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Played this deck for my final game last night. It held its own surprisingly well. If I'd gotten some source of card advantage, I think I'd have run away with the game. I got some hits in, but had to scramble to deal with bigger creatures. Got to use banding to mess with combat a bit. In an epic...

I played this in a five-player pod yesterday, the only actual multiplayer game I was able to get. Danitha, Benalia's Hope survived a Blasphemous Act thanks to Caduceus, Staff of Hermes. I killed one opponent and two more dropped out because they were on some kind of time crunch. This left me...

I played this deck against a "squirrels" deck in a 1v1 game. Actually, I only saw a couple of squirrels. What I saw instead was my opponent setting up the most stereotypically broken token combo stuff with Academy Manufactor, Doubling Season, Skullclamp, etc. He kept taking really long turns...

I brought this deck to what I guess has become my alternate LGS yesterday. Allegedly, there'd been some folks playing EDH at the store earlier in the day, but they'd left by the time I got there. Brought this out for a 1v1 just because only two of us there were interested in an EDH game at the...

Played this deck in a long game last night. I had a really bad start, but an Island alongside a Phyrexian Tower gave me the mana I needed to cast Anvil of Bogardan on turn two and try to dig for black mana. Unfortunately, one of my opponents immediately blew up the Anvil with Naturalize. No idea...

Tried this deck out last night. Although I was unsurprisingly outclassed, the deck did have a few tricks up its sleeves. In the end, I had a 10/10 Phytohydra that could swing with impunity against the all-green army of my last remaining opponent, but he got an infinite combo to pump up his own...

By the way, I built this deck like a week ago, but I still haven't actually gotten to play it because I've been sick lately. Hoping that turns around soon here...

The story of the awkward "Leprechaun Ward" archetype in the Old School '94 format is fascinating. It's a case worth studying. Of course, the archetype doesn't really scale into EDH and it would be silly to try, which is exactly where I come in. I am willing to be very silly. After compiling a...

I stumbled across this post because I ran a search for the name. I guess it shouldn't be too shocking that a relatively common phrase would get used in an old CPA forum game and then later used as the name of a Magic card. In this case it only took 15 years, and then another 9 years for me to...

Played this deck for last night's final game. First turn Torch Courier into second turn Warren Instigator let me get Goblin Chainwhirler and Goblin Sharpshooter onto the battlefield, wrecking the green player with only one land and three mana dorks. I was putting some pressure on all three...

Played this deck last night. Somehow, I wasn't topdecking any walls at all. One of my opponents kicked Maddening Cacophony and another one immediately Bojuka Bogged me. I think that I was probably pretty doomed, but two of the players left the game to start a new one with their friend who'd just...

Played this deck last night for the first time in a while. Despite an awkward start (Earthcraft but no creatures to use with it at first), I was able to get Spike Weaver for some defense. One of my opponents, who drew poorly and wasn't able to do much else the entire time, cast War's Toll, which...

Played this deck again last night. I went over 120 life on two different occasions, but the typical "Voltron deck" woes eventually surfaced. Two players were shields down on the same turn and I could pick off either, but both constituted threats that might eventually overpower me if left...

Had another fun game with this deck. Ultimately, I was overwhelmed. But I did get to swing with some 5/5 tokens and such. Board wipes messed me up, though.

To my complete bewilderment, this bad deck won the game in its very first outing. I think it's a bad deck. I'm almost sure of it. The commander is virtually dead weight and I threw this together almost entirely out of miscellaneous cards that I hadn't sorted back into my collection after using...

Having already done a Sunastian Falconer deck years ago, I've been somewhat stumped as to what approach I want to take with building decks helmed by the two other mana dork legends among the original 55. I was trying to think of an appropriate "princess" theme of some sort, and the art got me...

Yet again, I got my graveyard exiled. This time, it didn't matter. Also, I have a bit of a misgiving here. I was manascrewed and one of my opponent started using Dust Bowl to blow up the three lands I actually had. So things could have been very uneventful for me. But I was able to get...

I lost a game with this deck a couple of weeks ago, but I forget exactly what it was that I did. I think that I'd left myself open thinking that I was safe, and I just ate more attacks than I expected. I vaguely recall that the player who took me out was trying to win and managed to down another...

I just calculated the probability, by the way. Although my fate was sealed before I topdecked the fourth of my 5+ CMC goblins, it still actually happened. And there's a less than 0.0014% chance of that happening. So yeah, I probably don't have to worry about seeing that again. Also, the...

I got shut down hard while playing this deck last week, with countermagic and some mana denial. I was short on lands, but ordinarily should have had the tools to get going. Skullclamp stuck around for a long time. Unfortunately, my commander had been taxed to the point that I couldn't cast it...