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Tried this deck again and I got horribly manadrowned. Died easily to something or other.

The Lorwyn/Shadowmoor double block occupied Standard set releases from October of 2007 to June of 2008. All four sets in this project had a strong overarching theme of recontextualizing the use of creature types in Magic. The race/class structure for creature types, which had been established a...

I won a game! As was the case when I tried a similar concept helmed by Jedit Ojanen, the game had to be pretty weird for this deck to actually pull off a win. The game got drawn out and one opponent conceded just due to time constraints. This left me facing down the threat of an infinite combo...

Played this deck for the first time in a while. Unfortunately, one of my opponents set up a loop with Sun Titan + Haywire Mite. He could exile one of my enchantments for every turn cycle, and I was not in a position to deal with that. Any tool I'd get to deal with the Sun Titan would get exiled...

Tried this deck twice. Lost both games, but the deck did get to show off its latent potency. First game, one opponent cast a Drannith Magistrate and a second opponent killed my commander. This forced me into a situation where I had to sequence my cards differently than I'd have liked, and while...

Tried again. And yeah, this deck did get to pretty much play Magic. Like, it worked. I never even cast my commander, but I hit myself with Curse of Obsession and was getting substantial value off my madness spells. Someone else set up an infinite damage combo and killed me soon afterward...

Played this deck again and beat all three opponents to death with rebel tokens. One opponent kept blowing up my equipment, but none of them could find a way to kill my whole army.

Only piloted this deck in one game, because it comboed off pretty smoothly. I drew plenty of extra cards, got The Reality Chip on a Myr Retriever and was able to deploy more cards right off the top of my library. My opponents got rid of my Aetherflux Reservoir, but then I cast Jhoira's Familiar...

In October of 2005, cards from the Portal and Starter product lines became legal in tournament Magic. Earlier in this thread, I mentioned how cards like Goblin Matron and Goblin War Strike weren't initially legal, but reprints in Standard sets gave them tournament-legal status before the rules...

Other than Unhinged, which I'll just say doesn't count for our purposes right now, Champions of Kamigawa was the last set of 2004 and its major contribution of Kiki-Jiki finished off the foundation that the year had given the Goblins deck archetype. 2005 and 2006, along with most of 2007...

I'll just pretend that I totally wanted to do another "Legends Retold" deck, as it had been a while since the last one. After all, my most recent new deck for that series was my General Marhault Eldsdragon deck, way back in November of 2022. So it would totally make sense. The reality is...

Well, blue's definitely been the strongest color this whole time! So yeah. In truth, I don't really like the term "blue core" nor any of the other various terms I've seen used to describe this, but we need to call it something. Whatever you want to call it, the important part is to understand...

Slogged through an epic game in which I essentially became the archenemy after a while. Tried to use Genesis Wave to close things out, but it was countered twice. Tried to build a big board state with Rampaging Baloths, but they were killed. Tried to get Titania to meld, but my opponents put a...

Well, I'm happy with the changes. Won a close game thanks to Eldrazi Conscription beatdown. I blundered and I think I had a rules error go my way, but I guess my opponent also kind of did. So things got a bit weird for a bit there, but I can't blame Hakim for that. Just need to play better.

Had a fun game where this deck made a nuisance of itself, but this ultimately made me enough of a distraction that the rest of the table let another deck combo off. On the one hand, I'm kind of stubbornly trying to make this concept work, even though I think it does not. On the other hand, it's...

You totally are. It's just a case of me letting my books and notes get buried under some other work in the basement again. I'll try to let your reminder serve as motivation to change that...

Well, those two were pretty short-lived anyway, but it's happened on other occasions too. The Dig Through Time era comes to mind, or certain versions of UB Reanimator. I was playing The Epic Storm when it ran full playsets of Brainstorm, Ponder, and Gitaxian Probe. It was just lacking the...

My cynical answer is that it's all three. It seems harsh to accuse them of negligence, incompetence, and ignorance, but they've been dropping all these little hints over time at each of those, and at this point I'd be dishonest if I said I didn't think they were demonstrating all three of those...

https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/announcements/march-6-2023-banned-and-restricted-announcement Expressive Iteration is banned. White Plume Adventurer is banned. So, this is where we're at now. I've become jaded about Legacy in the past, and have said so. Even so, I somehow thought that it...

I really should scrap this one for parts, since it's taking up so many great cards and the deck as a whole has mostly just made me sad. Well, how about instead, I revise the list? -1 Barrin, Master Wizard -1 Crab Umbra -1 Drake Umbra -1 Freed from the Real -1 Glen Elendra Archmage -1 Magus of...