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Who needs blue to make a deck that steals other players' stuff? Not me. And not Jerrard. Forget five-finger discounts. The closed-fist discount is way more macho. The main gameplan here is to get Willow Satyr and steal a commander that is better than Jerrard. Failing that, I guess I turn stuff...

No luck so far with this one. I had a brainfart or something and misplayed in my first game with this deck. I could have tried to fight through the game after my blunder, but I just conceded and started a second game with a different group. The second game, I had terrible topdecks and the game...

Lion's Eye Diamond and a couple of mana dorks got me above eight mana. I attempted to mutate Biollante for the win, but an opponent saw that coming and stopped me with Counterspell. On my next turn, I topdecked Regrowth and used it to bring back Reanimate, which brought back Razaketh, which...

Withering Wisps continues to impress. Go figure. I managed to ultimate Liliana of the Dark Realms, then topdecked Exsanguinate on the following turn. Despite some disruption, this deck accounted for itself better than I expected. Go, go mono-black!

Taking this one apart. It kept winning, and pretty much always with Opalescence + Parallax Wave shenanigans. I was curious to see whether it could turn the game around after a Bojuka Bog, which would have exiled my Opalescence, but the player targeted the guy with a graveyard full of Shadowborn...

I am attempting to bring my love of Jeskai Ascendancy to EDH. Usually, decks built around this enchantment run green for mana dorks, but the color identity aspect of the rules in EDH makes that cumbersome. So this is a proper Jeskai deck. I realize that Jeskai Ascendancy gets a lot better with...

I was browsing this thread looking for something else, when I was distracted by the Full English Breakfast thing. I thought for a minute that I was being an idiot when I called this a "non-combo inclusion of Karmic Guide." Maybe I still am? I can't see a proper infinite loop here, but I can't...

I've said before that I'm convinced the very first Magic card I saw was Teremko Griffin. It's quite likely that I was shown multiple cards from Mirage on that occasion, but Martin McKenna's striking art with the eagle head in the extreme foreground, the distinctive spotted coat in the middle...

Channeling my innner Mr. Pestilence? I don't know. There'd be a bit more Pestilence if I had found a copy of Thrashing Wumpus. Oops. But this deck did win its first game, and closed things out with, of all cards, Withering Wisps. Seriously.

Scored another win, and again Sunstone came through for me. I got stuck on mana for a long time and should probably have just lost, but the game reached a kind of stalemate between my opponents and none of them really wanted to finish me off. Two out of three of them were piloting...

A little over twenty years ago, I had a casual Hecatomb deck that I called "Fun With Swamps." I really enjoyed the deck, but took it apart and, unfortunately, never got around to putting it back together again. I started building a Pestilence deck for EDH, but it kind of turned into a Hecatomb...

Lost my first game with this one when I had a slow start and no answers to anything. One of my opponents ramped and rushed out a Narset Transcendent, ticked the planeswalker up and used its ultimate, ending the game uneventfully. Second game, I had a slightly better start, but not a great one...

Won another game. It got pretty involved with all players jostling for advantage from different angles. I was playing a pretty defensive role at first, and it worked well enough that I wasn't the main target until it started to become too late. Cards like Rhystic Study and Mother of Runes ate...

This one has done better than expected. Ran out of time in my last game, so technically it was a draw. But I was up against overwhelming board states and I liked my chances. Sunstone would have bought me enough time to mill my opponents out.

All hail Goblin King! Mountainwalk let Warren Instigator get past blockers, which pushed out more goblins. I briefly hit a snag, but Skullclamp on a couple of tokens from Dragon Fodder did the trick. Also, Goblin Sledder saved most of my team from global -3/-3.

This topic is kinda sorta back? I mean, not really, but it has resurfaced in a weird way. I wasn't sure whether to start a new thread or not... It's been two years and no further card were added to the naughty list. In hindsight, I'm not sure why I thought that more would come of this. I mean...

Biollante is a monster that is part Godzilla, part rose, part dead lady. Makes sense, right? Nethroi is a monster that is part cat, part nightmare, and part beast. Somehow, Biollante is also Nethroi. I don't make the rules. There aren't any great commanders for W/B/G Pattern Rector shenanigans...

Since 2019, I've been building a lot of EDH decks. Some of those have had Karmic Guide... Uncle Stephen's Tub-'o-Lard This deck didn't really work out for me anyway, but the idea was that between Sneak Attack, Greater Good, Doomgape, and stuff my opponents would be doing, that I'd be getting...

Played this one once. Initially, Lady Evangela protected me, but I started to fall behind on board position, then someone's Displacement Wave bounced all my enchantments. I ate a couple of attacks while redeploying enchantments and getting Serra's Sanctum to produce more mana again, but saw that...

Wound up in a position where I could probably kill either of two opponents with Guiltfeeder, but the one I didn't attack would kill me to eliminate me as a threat. Splitting the difference got me killed anyway and the game continued for a few turns without me, and of course the player I wasn't...