Published Apr 22, 2026, 2:30 PM EDT 'How do you prove that you exist? Maybe we don't exist...' I gutted Strixhaven's Prismari Commander deck to build my Vivi Ornitier masterpiece Image: Wizards of the Coast / Square Enix I used to hate blue — still do, in fact. When I first started playing Magic: The Gathering in the early 2000s , I preferred grindy, creature-focused green to blue’s manipulative playstyle. My default was green or green-white, sometimes dabbling in green-black to reanimate creatures from my graveyard or green-red when I was feeling amped. Yet here we are, and my latest Commander deck is a spell-slinging blue-red. One of my favorite ways to play Magic these days is to treat a preconstructed Commander deck like a LEGO set I have no intention of building correctly. I rip it open and promptly strip the whole thing down for spare parts. With MagicCon Las Vegas 2026 around the corner, I finally decided to build something I’d been putting off for a long time: a Vivi Ornitier Commander deck.…