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-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...

Well, that's it for this deck. I tried. I really did. In my final game, I couldn't seem to find lands that weren't basic Islands, and had to resort to Lion's Eye Diamond into Timetwister into praying for a red source just to cast Gnostro in the first place. And then I just sort of expended my...

Without actually thinking about it, I've covered several cards in the Magic Memories series that have been dramatically affected in their history by power level errata and rules changes. It dawns on me because this was such a big deal for Karmic Guide, and kind of ruined the card for what should...

Jacques le Vert has one of the most relevant abilities among all the original legendary creatures. Is it worth building around that ability? Probably not, but I'm doing so anyway. Commander: 1 Jacques le Vert 1 Abundance 1 Academy Rector 1 Arid Mesa 1 Aura of Silence 1 Aura Shards 1 Bala Ged...

I knew that I"d already talked about my old "Kerosene" deck! Found it in the Necropotence thread... I actually looked for that piece of green paper and, alas, couldn't locate it. I still think that it's the sort of thing I would not have thrown away, but perhaps I did decide to purge it at...

Only played this one once. Got off to a slow start with nothing promising that I could steal, while the opponent that had zero creatures the whole time got an engine going and won the game with Approach of the Second Sun. My contribution was essentially nothing here. I didn't have the heart to...

Dejection. This deck is something like 0 for 6 now. Every game I either get slaughtered or have a stressful time trying to get some kind of engine going. I thought that this deck would be fun, and it really seems like all the pieces should be there for that to be possible. But they never line...

It hasn't been 100% glorious, but this deck has had more than its fair share of awesome performances. I think this will be the next deck I take apart, so that I can make room for something new. But yeah, it's been a blast.