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I'm liking this one. The deck packs a punch, but is slow enough that it's more appropriate to run at lower power-level tables. It's also a lot of fun.

Liking the new version so far. It started out somewhat poorly: I got Jeweled Lotus and was able to cast Zirilan on my second turn. I started setting up to deal with the opponent that was the bigger threat, then another opponent cast Planar Disruption on my commander just because it was the only...

When attempting to rank all of my 2022 decks, this one came out at the very top. It wasn't as long-lived as some of them, but I got a bunch of games in with it and the deck was consistently fun. A lot of fun. So fun, actually, that I simply have to bring it back. Here are my changes for 2023...

Changes: -1 Crucible of Worlds -1 Damnation -1 Endrek Sahr, Master Breeder -1 Mox Diamond -3 Snow Covered Swamp -1 Songs of the Damned -1 Sword of Hearth and Home -1 Thought Vessel -1 Woe Strider +1 Blood on the Snow +1 Dark Petition +1 Darkest Hour +1 Myojin of Grim Betrayal +1 Nykthos, Shrine...

Well, I've reassembled this deck, more or less. I haven't logged my changes yet, but the new version is slightly different from the one I played last year. So I'll have to get to work on that. Been busy lately. My first game with this deck, it started deploying some big threats and was able to...

Took this deck to a five-man pod, which was awkward. The player who ended up eventually winning was seated so far from me that I had little idea of what was going on with his board state. If I'd played this one differently, I could have saved myself, but I wasn't really trying for that. In fact...

This deck won a game! It was looking pretty bad, but I found and opening and my opponents had exhausted their resources. I was able to make Archfiend of Ifnir stick, and they had no lines that saved them from the beatdown that commenced once their creatures were all dead.

Tried this deck again and I got horribly manadrowned. Died easily to something or other.

The Lorwyn/Shadowmoor double block occupied Standard set releases from October of 2007 to June of 2008. All four sets in this project had a strong overarching theme of recontextualizing the use of creature types in Magic. The race/class structure for creature types, which had been established a...

I won a game! As was the case when I tried a similar concept helmed by Jedit Ojanen, the game had to be pretty weird for this deck to actually pull off a win. The game got drawn out and one opponent conceded just due to time constraints. This left me facing down the threat of an infinite combo...

Played this deck for the first time in a while. Unfortunately, one of my opponents set up a loop with Sun Titan + Haywire Mite. He could exile one of my enchantments for every turn cycle, and I was not in a position to deal with that. Any tool I'd get to deal with the Sun Titan would get exiled...

Tried this deck twice. Lost both games, but the deck did get to show off its latent potency. First game, one opponent cast a Drannith Magistrate and a second opponent killed my commander. This forced me into a situation where I had to sequence my cards differently than I'd have liked, and while...

Tried again. And yeah, this deck did get to pretty much play Magic. Like, it worked. I never even cast my commander, but I hit myself with Curse of Obsession and was getting substantial value off my madness spells. Someone else set up an infinite damage combo and killed me soon afterward...

Played this deck again and beat all three opponents to death with rebel tokens. One opponent kept blowing up my equipment, but none of them could find a way to kill my whole army.

Only piloted this deck in one game, because it comboed off pretty smoothly. I drew plenty of extra cards, got The Reality Chip on a Myr Retriever and was able to deploy more cards right off the top of my library. My opponents got rid of my Aetherflux Reservoir, but then I cast Jhoira's Familiar...

In October of 2005, cards from the Portal and Starter product lines became legal in tournament Magic. Earlier in this thread, I mentioned how cards like Goblin Matron and Goblin War Strike weren't initially legal, but reprints in Standard sets gave them tournament-legal status before the rules...

Other than Unhinged, which I'll just say doesn't count for our purposes right now, Champions of Kamigawa was the last set of 2004 and its major contribution of Kiki-Jiki finished off the foundation that the year had given the Goblins deck archetype. 2005 and 2006, along with most of 2007...

I'll just pretend that I totally wanted to do another "Legends Retold" deck, as it had been a while since the last one. After all, my most recent new deck for that series was my General Marhault Eldsdragon deck, way back in November of 2022. So it would totally make sense. The reality is...

Well, blue's definitely been the strongest color this whole time! So yeah. In truth, I don't really like the term "blue core" nor any of the other various terms I've seen used to describe this, but we need to call it something. Whatever you want to call it, the important part is to understand...

Slogged through an epic game in which I essentially became the archenemy after a while. Tried to use Genesis Wave to close things out, but it was countered twice. Tried to build a big board state with Rampaging Baloths, but they were killed. Tried to get Titania to meld, but my opponents put a...