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So that first game after making my changes was pretty lousy, but I finally played a second. It was much better. Right when the other players had built up formidable board states, Zirilan was able to fetch Drakuseth on the end step before my turn and Balefire Dragon in my upkeep, getting rid of...

Played this deck last night. I thought it was going well at first. One player hit me with Traumatize for no apparent reason and another player followed it up by activating Scavenger Grounds. I scooped to go join a PreDH table.

Against the odds, this deck actually won its first game, which was in a regular EDH pod. Coat of Arms is a Magic card. But it was Goblin Wizard cheating in Kiki-Jiki, copying Goblin Wizard, cheating in Boartusk Liege that gave me the tempo advantage to make the Coat of Arms blitz into a win...

This one probably isn't going to make sense. I'll just say up front that until 2018, I forgot that Tuknir Deathlock existed. Then when I started to get interested in building EDH decks helmed by "Legends Legends" and I saw Tuknir Deathlock, my immediate thought was "goblins." Why? I have no...

While I didn't get to take this deck into a proper preDH pod, I did play it twice, and I was generally happy with it. I already see some adjustments that I want to make, but I like the deck overall and I am just really enamored with this whole concept. I did Worm Harvest shenanigans in a Savra...

This deck put up a fight in a long game, but couldn't deal with all the ridiculously convoluted shenanigans presented by one of the new "Dr. Who" precons. I'm already sick of those stupid decks. Anyway, when I originally constructed this deck, I sort of deliberately leaned into the extreme aura...

Manascrewed too much with this one. Even though I bought a couple of cards specifically to throw in this deck, I think I'm taking it apart next. The gimmick is too weak for EDH these days.

Played this deck twice last night. First game, neither I nor two of my opponents got to really do anything. The player with the high-powered Maelstrom Wanderer deck popped off and murdered us all uneventfully. In the second game, Plague Spitter put in work, wielded Sword of Feast and Famine, and...

Some of the players at my LGS have been getting pods together for "preDH" games. I'm excited to try that, and if participation in this variant continues, I'll keep building decks for it. Here's my first attempt. Commander: 1 Savra, Queen of the Golgari 1 Abundance 1 Abyssal Gatekeeper 1...

Played this deck twice. Unlike most of my "holiday" decks, this one was an existing project that had been on hiatus, so I'll be keeping it around in some form. First game, my deck did some coold stuff. I kept bringing back Karmic Guide and using it to bring back other creatures. Lim-Dul's...

This deck took down a game in the "Kingdom" variant. I was a bandit, and was able to keep my nature hidden until I was ready to spring my trap. It was a pretty simple one: Forsaken Monument + Basalt Monolith gave me infinite mana. Since I also had Ashnod's Altar, I could sac and recast my...

Tried this deck in the "Kingdom" variant. Although I do believe that I've significantly improved the manabase, the deck fell apart. I had three Mountains in my opening hand, later getting a Ruby Medallion, a fourth Mountain, and a Patriar's Seal. I cast multiple support pieces: I think they were...

Made the mistake of playing this one in a "Kingdom" variant when I was the king. I was introduced to this as a way to make larger pods more dynamic. We had five players, and each one would take a random card. One player would be the king, revealing this at the beginning. That player would start...

On the one hand, yes. I mean, that's the cliche, right? Corporate greed. To an extent, that's fine. They've always been greedy. People don't go into business to not make money. And I'm sure that there have been plenty of times that decisions motivated by greed have frustrated us as players. On...

When the "Time Spiral Remastered" set came out in 2020, I pulled an old-frame copy of Alesha, Who Smiles at Death. Because Alesha is remarkably good with several old creatures that normally don't see play in EDH, I came up with the idea of building an Alesha deck consisting exclusively of cards...

There have been announcements that frustrated me, annoyed me, delighted me, surprised me, and confounded me. Mostly, they've just disappointed me. But I can't think of any B&R update in the history of the game that rivals this one for strangeness. And that's not even because of some change I...

It's overdue. Also, I hate doing it. Whenever I find myself cutting a card that's cool and generally underplayed, it's with considerable reluctance. This deck does everything I want it to do and is one of my favorite EDH decks ever, but it's just too inconsistent, and I know that the land count...

Now with even more adventuring... -1 Bala Ged Recovery -1 Conduit of Worlds -1 Faerie Slumber Party +1 Tlincalli Hunter +1 Virtue of Knowledge +1 Virtue of Strength

Swap to run a card I've been wanting to try for a while now... -1 Phylactery Lich +1 Night Dealings

Another minor revision... -1 Nim Deathmantle +1 Agatha's Soul Cauldron