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Would it be a bad time to say I also have a Bant TL deck, and a Jeskai Commander deck as well? Did them yesterday...
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Nope - it's never a bad time to say you have more decks. Bant in TL environment can be very strong regardless of the general (although I'd like to know who you are using - if it's Jenara there is the possiblity you might kill me a lot with that deck) and Jeskai have a couple of interesting options in EDH - Sho Yun and Narset, the latter being a damn menace if she gets going.
Yes, I used Jenara, Asura Of War. It also has Entreat The Angels in it...
I used Narset.
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Yeah.. you've picked up 'nasty' really quickly haven't you.
*Proud*
Nasty? I jused used them, because they were available...
Nasty would be an Umalog BFZ Commander Deck...
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But in Narset you have made an excellent choice that I'll look forward to an eventual thread on in the EDH area. As for Jenara - well she's a threat all on her own regardless of what the deck includes. That is good because you can almost run it as a parallel strategy if you want to - then I have to decide between stopping whatever your deck is doing or stopping Jenara. There is only so much removal in TL decks and almost none of it is of the 'board wipe' variety (so no reset button...)
I'll be making threads when I'm much less tired... Can't focus, and type up lots of card names...
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Absolutely. When I listed my signature Sigarda deck a few months back it was one of the most frustrating half hours I've spent typing...
I need a secretary...
I also missed out two cards... I just checked... Meaning it isn't finished, after all...
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Might look through the older cards again... got a few different sets. Though I might get a white and green mage from M12, to compliment the blue one...
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... Which is what I'm thinking. I'm sure they could work well together.
Lots of non-basic land in the deck, by the way... which might surprise you...
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I like to have land in the mix that is going to give me options...
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I know - and whilst it was sarcasm (Correct ) it wasn't malicious. I am impressed frequently by the methodical way in which you approach the mana-base of the decks you build. It's why I smiled when I read that - because if either one of us is able to be relied upon to have a good selection of non-basic lands for any suitable occasion it's you
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Wow... yep, pretty much doesn't matter what you have in your opening hand. As long as you have 2 land you are likely to be able to cast anything in your deck.
Look at the poor little Island on it's own at the bottom - awwwww.
I plan to replace the Island with something else at some point. Don't know what with just yet...
All the land has potential benefits to it, which is the plan. Some are functional reprints, which helps.
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I wonder how many realise that there are a number of cards that do the same thing, but with a different name?
Thinking about it, is that a useful detail for playing in this format?
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Yes it is, and to a lesser extent in EDH. Both deck styles are trying to build around the interactions of a single card ( their general) and lever them in a favorable way. EDH has a massive card pool that can send a deck in a general direction with cards that can take over the game by themselves very easily. TL is a little different.
Being one on one and quite heavily creature based TL is very aggressive and so needs every possible lever towards your gameplan you can give it. Once you know what your deck wants to do every card you can possibly get to advance that plan is relevant.
I'd say that in Commander it's a useful details you've picked up on. In TL it's an essential requirement.
I wonder if this is commonly known, or if a lit of people ar unware of this detail?
And I need to find a White and Jade Mage, I guess...
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I think it's known to a point - maybe not commonly, looking at some of the conversations in online TL forums. I think the Commander community realize it more which is ironic because it's less 'essential' to them - because their decks are much larger and therefore can either be one giant combo deck or have a number of subthemes and strategies running through their cards. A TL deck is 50 cards and by the time you've taken the land allocation the consistency of drawing any one card at least once in a match has gone right up - hence the need for absolute focus from the deck - and wherever the land can help with that so much the better.
So yeah, I think a lot of people aren't aware of this - they simply see a nice 'up to 3 mana' legend they like and set out to find some cards that go well with it. But they don't necessarily build the whole deck to be as sharp as possible.
Meaning it isn't finished, after all... 
) it wasn't malicious. I am impressed frequently by the methodical way in which you approach the mana-base of the decks you build. It's why I smiled when I read that - because if either one of us is able to be relied upon to have a good selection of non-basic lands for any suitable occasion it's you