Months later, I still think of this as the strongest pick, especially for the added utility of shuffling the deck if the game demands it. In my original estimate of what Aminatou would be looking to do, I spotlighted Soothsaying as one of the best cards to keep in mind. This is where the pre-constructed deck did a very good job of signaling to deck builders where this deck could go, and it is where I have chosen to go in many respects. While she does not give you the ability to cast anything from there, she certainly makes it very easy to set it up. Starting with her first ability, Aminatou, the Fateshifter is in the rare position of caring about the top of the library. So, as an impromptu tie-in with Donny Caltrider’s article on Seb McKinnon, I figured it might be a fine time to give my thoughts on how this deck plays and what I have done thus far. But beyond Doom Whisperer – which isn’t in the currently in the deck due to my lack of hunting a copy down – I have not seen much to add to this deck as Ravnica Allegiance previews have been rolling out. I had originally wanted to see how our trip to Ravnica would play out, as I assumed some of the Orzhov, Azorius and Dimir cards might build upon what Aminatou was trying to do. The deck takes some thinking, but is always been a fun puzzle for me to solve as each game goes on. And other times I will steal an opponent’s best threat to win how they would have. Sometime that is Approach of the Second Sun threatening to be cast a second time. The goal of the deck is keep the game in a state of flux until I have a reliable threat that can win me the game. Today we will be looking at what I have created thus far, it is a deck list I am currently happy with. But more to the point, the potential was there to make the deck manipulation theme work by substituting packages of cards out to shift focus. Aminatou in that deck plays more like an inverted Zedruu the Greathearted.

In hindsight, I believe that description-which doesn’t appear on the box, but came from a livestream as a way to quickly explain the broad strokes of the deck-was not entirely accurate. Subjective Reality was a weird deck built around a weird concept that we haven’t seen distilled into a viable theme at any point in the game’s history before: top of the library matters. But in the time since Commander 2018’s release and now I have admittedly had little time to give all the decks the attention I would have liked to, apart from the Subjective Reality deck, which housed today’s spotlight general, Aminatou, the Fateshifter. The theme was popular in 2014, and I thought that four years difference would allow Wizards to learn the lessons they needed from Commander 2014. Buzz began around the time of the typical vague announcement that we may be seeing a return of planeswalkers that could be your general. I always look forward to seeing what Wizards will come up with every year with their Commander products, and last year was no different.

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