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I didn't have the energy to build a Thanksgiving deck this year. I had tentative plans for one, but I essentially ended up going to bed early on the evenings when I would ordinarily have built the deck. So, in the spirit of the Thanksgiving, I offered my Phelddagrif deck as a suitable contender...

Got a second game in with this deck, still at a regular EDH table. The deck's performance was about what I expected, but my opponents all decided that I was a threat just because of all the expensive cards in the deck. I held them off for a time, but was killed by a kind of collective effort...

Took this deck into a 1v1 game. My opponent didn't have a way to get rid of Goblin King, so mountainwalk let me go all-out aggro for the win. All hail Goblin King.

Played this one last night. It started out as a three-player game, but my strong opening hand took a turn toward being unstoppable after one opponent scooped right away (I believe his ride home had arrived or something). Mana Vault into a turn three Zirilan led to dragon beatdown for the win.

Finally got to use Worm Harvest! This deck put up a pretty nice performance, but I botched it as a player. I should have won, but I dredged into Gaea's Blessing at exactly the wrong time. Forgot about that. I had other options and could have used them. Dredging that one time went on to cost me...

And this deck steals another win! My last remaining opponent at the table had me outclassed when it came down to the two of us, but his life was low. I topdecked Nykthos and had enough mana for Exsanguinate to put my opponent's life total within striking distance for Sheoldred to swing in for a...

While I didn't get to play at any PreDH tables last night, I did play all three of my current PreDH decks at normal EDH tables. This deck spent most of the game with lackluster defensive capability, although the main reason for that was a Harmonic Sliver at the table. Still, I did what I could...

I'm on a roll with PreDH decks. For this one, I've brought back one of my old favorites from 2021, which was basically an improved version of one of my decks from 2020. Whatever. This should be fun. The theme of sacrificing Spine of Ish Sah to Barrin repeatedly is still at the core of my deck...

After mulliganing one-land hands away twice, I kept a two-land hand. I didn't draw a third land for a long time, but got enough artifact mana to actually play some cards. I tried to juggle offense and defense with my constrained resources. Eventually, I got a couple more lands. It was a pretty...

So that first game after making my changes was pretty lousy, but I finally played a second. It was much better. Right when the other players had built up formidable board states, Zirilan was able to fetch Drakuseth on the end step before my turn and Balefire Dragon in my upkeep, getting rid of...

Played this deck last night. I thought it was going well at first. One player hit me with Traumatize for no apparent reason and another player followed it up by activating Scavenger Grounds. I scooped to go join a PreDH table.

Against the odds, this deck actually won its first game, which was in a regular EDH pod. Coat of Arms is a Magic card. But it was Goblin Wizard cheating in Kiki-Jiki, copying Goblin Wizard, cheating in Boartusk Liege that gave me the tempo advantage to make the Coat of Arms blitz into a win...

This one probably isn't going to make sense. I'll just say up front that until 2018, I forgot that Tuknir Deathlock existed. Then when I started to get interested in building EDH decks helmed by "Legends Legends" and I saw Tuknir Deathlock, my immediate thought was "goblins." Why? I have no...

While I didn't get to take this deck into a proper preDH pod, I did play it twice, and I was generally happy with it. I already see some adjustments that I want to make, but I like the deck overall and I am just really enamored with this whole concept. I did Worm Harvest shenanigans in a Savra...

This deck put up a fight in a long game, but couldn't deal with all the ridiculously convoluted shenanigans presented by one of the new "Dr. Who" precons. I'm already sick of those stupid decks. Anyway, when I originally constructed this deck, I sort of deliberately leaned into the extreme aura...

Manascrewed too much with this one. Even though I bought a couple of cards specifically to throw in this deck, I think I'm taking it apart next. The gimmick is too weak for EDH these days.

Played this deck twice last night. First game, neither I nor two of my opponents got to really do anything. The player with the high-powered Maelstrom Wanderer deck popped off and murdered us all uneventfully. In the second game, Plague Spitter put in work, wielded Sword of Feast and Famine, and...

Some of the players at my LGS have been getting pods together for "preDH" games. I'm excited to try that, and if participation in this variant continues, I'll keep building decks for it. Here's my first attempt. Commander: 1 Savra, Queen of the Golgari 1 Abundance 1 Abyssal Gatekeeper 1...

Played this deck twice. Unlike most of my "holiday" decks, this one was an existing project that had been on hiatus, so I'll be keeping it around in some form. First game, my deck did some coold stuff. I kept bringing back Karmic Guide and using it to bring back other creatures. Lim-Dul's...

This deck took down a game in the "Kingdom" variant. I was a bandit, and was able to keep my nature hidden until I was ready to spring my trap. It was a pretty simple one: Forsaken Monument + Basalt Monolith gave me infinite mana. Since I also had Ashnod's Altar, I could sac and recast my...