Nine months ago we had a hearty discussion about premiers and the state of the forum format. That got me to finally buckle down and start writing guides for my decks (before that I did attempt to, but they were often written a quarter through before being thrown out the window).
Today, I present the
overarching thread for my suite of decks. My intention going forward is to start a new thread every friday/weekend (subject to my schedule) for each of my decks (under decklists of course, the main thread had no real place to belong so I just chucked it in the main section) for each of my decks, then spend the week after sprucing it up, which, if going as planned, will end along with the year.
The good news is, the text content for each and every thread is already effectively done, so it's unlikely the schedule is thrown off because it can't be thrown off because I didn't write the content. The bad news is I have no coding background/experience and I'm the type of the person who can't just copy the template because I must know how the screws work in a system bottom-up, so I'm literally reading/referencing the BBCode guide slowly. Every thread is going to be a hot mess visually (you can visit the overarching thread for a sample now) when it comes out. I'm subject to my own free time to meddle with all the coding, which is why I'm giving each thread the generous one week to make themselves look presentable-enough-to-leave-alone. If I botch something up and have no time to fix it, a thread might look worse halfway through.
Also, I'm only doing this for fun, to inflate my own ego. I'm adopting the tools and the styles of premier guides because they look great, but I've zero interest in actually making a premier. I can't guarantee the update frequencies and I've literally haven't actually played any games in over a year (although I guess that gave me the time to write all these), any experience I've written is essentially based on years past and those aren't exactly crystal-clear (and if anything I'm not motivated enough to update every time I have crystal-clear memories right after a session anyway).
My EDH decks are my vanity projects and this series of guides is just an extension of it. They may look like premiers, but you're not getting an comprehensive-expert-guide, you're getting an unupdated-vanity-project that looks like a premier on the surface, because I'm good at writing-walls-of-texts-that-mean-the-exact-same-thing-in-the-end (you'll probably find the exact same thing here worded differently somewhere else) and I want the thread to be visually pretty like a premier. There are entire sections that are literally copy-pasted across all 8 guides (I'm not explaining how card draw is good with 8 different words-of-the-same-meaning, draw is good everywhere) and I minimized individual card discussion because it's going to be a nightmare if/when I update my decks (and I tend to update them all at the same time since I time my LGS trips periodically now).
Half me is already excited of how "pretty" it looks (or rather, it can be) looking at the overarching thread, another half is like "Why are you doing this?" (it was already questioning me when I spent the past months writing the content). The duality indeed. Either way, expect endless edits in the next two months.