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The set is not Standard-legal in paper either. It's a Modern-legal set, except for the cards in the "Lords of the Ring Commander" set, which uses a different set symbol, but comes in the same booster packs as the regular set. Those cards are not legal in Modern. You'd think that with "Commander"...

Played this deck twice last night. First game, an opponent blitzed out a Shard of the Void Dragon on an early turn and no one killed it. I quickly lost all of my permanents and was completely shut out of the game. Since I basically didn't get to play at all, I shuffled the deck back up for...

Despite the frustration of my commander getting killed every time I tried to cast it, I was eventually able to assemble a combo with Rings of Brighthearth + Basalt Monolith + Sensei's Divining Top in the same turn that I cast Aetheflux Reservoir. The deck actually felt kind of weak right up...

Getting some echoes of the Gnostro deck again. My opponents left me alive for a long time, and I really just couldn't pull together a powerful board state. I had Crystalline Crawler out with tons of counters, and I was able to get Jeskai Ascendancy to dig for more tools. Eventually, I got both...

I don't think I've said so yet, and I've only ever run the card in two decks so far, but Prosperous Partnership is becoming one of my all-time favorite cards. Despite getting a bit manascrewed, I had enough for this baby, which kept me in the game. My opponents gave me an opening and I used...

So for fetching lands from my library, this deck runs Thawing Glaciers, Harrow, Roiling Regrowth, and Into the North. Usually, finding lands isn't a problem. In my most recent game, what happened was that I had an opening hand with two islands, Faceless Haven, and Dark Depths. I had mostly green...

Lost a miserable game with this deck after being completely color-screwed. I was eventually able to use Ascendant Spirit to draw multiple cards and finally get a Snow-Covered Forest on top of my library, which let me cast Harrow But by the time I had access to the colors of mana needed to play...

Since this deck is 100% unmodified, it doesn't really cost me anything to bring it with me. Well, there's the space it takes up, but that's about it. Still, not sure how long I'll keep going with it. I won my game last night, but it was a slog. My opponents weren't able to kill Sisay, and that...

After getting trampled to death, I switched in this deck so that I could return the favor. The same opponent whose creatures stomped me in my previous game was able to slow me down by a turn with Fire Prophecy on Nissa. But then he went shields down and my lands attacked for the win. Going to...

Lost a frustrating game with this one. Opening hand had two mountains an Jeweled Lotus, so I knew that I'd have my commander online quickly. Then I kept failing to draw more lands, so I fell way behind. Eventually, I was able to disrupt my opponents, but it wasn't enough. If my topdecks had been...

I thought they did one of their "Secret Lair" things for this, but it turns out that I was thinking of last year.

Funny. But Richard Garfield didn't have any kids yet at the time he created the five-color system for Magic. He actually had cards made for the births of his children.

:ROFLMAO: Yeah, the lack of communication options is infuriating.

So, at least in part, this is a rant about MTG Arena. I have my own gripes with the platform, and I sympathize there. Monastery Swiftspear. In the right context, at least, there's a valid purpose behind publishing that data. This is a bit of a tangent, but I've been a longtime follower of...

Victory! I tried this deck out again. Got off to a slow start and eventually just used Ondu Inversion because everyone else was so far ahead of me. Built back from it, then set up Sisay alongside Kinnan and was able to fetch Esika. This causes the deck to operate pretty explosively. The card...

Well, I had Mystical Tutor, but I blew it messing around. I never topdecked a single way to get card advantage, so I sat on Dueling Grounds + Sandwurm Convergence. This kept me safe from combat, but the same Themberchaud deck that wrecked my Kasla deck last week used direct damage to finish me...

I've noticed that some people really dislike this deck, or more specifically O&Z as commanders. With that and my desire to test me newer decks, I've been leaving this in the bottom of my bag, bringing it to the LGS every week but never playing it anymore. Well, I broke it back out tonight...

Well, I need to get some more games in with this one. Haven't gotten much chance to test out the changes except Springleaf Drum, which is great here. Lost my most recent game trying to spread pressure across all three opponents, but I should have known to take out the Gix player before it was...

2020 didn't bring many new goblins, but it did introduce two of the most interesting new tools in a long time. The first is something of a build-around that quickly rose to prominence in Legacy, but has since mostly fallen out of favor. The second is easily the best top-end card for goblins...

I've got to take some time to give some recognition to Pashalik Mons, which has become one of my favorite goblins. As a 2/2 for 2R that doesn't boost the power of goblins or anything, Pashalik Mons doesn't really fit the profile for an aggro contributor to the Goblins archetype. But the...