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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!

Taking this one apart. It kept winning, and pretty much always with Opalescence + Parallax Wave shenanigans. I was curious to see whether it could turn the game around after a Bojuka Bog, which would have exiled my Opalescence, but the player targeted the guy with a graveyard full of Shadowborn...

I am attempting to bring my love of Jeskai Ascendancy to EDH. Usually, decks built around this enchantment run green for mana dorks, but the color identity aspect of the rules in EDH makes that cumbersome. So this is a proper Jeskai deck. I realize that Jeskai Ascendancy gets a lot better with...

I was browsing this thread looking for something else, when I was distracted by the Full English Breakfast thing. I thought for a minute that I was being an idiot when I called this a "non-combo inclusion of Karmic Guide." Maybe I still am? I can't see a proper infinite loop here, but I can't...

I've said before that I'm convinced the very first Magic card I saw was Teremko Griffin. It's quite likely that I was shown multiple cards from Mirage on that occasion, but Martin McKenna's striking art with the eagle head in the extreme foreground, the distinctive spotted coat in the middle...

Channeling my innner Mr. Pestilence? I don't know. There'd be a bit more Pestilence if I had found a copy of Thrashing Wumpus. Oops. But this deck did win its first game, and closed things out with, of all cards, Withering Wisps. Seriously.

Scored another win, and again Sunstone came through for me. I got stuck on mana for a long time and should probably have just lost, but the game reached a kind of stalemate between my opponents and none of them really wanted to finish me off. Two out of three of them were piloting...

A little over twenty years ago, I had a casual Hecatomb deck that I called "Fun With Swamps." I really enjoyed the deck, but took it apart and, unfortunately, never got around to putting it back together again. I started building a Pestilence deck for EDH, but it kind of turned into a Hecatomb...

Lost my first game with this one when I had a slow start and no answers to anything. One of my opponents ramped and rushed out a Narset Transcendent, ticked the planeswalker up and used its ultimate, ending the game uneventfully. Second game, I had a slightly better start, but not a great one...

Won another game. It got pretty involved with all players jostling for advantage from different angles. I was playing a pretty defensive role at first, and it worked well enough that I wasn't the main target until it started to become too late. Cards like Rhystic Study and Mother of Runes ate...