Quick update: I passed the 50 commanders completed mark yesterday (now at 52). The fiftieth one I completed was Sek'kuar, Deathkeeper. About 1/9th done! Woo!

I've actually slowed down this week not from lack of ideas, but from spending time doing other tasks required for this quest. I spent one whole afternoon going through old boxes at my LGS looking for Darksteel Ingots and Wayfarer's Baubles, and buying them in large quantities, as well as numerous other things. They're being pretty supportive of me doing this, and so let me buy a bunch of stuff at bulk price, since a bunch of it was stuff they couldn't see really selling. So now I have a bunch of mana artifacts of varying kinds, as well as Mirage fetches, Whispersilk Cloaks, and various other cheap staples, which should last me for a little while. Not all the way to the end, of course, but for a few good legs of the journey at least. So thanks to The Game Preserve (Greenwood) for participating!

They of course also run the EDH games I participate in on Tuesdays. This time I ran Eron the Relentless, Lord of Tresserhorn, Sisters of Stone Death, Jor Kadeen, Azusa, Atalya, and Morinfen. Lord of Tresserhorn and Jor Kadeen, being some of my pre-quest decks that are very strongly built, performed excellently, though their kin Azusa did not (seriously, stuck on 2 land and a crapton of 3 mana accelerants in a 48 land deck? grr...). Morinfen and Atalya were also surprisingly excellent, with Atalya nearly pulling out a ridiculous win in a match against Jhoira, Rafiq, Progenitus, and Scion of the Ur-Dragon. The others were average, but not horrible at least.

Second post of my Voltron discussion should be up before the end of the weekend. Until then, back to deckbuilding!

Game Night and Update!

Update for today:

Tibor and Lumia now completed
Oyobi at about 50% done
Soramaro at about 33%

Started work on:
Lin Sivvi, Defiant Hero
Atalya, Samite Master
hakim, Loreweaver

Didn't spend much time tonight on any decks, as it was EDH night at my local shop. Sent Eron for a test run, and he can come out to a quick start, but needs some card advantage badly. Bedlam is killer, though.

After that I went back to playing some old faves (almost pulled crazy come-from-behind victories in 4-ways with both Tsabo and Karn). Won a 2HG with Jor Kadeen by Into the Vaults-ing my other head's Akroma's Memorial so he could swing through with Omnath. Played my first game of the "Horde" EDH variant, and we destroyed it with someone else's Kaalia, Konda, and my Karona wall deck. Got a FTV Memory Jar for my troubles, which will definitely be put to use. Picked up a couple of Isochron Scepters while I was there too, and arranged to buy a stack of usable commons off the store for a decent price if I sort them myself.

Tomorrow I should be able to finish up a couple, since I'm on fall break (which for me, means only working until 1:00). I've began putting together a quick-grab "staple" box for filling out decks that are a few cards short after their themes come together, things like Relic Crush, Into the Core, and extra mana fixing. Man, I'm going to need a lot of Dreamstone Hedrons...