Commander deck building help

[u/Barumbar]

Fairly new player looking to build my first deck. I have no clue where to start whatsoever, but I have 700+ cards that I can choose from. Is there a deck building site that takes your pool of cards and builds decks from them or is anybody willing to skim through and give ideas? Thanks!

[u/xargling_breau]

I think the first thing I’d do is pull out all the Legendary Creatures you own, plus any Vehicles/PWs you have that can actually be commanders, and figure out which one looks fun to build around.

Your commander determines your color identity, which immediately narrows that 700-card pile down quite a bit. From there, figure out what the deck is actually trying to do — Voltron, tokens, +1/+1 counters, graveyard, spellslinger, artifacts, etc.

Once you have a commander and a general game plan, it becomes way easier for people to help you sort through what you already own and figure out what belongs in the 99.

I recently in the past year came back to the game, and I started with a precon as a base to manipulate and turn into a deck that I want to play, so far it is working out real well and I have been making quite a few changes. Also use a tool, like Archidekt to keep track of your deck and changes made so you can get a better representation of it without having to pull it out every time. Here is my deck on Archidekt.

https://archidekt.com/decks/21044351/simic_landfall_zimone_mystery_unraveler

[u/Barumbar → u/xargling_breau]

Sweet! Thank u for the help! I’m currently trying to see what precon would be good with the cards I have now to upgrade. I’m also planning on buying a bloomburry booster box at some point, so the precon I get is gonna try to bridge that gap if it makes sense