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Played this deck again. I won with, of all things, regular old beatdown from my growing commander. I cast Omarthis on my second turn, and no one killed my commander the whole time. Sword of Truth and Justice put in work. By the end of the game, Omarthis had a dozen +1/+1 counters.

Played this deck again last night. Wiped out all three of my opponents with glorious rebel combat damage. They all built up board states that could potentially threaten me, but a couple of key draws ensured my victory. Reconnaissance let me go all-in on attacks while maintaining defense. An...

Oops. I keep bringing this deck to tables where it's badly outclassed. Still, Raging River is fun. Also, I've taken to calling every Giant that I cast "the best giant in this deck."

Second game with this deck was a long one. All four players at the table built up some kind of board state and navigating that became a challenge, although I felt like my deck was always the one presenting the strongest threats. Things became precarious for me at a couple of points. I thought...

Played this deck twice last night. First game I took a big hit thanks to Dictate of the Twin Gods, and couldn't effectively rein in all of my opponents, although I could probably have dealt with any one of them. Through bad luck, poor sequencing on my part, and one opponent's deck working well...

Won a quick game with Phyrexian Altar + Gift of Immortality + Iridescent Drake to make infinite mana and set up Buried Alive into Karmic Guide for a Reveillark loop.

I got the weirdest hand I've seen this deck ever get. Opening hand had City of Traitors and Thicket Elemental, so it seemed keepable. Then I topdecked Cultivator Colossus. It was literally turn three Nissa, turn four unkicked Thicket Elemental, turn five Cultivator Colossus. So this created the...

Kept a one-land hand and had a slow start. Just when I thought I was stabilizing, I was dispatched by triggers from Ayara, First of Locthwain when one of my opponents had a Shadowborn Apostle + Thrumming Stone engine go off. Killed two of us, but the Firesong and Sunspeaker player had enough...

My Omarthis deck was originally named "Unbound and Down" as a play on the name of the precon (Eldrazi Unbound) and the song "East Bound and Down." I took it apart. About six months later, I used many of the same cards to build a similar Omarthis deck, one that used fewer elements from the precon...

Translation: Storm used to be scary twenty years ago, then we kept printing a bunch of broken stuff that let's creature-based tempo decks beat up combo players and take their lunch money. We find this funny, so we're going to keep doing it. Seeing that we don't really make new tools for storm...

This is probably the first time all year that I've been excited for anything Legacy-related. And that's kind of sad. Well, it's been far too long and there are far too many other cards that are equally overdue for unbanning. I could rant all day about that, but I want to focus on the positive...

https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/announcements/august-7-2023-banned-and-restricted-announcement Modern: Preordain is unbanned. Legacy: Mind's Desire is unbanned.

I realize that the Modern crowd are mostly younger than I am, but I thought that they should at least be able to shuffle 80 cards! :P

Still looking to revise this deck, but I still haven't. My game last night got off to a lousy start, as I couldn't get enough lands to effectively play. Maze of Ith kept some damage off me, but I only survived because my opponents kept each other reined in. Ended a turn with Zirilan, Flameshow...

Another glorious victory for Rosie! I was doing OK for most of the game, but didn't have any definitive threats that could close the game out. While being attacked and pondering what my blocks might be, I realized that because I had Ashnod's Altar + Twilight Drover + Mondrak, Glory Dominus +...

Took this deck into a game where it was badly outclassed, but I still got to attack some people with giants, so there's that. Raging River was present, but no one actually threw blockers in front of my giants anyway, so perhaps the card didn't matter. Three of us scooped because Tasha's Hideous...

Had a crazy game with this deck, repeatedly copying, killing, and recurring Ao, the Dawn Sky. Ratadrabik of Urborg is insane in this deck. My opponents were able to muster some countermeasures and I took a bit of a beating, but the value engine of my deck overcame that. It was a long game and...

Combing through this list for possible revisions, I'm finding that I really like it. Can't bring myself to make a lot of cuts. There is a new card I missed out on earlier. And now that it has my attention, I absolutely want it in here. -1 Elas, il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim +1 Vesuvan Drifter

The way that this deck operates, Sneak Attack is merely decent here. If I'm going to be running a merely decent red enchantment, I might as well have some more fun with it. It's been an aspiration of mine for some time now to work Raging River into an EDH deck. Let's do this. -1 Sneak Attack +1...

Piloted this deck twice last night. Won both games by comboing with Rosie + Animation Module + Ashnod's Altar. First time was pretty brutal and I just happened to put the combo pieces together at the last possible opportunity, but everything had gone against me up to that point. Second game was...