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This one has done better than expected. Ran out of time in my last game, so technically it was a draw. But I was up against overwhelming board states and I liked my chances. Sunstone would have bought me enough time to mill my opponents out.

All hail Goblin King! Mountainwalk let Warren Instigator get past blockers, which pushed out more goblins. I briefly hit a snag, but Skullclamp on a couple of tokens from Dragon Fodder did the trick. Also, Goblin Sledder saved most of my team from global -3/-3.

This topic is kinda sorta back? I mean, not really, but it has resurfaced in a weird way. I wasn't sure whether to start a new thread or not... It's been two years and no further card were added to the naughty list. In hindsight, I'm not sure why I thought that more would come of this. I mean...

Biollante is a monster that is part Godzilla, part rose, part dead lady. Makes sense, right? Nethroi is a monster that is part cat, part nightmare, and part beast. Somehow, Biollante is also Nethroi. I don't make the rules. There aren't any great commanders for W/B/G Pattern Rector shenanigans...

Since 2019, I've been building a lot of EDH decks. Some of those have had Karmic Guide... Uncle Stephen's Tub-'o-Lard This deck didn't really work out for me anyway, but the idea was that between Sneak Attack, Greater Good, Doomgape, and stuff my opponents would be doing, that I'd be getting...

Played this one once. Initially, Lady Evangela protected me, but I started to fall behind on board position, then someone's Displacement Wave bounced all my enchantments. I ate a couple of attacks while redeploying enchantments and getting Serra's Sanctum to produce more mana again, but saw that...

Wound up in a position where I could probably kill either of two opponents with Guiltfeeder, but the one I didn't attack would kill me to eliminate me as a threat. Splitting the difference got me killed anyway and the game continued for a few turns without me, and of course the player I wasn't...

It's been a while. Yes, I still break this one out on occasion. And yes, I still have yet to actually win a game with it. Still fun, though.

Played this one yesterday for my last game of the night. I kept a one-land hand because it had Goblin Lackey and Mana Crypt. That paid off, as I ended up getting Goblin Warchief and Krenko, Mob Boss both out on turn 2. Krenko's tokens flooded the board and won the game. I had some preparations...

And now we're on week 3 of this deck continuing to make me sad. Will I give it one more go? Not sure yet.

"As she grew, she learned to share her rapture with others." The idea behind this deck is to fill the graveyard and set up Replenish or a similar spell to put Opalescence + Parallax Wave + Parallax Tide + Parallax Nexus out. My opponents cards get raptured. It's my cards that are left behind...

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.