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Played this deck again. This time All Hallow's Eve allowed an opponent to set up a graveyard that won with damaging EtB triggers. The pirates put up a fight, but they were outgunned.

I had to do a deck for Sol'kanar at some point. Originally, I had this whole plan of spamming a bunch of black spells to gain life, stuff like Blood Pet. But I'm lazy and about to turn 40 and I'm just throwing together this weird combo deck that is kind of high-power but also not actually very...

Why do I even keep following Legacy as a format? Is it just inertia for having been invested in the format for the past 21 years? Is it that unbanning Mind's Desire somehow bought more of my interest? Is it that I just love to complain about WotC? If it's that last one, they sure are giving me...

https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/announcements/banned-and-restricted-november-10-2025 Standard Vivi Ornitier is banned. Screaming Nemesis is banned. Proft's Eidetic Memory is banned. Pioneer Heartfire Hero is banned. Modern No changes Legacy Entomb is banned. Nadu, Winged Wisdom is banned...

There was an archetype in Legacy, now mostly forgotten, known as Death Loam. These days, searching for it online annoyingly turns up some sources regarding the new card "Afterlife from the Loam." It also sometimes get conflated with the "Loam Pox" archetype, but Death Loam was specifically built...

Won another game with this deck. I really do like some of the new Edge of Eternities cards, but I have to consider this a failed experiment. The deck has primarily succeeded by exploiting a dearth of land destruction at most tables, so that Glacial Chasm protects it while it gradually builds up...

So much for worrying that this deck would be too strong. I managed to get my commander and Crystalline Crawler onto the field. I had a method to draw extra cards. They were mostly lands. I died to some broken combo after failing to find any kind of credible threat or answer.

Tried this deck again on Wednesday night. Never saw the new cards, but it didn't matter. I managed to get three lands onto the battlefield and cast a single spell: Ardenn, Intrepid Archaeologist. Then one of my opponents cast Doomsday Excruciator and there went my library. Aren't the new cards fun?

Well, I tried the updated version of the deck, but got manascrewed. Aether Vial gave me some initial help getting goblins onto the field, but it got blown up and I was stuck on three lands with a bunch of four-drops in my hand for too long. Oh well.

Time for an update! -1 Dark-Dweller Oracle -1 Ember Hauler -1 Goblin Lookout -1 Goblin War Party -1 Goblin Wardriver -1 Mizzium Mortars +1 Brightstone Ritual +1 Fable of the Mirror-Breaker +1 General Kreat, the Boltbringer +1 Goblin War Strike +1 Hobgoblin Bandit Lord +1 Legion Warboss

-1 Glasspool Mimic -1 Kappa Cannoneer -1 Wooly Razorback +1 Battlefield Improvisation +1 Forge Anew +1 The Ancient One I finally bought copies of some cards I was missing, which had originally been desired inclusions in this deck.

-1 White Scarab +1 Distorting Lens I'd originally wanted Distorting Lens in this deck as another way to turn creatures green, but didn't find a copy. Now that I have, it's going in the deck.

Played this deck for what has only been its second game. It managed to protect itself reasonably well and set up Shared Fate. One of my opponents was really salty about The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale, and that leads to a whole tangent about how WotC's clumsy "bracket" system just isn't working...

This deck put up more of a fight than expected against an opponent who was slaughtering the whole table with ease. I did eventually fall, but it was a good game and I'm impressed with how this deck held up. If I'd had more time, I might have managed to cause an upset.

Once again, this deck took a brutal beating. One of my opponents was swinging for the fences right away. I actually managed to stall him and save the table a couple of times with Kami of False Hope, but eventually ran out of ways to bring it back and took 90 damage or something.

Well, I got a flat tire on Monday (for the second time in two months), so I didn't go to the LGS that hold Commander open play on Tuesdays. But I did get to play this deck on Wednesday. My pirates dished out damage to all three opponents and started to become outclassed. I set up All Hallow's...

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...