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I played this deck for the final game of last night. Manifested some cards but couldn't get Omarthis to be particularly big, and I fell behind. The player that was winning used The Great Aurora, which weakened my mana production some more. But then he tried to use Shaman of the Forgotten Ways to...

Even though I thought that this deck was probably a bit too weak for the table I was at, I had just won two games, so I figured I'd bring in Barrin. The deck performed remarkably well, overcoming a few attempts to undermine my board state or hurt me. Eventually, I was able to use Extraplanar...

I played this deck early enough that I knew I'd have time to lose. But the board state got stalled a couple of times. My auras didn't put in much work for a while, but I was lucky enough to set up a combo with Boonweaver Giant + False Demise + Altar of Dementia to mill my opponents out.

I'm liking these latest changes and I think that this deck is now in the best spot its ever been. Did some testing. While it's gimmicky as ever, it can be pretty deadly, and sometimes earlier than one might think. Last night, I hit a third-turn Show and Tell into Savage Ventmaw, which enabled a...

Revisions: -1 Arid Mesa -1 Bloodstained Mire -1 Combat Celebrant -1 Far Wanderings -1 Flooded Strand -1 Polluted Delta -1 Scalding Tarn -1 Strip Mine -1 Verdant Catacombs -1 Windfall -1 Windswept Heath +1 Forest +1 Geological Appraiser +1 Hidden Cataract +1 Hidden Nursery +1 Hidden Volcano +1...

Played this deck again for the first time in a while. I had a strong start, but ultimately lost because the deck couldn't find a single way to kill Omarthis. If my commander had died, I would almost certainly have won on the spot. But I just couldn't make that happen.

Got to play this one some more. It was pretty fun. I almost ran away with the game and managed to totally shut down the strongest deck at the table. But I kind of became archenemy and had enough focus from my opponents that eventually they broke me down. In the technical sense, not a win. But...

Well, I played this deck on Wednesday and had another of those "accidental" Seasons Past loops come in, letting me win on the spot in a long turn. I tried to cut it short once I saw what was happening, but my opponents all didn't think that I'd be able to give my team haste, so they waited until...

Might as well open these prize packs, let's see... My rares are Archon of the Wild Rose, Redcap Gutter-Dweller, and Court of Embereth.

Yesterday I'd been planning to run over to an LGS after work, but I was invited to a friend's house as a last-minute subsitution in a commander cube draft. I brought an old Magic Origins booster pack I found lying around as my tribute for the occasion and ended up walking away with two Wilds of...

This deck kind of won another game. Technically, the game store was closing anyway, but my opponents saw what I cascaded into off of Apex Devastator and quietly acknowledged my victory as they packed their bags. I'll take it.

Played this deck in a very long game on Wednesday. I won a game that I had no business winning, to the point that I don't even know that I'd count it. I kept forcing the Ashling player to blow up the board, which kept pressure on him from another deck. It was a five-player pod, and two players...

I grabbed a bunch of green cards and threw them onto my desk on Tuesday night, then quickly built this deck on Wednesday afternoon before heading over to my LGS. I can spot some room for improvement, but didn't really get a chance to test the deck anyway. One of the players at the table played...

Commander: 1x The Gitrog Monster 1x Acidic Slime 1x Ancient Greenwarden 1x Bala Ged Recovery 1x Barad-dur 1x Caustic Caterpillar 1x Crucible of Worlds 1x Dakmor Salvage 1x Dark Confidant 1x Deadly Dispute 1x Drivnod, Carnage Dominus 1x Essence Warden 1x Fiend Artisan 8x Forest 1x Giant Adephage...

I threw this together so that I would have a deck helmed by a Foundations commander. Loosely inspired by my old Azusa deck. This one could probably use some refinement. Commander: 1 Loot, Exuberant Explorer 1 Abundance 1 Ancient Greenwarden 1 Arcum's Astrolabe 1 Ashaya, Soul of the Wild 1...

Played this deck last week. I promise it's not deliberate, but I continued this deck's bold tradition of having games end by "game store is closing so we need to pack up." 😬

I got to very tightly hug my opponents on my birthday. Somewhere along the line with Moat, Humility, Sterling Grove, and Dovescape all on the battlefield, two of my opponents conceded. The third opponent waited it out and saw the game end in a draw from Divine Intervention.

Played this deck a few times last week. I wanted to get more data and figure out what changes I wanted to make. The amount of basic-fetching in this deck makes me inclined to bring the count of basic lands back up to what it was in the old version, or somewhere close to that. But mostly, this...

I got to play this deck twice last week. In the deck's first showing on Wednesday, it struggled through various swings of the board state, but eventually the card advantage from Aclazotz helped push me ahead of my opponents. I won with beatdown, and The Haunt of Hightower was the biggest...

A couple of years ago, I built a mono-black discard EDH deck helmed by The Haunt of Hightower. It was very explosive, but tended to falter once opponents started hitting my commander with removal, especially multiple times in the same game. I recently brought most of those cards back together...