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Scored my first fourth-turn victory with this deck. The other players at the table figured we might not have time to finish a game before the store closed, so I brought this deck out, then immediately got Gemstone Caverns in my opening hand. Everyone laughed when the realized what my deck was...

Ouch. Piloted this deck twice last night and never had access to red mana. Got trounced in one game. Another one sort of collapsed prematurely because the player who was close to probably winning ran out of time and had to scoop in the middle of his turn. The two of us left after that decided...

Bad breaks for this deck yesterday. I don't think my draws were egregiously terrible. First game I tried it, I got my final opponent down to 8 life and could have killed Kokusho again one more time to bring him down to 3 life, but had no way to finish him off and no way to survive his massive...

Running such bombs as Hill Giant and Tor Giant, I knew that there was some potential for me to have just undertuned this deck too much for it to be able to ever win a game. Well, the deck won its first game! Thanks to Defense of the Heart, I got some big giants set up and had a board state that...

Back in 2019, I officially embarked on my journey of trying to build EDH decks helmed by each of the original 55 legendary creatures. Then in 2022, WotC released the glorious "Legends Retold." This gave us 20 brand new reimagined versions of a selection of the original 55. I was hooked...

This deck just barely managed to achieve victory in an epic game last night. Among the new inclusions I did get to use Staff of the Storyteller (nifty) and Panharmonicon (won me the game). It was precarious, and two other decks were usually both ahead of me for most of the game, but neither of...

Started off pretty strong with a second turn Entomb into Reanimate on Kokusho. Even in EDH, where players start with 40 life, Kokusho can be pretty deadly when paired with graveyard recursion. I probably made some misplays and put myself in topdeck mode too much, but my opponents had to keep...

In my ongoing quest to build EDH decks led by each of the original 55 legendary creatures, I've noticed my overall lack of consideration for Halfdane, which is easily one of the most interesting and powerful of the bunch. Back when this whole endeavor was confined to the West Coast Commander...

Some fine-tuning: -1 Anafenza, Kin-Tree Spirit -1 Sanctuary Warden -1 Steel Overseer -1 Tawnos's Coffin +1 Scrapyard Recombiner +1 Panharmonicon + Staff of the Storyteller +1 Enlightened Tutor

Heh. The store was about to close, so I tried to bring this one to a quick game. One of my opponent had a pretty obnoxious Chulane deck, and he happened to have Force of Will for my Thicket Elemental. Then he looped Shrieking Drake and won with Thassa's Oracle. Boring. :rolleyes:

So, I'd forgotten this, but if an opponent takes control of my Academy Rector and sacrifices it, then my opponent can exile it and search his own library for an enchantment to put onto the battlefield. Ouch. If I'd been playing any other deck I'd have sought to punish him for this affront, but...

Prosperous Partnership works its magic again! Along with Springleaf Drum, I was able to get enough mana to cast Otharri and commence the beatdown. Hexplate Wallbreaker gave me extra combats, which helped Otharri catch up from the late start. An opponent needing to leave abruptly for out-of-game...

So, I already had some plans to improve this deck, but I had been missing some sleep and was too tired at the time. Ended up bringing the deck to Commander night yesterday with no changes. Although I did ultimately lose the game I played with this one, I was much happier with the overall...

Well, a lot of this stuff is from the precon, so I may or may not revisit this deck later. My new Rosie deck is already poaching cards from this one, and I have plans to scrap more of the parts from this one for other decks. Anyway, despite some frustrating experiences, the final game was great...

Another discouraging performance! Over the course of this game, I cast Wheel of Fortune, Time Spiral, and Timetwister, all looking for ways to come out ahead. And while I managed to play lots of creatures, my efforts were easily outpaced, outclassed, and outright thwarted by an unmodified...

Too many mana problems again. I've been holding off on reworking this deck until I pick up a copy of Invasion of Tarkir, because that's going straight in here. Also, my "too many mana problems" was partially self-inflicted. One of my opponents was using the infamous Themberchaud ramp deck, and...

Finally got to see Karn's Bastion do its thing with Otharri. Unfortunately, I did lose my most recent game in the end, but two of my opponents struck me as dangerous targets that I'd need to eliminate before they got the tools to stop me, and I couldn't take both out. Killed one, then died to...

Played this deck again. Pretty much a textbook win here, although I had to spend the first few turns using cantrips to sculpt my hand and find more lands. I was able to hide Chandra's Ignition under Spinerock Knoll early on. Zndrsplt filled my hand, then Whir of Invention for Krark's Thumb...

Only played one game with this so far. The game was frustrating, but the end result was pretty great. One of my opponents was playing one of the new precons: "The Hosts of Mordor." He was able to deploy bigger creatures than the rest of us, so the Atraxa player next to him cast Farewell. I lost...

Rosie may be a peasant, but she has a robot army too, somehow. Commander: 1 Rosie Cotton of South Lane 1 Adeline, Resplendent Cathar 1 Ancient Tomb 1 Animation Module 1 Archangel Elspeth 1 Argivian Find 1 Ashnod's Altar 1 Aura of Silence 1 Basri's Lieutenant 1 Brimaz, King of Oreskos 1 Castle...