For a long time, I've joked about building every golgari commander because I love the color pair so much. Now, I've come to the conclusion that one of the only things seriously holding me back was spending money on so many duplicate
lands. If I sleeved all the decks in the same sleeves and built a generic mana base that could go with all the decks, I could build the lists and put them in a box and pull out a deck plus the front marked mana base to play. Since the exchangeable mana base should work for each deck, it'll be a few
lands short of complete so each deck can include it's unique utility
lands, and if it doesn't have any or many of those, I can put more basics in those slots.
Also, since I'm cutting down on duplicates, I figured it'd be a good idea to build one deck for commanders that have a significant amount of crossover of decklists. I already have a Meren deck, so it'll be exempt from this project, but here are the decks by commander and theme I'm thinking so far.
Gitrog -
LandsJared or Hogaak - Selfmill*
Skullbriar - Counters Voltron
Hapatra or Vhati - -1/-1 Counters
Slimefoot or Thelon - Fungi and Saprolings
Nath or Rhys - Elf tribal
Glissa - Arifact Sacrifice and 'Reanimator'
Izoni or Savra - Aristocrats*
Mazirek or Polukranos or Rayhan or Varolz - +1/+1 Counters
Grismold - Token Wrath
Ishkana - Spider Tribal
Virtus and Gorm or
Sisters of Stone Death -
Lure Pharika or Umori - Enchantress
Sapling of Colfenor or Ikra Shidiqi - Toughness Tribal
Storrev - Superfriends
Iname As One - Spirit Tribal
Chevill - unknown
*I'm unsure if there's enough crossover between these commanders.
Thoughts on themes and the exchangeable commander pairs?