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Tried this deck in the "Kingdom" variant. Although I do believe that I've significantly improved the manabase, the deck fell apart. I had three Mountains in my opening hand, later getting a Ruby Medallion, a fourth Mountain, and a Patriar's Seal. I cast multiple support pieces: I think they were...

Made the mistake of playing this one in a "Kingdom" variant when I was the king. I was introduced to this as a way to make larger pods more dynamic. We had five players, and each one would take a random card. One player would be the king, revealing this at the beginning. That player would start...

On the one hand, yes. I mean, that's the cliche, right? Corporate greed. To an extent, that's fine. They've always been greedy. People don't go into business to not make money. And I'm sure that there have been plenty of times that decisions motivated by greed have frustrated us as players. On...

When the "Time Spiral Remastered" set came out in 2020, I pulled an old-frame copy of Alesha, Who Smiles at Death. Because Alesha is remarkably good with several old creatures that normally don't see play in EDH, I came up with the idea of building an Alesha deck consisting exclusively of cards...

There have been announcements that frustrated me, annoyed me, delighted me, surprised me, and confounded me. Mostly, they've just disappointed me. But I can't think of any B&R update in the history of the game that rivals this one for strangeness. And that's not even because of some change I...

It's overdue. Also, I hate doing it. Whenever I find myself cutting a card that's cool and generally underplayed, it's with considerable reluctance. This deck does everything I want it to do and is one of my favorite EDH decks ever, but it's just too inconsistent, and I know that the land count...

Now with even more adventuring... -1 Bala Ged Recovery -1 Conduit of Worlds -1 Faerie Slumber Party +1 Tlincalli Hunter +1 Virtue of Knowledge +1 Virtue of Strength

Swap to run a card I've been wanting to try for a while now... -1 Phylactery Lich +1 Night Dealings

Another minor revision... -1 Nim Deathmantle +1 Agatha's Soul Cauldron

Annoyingly, I didn't have a copy of Rushwood Grove. I have finally corrected this deficiency... -1 Dunes of the Dead -1 Island of Wak-Wak -1 Okina, Temple to the Grandfathers -1 Pendelhaven -1 Yavimaya Hollow +1 Forest +1 Jund Panorama +1 Naya Panorama +1 Rushwood Grove +1 Terrain Generator

https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/announcements/october-16-2023-banned-and-restricted-announcement

Pulled a couple of cards from one of the new "Doctor Who" precons. Swapping out some cards that were a bit too situational for this deck. -1 Benefactor's Draught -1 Oath of Lieges +1 Everybody Lives! +1 Wedding Ring

Bah. Lost to mana screw with this deck. Ancient Tomb kept me going for a while, but it wasn't enough. I got picked off first because, despite my hampered mana production, I was actually deploying some cards that made me look reasonably threatening. If I'd just had one more land early on, I think...

Finally got a halfway decent game with this deck. Unfortunately, I drew into a bunch of creature reanimation stuff when one of my opponents had Liesa, Forgotten Archangel on the board. Same opponent was doing creature recursion of his own like crazy, and I had no real outs against this. I held...

Played this deck twice. First game, I kept a two-land hand and took forever to find a third land, by which point I was so far behind that I couldn't do anything. Egregious mana screw. Second game was a weird one. I never actually lost, but I wouldn't count it as a win either. One of my...

Somehow, I hadn't already built a Johan deck. Oops. Well, I threw this together. Mostly, I just want to win with Mayael's Aria. That's the goal. Commander: 1x Johan 1 Abundance 1 Academy Rector 1 Archangel of Thune 1 Arid Mesa 1 Bala Ged Recovery 1 Basri's Lieutenant 1 Beast Within 1...

This one reminds me of the Isu deck. I'm so fully committed to the adventure theme, that the deck just kind of flounders against more finely-tuned engines. Yeah, the synergies are decent and it's a mistake to count the deck out entirely. It really can pack a punch. But it's just not strong...

I hadn't played this deck lately, so I tried again. It's just too rare for me to end up at a table where the low power level of this deck is appropriate. Probably scrapping this one for parts. I find myself wishing that I had a playgroup where this sort of deck made sense. I'd play with even...

Haven't seen the new cards come up yet. I played this deck twice on Wednesday night. First game I had a mediocre start, but some potential was there. One of my opponents made the strange decision to cast Urza's Ruinous Blast at a time when it essentially only hurt me and didn't affect the other...

Even worse luck for this deck. Tried it once on Wednesday night, but I ended up with a mediocre start of third-turn Eriette into fourth-turn Minion's Return. By that point, one of my opponents was already swinging at me for 20+ damage. It was only a three-player game, and two of us were...