Put together a second draft of this guy, mostly realizing how many counterproductive cards I had added, since a permanent that causes a creature card to go to Exile rather than the graveyard also negates my Commander. A third draft will likely be due, as I think I'm also building a mono black deck.

Looking at the manabase caused me to realize this deck is considerably more black than it is blue, which feels wrong because it is my "I want a home for Vedalken Shackles!" deck in my mind. My interest in rebuilding my ancient first Commander deck - Ob Nixilis The Fallen - will shift this one.

I realize with my Commander costing UUBB and my wanting to have a lot of both Swamps and Islands, I have too many colorless utility lands in this deck. I should cut 3-4 of these in order to make sure I cast my Commander on time, and Sunken Ruins and Gloomlake Verge are expensive but wanted.

As I said, this is my Vedalken Shackles deck, in that I keep wanting to find the right home for it and it keeps not fitting elsewhere. I have a solid Grixis Vampires deck that I had it in for a while, but I realized it placed too much tension on my manabase. Hopefully it will work better here.

This is *after* I cut like half a dozen pieces of graveyard hate. ;)