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After getting trounced by high-power decks while trying to use my Legends legends, I played at the same table. The apparent consensus was that the big guns had been deployed and that it would be fun to play a more casual game. One of the players ended up leaving for the evening and a new one...

Played this deck last night. Ledger Shredder put in work, but one of my opponents popped off and slaughtered the whole table pretty quickly with Craterhoof Behemoth. I am running up against a lot of high-power stuff lately.

Well, this deck's first game was awkward. I kept a two-land hand and stalled out, discarding Fallen Angel to hand size. The next player used Reanimate on my Fallen Angel so that he could use the sacrifice ability as a combo tool. He popped off, but so did one of the other players at the table...

When I considered Tor Wauki as a commander option, it occurred to me that Repercussion might work well with that ability. So I built a Repercussion deck. Commander: 1 Tor Wauki 1 Akroan Horse 1 Arid Mesa 1 Ashnod's Altar 1 Atsushi, the Blazing Sky 1 Badlands 1 Black Market 1 Blasphemous Act 1...

I played this deck yesterday in a game that I'm counting as a win. And it's my count that matters here! :P Alright, so the clear dominant threat at the table was a Sliver Tribal deck (helmed by Sliver Queen). I shut that player down by using Bazaar Trader to give him a Grid Monitor. The other...

I threw this deck together on Tuesday night, then played it twice on Wednesday and once yesterday. Yikes, it's bad. I will need to exercise some patience in finding a game where this deck is actually appropriate, because the power level of most casual pods these days is just too high for it. I'd...

OK, Witch Enchanter is in here officially. This deck racked up another win. Under the threat of angel beatdown by a Giada deck, I used recursion on Kami of False Hope, then reset the board with Cast Off (the adventure mode of Realm-Cloaked Giant). I realized that I should have sequenced things...

Got stuck waiting on Wednesday night after being eliminated (or something) in my first game. No pods were opening up and I was left sitting by myself for quite a while. Eventually another player joined me and we played 1-on-1. Even though I never found a third land, Searslicer Goblin just kept...

I am on a mission to complete my checklist of EDH decks helmed by every one of the original 55 Legends legends before the end of 2025. I'd already covered most of them starting in 2019, but this is the year that I complete the project. Up first is a deck that I've been procrastinating on for a...

This was the deck I played for the final game of last night. It ended up stealing victory from the jaws of defeat. I kept a one-land opening hand, but with Sol Ring and Voltaic Key, I was soon turning The Mycosynth Gardens into another Sol Ring. Then I drew Thran Dynamo and Grim Monolith. So...

This deck actually won a game! How? Well, one of my opponents was totaly manascrewed and the other as playing a five-color deck and got colorscrewed. My goblins wasted no time attacking both.

Played this deck last night. I hit a third-turn Show and Tell on Sire of Seven Deaths. Later, one of my opponents copied it, but made his bigger (I forget which card he used), then another opponent copied that. I got stuck and kept whiffing on cascade/discover effects. By the time I died, I had...

My second deck updated for 2025, kind of... -1 Gaea's Blessing -1 Restoration Angel +1 Six +1 Witch Enchanter Gaea's Blessing has some nice uses. I like the card, but it's a liability for Life from the Loam. I decided that the general utility isn't worth that liability and the "it can save my...

I played this deck twice on Friday, but it was pretty uneventful. First game the whole table got slaughtered by a high-powered Winota deck. Second game one of my opponents used Descent into Avernus, which let me ramp early into a big Selvala's Stampede and attack everyone for a bunch of damage...

I might get to play some EDH tomorrow. So even though I won't have any new decks for 2025 ready yet, I can make some minor revisions to this one as my first EDH-related thing for the year. I've really come to love the card Harrow in this format, and I'm loathe to cut it, but minimizing the...

My thoughts for 2025... One thing I'm really happy with was that I retained some aspects of my focus/theme from each year I've done this. I dropped the extreme pace of deckbuilding that I used in 2022, but still kept churning out a lot of decks every year since then. I didn't go back and revise...

And here are the "top ten" lists. As always, because there's no way to break a tie, we keep going if a tie takes us above ten. So some lists might be exactly ten cards, but others might be longer. For instance, we can't get a top 10 for non-land artifacts going to cards that I used 6 times this...

Welcome to my sixth annual article in this series. I had at some point gotten the idea into my head that this would be the fifth one because there was a five-year anniversary for a 2019 event at work, but thinking about it exposes the flaw in that thinking. These reports have been for complete...

I played in an "Oops, all Maelstrom Wanderers!" pod. It took two of us working together to stop a third player from being able to loop Temporal Manipulation for infinite turns. Then once the turn got passed back to me I was able to win the game with Terror of the Peaks triggers.

Tried this deck out on Friday. It got manascrewed.