How Does Your Deck Building Process Change With Different Decks?
Short version: Does the bracket and type of deck you build affect how you build your decks?
Long version: I build a lot of beginner decks since I love running intro games. For those, I try to build them like a precon: I fairly strictly follow the Command Zone template, mostly stick to one plan, then throw in 1-3 loosely related "it'd be so cool if this works!" cards. These are very straight-forward to build and often don't need any revisions.
The decks I build for me are often a bit weirder and more conceptual. I'm working on a mono white deck that I want to play like it's mono black. I have a group hug deck with [[Rakdos the Defiler]] as commander. I have a [[Wulfgar]] deck that I want to only be able to act during combat, like a true barbarian. I'm working on a mono black demon tribal that can sneak creatures into play and use their ETBs instead of running instants (so, instead of playing a [[Go For the Throat]] to kill something, tap [[Belbe's Portal]] to bring out [[Overseer of the Damned]], things like that).
With decks like that, I often just pick every single card that's even remotely on theme, get the gimmick to consistently work, then make cuts and put the necessities in. So basically I build a 200 card gimmick deck and trim it all the way down to size and repeat until it's functional (this can take many iterations, the Rakdos deck took 2 years).
The above is all pretty strictly in B2. Recently I decided to take apart one of my decks and rebuild it in B4 for the first time. The process for that was to steal a B5 mana base, take every free spell I could, then realize that I don't know how to build a B4 deck and get back to one of my funky B2 concepts.
So, as the title reads, how does your deck building process change with different decks?
