Recent content by Oversoul

Messed around with this deck using the new list in a 1v1 game. The store closed, but I'd given up before that. I drew something like 11 cards from clues and 9 of them were lands. Biggest manadrown I've seen in a while. I was worried that 33 lands wouldn't be enough. Oops.

I was still playing against opponents who were wary of both infinite combos and "long turns." Didn't have a ton of options, but I'd seen one of them play an Arcades, the Strategist deck, so I was inspired to play my own walls. The Pride of Hull Clade landed one attack against an opponent with no...

Tried this deck last night and got hit with a bad manascrew. Hit my first three land drops. Between my own Faithless Looting and an opponent's Spiteful Visions I drew plenty of extra cards. Ruby Medallion even meant that I could cast my five-drops if I just hit a fourth land. I never saw one...

Although the two decks I recently edited are newer, I played this deck in my first game last night. One of my opponents remembered playing against some deck of mine (I do not know which) and was concerned about both infinite combos and "long turns." Kind of tricky to accommodate both concerns...

I felt silly having all these Snow-Covered Islands in this deck for no reason. So now there's a reason. I feel like I've definitely accomplished something with this sweeping revision to this totally good deck, which I thought about very carefully. Some of these statements might not, strictly...

How was I not running Wasteland in, of all things, a Fallout deck? Oops. Fixing that now... -1 Yavimaya Hollow +1 Wasteland

Holding a forum game in limbo.

Played this deck for the final game last night. I kept an opening hand with only one land, but Eladamri's Vineyard kept me going, as well as powering out my opponents. I managed to survive, preserve myself with Moat, build up resources, etc. Eventually, I stacked Phelddagrif blue activations...

Had a crazy game with this deck. One of my opponents cast Wheel of Fortune followed by Wheel of Fortune. He did this on purpose (bidding 0 life to Wheel of Misfortune). This dumped a bunch of cards into my graveyard. I used Replenish and suddenly had a board full of enchantments. This was good...

Spent much of my most recent game with this deck attempting to neutralize/slow a K'rrik deck. I succeeded on that front, but my efforts left me vulnerable to repeated waves of huge token attacks from another deck at the table (Atraxa, Praetor's Voice was the commander, and it was proliferating...

Played this deck in my first game tonight. There was some pressure on the board, and I went for and end-of-turn Enlightened Tutor into Lion's Eye Diamond followed by sacrificing all of my eggs, which put me in topdeck mode, but got me enough mana to overload Cyclonic Rift. Bought some breathing...

I'm just going to pretend that the Eggs deck I built back in March of last year (helmed by Ayesha Tanaka, Armorer) was totally planned as an Easter Holiday deck. This year, I was a bit more deliberate, but didn't actually construct a deck until the *day of* the holiday. Usually I aim to get some...

And there you have it. We've covered all of the official blurbs. I didn't expect a lot of depth or nuance for something that is, by its nature, so short. But I managed to be a bit disappointed anyway because of too many misleading or inaccurate statements in the blurbs. I'm still glad that the...

The blurb seems fine, but I'll offer two caveats. The phrase "without having to guess how far you need to go" only makes sense when Yawgmoth's Bargain is being compared to Necropotence. I mean, it could also apply to Necrologia, but I'm confident that the Rules Committee were thinking of...

I mean, their description of how Upheaval works isn't wrong. Personally, I think it's highly debatable whether an effect like this actually constitutes a problem. Casual players might often become annoyed with blue decks, but in principle blue should be able to do something about egregious board...