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Oh, I'll definitely have more offerings in the near future. I've been getting into cEDH and some of the archetypes well-known to players in that environment, including some highly successful ones, do some pretty strange things. Haven't gotten around to presenting them in this thread, but it's...

Valeron Wardens, done. Spidey: 6 Hand: 1 Library: 43 Battlefield: (T,T,U) Forest x3 (T,T,U) Plains x3 Pacifism (Enchanted creature can't attack or block) Pacifism (Enchanted creature can't attack or block) (U) War Oracle (3/3; Lifelink; Renown 1) *Pacified* (S) Kytheon's Irregulars (4/3...

Even though my introduction to Smokestack was a green deck and even though I've built green Smokestack decks myself, I think green might be the least popular support color for this card. Well, if green isn't the best color to use with Smokestack, it definitely wins the prize for most...

Generally, red misses out on a lot of the really potent options available to other colors for Smokestack synergies. However, red does get the elephant in the room, the card that made Smokestack famous: Goblin Welder. These days, every possible color combination and almost every overarching...

Nothing else from me in combat. Castellan dies, you take 6, I gain 4, Troll becomes renowned and I draw a card?

Pump Castellan with Anointer of Champions. Anything else?

It's been a long time, but I did use Smoketack in a monoblack deck when I was young. I can't remember the details and it was probably bad, but I had fun. All colors offer some unique things, but black is kind of special because it's the best color to use to make people sacrifice things, and...

Bah, I'd been meaning to get to this earlier. OK, before I post an updated diagram, we've got Throg at A2, Dorgath at B11, Carrow at A1, Ty at A4, Kelgar at A10, Tomas at A8, and Jekaena at A6. Correct? Meanwhile, Revaethan will be trying to cross. Where will he be attempting his crossing?

UUD, Forest, attack with War Oracle, Citadel Castellan, and Undercity Troll. Blocks/responses?

I pulled out Mana Crypt, Mana Vault, and Sol Ring to put them in the Chain Veil Teferi deck, but the rest of this is still all together. Since the bonus point for having a War of the Spark commander other than Niv-Mizzet is happening for real next time, I figure I might as well return to this...

Well, this could have gone better and could also have gone worse? I'm OK with it. First game, I probably had the means to go off on my fourth turn and could easily have gone off on my fifth turn, but I needed to wait until my seventh turn to avoid being penalized. So on my sixth turn, I tapped...

Blue is the strongest color in Magic. And with so many oddball tricks, it's bound to have some that are good with Smokestack. In recent years, blue might be the least-used color I've seen alongside Smokestack. But it was a blue/red deck that made the card famous. Owing to the presence of a...

For fun, I'm going to try to tell you why each color is the best one for Smokestack. Let's start with white... Without even thinking about it, I decided to start with white first because it's the first color in WUBRG order, so it just made sense. Organizing my thoughts, I almost wished I'd...

Recently I used Smokestack in EDH and had considerable trouble finding my copies of the card (the contents of the box they'd been in, which had remnants of some Vintage decks I'd been playing with, became hidden in the middle of some Eternal Masters cards when I packed up to move into my new...

Things were very different 20 years ago. I couldn't afford to buy many cards and didn't learn about most of the cards in a set until I happened to play against them. But I remember exactly where I first encountered Smokestack, because it was in Scrye magazine. Omeed Dariani (who seems to have...

If you really want a card to slow opponents down, keep them from being able to do what they want to do, and make them cry, then there's one iconic card that really stands out, perhaps the most unique card in the "prison" or "lockdown" category... Bask in the brown glory that is Smokestack...

Yikes. Well, second main I'll play a Forest and Undercity Troll. Done. Spidey: 12 Hand: 1 Library: 44 Battlefield: (T,T,U) Forest x3 (T,T,U) Plains x3 Pacifism (Enchanted creature can't attack or block) Pacifism (Enchanted creature can't attack or block) (S) War Oracle (3/3; Lifelink...

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It occurs to me that most people here will probably be unfamiliar with the basic premise of Chain Veil Teferi, and it's pretty bizarre, so I should explain. Looking at at list like this, it's obvious that there's a lot of powerful blue control cards and acceleration, but it might not be...

This is my next deck for the West Coast Commander League. As detailed in the thread for my previous deck in this league (The End of Eternity), there's a new rotating weekly point for specifically casting the new Niv-Mizzet as one's commander, and I won't be going for that point. So I've...