Updated my decks with a silly project after CommandFest. Can I have a seat?
I love Final Fantasy VIII and have ever since the Pizza Hut demo discs that came out when they released the original Stuffed Crust pizza. I'm working on a project where I have decks for every Final Fantasy VIII character who got a card; Cid and the Edea from the gift box set are still in the works.
Squall is B3, and runs a pseudo-Voltron combat Aristocrats deck built around recursion loops to control the board and build advantage. Win cons are either Commander damage or establishing [[Sun Titan]] combo loops into [[Debt to the Deathless]]/[[Exsanguinate]].
Quistis is B3 Mill, designed to turbo big mana so I can play whatever massive impact instants and sorceries I force my opponents to put in their graveyards. No Bruvac to keep her in B3, wins either by milling my opponents out or by hitting something spicy in their graveyards that create strange and interesting lines. Probably my most fun deck, and easily the one I have to think with the most.
Rinoa is B2 Humans. Her role as the commander is just to be there on curve after the table gets wiped, because she and the Angelo token she creates are a good way to add pressure on a decimated board. Otherwise she just sits in the CZ and the deck just does Humans things.
Zell is B2 Landfall, and is based around the red Landfall pingers to produce incremental value on each drop and make the game go faster. Wins by forcing people's shields down with things like the Goad from [[Disrupt Decorum]] or [[Geode Rager]], or combat loops with [[Moraug, Fist of Akoum]].
Ultimecia is B4 Time Kompression Tribal. And I will say, this is not a good B4 deck. The goal is building big mana to push out Eldrazi and extra turn spells because Ultimecia's whole thing from FF8 is compressing past, present, and future into a condensed and overlapping state of perpetual stasis where temporally-bound beings cannot exist or function. It's built for flavor rather than competitive function, but can turn chain-lock to pick up the W.
Seifer is a B3 Punisher effect deck, based around asking "What are the filthiest things I can do with instants and sorceries cast from the bin for 3 CMC or less when he hits?" The deck could function as a B2, but one of the best answers I found to that question was "Well... [[Jeska's Will]] is 2R." The deck is capable of accidentally Storming out with Rituals and the like.
So... can I sit down with y'all?