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-1 Abomination -1 Infernal Medusa -1 Lesser Werewolf -1 The Wretched -1 Hellfire +1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel +1 Shapeshifter +1 Vile Entomber +1 Sevinne's Reclamation +1 Gamble

The distribution of basic lands is markedly different from last year! In 2022, swamps were my most used basics and plains were my least. Somehow, they've switched places. I am a bit baffled that I managed to do that accidentally. At least mountains continue to do well? I don't know. I feel like...

I'm excited to be back again for my fifth annual entry in this series. I don't really know whether it's true, but I feel like I'm getting better at putting these together. In fact, when I collapsed all of the thousands of individual spreadsheet cells into a column for tallying up card usage for...

Although I got a bit manascrewed and didn't survive my last game of the year with this deck, I did live long enough for Anarchist to loop Wrath of God a couple of times.

Won a long game with this deck last night. After opening with Mishra's Workshop into Mind Stone and Drillworks Mole, things started to go awry. I was not drawing artifacts, so the Workshop was dead weight. The card that kept me in the game was Agatha's Soul Cauldron. Exiling my own Drillworks...

Played a proper PreDH game with this deck. It was looking dicey at first, but Decree of Pain on a clogged board set me up to begin using Worm Harvest to take over.

Technically, I've piloted this deck again. Probably doesn't really count though. A couple of us were stuck with no pods available at the game store, so we did a 1-on-1 PreDH while waiting for more players to arrive. My opponent quickly realized that his Thelon of Havenwood deck was poorly...

-1 Meekstone +1 Extraplanar Lens One last revision for the year. I actually had no plans to work on this deck. While opening a sealed precon to poach Descendants' Fury for my Zirilan deck, I cracked open the "collector booster sample pack" that came in the box. It just so happened to have a...

-1 Wall of Roots -1 Cyclopean Tomb -1 Vexing Puzzlebox -1 Mosswort Bridge +1 Arixmethes, Slumbering Isle +1 Everflowing Chalice +1 Lux Cannon +1 Karn's Bastion Still haven't taken this one apart yet, so I might as well see if I can improve it for any future games.

-1 Hellkite Charger -1 Thermopod +1 Skyline Despot +1 Descendants' Fury Cutting a couple of cards that I just don't use in actual gameplay for some new additions that might accomplish more.

-1 Forest +1 Shire Terrace This change is unlikely to ever matter, but I do want as many fetchlands as I can reasonably cram in here, just in case I don't get one of the good ones in my hand.

-1 Aerathi Berserker +1 Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker If I'd thought to spend more time on it, I'd have cut some of the silly stuff I did for Halloween and properly strengthened this deck. For now, I'm just making one swap. Might do more later. I'm still enamored with this dumb "all old frames"...

-1 Sakura-Tribe Elder -1 Wurmcoil Engine +1 Creakwood Liege +1 Shriekmaw Still tweaking this list, bit by bit.

-1 Steel Hellkite +1 Arcbound Crusher The first of my end-of-year deck revisions.

They are indeed. So, the original idea that I had was to use a more focused version of my old "Notice of Proposed Land Use Action" deck from the West Coast Commander League. That list didn't actually run Sorrow's Path, but I was contemplating a new version that would lean even more heavily on...

https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/announcements/card-updates-coming-with-khans-of-tarkir-on-mtg-arena I honestly don't know whether to be annoyed or fascinated with this stuff. It feels like if I were to try and guess which things WotC would retroactively decide were offensive, I'd fail...

This deck exceeded my expectations. Perhaps I was a bit fortunate with the tables I played it at, but I was able to have the deck get going and interfere with everyone else's gameplans pretty much non-stop. It was marvelous. I piloted the deck twice. It killed one opponent with Demonic Pact and...

Lousy luck in my most recent game with this deck. I was stuck on both mana and cards when one of my opponents used Chaos Wand to rip Rise of the Eldrazi off the top of my library. Despite how this opponent was using Chaos wand to abuse my deck's composition, the rest of the table mostly ignored...

Somehow, I almost went through the entirety of 2023 without playing a Grixis deck. Well now, we can't have that. While not technically a "Legends Retold" commander, this new Sol'Kanar is a fun take on a classic legend, and perfect for a deck that trades stuff with others. If I don't die right...

Won my most recent game with this deck. One opponent dropped due to time concerns and a second conceded after I Disenchanted the one card that might have saved him. My final opponent built an overwhelming board state, but couldn't break through a lock I put in place: looping Stonehorn Dignitary...