Lately I’ve been getting back into magic after a 3-4 year hiatus and have been building edh decks but have been struggling to find cuts to slim down my decks to 100 cards. Currently I’m rebuilding one of my all time favorites the locus god. Got it down to 108 cards then sleeved them all up and gold fished until I cut it down to 100 removing the cards that felt lack luster that seemed to work well. What are y’all’s favorite ways to make final cuts or find new cards?
Cutting down cards is always the toughest thing for me too.
What I’ve started doing if I have too many cards still in the pile and I like all of them too much to easily cut is to actually go from the other direction: keep the pile I have as the “ideas” pile and build from that pile up to 100. That way I’m not “cutting” so much as I’m building, which feels nicer psychologically I guess. So I’ll make sure I add x removal/draw/ramp/lands/creatures/etc. depending on the deck and then fill the rest with the best cards I really want, and just stop as soon as I hit 100.
If you only have a few cards to cut that’s probably not worth it. In that case I’ll usually cut out cards that are a worse version of the cards I’m adding, or failing that I’ll just scan through the cards to see which ones have disappointed me. If I’m really stuck I’ll post the deck list online and ask for help lol.
I use a “keep or ideas” pile too and switch them out as I play test new decks. I have a good idea in my head of how a deck is going to play but reality always seems to surprise me.