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My Halloween deck themes have probably been hit-or-miss, but this one was a deliberate reference that now seems a bit awkward. To understand the reference, understand that my family, for reasons I still don't understand myself, had a planned pirate-themed party for Halloween of this year. Also...

Eventually, Al0ysius retired his ProsBloom deck. However, Squandered Resources kept coming back in his other decks, and it's a card I always associate with him. I didn't think to save those decklists, but there was some variety. At first, it was always the Squandered Resources + Natural Balance...

After initially getting into the Pokemon TCG, my friend Nick saw me playing Magic in junior high and started playing the game in 1999, around the release of Mercadian Masques. Nick used variations on "Aloysius the Hun" as callsigns online, and was once a member here at the CPA under the name...

I believe that the very first time I saw a Magic card, it was Teremko Griffin from Mirage, at some point in early 1997. I was visiting a small game store a mile and a half from my house, looking for figures for Warhammer Quest. Martin McKenna's art drew me in, but it was the layout of the cards...

Well, I piloted this deck against an extremely explosive Norman Osborn deck, but I was way outgunned. He copied Worst Fears on all three of his opponents. To deal with me, he made me use my own Inventors' Fair to find Krark-Clan Ironworks, then sacrificed my whole board to it.

So yeah, this pile is possibly kind of bad. But you know what's good? Icetill Explorer. Someone eventually picked it off with a direct damage effect, but by then, the card had generated so much value that I turned a losing game into a winning one.

OK, I finally won a game with an infinite combo using this deck. I had a long, pitched battle with this deck. Eventually, I drew enough cards to assemble Goblin Bombardment + Sun Titan + Fiend Hunter for the win.

Well, this deck somehow won another game! I had a slow start and tried to build a board presence, but Farewell set me back. I managed to get Leprechaun/Ward on the table, but it was immediately exiled by an Unidentified Hovership. So then I went scorched earth with Cyclone, and my two remaining...

I still haven't taken this deck apart? Wow, this year went off the rails for my EDH gameplay. Anywway, this deck "won" another game. Well, really I was kind of stuck and was the weakest deck at the table for a while, but I managed to Mana Drain an eight-drop spell and cast Tidespout Tyrant, then...

This evening, I played this deck for the first time. I was actually going to drive to a different LGS yesterday, but had a train delay and was unpacking from vacation anyway, so I skipped that one. I topdecked Mishra's Workshop on my first turn, so I started strong with my commander right away...

This still hasn't come up here? Yikes, maybe the CPA really is dead. There are 34 spider heroes in the new set. Of course, some of them probably do not qualify as Spiderman. For instance, one of them is a cat. Cats cannot be Spiderman. Also, several of them are girls, but maybe girls can be...

I try to build some EDH deck with a commander for each new set that comes out. That's it. That's the reason I'm doing this. This Spider-Man set is underwhelming, but I saw the potential to use a bunch of the cards I'd already used a lot in my Omarthis deck. So now Omarthis goes in the maindeck...

My final game for this week saw this deck in another hard-fought battle that it eventually lost. One of the players in the pod has a cool Pharika deck that I've played against before. But he had Tortured Existence and Faerie Macabre, which he could keep holding up to stop me from doing most of...

I played this deck on Wednesday night. One of my opponents developed an explosive, dominant board state. I managed to hit him with Evacuation into Wheel and Deal, but he had so many more lands than the rest of us at that point that it only slowed him down a little bit. This became an archenemy...

I threw this deck together on Tuesday, but didn't have time to cut it down to exactly 100 cards until Wednesday evening. Showed up to the game store and tried it out. I did get to do Manabond + Life from the Loam for one turn, but the Sergeant John Benton deck that was running rampant drawing...

Instead of putting my Torsten deck back together, I built a weaker Life from the Loam deck and threw in some of the new Edge of Eternities cards. Commander: 1 Kei Takahashi 1 Abdel Adrian, Gorion's Ward 1 Abundance 1 Academy Rector 1 Aftermath Analyst 1 Ancient Tomb 1 Arid Mesa 1 Azusa, Lost...

It had been a while since I played this deck. Had a pretty good game with it last night, but my two opponents independently took game actions that synergized to shut me down multiple times, and pretty plausibly with no coordination between them or understanding just how screwed I was. It was...

Another win for this deck. I narrowly avoided being hit by Bolas's Citadel for lethal life loss. Pumped up my commander and cleared away blockers for the win.

Seeing a pregame action Leyline of the Void, I figured that I had an uphill battle for this deck last night. But I was able to put Embercleave on a Goblin Piledriver and no one killed it, so I won with good, old-fashioned goblin beatdown.

I played this deck in a rather long game last night. It was fun. I got to cast a pretty good Storm of Souls, among other things. I was, somewhat, the victim of threat assessment here. After Clive transformed, I picked an opponent to swing in on with my 9/9. The Giada deck had gained a lot of...