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Played this deck again last night. A timely All Is Dust helped me level the playing field, but I got stuck after that for a few turns. Drawing into Rhystic Study and then getting my opponents to play into it as they scrambled to deal with each other. This let me assemble a combo with Barrin...

Played this deck for my final game on Friday. After a pitched battle saw the game get down to a one-on-one with no way yet for me to break through my opponent's defenses, I assembled an infinite combo with Thopter Squadron + Clock of Omens + Grim Monolith + Forsaken Monument + Tarrian's...

On Friday, I finally played this deck again, and the "new version" (sans Mana Crypt) at that. I took 18 commander damage from one opponent and later another opponent hit me with Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger. But I was able to bounce attackers and steal control of creatures enough that I just...

I got some more games in on Friday evening. Won't be able to do that every week (because of my work schedule), but I'll be trying to do so more often. I grabbed this deck as an opener, but it was a victim of circumstances. After I already had my opening hand, an employee at the LGS wanted to...

Yet again, I Sage of Lat-Nam saved me. I piloted this deck for my final game of last night. Kept a lousy starting hand, but was able to get Cayth making servos and Sage of Lat-Nam sacrificing those servos in order to dig for more cards. The going was slow, but no one had anything that...

I played this deck in a long game with a five-player pod. Thing started out poorly for me, but I was able to hold on, taking minimal attacks, and eventually hardcast Divine Intervention. My opponents didn't want to end the game in a draw, so they worked to stop me. While they couldn't actually...

I played this deck for my first game yesterday. With Mana Vault and Dark Ritual, I got The Haunt of Hightower out on turn 2. None of my opponents managed to ever kill or block my commander, so the game was over quickly and uneventfully.

Well, I tried this deck again last night. The LGS was closing, so we had to end the game in a draw with three players still alive. I suspect that I would have lost to the very strong Ob-Nixilis, Captive Kingpin deck that was the dominant force at the table throughout the game. But it was far...

Just to prove that I can play EDH on days other than Wednesday, I went down to my old LGS last night (it's still essentially the same distance from my house as the new one, just in the opposite direction). This deck won an epic slugfest of a game against three decks that were all probably...

Now onto the bomb WotC dropped last week... I don't want to get bogged down on the whole topic of threats against people involved because I just don't think that it's interesting or useful to do so. I've followed this issue online from its outset. As far as I know, there have been no publicly...

Closing out my games for last night, this deck pulled off an amazing win. One opponent was eliminated early and another kinda struggled for the whole game, but I was up against a formidable opponent with a deck helmed by Alela, Artful Provocateur. My auras were outmatched, but I just barely had...

This deck performed well last night. Ancient Brass Dragon started plundering my opponents' graveyards, and no one was able to deal with that. One by one, my opponents fell to the might of my dragon army. Amusingly, other than the ridiculous power of Ancient Brass Dragon, the dragon that was the...

I picked this deck for my first game last night. The deck performed decently, but was decisively outmatched by some newfangled Simic value stuff. No surprises there. If I'd been able to pull off an upset, that would have remarkable. And if I'd try to put more pressure on that Simic player...

So, if I'd known how this was all going to blow up, I should probably have started this whole thread with some context. That FAQ the RC published hints at it, but doesn't really tell the story. There's a bit of strange phrasing snuck into the FAQ... Anyone reading this who hadn't previously...

I've been posting in this thread a lot today. Let's keep it going. For context, this announcement reached the Commander community like a lead zeppelin. While most early responses seemed to be either bewilderment or outrage, it didn't take long for some of the more high-profile people in Magic to...

I've gone over the cards to set the stage. Now let's take a look at the announcement at the heart of this whole controversy... So far, so good, I guess? He's not factually wrong about what was going on in the format. I wouldn't have put it the way he did. But he's not wrong. Notably, Mana...

Alright, I noticed a mistake in my earlier post. When writing that post, I tracked down the receipt from when I purchased Jeweled Lotus in an attempt to offer a kind of full disclosure. I couldn't remember that it had been $100. I'm not rich, but I spend a lot on Magic cards, and I wanted to...

In one way, this card is probably the easiest one for my to analyze as a ban decision. Nadu is an infamous card across multiple formats and a cartoonishly stupid design from WotC that should really impel them to reevaluate their process. Many others commenting on this card have been quick to...

I'll say it again: I'm feeling pretty vindicated on this one. I was extremely critical of Jeweled Lotus as a concept from the moment it was spoiled, and went on to write an article here at the CPA (linking to it again here for convenience) detailing my take on this unfortunate design choice. I...

If I remember correctly, Dockside Extortionist holds the dubious distinctions of being the second card originally released in a Commander-specific product to be banned in Commander (after Hullbreacher), the second card printed in an official Commander preconstructed deck to be banned in...