insert":" .\nThose are all deck manipulation on my side of the board, which doesn't really help with Fishing Gear. What does is "},{"attributes":{"italic":true,"bold":true},"insert":"Fateseal"},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":". "},{"insert":"Unfortunately there are only two Fateseal cards ever printed "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Spin into Myth"}},{"insert":" and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Mesmeric Sliver"}},{"insert":" . \nI've already included Spin into Myth but I'm tentative on Mesmeric Sliver. I don't find Slivers particularly fishlike. \n\nIf we're going off the card design of Fishing Pole we can also throw "},{"attributes":{"italic":true,"bold":true},"insert":"Tap/Untap. "},{"insert":"With that we can throw "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Tui and La, Moon and Ocean"}},{"insert":" and, "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Stinging Lionfish"}},{"insert":" into my deck. Fishing Pole also has "},{"attributes":{"italic":true,"bold":true},"insert":"Counters"},{"insert":". So I added"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Coral Reef"}},{"insert":" and, "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Deepglow Skate"}},{"insert":" \n\nThe Commander"},{"attributes":{"header":2},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"I'm not, too attached to "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Galea, Kindler of Hope"}},{"insert":" . She fits my definition of fishing in MTG but outside of that I can be convinced to swap to another commander to fit the theme.\nI was originally set on "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Sygg, River Guide"}},{"insert":" just cause I feel like he'd be a good fella to go fishing with, but then I found"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Fisher's Talent"}},{"insert":" which I mean. I "},{"attributes":{"underline":true,"bold":true},"insert":"have "},{"insert":"to include it so my commander has to have at least GU in it's colour identity.\n\nThe Gameplan"},{"attributes":{"header":2},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"First thing I did was find every \"Gift a tapped Fish\" card and threw them into the deck. After all what's fishing if you're not sharing with your fellas.\n\nThen it was any card with Fish tribal , which unfortunately is only "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Unagi's Spray"}},{"insert":" , "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Fisher's Talent"}},{"insert":" and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Frost Fair Lure Fish"}},{"insert":" (Which doesn't fit the identity atm)\n\nObviously we had to include as many thematically fitting cards in.\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Kingfisher"}},{"insert":" /"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Knightfisher"}},{"insert":" "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Ithilien Kingfisher"}},{"insert":" "},{"attributes":{"list":"true"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Lake-town"}},{"insert":" /"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Lake-town Mariners // Gone Fishing"}},{"insert":" "},{"attributes":{"list":"true"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Kishla Village"}},{"insert":" /"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Kishla Skimmer"}},{"insert":" /"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Kishla Trawlers"}},{"insert":" "},{"attributes":{"list":"true"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Sleep with the Fishes"}},{"insert":" /"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Expendable Lackey"}},{"insert":" "},{"attributes":{"list":"true"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Then I started throwing any card that had fish, fishing, fishing rods, and fishermen in it's art. \n\nWhat next?"},{"attributes":{"header":2},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Now I'm not sure where to go from here. Do I feed into the mechanics of my definition of fishing in MTG?\nThere's lot's of archetypes I could build into from here. \nI was thinking about Merfolk and birds, I was also considering adding vehicles in. After all you can't go fishing without a good boat.\nThat's where I'll leave it for now. Thanks for reading my silly deck idea, if you have any ideas let me know!\n\n"}]}