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I already appreciated Karmic Guide well before 2014, but that was when I began using the card in EDH. Some of that is archived in this thread, but not very well. Karmic Guide was in the very earliest test builds of that deck and remained throughout the evolution of my Karador deck, into the...

Only played this deck once so far, but it already got to do its thing. I got Nemesis of Reason going and there was some removal slinging around the table with all of us being affected at one point or another. There was a Rhys the Exiled deck that threatened to win the most, but was also getting...

On a lark, I partnered up with a player who has his own Party deck (Burakos, Party Leader & Haunted One). We were dispatched on turn four by a combo setup in our first game. Second game, I used Ramunap Excavator + Strip Mine to shut down the manascrewed opponent, which let us eventually...

This deck mostly just keeps winning. I'll dismantle it soon, I think. Won enough games, for sure.

Oof. This one continues to disappoint. I had high hopes for Emiel. I could just be getting unlucky, but I might have botched the deck construction on this one, too. Worth considering...

Mostly, I just wanted to use Eater of the Dead alongside Phenax. But this deck has the original Millstone, so it's totally authentic stuff. I was missing some cards that I had the notion to run, so I might pick those up and do a different mill deck at a later date. We'll see. Commander 1...

Of course lately I've been making use of Karmic Guide in my EDH decks, but I was a fan of the card long before I made the transition to almost exclusively playing EDH instead of real Magic formats. I've experimented with Pattern Rector decks in multiple formats over the years, and the archetype...

Along with the other decks I tried to use last night, this just never really worked out. So now I'm all bummed out. Part of it was just bad luck, but part of it was also that I probably need to ramp up the power of my decks to better match what I'm seeing at the LGS.

I was reminded of this thread and popped in for a quick look, then I saw this post again. So yeah, five years later Academy Rector has climbed above $90.

And then there's this guy... Karmic Guide being used the old-fashioned way can be cool, but as we've already seen in this thread, it's the loops that really break the card. Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker was easily the most prominent enabler for such loops when Karmic Guide first had its power...

I wanted a copy of Emiel back when Jumpstart first came out, but I never opened one back then. Now they reprinted it and now I can salvage some of the components from my Lathiel deck for further unicorn shenanigans. Commander: 1 Emiel the Blessed 1 Abdel Adrian, Gorion's Ward 1 Abundance 1...

Ha ha. This one is so much fun. I cast Show and Tell, then Hypergenesis, then later cast Eureka, then Show and Tell again, and finally Hypergenesis again. All of that was in the course of a single game. My opponents put up quite the fight, but eventually my army overpowered them.

Uh oh. You OK?

I put Hypergenesis and Eureka in the same deck. I've never seen anyone else do that, and it's high time someone did. So now, someone has. Me. I did it. Commander 1 Maelstrom Wanderer 1 Ancient Copper Dragon 1 Anger 1 Annoyed Altisaur 1 Aurora Phoenix 1 Balefire Dragon 1 Beanstalk Giant 1...

Too much time had passed since I got to do Life from the Loam + Manabond stuff. It's great. Walk the Aeons is a particularly silly card in a Slogurk deck.

Had a couple more easy wins with this deck. I think I'll take it apart soon, not because I don't like it, but because it's succeeded enough that I can comfortably retire it and incorporate some of the parts into a new deck.

Back when Slogurk was spoiled, I wanted to build a Slogurk deck. I have now built a Slogurk deck. Commander: 1 Slogurk, the Overslime 1 Abundance 1 Ancient Greenwarden 1 Arcane Denial 1 Azusa, Lost but Seeking 1 Bala Ged Recovery 1 Beast Within 1 Boseiju, Who Endures 1 Brainstorm 1 Breeding...

Just a single game with this one so far. My opponents were not really anticipating the Sensei's Divining Top combo. I put The Reality Chip on a Spellskite and used it and Maze of Ith for protection. Due to a misunderstanding, I blew through some of my countermagic when I probably didn't need to...

Had an easy win with this one when I topdecked Necromancy right after an opponent used Wrath of God. I'm really starting to respect Sling-Gang Lieutenant, which was originally just thrown in as an afterthought because I had one left over from a scrapped Canadian Highlander deck.

I finally played this one again after mostly leaving it untouched for the past couple months. Sadly, I was locked down by Stonehorn Dignitary + Soulherder for pretty much the entire game. I had almost 30 snakes out, but couldn't attack ever.