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Should have won my last game with this one. I hit Time Warp and used Mystic Sanctuary to put Temporal Manipulation on top of my library, cast Timetwister after taking an extra turn and setting up another, used Sheoldred to burn my opponents up with further draw spells, and finally used Wheel of...

Sadly, this one really hasn't ever had a chance to do much of anything. My opponents are popping off and I'm still putting a second spore counter on Sporesower Thallid. Like, once I get that third counter, look out! I really don't think that this deck should be that bad, but it sure has had bad...

Yeah, Tobias is never going to be the most popular of the Legends Retold. But I had an idea for this deck and it's an excuse to run Iridescent Drake, so here we are. Basically, my commander is a worse version of Caller of the Claw, but in Azorius colors. I've got plenty of sac outlets and...

The Riddler (Eric Miller, January 2005) 1 Karn, Silver Golem 1 Platinum Angel 1 Sundering Titan 1 Triskelion 2 Juggernaut 4 Phyrexian Dreadnought 1 Ancestral Recall 1 Enlightened Tutor 1 Hurkyl's Recall 1 Mystical Tutor 1 Vampiric Tutor 1 Balance 1 Demonic Tutor 1 Time Walk 1 Timetwister 1...

Tainted Mask (Chris Flaaten, November 2002) 4 Illusionary Mask 4 Phyrexian Dreadnought 3 Phyrexian Negator 2 Hypnotic Specter 4 Duress 2 Unmask 1 Hymn to Tourach 1 Mind Twist 1 Ancestral Recall 1 Time Walk 1 Necropotence 1 Yawgmoth’s Will 1 Demonic Tutor 1 Demonic Consultation 1 Vampiric Tutor 4...

The MaskNought combo has generally fallen by the wayside, in part due to power creep. But in its heyday, Illusionary Mask was an infamously powerful card that shifted the balance of power in multiple formats. MaskNought decks ran rampant in Vintage and warped the old Type 1.5 environment enough...

I wanted to build a deck themed around spore counters. There aren't that many cards that use spore counters, but they do have a commander. Because this was bound to be a black/green deck and I lack imagination, I also went with a Loam package. Still, I think this one could be fun and it is my...

-1 Acquisitions Expert +1 Tajuru Paragon I finally picked up a copy of Tajuru Paragon, the last card that was supposed to be in this deck from the beginning, but which I couldn't find. Had to cut something else. Despite thematic appropriateness, Acquisitions Expert just isn't very good here. So...

For a deck that actually runs things like Craw Wurm and Ironroot Treefolk, this deck holds up reasonably well. The new Jasmine Boreal's abilities turn mediocre creatures into real threats. I could easily have tuned this list better, but the chance to run so many old school vanilla creatures was...

I won an unlikely game with this deck and it was glorious. I was up against two stronger decks (one helmed by the new Jodah and one helmed by Arahbo) and a Unicorn-themed deck (helmed by Emiel the Blessed). The two of us with weaker decks stalled out (I was colorscrewed). The Jodah deck kept...

Played this one some more. Waffling on whether to keep it around longer. The deck performs nicely and does the sort of thing I had been wanting to do. Won my last game despite being manascrewed and getting my Carpet of Flowers blown up by targeted removal because I was able to use Viscera Seer...

Abilities. Who needs 'em? Not my maindeck creatures, that's for sure. Commander 1 Jasmine Boreal of the Seven 1 Abundance 1 Anointed Procession 1 Arid Mesa 1 Ashnod's Altar 1 Aura of Silence 1 Bala Ged Recovery 1 Barbary Apes 1 Beast Within 1 Boseiju, Who Endures 1 Craw Wurm 1 Crop Rotation 1...

New list for this seems fun. First game, I was short on lands, but had Sol Ring and Mox Opal, so I hoped to topdeck one more artifact and have metalcraft, which would enable me to cast almost anything I needed. This plan went awry when one player used Plundering Barbarian to destroy my Sol Ring...

Well, I won a game with this deck. It was a weird one. The player with the Liesa, Shroud of Dusk deck built up an army of lifelinking attackers and was gaining plenty of life while depleting everyone else's life totals. He couldn't close the game out because this board state impelled an alliance...

After about six months, I finally won a game with this deck. It was actually pretty close, and I was down to 9 life when I finished off my last opponent.

At long last, I've built a good version of the Gwendlyn Di Corci I built for the West Coast Commander League back in 2019. The core idea is the same here. Cards like Wheel of Fortune, Anvil of Bogardan, and my commander can keep giving me triggers on Waste Not and Geth's Grimoire. Draw more...

I mentioned that Al0ysiusHWWW had copies of Phyrexian Dreadnought. He was a fan of the card, but the power-level erratum made it really tricky to use. He experimented with different approaches in our casual games when we were in high school. These attempts were pretty short-lived, and no real...

I talked about the "Full English Breakfast" archetype in both the Karmic Guide thread and the Survival of the Fittest thread. So I'm coming back to it again, but I might as well be brief. No need to rehash everything. The defining feature of the archetype is the combination of Volrath's...

This one did surprisingly well for itself, albeit not nearly enough to actually stand a chance in the environment where I was playing.

After a few more tries, this deck still has yet to survive long enough for any of my opponents to figure out what my deck's theme is. I knew that I was building jank, and I can understand that maybe in some games I just get killed, but it's been pretty brutal. I've been really trying to commit...