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There's that too! I was going to bring that up at some point. It's worth mentioning. The use of the "Echo" mechanic on this card has its pros and cons, but having to pay for the creature twice gets mitigated because you get the value of two creatures: the one you brought back from your graveyard...

So this deck and the Haunt of Hightower deck were both new decks I brought to EDH night at the LGS on Wednesday. It was a frustrating experience and I'm back to considering stepping the power level up with these decks. I still have misgivings. Seems like every once in a while I get too many...

Only played this one once so far, and it went poorly. I had bad topdecks and one opponent had poor threat assessment, leading to my stuff getting targeted when there was a much bigger threat to deal with. I have further thoughts on that day as a whole, but this deck only got one game itself, and...

So I took this deck apart. My overall analysis is that it was OK and that I could certainly return to the concept again. I don't know whether I'll revisit any of my 2022 decks later this year, or just keep trying to churn out new decks instead. If I were to revisit them, this deck would be high...

Twenty years ago, I took apart my casual U/B Discard deck and replaced it with a mono-black Discard deck. I guess I've just repeated this feat. Now discard your hands. Commander 1 The Haunt of Hightower 1 Animate Dead 1 Anvil of Bogardan 1 Archfiend of Ifnir 1 Archon of Cruelty 1...

Put cards in graveyard. Take cards back out of graveyard. Get spirits. Kill opponents. Seems easy enough. Commander: 1 Quintorius, Field Historian 1 Academy Rector 1 Ao, the Dawn Sky 1 Argivian Find 1 Arid Mesa 1 Ashnod's Altar 1 Aura of Silence 1 Boreas Charger 1 Breath of Life 1 Cathartic...

Yep, its biggest spike in tournament usage would definitely have been in Flash decks. Karmic Guide has made other appearances in Legacy, to a lesser extent. The other big Legacy application was in Cephalid Breakfast decks. Flash was a much bigger deal over its short window, but Karmic Guide was...

When it comes to graveyard recursion, black and green are the two most prominent colors. But white has some excellent tools of its own. I've covered some green cards in this area. Black graveyard recursion and reanimation effects haven't really been a subject I've deliberately tackled in Magic...

I want to take another shot at this some day, but I need to give it time. For one thing, I see some elements of this deck that work well and others that do not. I don't really have a critical mass of ways to make my commander pay off, but I'm also running a few cards for Mishra synergies that I...

Haha, this deck is great. I'll have to pull parts from it at some point next month probably, but I am going to stall on that if possible. It's just a really fun deck.

Nebuchadnezzar finally won a game, and now I can retire this deck. I had tentatively intended to run The Haunt of Hightower as one of the creatures here, but didn't find it because I forgot that it was a buy-a-box exclusive foil and not stored with my other cards from Ravnica Allegiance. Oops...

This is my Mishra Stax deck. It locks the game up with artifacts. It is pretty bad, but I will not be likely to refine it anytime soon. Oh well. It's a starting point if I change my mind. Commander: 1 Mishra, Artificer Prodigy 1 Academy Ruins 1 Arcane Laboratory 1 Arcane Signet 1 Badlands 1...

Last August, I started regularly playing EDH on Wednesday nights at the LGS that opened up in my old hometown (it's just down the highway from where I live now). At that time, I had two long-term decks from 2019 that were still assembled and ready to play. "Epic" was one of them. So I got to do...

I was a little worried that this deck would be underpowered. Well, it has yet to win a game, but it's made a pretty big splash every time, and I think a couple of my losses were just rotten luck. I hadn't used cards like Geth's Grimoire and Waste Not in a couple of years, and they are pretty great.

Played three games with this one. It's a little slow, but also packs more of a punch than I might have guessed. First game, I was getting force-fed poison counters by a player that had a Fynn, the Fangbearer deck. When I finally got some blockers out, another player wiped the board with...

After getting some more games in with this deck, I really like how explosive it can be, but I also see that I set it up to have a pretty narrow range of options sometimes. In my last game, my opponents couldn't kill Serra Ascendant before I started stacking +1/+1 counters on it, so I wiped the...

About three years ago, the advent of the West Coast Commander League pulled my Magic focus to EDH as a primary format, and shifted my attention away from refining pet decks over a matter of years to building more and different decks, often on the fly. One of my earliest points of interest in...

Random discard is fun. Random discard is cool. I threw this together and it's probably too slow, but it has been a long time since I built a discard-based deck and I wanted to experiment. I do not think that the ceiling on Nebuchadnezzar as a commander is particularly high anyway and it might be...

Stuff changed and I moved on. My playset of Enduring Ideal moved around in various boxes as I sorted my collection, taking up nearly half of all Saviors of Kamigawa cards I physically owned (the set was one of the most glaring gaps in my collection, and kind of still is, although I've slowly...

Yep. I was too young to remember the original run of the show, which ended when I was under 2 years old. But of course I saw reruns. I was trying to come up with a name for a Zirilan deck and remembered the villain from Inspector Gadget. But Dr. Claw doesn't really do much except give orders and...