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I don't know what's going on, but I've scarcely ever seen so many opening hands full of lands. This deck has utterly failed to function, and wasn't really granted much time to stabilize on account of every table I'm playing at having some racecar maniac high-power decks that want to end the game...

Got a lousy start with this deck and ended up hardcasting Golgari Grave-Troll (with zero creatures in my graveyard) just to start dredging and find some way to build toward a win once I had the mana for it. Before I got another turn, one of my opponents cast Mari, the Killing Quill. He was...

Taking this one apart. I had some fun with it, but the chief problem was that I simply never found any tables at a suitably low power level for this deck to make sense. My opponents could quickly and easily build board states that this deck was never designed to compete with. On the one hand...

As I mentioned earlier in this thread, the power-level erratum on Phyrexian Dreadnought was rescinded in July of 2007. Stifle, which had originally been printed well after the erratum was established, would from then on function as a Dreadnought enabler. In addition to being half the mana cost...

Now that I bother to look at it, this wasn't the best picture. But here's my copy #4 of Illusionary Mask. The others are in much, much better condition...

When I built my first Rohgahh deck in January of 2022, I did not anticipate that I'd be running a Kobolds deck again within the same year, let alone another Rohgahh deck. Well, WotC gave us a new version of Rohgahh, so now we're doing this. We're making this happen. Both decks are running a...

I should address a point of embarrassment for myself here. Over the years, I've written a lot about the Legacy ban list. Much of that was here at the CPA, but not all of it. Ever since Legacy was created in 2004, I've been consistent about some things. I called for Land Tax unban from the start...

No luck the first time around with this deck. I was manascrewed and one of my opponents was running a Yuriko deck, so I died uneventfully. Second game was closer, and there was even some potential for me to win it all, but I forsook winning in favor of casting All Hallows Eve. Things were still...

Played this deck a second time. Got off to a bad start and was forced to blow Intuition in turn 3 just to find a Mountain. Fell behind and couldn't really do much. On my last possible turn before another player was about to win, I got enough mana to cast Time Stretch. From there, Myra took over...

Night Soil for the win! Such a good card. This time, it ended up being the missing piece to make Fecundity + Ashnod's Altar explosive, which then won me the game.

It's high time I address the Legacy format with this one. The MaskNought archetype came into existence in 2002 and became firmly entrenched as part of the Vintage metagame in 2003. Noting the timing though, Legacy didn't exist as a format until September of 2004. Of course, Legacy replaced the...

I was going to talk about Phyrexian Dreadnought in Legacy, but before I move on, I should make a more substantial note on the archetype generally known as "Vengeur Masque." It was an important deck in the tournament metagame in its day and it paved the way for some later developments. A bit...

Last year's Halloween deck didn't have enough blood in it. This one is way bloodier. So very much blood. Commander: 1 Extus, Oriq Overlord 1 Abyssal Gatekeeper 1 All Hallow's Eve 1 Angel of Despair 1 Anguished Unmaking 1 Arid Mesa 1 Ashnod's Altar 1 Aura of Silence 1 Avatar of Woe 1 Badlands 1...

-1 Body Snatcher +1 Activated Sleeper Body Snatcher is a classic backup option used in Protean Hulk loops. If a key creature is stuck in your hand and you don't have a discard outlet, just grab Body Snatcher instead, then sacrifice it and get the creature from your hand. I believe that this...

-1 Flayed One +1 Pili-Pala Another upgrade because I picked up a card I had wanted to run, but didn't previously own a copy of. This should be the last one. Probably. Deck is done for real now.

Yikes, this commander is kind of scary. I mean, I built the deck because attractions are wacky, but I knew that within the randomness, there was inherently some substantial power baked in. Well, if my one game is enough to go on, this deck is obnoxious and can easily take over the table if left...

Success! Kept and opening hand with Serra Ascendant, which gave me early board presence and some life. I had Command Tower as my only green source at first, but Life from the Loam turned that around. One opponent was building a deadly board state, and the rest of us had to work together to hold...

Back in 2003, Al0ysiusHWWW was able to spend a lot more money on Magic cards than I could. But Illusionary Mask was a bit much for his budget. He picked up three copies, but didn't have a fourth to complete his playset. So his first MaskNought decks all only had three copies of Illusionary Mask...

In this thread, there was a bit of discussion about MaskNought, both when the thread was new and last year, after I thread-necromancied it. That magazine was my first exposure to the idea of a MaskNought deck, and served the same purpose for a lot of others too. I believe that the price on...

Mostly, I just want to visit attractions. Commander: 1 Myra the Magnificent 1 Academy Ruins 1 Arcane Signet 1 Bamboozling Beeble 1 Barbarian Class 1 Birgi, God of Storytelling 1 Brainstorm 1 Capture of Jingzhou 1 Chaos Warp 1 Clock of Omens 1 Command Performance 1 Copy Artifact 1 Cyclonic Rift...