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I welcome a try to revive this group.  Looking at the number of view for the posts, it looks like there is just going to be a small group of us for a while.  I'll go stick a link to the group in my profile as well.

I'm Paul and I've been collecting Magic since 1994, but starting as a poor college student meant that I never got any P9.  I'm going for a complete sets of all of the base versions (non-foil, non-showcase, etc.) of each set.  Right now I'm not getting any all-reprint sets like the Masters sets.  I have the major expansions from Legends to Theros Beyond Death complete, minus some of the base sets, beginner sets (missing Imperial Seal) and a few other cards.  I'm not great about posting my cards for trade, so I always have more to offer than my Tradelist says.  I'm hoping to finish up Unlimited (minus the P9), Arabian Nights (minus Bazaar) and Antiquities (minus Workshop) within the next couple years.

Probably you would be best off using EDHREC for this.  If you just go to the main site and from the top choose the Commanders drop-down menu you can go through the colors and various combinations, though it also lists all of the commander pairs possible with Partner and Backgrounds as well, so there would be some entries to weed out.

The extra date on the card means that it was a promo from a pre-release pack.  You can get a bit more information on pre-release events here:

https://magic.wizards.com/en/play-events/prerelease

It's the favorite way to play Magic of a lot of people that I know (myself included).

I got Mountain #674 with my Head I Win, Tails You Lose deck:
https://www.tcgplayer.com/product/45569 … ge=English

It looks like there is also an Island #673 that other people received:
https://www.tcgplayer.com/product/45526 … ge=English

It means that they get at least 95% good feedback from people that they trade with.

If you just want to see what cards you might need to get for a deck idea, just mark it as a built deck for bit, check it out, and then mark it as a deck idea again.

For the specific cards shown for a deck list, the default always goes to the last major printing unless you have specifically marked the version that is in a deck.  It would be handy if the default was chosen based on your inventory, but computationally I can see why that isn't the case.

That's how I approach building sets, by only collecting the normal cards and ignoring alternate art or foils.  I make a deck for each set that I'm collecting, and then I mark something as a built deck if I'm actively collecting it, or I'll leave it as a deck idea if I'm waiting for the set to rotate out of Standard or have some other reason to not collect it yet.  This also lets me set my own collecting goals, like for Commander sets only collecting the new cards and cards with new art.  And if I get bored it lets me set the specific cards to match up with the set to track the proper versions.  I'm hoping that an API gets implemented some day so that it's easy to mass set the cards in the built decks.  You can look at my deck lists under my 'Sets' folder if you're looking for ideas.

I have seen issues where your wishlist doesn't properly update if the cards only loosely match.  If I am looking for an English NM copy (as specified on my wishlist) and I trade for a a copy that doesn't have a language set, or some other thing that won't exactly match my wishlist (maybe condition is unset?), then the entry isn't updated.  I haven't been able to figure out exactly when it matches and when it doesn't, but there are certainly some edge cases that are slipping through.

That seems like a good initial version of a deck.  Mostly you'll find that people cut their decks down to the minimum of 60 cards so that they draw their best cards more often.  It's initially hard to cut down to 60, but you can keep making changes as you play the deck.  Ask yourself at the end of the game, what did I have in my hand and not cast?  Why didn't you get to cast it?  Was it because it was too situational, you didn't get enough mana, or you just always had better things to do?  What do you wish you had drawn?  Also look at any creatures that you don't end up using for attacking or blocking.  Was it because they just got outclassed, or was it just unlucky circumstances.  After a few games try to cut some of the cards that keep staying in your hand or that aren't too useful once they are in play.

With faster decks that play lots of cheap creatures, you probably want to play around 23 or 24 lands in a 60 card deck.  You have some expensive creatures that are 6+ mana, so you probably don't want to go below 24 lands.  In any case, that's the same ratio as what you have now with 75 cards and 30 land, so just keep that ratio.

I think that it would be great if everything was just a separate printing.  The user defined flags end up leading to inconsistency and sometime represent cards that don't exist, like non-foil prerelease cards, or non-foil version of cards that only existed in Commander decks as foil version.  In my wantlist I end up entering both foil and non-foil versions of prelease cards that I'm looking for just so that I have a better shot at matching a card that might be entered in someone's tradelist.  Anything that can be done to stop errors from getting introduced is the right way to go.