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Well, I don't know who gave me my own vote on this poll, but thanks for that! Bourbon Vanilla has been taken apart to help build Marhault's Block Party. The other two decks will each get at least one more chance to see some action.

I've already built decks helmed by five of the twenty "Legends Retold." That's not enough of them! I need to do more. I'd been contemplating a Marhault Elsdragon deck for a while, and this new version presents an interesting puzzle. The original Marhault only has Rampage 1 to distinguish itself...

As 2008 progressed, Dreadnought decklists tended to shift toward the package that would become known as "DreadStill." It's what the name suggests. The Mishra's Factory + Standstill combo was quick, efficient, and punished control and aggro-control decks effectively while maintaining utility...

My original intent was for this poll to decide which deck I take apart on Tuesday, November 8th. But I'm pretty late in getting the poll up, and I don't know how many people will see it before then. If there's no winner by the 8th, I've got a backup option. I just won't build a green deck on...

Probably everyone who still visits the CPA has noticed my incessant posting of my EDH decklists, at a rate of about one new deck per week. There's no rule for how long each deck sticks around, but I try to give them a chance to shine, to do their thing to my satisfaction, before moving on and...

Won pretty uneventfully with Kuldotha Forgemaster fetching Triskelion and Entomb fetching Phyrexian Devourer. Fourth-turn kill. Yeah, Trazyn is kinda broken.

I've been keeping this deck around because I am really fond of it and want to see it actually accomplish something. I continue to be disappointed.

I don't know what's going on, but I've scarcely ever seen so many opening hands full of lands. This deck has utterly failed to function, and wasn't really granted much time to stabilize on account of every table I'm playing at having some racecar maniac high-power decks that want to end the game...

Got a lousy start with this deck and ended up hardcasting Golgari Grave-Troll (with zero creatures in my graveyard) just to start dredging and find some way to build toward a win once I had the mana for it. Before I got another turn, one of my opponents cast Mari, the Killing Quill. He was...

Taking this one apart. I had some fun with it, but the chief problem was that I simply never found any tables at a suitably low power level for this deck to make sense. My opponents could quickly and easily build board states that this deck was never designed to compete with. On the one hand...

As I mentioned earlier in this thread, the power-level erratum on Phyrexian Dreadnought was rescinded in July of 2007. Stifle, which had originally been printed well after the erratum was established, would from then on function as a Dreadnought enabler. In addition to being half the mana cost...

Now that I bother to look at it, this wasn't the best picture. But here's my copy #4 of Illusionary Mask. The others are in much, much better condition...

When I built my first Rohgahh deck in January of 2022, I did not anticipate that I'd be running a Kobolds deck again within the same year, let alone another Rohgahh deck. Well, WotC gave us a new version of Rohgahh, so now we're doing this. We're making this happen. Both decks are running a...

I should address a point of embarrassment for myself here. Over the years, I've written a lot about the Legacy ban list. Much of that was here at the CPA, but not all of it. Ever since Legacy was created in 2004, I've been consistent about some things. I called for Land Tax unban from the start...

No luck the first time around with this deck. I was manascrewed and one of my opponents was running a Yuriko deck, so I died uneventfully. Second game was closer, and there was even some potential for me to win it all, but I forsook winning in favor of casting All Hallows Eve. Things were still...

Played this deck a second time. Got off to a bad start and was forced to blow Intuition in turn 3 just to find a Mountain. Fell behind and couldn't really do much. On my last possible turn before another player was about to win, I got enough mana to cast Time Stretch. From there, Myra took over...

Night Soil for the win! Such a good card. This time, it ended up being the missing piece to make Fecundity + Ashnod's Altar explosive, which then won me the game.

It's high time I address the Legacy format with this one. The MaskNought archetype came into existence in 2002 and became firmly entrenched as part of the Vintage metagame in 2003. Noting the timing though, Legacy didn't exist as a format until September of 2004. Of course, Legacy replaced the...

I was going to talk about Phyrexian Dreadnought in Legacy, but before I move on, I should make a more substantial note on the archetype generally known as "Vengeur Masque." It was an important deck in the tournament metagame in its day and it paved the way for some later developments. A bit...

Last year's Halloween deck didn't have enough blood in it. This one is way bloodier. So very much blood. Commander: 1 Extus, Oriq Overlord 1 Abyssal Gatekeeper 1 All Hallow's Eve 1 Angel of Despair 1 Anguished Unmaking 1 Arid Mesa 1 Ashnod's Altar 1 Aura of Silence 1 Avatar of Woe 1 Badlands 1...