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Well, I played this deck multiple times on Friday. I know that I ran it for my first game of the day and for my last, and I think there were a couple more in there as well. I wanted to get data. Mostly, I think the deck is fine, but it was badly outmatched by the high-powered crap at that LGS...

And the thunderhead is back! I had time to build one last EDH deck for 2024. Commander: 1 Pashalik Mons 1 Aether Vial 1 Ashnod's Altar 1 Basilisk Collar 1 Beetleback Chief 1 Bloodstained Mire 1 Braid of Fire 1 Cavern of Souls 1 Chaos Warp 1 City on Fire 1 Conspicuous Snoop 1 Dark-Dweller...

It's time for the five-year retrospective on my "Elk Need Not Apply" article. I've gone back and reread the article a couple of times, in anticipation of this five-year anniversary. While I didn't think that I could predict what the game would look like in five years, and never pretended that I...

This deck was a turn or so too slow against a Vorel "Hydras" deck that never drew a single hydra. It was a bit of a joke between us. The player's deck totally popped off and he eventually had Willbreaker (his copy was Russian and when I asked about it he was mistakenly calling it "Willbender"...

Played this deck yesterday. After some typical back-and-forth, I set up my commander as a blocker and worked to mill myself. I did the full combo with Dance of the Manse bringing back Parallax Wave, Parallax Tide, Parallax Nexus, Mirrormade (copying Parallax Wave), Opalescence, and Attunement...

The reason that I pulled this deck out yesterday was actually that someone was asking me before the game started if we could make it a quick game. His friend was working at the game store and he wanted him to have time for his lunch break or something along those lines. I said that I didn't...

I honestly can't remember much about yesterday's game with this deck. I used Eriette 1.0 to protect myself a lot and eventually lost the game, but I forget what even killed me. Probably just superior creatures.

Played this deck yesterday. Got run over by slivers. Oh well.

I did get to play this deck again before Christmas Day. Unfortunately, it was only a three-player pod. One of the players kind of dominated with his Toralf deck, and the other player never really had anything to deal with that. If I'd had better topdecks, then I might have been able to turn this...

After having this deck lose pretty quickly in its first outing, I was hoping to try it a bit more before giving it to my brother. Well, the results are in, and this deck slaughtered everything over the course of three different games. Crucially, no one had removal to point at Imodane in these...

This deck continues racking up wins. I brought it out for the final game of Wednesday night. Apparently I'd been told "No board wipes" by the manager at the LGS, but I never heard that! One of my opponents had Forced Fruition and was digging for an Underworld Dreams effect to kill the rest of...

I designed this deck a week ago, and got the final pieces of it together on Wednesday evening. Christmas is next week, so I have some time to test it out before passing it to its rightful owner. I wanted to be sure that it packed as much of a punch as I thought it could. Don't want to give me...

I played this deck for my first game on Wednesday evening. Unfortunately, I got a bit manascrewed. It was really only Bucknard's Everfull Purse that kept me in the game at all. And even that came at the price of accelerating a couple of dangerous opponents. I used Enlightened Tutor to grab...

2024 has been the year of me revisiting my EDH decks from prior years. I try to do a Christmas theme deck every year. So this time around, I'm revisiting my Zedruu deck from Christmas of 2022. Commander: 1 Zedruu the Greathearted 1 Alexios, Deimos of Kosmos 1 Arbiter of Knollridge 1 Arcane...

I built this deck for my brother as a Christmas gift. Commander: 1 Imodane, the Pyrohammer 1 Abrade 1 Ashling, Flame Dancer 1 Blazing Sunsteel 1 Bonus Round 1 Brash Taunter 1 Chain Lightning 1 Chaos Warp 1 Chrome Mox 1 Conspiracy Theorist 1 Demand Answers 1 Desperate Ritual 1 Dictate of the...

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Well, I played this deck for my final game today. Initially, the problem I was facing was Gisa, Glorious Resurrector. Because Gisa replaces Omarthis dying, I couldn't get a death trigger from my commander. I was digging for an answer to that, but someone else at the table dealt with it before...

Despite a slightly sluggish start, I was able to hold off some attacks while milling myself with Sage of Mysteries, then with Overlord of the Balemurk. I was able to cast my commander for X=3 on the following turn, then set up a huge Replenish on the turn after that. Although I didn't get an...

Played this deck today. Got a bit stuck. Should probably have sequenced differently, but I don't think it was going to matter. I got outscaled pretty hard. Thought I was going to die to dragons, but then another player killed me suddenly in one shot.