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About three years ago, the advent of the West Coast Commander League pulled my Magic focus to EDH as a primary format, and shifted my attention away from refining pet decks over a matter of years to building more and different decks, often on the fly. One of my earliest points of interest in...

Random discard is fun. Random discard is cool. I threw this together and it's probably too slow, but it has been a long time since I built a discard-based deck and I wanted to experiment. I do not think that the ceiling on Nebuchadnezzar as a commander is particularly high anyway and it might be...

Stuff changed and I moved on. My playset of Enduring Ideal moved around in various boxes as I sorted my collection, taking up nearly half of all Saviors of Kamigawa cards I physically owned (the set was one of the most glaring gaps in my collection, and kind of still is, although I've slowly...

Yep. I was too young to remember the original run of the show, which ended when I was under 2 years old. But of course I saw reruns. I was trying to come up with a name for a Zirilan deck and remembered the villain from Inspector Gadget. But Dr. Claw doesn't really do much except give orders and...

I was most of the way done with this deck on Tuesday evening, but it turned out that Al0ysiusHWWW needed to crash in the spare room where I keep most of my card storage boxes. So the deck that was supposed to essentially be my new deck for this week is really going to be the new deck for next...

Are you thinking of the old Island Sanctuary + Mystic Decree combo?

Once I abandoned my Zur's Weirding experiment, I really zeroed in on the Enduring Ideal package that became my mainstay for my own experiments with the card. Most of the pieces in my toolbox have already been introduced. But here are a few I don't think I've mentioned in this thread... And my...

https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/news/march-7-2022-banned-and-restricted-announcement Pioneer: Lurrus of the Dream-Den is banned. Modern: Lurrus of the Dream-Den is banned. Pauper: Galvanic Relay is banned Disciple of the Vault is banned. Expedition Map is unbanned.

No, not the mysterious CPA member that may or may not have once been multiple people sharing a single account. I'm referring to the actual card... I have the notion to use this silly thing in EDH. It started out with the goal of activating Urborg Panther's ability to fetch Spirit of the Night...

I think that's about right. Enchantress certainly has a better track record in the Legacy format, and is overall the more robust archetype. Enchantress decks are better at using Solitary Confinement, but an Enduring Ideal deck might have an easier time using Humility (you're not shutting off...

Played this one twice so far. I need more results, because the ones I got were weird. First game I topdecked both Spike Weaver and Light of Promise right away, so I could have gained infinite life by turn four. I held off for a couple turns because it seemed safe, then did gain infinite life...

Yikes, this deck has had a rough time. I'm outgunned every single game. I expected this and I'm not upset by it. But despite low expectations, I'm a bit taken aback by how utterly trounced this deck has been at every turn. There's always at least one player, often two, in each pod that have just...

Tetsuo Umezawa is one of the more interesting Legends legends, and I wanted to do something special with this commander. A cheap 3/3 that can't be targeted by auras is OK, but not much to work with. So it's the activated ability that's the main show. Some of the cards in here are dedicated to...

I haven't played with this deck very much and I want to prioritize getting some more games in with it before I have to scrap it for parts. This deck sets the stage for a message that might be a repeated theme with my EDH decks in 2022. And I don't feel like I did anything particularly wrong or...

This deck continues to be bonkers. I think I'll try to keep it together for longer than most of my concoctions. And after some time has passed, I'll use most of these same cards in some more refined deck. One thing that's been really amusing is that because the commander is a joke and there are...

So I guess I wanted to use all the old spike creatures, but Spike Cannibal doesn't play nicely with the others, so I went Selesnya and figured Lathiel would be perfect. Then because a unicorn's horn is kind of like a spike and the deck would have spikes, I branched it out to be themed around...

Snakes. So many snakes. That's what we're all about here. Snakes. Commander: 1 Seshiro the Anointed 1 Abundance 1 Ambush Viper 1 Beast Within 1 Cavern of Souls 1 Coat of Arms 1 Concordant Crossroads 1 Doubling Season 1 Eldrazi Monument 1 Emerald Medallion 1 Endless Swarm 1 Fang of Shigeki 1...

In considering enchantments for a Legacy format Enduring Ideal deck, I turned to one of my old favorites: Zur's Weirding. Of course it's not much of a stretch: the 2005 Standard format enchantment package I showed earlier used it. So I'd simply be bringing it back. Dovescape and Humility serve...

From pretty early on, the card I was most interesting in cutting from the Enduring Ideal toolbox was Form of the Dragon. In the context of the Standard deck, this would probably be an impossible proposition. Form of the Dragon was key to the whole deck. It would have been one of the first...

Yes, they do. But here's the relevant bit from the rules text on Tawnos's Coffin... So the fuse counters would go away, but they'd be "noted" and would show up again when the card returns to the battlefield, even if it's not a creature. Or so I think, anyway.