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Won with this deck yet again last night. It was a good game, and actually pretty close. Had to recover from a board wipe and then deal with the fact that Heartwarming Redemption drew me into a land pocket. I ate 25 damage to the face once and was worried about how to block the next one, but that...

Played this one last night (uneventful game, got taken out by a player who was dominating the table with broken stuff). But I still need a proper substitute for the Jeweled Lotus I'd thrown in here if I'm going to keep the deck around.

And a little less than four years later, Jeweled Lotus is banned in Commander. Well, there it is.

https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/announcements/commander-banned-and-restricted-announcement-september-23-2024 This is a reproduction of the announcement from the Commander Rules Committee. You can read the complete announcement and explanation at mtgcommander.net. Announcement Date: September...

Well, I had a somewhat uneventful loss to close out last night with this deck. Kept a one-land hand, but managed to deploy Drillworks Mole, then Omarthis. I also got Chronomaton. No one attacked into me or ever blocked Omarthis. But by the time my commander was big enough to be a threat, my...

This deck won a game! Not only did I pull off a win, but the card that pulled it off? The one and only Keldon Warlord! Got Survival of the Fittest and used it to dig for answers against opponent with superior decks. So, I used Spore Frog + Genesis to protect myself from Kresh, the Bloodbraided...

It's been a while. I played this deck and, yet again, it pulled off a win. I did get stuck for a bit, but this deck has the uncanny habit of waiting to give me the cards I need right before it would be too late. Got some mana dorks, went for Jeskai Ascendancy, saw it get blown up by Beast...

Played this deck yesterday. Only one game so far, but it does kinda have the same issue as the 2022 version. I could have killed any one of my opponents. I killed one, but another one popped off and took over the game with eldrazi. Oh well, at least I had a 27/27 commander. So that's fun.

I've been taking a look back at decks that I might consider recreating and updating. I'll admit that I didn't originally home in on this one. It wasn't at the top of my list. It wasn't until I decided that I wanted to build a mono-black deck that I even thought of revisiting this one, and even...

Played this deck for my most recent game. My friend's old pet Titania deck did its thing. He took a beating from another player at the table while I built up to have a decent board state, but once he got Zuran Orb and Scapeshift, it was over. Too bad about this deck not really getting much of an...

Played this deck on Wednesday night. It had some mana issues, but I still got to eventually make an impact at the table. The game stalled a bit and one player used some card (I forget what) to pull creatures from the rest of our graveyards. I had intended to use Living Death to effectively board...

So, I got to play this deck on Wednesday night and I also got to play at a table with a friend who'd been on hiatus for over a year. Didn't win, but I had a lot of fun. I need to do decks like this more often.

I haven't gotten to sling old-school creatures as much as I wanted to lately. I haven't built a deck helmed by a commander from *Legends* lately. So here's a PreDH Marhault Elsdragon deck full of creatures. Commander: 1 Marhault Elsdragon 1 Ancient Tomb 1 Anger 1 Arid Mesa 1 Beast Within 1...

Let's cut the card that won me the first game with this deck. That makes sense... -1 Quicksilver Amulet +1 Belbe's Portal

Played this deck in a long game on Wednesday night. The deck performed well at first, but I ultimately fell way behind, in part due to being manadrowned. It was a weird game anyway, and I'll probably remember it more for that. We all got off to a slow start, and at first I had both Shay Cormac...

This has been my most "last minute" deck in a few years. I started sorting cards into piles on Tuesday night, but had to wait until Wednesday evening to actually put a proper list together. Sleeved it and drove to the game store for some games. To my astonishment, this deck won its first...

I've been wanting to do blue/black Dragons with this commander ever since Sivitri was spoiled. Finally threw a deck together. Commander: 1 Sivitri, Dragon Master 1 Ancient Brass Dragon 1 Ancient Silver Dragon 1 Arcane Denial 1 Ashnod's Altar 1 Belbe's Portal 1 Bloodstained Mire 1 Boneyard...

Tried out the new list at a table that I thought would be pretty low-power. I did eventually win, but it was actually kind of slow. No conclusions yet from just a single game, but I did find that interesting. Got to see some of the new cards. I even used Eldrazi Confluence to flip over some...

I put my Omarthis deck from last year back together, then I edited the crap out of it. The old deck was based on the "Eldrazi Unbound" precon, but this version departed from that in favor of squeezing more value out of Omarthis. Also, I included some new cards that weren't available back when I...

Instead of lambasting WotC for leaving Earthcraft on the list for the past twenty years or for pushing the power level of these "Modern Horizons" sets past absurdity, I'm going to use this to highlight something much more important. WotC, it's time we had that talk... I might well be the only...