Treamayne wrote:
Concur, I equate the "I Win" combos more with Spike, the Rube Goldberg combos with Johnnies, and everything else somewhere in between all the archetypes.
Basically this, yeah. And I may be overgeneralizing here, but I feel like virtually all EDH players -
true EDH players, that is - have at least some Johnny in them. Sure, there are plenty of people who play either net-decked lists or at least just always play the same list of staples and OP auto-includes in every deck... but the vast majority of EDH players do seem to have a need to make their EDH lists personalized and expressive of themselves in some fashion.
As for my favorite deck or decks... jesus that's a big question. I currently have 24 decks and I can certainly say that some I like more than others... but favorite? Yikes!
RIGHT NOW, I'd say my favorites are:
Sidisi (Zombie Tribal), Maelstrom Wanderer (Dragon Tribal)
Queen Marchesa (Dirty, backhanded politics / weenie aggro)
Rashmi (Buy 1 Get 1 Free Sale)
Karlov (It's Karlov, so you already know what it is)
Gitrog (non-Infinite land combos, easily the hardest deck to pilot I've ever built, but it's insanely fun to just sac all my lands to draw 20+ cards and just pray I get there)
Also, I'd have to say my Karametra deck is probably the most perfect EDH deck I've ever built. When I say "perfect" I mean in terms of expressing the idea I originally had in my head and having it actually function in real games the way I envisioned it as I was putting it together. It's not that it's the most powerful or competitive deck, or that it wins an absurd amount of the time. It's just that its performance in games is the closest to matching "what I expect as I'm building" vs "how it actually plays out". I've had decks exceed and outperform my expectations and I've certainly had decks fall far short as well... but Karametra is one of the few that almost EXACTLY met my expectations - it took me between 4 and 6 months of playing the deck exclusively and constant fine-tuning, but after all that effort, it got there. It does precisely what I designed it to do, no more, no less.