A basic rule of Commander is that your deck must have 100 cards (99 and one commander). But one of MTG Mystery Booster’s rulebreaker cards, Whtz, The Bibliophile says screw that, and lets you go wild, building a deck just as large as you like.
While most players would choose to craft a 240-300 card deck and then try and find a way to win with Battle of Wits or Triskaidekaphile, one loose cannon has decided to push things to the extreme, bringing a legal EDH deck of over 2,345 cards to their LGS’s Commander night. Look, it even has its own custom-built deck box, and it’s six feet tall!
According to the deck’s creator, they were inspired by the infamous 2007 German Nationals Yugioh deck, Mission Impossible – a 2,222 card deck which a player brought to a tournament to demonstrate why a max deck size was required. “Being able to bring that to MTG seemed like a fun project,” they say.
When this story was posted online at the beginning of the week, the reaction was varied, with a lot of disagreements about whether a deck of this size violates rules related to slow-play or shuffling (and what those rules actually are, if they exist) but the player claims they can actually shuffle it in reasonable time.
It “does not take 45 minutes, which feels like a good bar”, they say, adding that there were even times where they’d be done shuffling before the next player had finished their turn. They also argue it didn’t hinder the game – only themself.
Rather than being stuffed with duplicate cards like Templar Knights, the 2,345 deck is “just fun Azorius cards”.
“The deck allows you to run so many more cards than you normally would, so you get to see more than just the same ol’ 500 EDH staples,” says its maker.
Many would assume (or at least hope) this was a one-and-done sort of situation – the person who shared the pic even stated that the LGS regulars enjoyed the experience, but would probably only do so once. However, the deck’s creator describes it as “an ongoing project” and plans to bring the beast to more game nights in the future.
They say, “Worst case, it’s a big ol’ box that you can see from across the room, so pretty easy to avoid.”
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Source: Wargamer
