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Spent much of my most recent game with this deck attempting to neutralize/slow a K'rrik deck. I succeeded on that front, but my efforts left me vulnerable to repeated waves of huge token attacks from another deck at the table (Atraxa, Praetor's Voice was the commander, and it was proliferating...

Played this deck in my first game tonight. There was some pressure on the board, and I went for and end-of-turn Enlightened Tutor into Lion's Eye Diamond followed by sacrificing all of my eggs, which put me in topdeck mode, but got me enough mana to overload Cyclonic Rift. Bought some breathing...

I'm just going to pretend that the Eggs deck I built back in March of last year (helmed by Ayesha Tanaka, Armorer) was totally planned as an Easter Holiday deck. This year, I was a bit more deliberate, but didn't actually construct a deck until the *day of* the holiday. Usually I aim to get some...

And there you have it. We've covered all of the official blurbs. I didn't expect a lot of depth or nuance for something that is, by its nature, so short. But I managed to be a bit disappointed anyway because of too many misleading or inaccurate statements in the blurbs. I'm still glad that the...

The blurb seems fine, but I'll offer two caveats. The phrase "without having to guess how far you need to go" only makes sense when Yawgmoth's Bargain is being compared to Necropotence. I mean, it could also apply to Necrologia, but I'm confident that the Rules Committee were thinking of...

I mean, their description of how Upheaval works isn't wrong. Personally, I think it's highly debatable whether an effect like this actually constitutes a problem. Casual players might often become annoyed with blue decks, but in principle blue should be able to do something about egregious board...

I did a double-take. Yes, the RC mistakenly copied the "first printed" line from Tolarian Academy when they created the blurb for the next card on the list. Trade Secrets was actually first printed in October of 2002, not October of 1998. It's a minor editorial mistake. Other than that and the...

Played this deck in my final game last night. It went OK, but we ran out of time with the store closing. I had a nice board state, but so did a couple of other players.

The game was effectively archenemy against a K'rikk deck. We killed the K'rikk player with a group effort, then I started looping extra turn spells for the win. Ain't I a stinker?

Played this deck last night. I was in an awkward position where I could only ever get one creature out at a time, but it would always get hit with removal right away. However, I wasn't eating a lot of attacks, and most of my artifacts didn't get hit with removal, so I did have some resources. I...

Tried this deck again, but I guess I wasn't warmed up or whatever. I misplayed several times. Ultimately, I got hit by full graveyard exile by the deck next to me, which was itself doing way more graveyard recursion than I was. Already determined that I'm not going to play graveyard hate chicken...

That's a little understated. Tolarian Academy is one of those cards that is so over-the-top broken that I'm fine with it being banned.

At first glance, this blurb seems OK. And perhaps I shouldn't be too critical. Ultimately, I totally agree that Tinker deserves to be banned. It just really strikes me with this one, perhaps after analyzing so many of their other blurbs, that the RC could really add "this card does too much for...

This is the same blurb from the other seven P9 cards that are banned in EDH. I already criticized the RC for the weird "optics" excuse on Ancestral Recall, Black Lotus, and the five original Moxen. No need to rehash that. I guess the only real point of interest I can think of here is that the RC...

Yeah, I have no problem with this one. Good job, RC.

Well, this is the first I've heard that Sylvan Primordial was "considered" a fixed Primeval Titan. The cycle of primordials was always just kind of their own thing. Also, they're powerful cards. They're seven-drops, so they'd better be strong if they're going to see any play at all. The white...

I hardly ever say anything about Sway of the Stars and wasn't even really interested in talking about it now. Out of curiosity, I went back and searched the CPA to see if I'd ever had any reaction to the card in the past. I found something I'd forgotten all about. In our old Tribal multiplayer...

This blurb irritated me enough that I actually used the Wayback Machine to find Sheldon Menery's original statement from when the card was banned. Turns out that it didn't help. But I'm getting ahead of myself. I have a too-vague, yet very firm recollection of discussion around Sundering Titan...

Played this for the final game of last night. Kinda threw the game on purpose. I could have tried to devote resources to drawing into Enduring Ideal or Humility, but instead I had stuff like Silent Arbiter and Kami of False Hope. I saw an opportunity to do something silly and went with it. Last...

Played this deck last night. It performed normally at first, but then I topdecked Eldrazi Monument and was able to make infinite mana with the Basalt Monolith I already had. From there I was able to use Senator Peacock as a draw engine and recur artifacts to build up life with Aetherflux...