A gallery of past and present Magic: the Gathering Commander decklists made from painted or sketched artist proofs.
While I don’t play often, deck lists are a way for me to keep some rails on collecting miniature paintings on the back of Magic cards. They’re also a way for me to explore new artists whose work I haven’t seen yet. Card appears in a lot of lists around a theme I like? Guess I’d better learn about that artist. Many of these were picked up over the years as a way to thank artists for participating in events at Just Games, or helping us advertise a big charity event like Commander Sealed.
![Birgi's deck in a wooden box](https://vercant.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/20240106_143418-scaled.jpg)
Birgi’s Approach Artist Proof Commander Decklist
This deck is all about dragons, and fire, and making lots of mana to make dragons… and sometimes we just Thrumming Stone + Dragon’s Approach the whole table if they’ll let us, which maximizes the chances to show off art!
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Mari, the Killing Quill Artist Proof Commander Decklist
This deck list started because Rob Rey’s Mari caught my eye at a show, and then as I started to look at which artists I would need to contact to build the deck, I got pretty excited about how many did neat inks or something. So it started as an “all inks” deck, but very quickly I caved and got other things in it.
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Soraya the Falconer Artist Proof Commander Decklist
Obviously, I’m making this deck.
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Fynn, the Fangbearer Artist Proof Commander Decklist
In 1 v 1 games, or games that devolve into 1 v 1, this deck is grossly unfair. And just showing up at the table with poison counters puts a big ol’ target on you. But it opened up so many artists that I loved that I could search out and add to my collection, so I’ll take the hate.