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Art You Ready?

The title of the article pretty much says it all. If you want to build a deck that's both beautiful and maddening, "proxying" up a deck using only officially released Art Series cards might be the apotheosis.

As it turns out, the inimitable Jake Browne has already done just this, designing, buying, and playing the Art Series version of cards in a JodahJodah deck:

Here's a quick video on my Frankenstein's monster: WORLD'S FIRST AND ONLY all art card commander deck. I think it was, all in, around $17.

Jodah, the Jerk: pic.twitter.com/evG8UXyIKc

— Jake Browne (@fakejakebrowne) December 29, 2022

(I'm not sure the embedded Tweet is working, but you should definitely click through. The video is inspiring!)

You should know what you're getting into, of course: this will be a nightmare to play, doubly so for your opponents. Arguably such a deck will be more of a work of art than a playable thing, but with that caveat noted, let's begin.

There are 919 unique cards that have gotten the Art Series treatment. Some cards, mostly lands, have multiple versions, so you might have some aesthetic flexibility.

I went through and found all of the commanders who themselves have an Art Series representation, and then for each of those, I found the cards that composed their decks on EDHREC, and the frequencies with which those cards are run.

I somewhat arbitrarily decided that if a commander had at least 90 unique Art-Series-available cards in any of their EDHREC decks, they were potentially viable. From there, I further filtered down to the commanders for whom more than 10% of their EDHREC inclusions were featured in the Art Series. This gets us down to 63 options, which I list below, along with their 20 most-decked Art Series cards:+