{"ops":[{"insert":"My personal deckbuilding principles:\n\nAim for casual."},{"attributes":{"header":3},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"I use deckbuilding restrictions to tone down strong decks and I use powerful cards to elevate weak ones. That means that if I'm building a powerful commander, it's almost certainly not \""},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"that"},{"insert":" deck.\" If I'm including stuff like strong stall tactics or multiple tutors, it's to pull something janky or poorly-supported up to par.\n\nWinning is a secondary goal, but it is still a goal."},{"attributes":{"header":3},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"I find both playing with and playing against decks that aren't trying to win at all to be pretty frustrating and dull! I love flavor, but I do still want to be playing the game, so while the primary goal of every deck I build is to show off somehing cool, I'm going to push that as far as I can to perform reasonably well in a casual game.\n\nBuild from cards you own."},{"attributes":{"header":3},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Magic is mostly a social experience for me, so I get cards almost exclusively by buying booster packs and trading with people. For cards in my decks, there are almost certainly better ones that exist. I will probably not be buying them. (I'll include upgrades I'm interested in for each deck, though!)\n"}]}