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The story of the awkward "Leprechaun Ward" archetype in the Old School '94 format is fascinating. It's a case worth studying. Of course, the archetype doesn't really scale into EDH and it would be silly to try, which is exactly where I come in. I am willing to be very silly. After compiling a...

I stumbled across this post because I ran a search for the name. I guess it shouldn't be too shocking that a relatively common phrase would get used in an old CPA forum game and then later used as the name of a Magic card. In this case it only took 15 years, and then another 9 years for me to...

Played this deck for last night's final game. First turn Torch Courier into second turn Warren Instigator let me get Goblin Chainwhirler and Goblin Sharpshooter onto the battlefield, wrecking the green player with only one land and three mana dorks. I was putting some pressure on all three...

Played this deck last night. Somehow, I wasn't topdecking any walls at all. One of my opponents kicked Maddening Cacophony and another one immediately Bojuka Bogged me. I think that I was probably pretty doomed, but two of the players left the game to start a new one with their friend who'd just...

Played this deck last night for the first time in a while. Despite an awkward start (Earthcraft but no creatures to use with it at first), I was able to get Spike Weaver for some defense. One of my opponents, who drew poorly and wasn't able to do much else the entire time, cast War's Toll, which...

Played this deck again last night. I went over 120 life on two different occasions, but the typical "Voltron deck" woes eventually surfaced. Two players were shields down on the same turn and I could pick off either, but both constituted threats that might eventually overpower me if left...

Had another fun game with this deck. Ultimately, I was overwhelmed. But I did get to swing with some 5/5 tokens and such. Board wipes messed me up, though.

To my complete bewilderment, this bad deck won the game in its very first outing. I think it's a bad deck. I'm almost sure of it. The commander is virtually dead weight and I threw this together almost entirely out of miscellaneous cards that I hadn't sorted back into my collection after using...

Having already done a Sunastian Falconer deck years ago, I've been somewhat stumped as to what approach I want to take with building decks helmed by the two other mana dork legends among the original 55. I was trying to think of an appropriate "princess" theme of some sort, and the art got me...

Yet again, I got my graveyard exiled. This time, it didn't matter. Also, I have a bit of a misgiving here. I was manascrewed and one of my opponent started using Dust Bowl to blow up the three lands I actually had. So things could have been very uneventful for me. But I was able to get...

I lost a game with this deck a couple of weeks ago, but I forget exactly what it was that I did. I think that I'd left myself open thinking that I was safe, and I just ate more attacks than I expected. I vaguely recall that the player who took me out was trying to win and managed to down another...

I just calculated the probability, by the way. Although my fate was sealed before I topdecked the fourth of my 5+ CMC goblins, it still actually happened. And there's a less than 0.0014% chance of that happening. So yeah, I probably don't have to worry about seeing that again. Also, the...

I got shut down hard while playing this deck last week, with countermagic and some mana denial. I was short on lands, but ordinarily should have had the tools to get going. Skullclamp stuck around for a long time. Unfortunately, my commander had been taxed to the point that I couldn't cast it...

Fourth turn Eureka into sixth turn kill. This deck is probably a bit too consistently strong for its own gimmick. I dunno.

I lost a couple more games with this deck, but forced last night's game to end in a draw. One of my opponents had Archon of Sun's Grace and failed to notice that resolving Enchanted Evening would mean the next permanent to enter the battlefield under his control would create an infinite loop and...

To my utter amazement, this deck won another game. Rampaging Aetherhood is a powerhouse if left unchecked. I was able to take an extra turn with Gonti's Aether Heart and then set up the activation of Aetherflux Conduit. This drew me into Lightning Runner, which let me kill two opponents. The...

Oops. I guess I posted this in a thread for the wrong deck a few weeks ago. Copying it over to this thread now. I got manascrewed and then tag-teamed! Kept a one-hand hand because it had Sol Ring and Basalt Monolith. Despite failing to topdeck a second land, I was able to use artifact mana to...

Although I didn't type up my list for this deck until earlier this week, I've actually been playing it for the past three weeks. It's been the deck I've played most in that time. It hasn't won a game or really even come close at all. Still, there's just something special about this classic...

It had been over a year since I built a walls deck and apparently I can't help myself, even against my better judgment. Should Rolling Stones be in here? Probably. But it's not. We're not attacking. We're defending. Eventually, if no one kills us, I guess we win. If opponents somehow let this...

https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/announcements/commander-brackets-beta-update-april-22-2025 Oh look, the "gamechangers" list just got bigger. :rolleyes: The article doesn't summarize the changes cleanly, so I did that work for them. Two cards have been removed from the list: Trinisphere...