I’ve rebuilt my MTG collection four times. This is that fourth time.
I started playing during the Onslaught Block back in 2002. Was around when Commander was still called Elder Dragon Highlander — mostly watched from the sidelines while playing booster drafts and Standard with friends. The format felt too big for me back then. Too many moving pieces.
Life got busier. I became a netdecker — I stopped actually thinking about deckbuilding and just copied lists off the internet. It was efficient. It was also hollow. The wins didn’t feel like mine. The game started to feel like reading someone else’s homework and then turning it in. Eventually, I sold the collection and moved on. D&D, other hobbies, real life.
Except it kept happening. New set. New excitement. New collection. Then the same cycle repeated. Twice more over the next two decades. Buy in, netdeck, feel hollow, sell out, repeat. If you’ve been there, you already know the loop.
On the fourth rebuild, I decided to do it differently. Actually learn deckbuilding theory instead of copying someone else’s homework. Figure out why some decks win and others don’t. Understand the game at a level I never bothered with before. The House of Mythos is the result — a place to work that out in public, and hopefully bring others along for the ride.
This is a passion project and a first attempt at content creation. It’s not the work of a seasoned expert — it’s the work of a player who loves the game and wants to understand it more deeply. If that sounds like you, you’re in the right place.