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Fourth turn kill. :P I went first turn Tranquil Thicket, then second turn Gaea's Touch. Third turn I cast my commander, but no one killed it or put any other obstacles in my way. They were still focused on building their own board states, laboring under the delusion that they'd have time...

This deck didn't really get a fair shake because it and the rest of the table got pubstomped by a high-power blue deck. I guy who built that deck often plays with unmodified precons, and I guess it didn't register for him that I was piloting one here, even though I told him so. Oh well. Better...

I bought this precon and now I'm going to play it. This is the first time in several years that I'll be playing an unmodified precon. Might make my own revisions over time. We'll see. It seems that Esika is the default commander, but Sisay is the better option, so I put Esika in the maindeck...

2018 introduced some cool utility options for goblins, but the standout of the bunch was always Goblin Chainwhirler. It's not the most explosive aggressive option, doesn't get discounted by Goblin Warchief, and it doesn't combo off, but it's great against some opponents. It still sees use today...

-1 Timeless Witness -1 Abundance -1 Manabond -1 Sylvan Library -1 Conduit of Worlds -1 Beast Within -1 Gaea's Blessing -1 Life from the Loam -1 Regrowth +1 Blinkmoth Nexus +2 Forest +2 Snow-Covered Forest +1 Thicket Elemental +1 Gaea's Touch +1 Desert Twister +1 Rude Awakening

I tried this deck out and pretty quickly realized two things. Cultivator Colossus is not an elemental. I'd gotten it mixed up with Endurance in my head at some point and didn't think to check the card's subtypes until I was in an actual game. Oops. This makes me look pretty foolish, but is...

Let's move on to the sixth and final chapter I've made up to describe the history of goblins. The fifth chapter covered some important developments, but was something of a letdown when compared to the glory of the fourth chapter. And the drag was long-term. I placed the fourth chapter between...

I was just starting another post in this thread when it occurred to me that I should talk about CPA Tribal Game 15. It's something easy for me to look up because it happened here, and it was around the same time as some of the other events I've described. The era I'm calling the "fifth chapter"...

I don't do gimmick decks often enough anymore. So here's one! The whole gameplan here is to use some sort of fetchland to trigger landfall twice in the same turn, which should guarantee that my commander can find Thicket Elemental, which gets kicked and finds Cultivator Colossus. From there, I...

Played two games with this deck. Um, things got pretty weird. First game, I had an opening hand that I thought looked pretty promising. I had Jeskai Ascendancy, but needed to get a few lands and creatures down first before trying to use the Ascendancy engine. Worked on sculpting my hand and...

Out of all my decks in 2022, the Jeskai Ascendancy deck helmed by Gnostro, Voice of the Crags turned out to be my most dismal failure. In 2023, one of the new precons has helpfully provided a new spin on what already failed for me last year. Apparently I'm a glutton for punishment. We'll see how...

Won my most recent game with this deck, but I really should not have. With a lot of stuff going on and making plays I didn't normally resort to, I mistakenly targeted Spirit of the Night with the -3 on Liliana of the Dark Realms. Shouldn't be possible because Spirit of the Night has protection...

Won a tense game by fetching Hellkite Tyrant and copying it with Flameshadow Conjuring. I had 1 gold token, 18 treasure tokens, and Lightning Greaves, so my artifact count was just enough to win me the game, and the one player who could deal direct damage to a creature couldn't kill both...

Won another game, with my opponents collectively agreeing to concede. Although I like this deck, has the problem that once it gets going, it takes over games with progressively longer and more complicated turns. So it's a success story, but one that I should probably bring to a close. I was...

Fittingly, I used all three of the new inclusions tonight over the course of a single game. I held off two opponents that both had impressive creature armies, using Peacekeeper, Maze of Ith, and Dueling Grounds to protect myself. Ultimately, it came down to me against a single opponent with a...

I already stated that I felt like I worked too hard last year to build a new deck every week, and had no interest in repeating that performance. Well, I think I've kept up a pretty good pace so far of building new decks and revising existing ones. After some testing and organization, I've...

High Market is so good here! Why didn't I think of it earlier? My opponents slowed me down a bit with removal on stuff that scared them, such as Field of the Dead and Crucible of Worlds. They didn't get rid of my Skullclamp or my Parallel Lives, which meant that High Market on Torsten generated...

Well, this deck won again. It was pretty lackluster too. I think that any of my three opponents could have picked me off if they had felt safe doing so. I was able to keep stalling for time and transformed my commander on what was already going to be my last turn of the game before I was killed...

I think that the new changes are probably improvements, but my most recent game went poorly. One opponent had Dissipation Field, so attacking him with my rebel tokens would have been bad for me. Another player had a deck that immediately dished out substantial commander damage against me with...

Got manascrewed and fell behind when I tried this deck last night. That's always a risk when playing with a mana curve like this one.