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Since I'd won all of my other games last night, I pulled this one out to try and lose for my final game of the night. Instead, I finally got to see this deck do the one thing that it was meant to do: kill people with Repercussion. One of my opponents almost immediately set himself up as the...

Played this deck last night. Kept a stupidly risky hand, but drew enough lands to get going. At first, I was swinging in with Omarthis and Liberator, putting enough pressure on my opponents that I thought I might win through beatdown. But I found an explosive loop with Echoes of Eternity, a card...

This deck packs more of a punch than I realized it would. I eventually fell a bit behind after slugging it out with Halfdane, yet again, copying the 9/9 from The Watcher in the Water. So when I topdecked Terminus, I took the opportunity to use it for is miracle cost. From there, I cast Balan...

Played this deck again yesterday. Mogg Raider saved my important goblins from some damage triggers generated by Niv-Mizzet, Parun. From there I tried to use Gamble to grab Goblin Recruiter for a big chain, as I had Conspicuous Snoop in my hand. But Gamble discarded the Snoop. Fortunately, I'd...

It had been a while, so I played this deck for my final game last night. I managed to get a third turn Temur Ascendancy into a fourth turn Throes of Chaos, but it hit Elemental Bond. I decided to retrace the Throes of Chaos, and the second attempt this Show and Tell, which let me drop Sire of...

Lazotep Quarry continues to impress. After getting a decent start thanks to Earthcraft, I missed a couple of land drops but had enough creatures to cast Mirari's Wake. From there, I cast Enlightened Tutor to grab Phyrexian Altar, then used Torsten with Phyrexian Altar so that my Earthcraft and...

This deck is fun. I think that I chose Assault Suit because I tend to run a lot of big creatures anyway and I just thought it would fit well with the equipment theme. Didn't occur to me how well Halfdane works with Assault Suit. I pick the biggest creature, then Halfdane becomes even bigger...

Academy Ruins does it again! Well, after one of my opponents from previous games had to leave, I used this in a three-player game. And because I was playing a PreDH deck, another player switched to his Kresh the Bloodbraided PreDH deck. It turned out to be a very slow game, as the few threats I...

Asked to play a powerful deck, I grabbed this without really thinking it through. Although it was mentioned, I glossed over the fact that the reason that I needed power was that one of my opponents was playing his K'rrik deck. Torsten packs a huge punch once he gets going, but the deck can be...

To my surprise, this deck won its first game. Oh, it's jank alright, but things worked out in my favor. Despite my commander being neutralized by an aura and then later killed in a board wipe, I was able to get value out of Clackbridge Troll, then bring Halfdane back with Volrath's Stronghold...

I've long been torn on what kind of theme my Halfdane deck would use, once I eventually got around to building one. Well, I've been stuck in a deckbuilding rut for most of this year, but I'm settling on an equipment deck. Equip a big creature to make it even bigger, copy its power/toughness with...

Played this deck for my final game last night. I kept an opening hand with Pyre of Heroes and Mana Echoes, so I thought I might have a strong early approach toward setting up big mana token-generating loops. I topdecked more lands and, eventually, both Muxus and Kiki-Jiki. Despite not getting...

After using Urza's Saga to fetch Sol Ring and get some mana, I found myself falling behind as I just couldn't get more than two lands. Omarthis was stuck on 1 counters for a few turns, while all three of my opponents pulled ahead. Clock of Omens helped me catch up a little and I started to...

Played this deck yesterday and it wound up being a pretty crazy game with lots of interaction. At various points, it seemed like any of the four players might be able to win. Ultimately, I found myself in a spot where I could eliminate either of my two remaining opponents with Brash Taunter, but...

I played this for my final game of Wednesday night. It had been a while, so I wanted to get another game in. I got a bit manadrowned and even topdecked Extraplanar Lens, so I had plenty of mana and not a lot of actual defensive tools. Using Phyrexian Metamorph to copy a Great Unclean One...

This game put up a dominant performance. I was a turn away from all of my goblins being taken out by Farewell. Won with token beatdown after using Goblin Matron to fetch Kiki-Jiki and then Kiki-Jiki to copy the Matron and tutor up some other goblins. Goblin Chieftain and Vanquisher's Banner made...

I built this stupid deck to be hyperfocused on Repercussion, and the one time that I finally win a game, I never see Repercussion or really even use anything similar to it! I had both Cabal Coffers and Vesuva in my opening hand, so I decided to go for broke and do a first-turn Vampiric Tutor...

Always use Humility. I played this deck for my final game last night. It was a good game. My friend was able to blow up Divine Intervention with Reclamation Sage, but I was protected by Solitary Confinement. I got Greater Auramancy to help protect Solitary Confinement and could have followed...

During what otherwise was shaping up to be a great game I derped into Metalworker + Staff of Domination. Well, technically, there was more to it. I had Liberator out and someone cast Glen Elendra Archmage. So I sacrificed Scrapyard Recombiner to its own ability and fetched Metalworker, then...