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Abilities. Who needs 'em? Not my maindeck creatures, that's for sure. Commander 1 Jasmine Boreal of the Seven 1 Abundance 1 Anointed Procession 1 Arid Mesa 1 Ashnod's Altar 1 Aura of Silence 1 Bala Ged Recovery 1 Barbary Apes 1 Beast Within 1 Boseiju, Who Endures 1 Craw Wurm 1 Crop Rotation 1...

New list for this seems fun. First game, I was short on lands, but had Sol Ring and Mox Opal, so I hoped to topdeck one more artifact and have metalcraft, which would enable me to cast almost anything I needed. This plan went awry when one player used Plundering Barbarian to destroy my Sol Ring...

Well, I won a game with this deck. It was a weird one. The player with the Liesa, Shroud of Dusk deck built up an army of lifelinking attackers and was gaining plenty of life while depleting everyone else's life totals. He couldn't close the game out because this board state impelled an alliance...

After about six months, I finally won a game with this deck. It was actually pretty close, and I was down to 9 life when I finished off my last opponent.

At long last, I've built a good version of the Gwendlyn Di Corci I built for the West Coast Commander League back in 2019. The core idea is the same here. Cards like Wheel of Fortune, Anvil of Bogardan, and my commander can keep giving me triggers on Waste Not and Geth's Grimoire. Draw more...

I mentioned that Al0ysiusHWWW had copies of Phyrexian Dreadnought. He was a fan of the card, but the power-level erratum made it really tricky to use. He experimented with different approaches in our casual games when we were in high school. These attempts were pretty short-lived, and no real...

I talked about the "Full English Breakfast" archetype in both the Karmic Guide thread and the Survival of the Fittest thread. So I'm coming back to it again, but I might as well be brief. No need to rehash everything. The defining feature of the archetype is the combination of Volrath's...

This one did surprisingly well for itself, albeit not nearly enough to actually stand a chance in the environment where I was playing.

After a few more tries, this deck still has yet to survive long enough for any of my opponents to figure out what my deck's theme is. I knew that I was building jank, and I can understand that maybe in some games I just get killed, but it's been pretty brutal. I've been really trying to commit...

Well, that's it for this deck. I tried. I really did. In my final game, I couldn't seem to find lands that weren't basic Islands, and had to resort to Lion's Eye Diamond into Timetwister into praying for a red source just to cast Gnostro in the first place. And then I just sort of expended my...

Without actually thinking about it, I've covered several cards in the Magic Memories series that have been dramatically affected in their history by power level errata and rules changes. It dawns on me because this was such a big deal for Karmic Guide, and kind of ruined the card for what should...

Jacques le Vert has one of the most relevant abilities among all the original legendary creatures. Is it worth building around that ability? Probably not, but I'm doing so anyway. Commander: 1 Jacques le Vert 1 Abundance 1 Academy Rector 1 Arid Mesa 1 Aura of Silence 1 Aura Shards 1 Bala Ged...

I knew that I"d already talked about my old "Kerosene" deck! Found it in the Necropotence thread... I actually looked for that piece of green paper and, alas, couldn't locate it. I still think that it's the sort of thing I would not have thrown away, but perhaps I did decide to purge it at...

Only played this one once. Got off to a slow start with nothing promising that I could steal, while the opponent that had zero creatures the whole time got an engine going and won the game with Approach of the Second Sun. My contribution was essentially nothing here. I didn't have the heart to...

Dejection. This deck is something like 0 for 6 now. Every game I either get slaughtered or have a stressful time trying to get some kind of engine going. I thought that this deck would be fun, and it really seems like all the pieces should be there for that to be possible. But they never line...

It hasn't been 100% glorious, but this deck has had more than its fair share of awesome performances. I think this will be the next deck I take apart, so that I can make room for something new. But yeah, it's been a blast.

Who needs blue to make a deck that steals other players' stuff? Not me. And not Jerrard. Forget five-finger discounts. The closed-fist discount is way more macho. The main gameplan here is to get Willow Satyr and steal a commander that is better than Jerrard. Failing that, I guess I turn stuff...

No luck so far with this one. I had a brainfart or something and misplayed in my first game with this deck. I could have tried to fight through the game after my blunder, but I just conceded and started a second game with a different group. The second game, I had terrible topdecks and the game...

Lion's Eye Diamond and a couple of mana dorks got me above eight mana. I attempted to mutate Biollante for the win, but an opponent saw that coming and stopped me with Counterspell. On my next turn, I topdecked Regrowth and used it to bring back Reanimate, which brought back Razaketh, which...

Withering Wisps continues to impress. Go figure. I managed to ultimate Liliana of the Dark Realms, then topdecked Exsanguinate on the following turn. Despite some disruption, this deck accounted for itself better than I expected. Go, go mono-black!