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It's not over yet! Dismantling the Tawnos deck, went through the cards for this one to see how far I was from being able to put it back together. I had to poach Jeska's Will, Mana Crypt, and Phyrexian Altar from my Cormela deck, but three cards seems a reasonable amount to swap between the two...

Well, the Reveillark is out of the bag now. I've got nothing against Reveillark. It's a great card and I use it alongside Karmic Guide myself all the time. I currently have the pair in an EDH deck: An Elephant Never Forgets. My qualm here is that the two work together so well, I had hoped to...

I think I just fell in love with Thrumming Stone.

Well, I poached a couple mana rocks from this deck for the Cormela deck, but I put them back here last night and tried Tawnos again. We did it! I botched my combo setup and had to wait an extra turn cycle with Tawnos and Sands of Time out, but I ended up not being punished for that. Used my...

Woo hoo! This deck dominated a game. Probably scrapping it for parts soon, but at least it managed to sneak one win in. It was brutal and I felt a bit sorry for one opponent. My opening hand looked OK, but was light on mana, so I started out right away with Vampiric Tutor for Sol Ring. Second...

Enough of the newfangled chicanery! Back to the good old days. Well, they weren't such good days for Karmic Guide, on account of that pesky erratum. It's not so much that Karmic Guide is a card you always want to cheat into play. Hardcasting Karmic Guide is feasible and normal. But having access...

I had a brainfart and posted the next dungeon tile in the CPA Discord anyway, so I'm assuming that the party continues down the corridor, but let me know if anyone wants to backtrack or anything. Further along the passage, you find doors to either side of you. The main passage stretches on...

Shadowborn Apostles! Rakdos colors probably aren't the best for this, but Lady Orca is a demon commander and needed a proper demon deck. This is one. Kind of. Commander: 1 Lady Orca 1 Archfiend of Depravity 1 Badlands 1 Blood Crypt 1 Bloodstained Mire 1 Culling the Weak 1 Dark Ritual 1 Demonic...

Took this one apart for now. I have my misgivings because I really like the deck and wanted to get more games in with it. But it has proven itself reasonably well and some of my other decks haven't gotten time to shine. I was able to use the parts to build something I've been hankering to try...

I'll get back to old Memories at some point, but here's a fresh one I just came across with one of the brand-new cards released last week... Vivien on the Hunt resolves and the +2 ability is used to sacrifice a 3-drop creature, grabbing Felidar Guardian from the library. Felidar Guardian's...

Sorry. You're pretty close to the end of this one. Some stuff going on at home had me sitting on this because, since February, I'd been under the impression that I'd be able to present a much better long-term setup for displaying and updating the tile pieces at some point in early/mid April...

I've done Blood Moon in Goblins decks before. This one would have to be reworked for it, as I use my nonbasics. Fetchlands synergize with Conspicuous Snoop. Den of the Bugbear won me my last game with this deck. Etcetera. Blood Moon and Magus of the Moon used to be in my Canadian Highlander...

So, there's a bit of a story behind this one. Last week, I was brainstorming which commanders to try out from Streets of New Capenna. When the previous set came out, I went with Seshiro the Anointed, an old commander from the same plane. I couldn't do that with New Capenna because it's a brand...

Experimenting with a higher power level here. Cormela is ridiculously good. Commander: 1 Cormela, Glamour Thief 1 Ad Nauseam 1 Aetherflux Reservoir 1 Arcane Denial 1 Arid Mesa 1 Ashnod's Altar 1 Badlands 1 Birgi, God of Storytelling 1 Bloodstained Mire 1 Bonus Round 1 Brain Freeze 1 Brainstorm...

Two wins in a row. I got a bit of a slow start and was poorly positioned at first, but Land Tax and Soldevi Digger did their jobs. It was a highly interactive game and no one ever really seemed to be on the precipice of victory, but my life total stayed the highest and I had a well-timed Tragic...

Third time's a charm! My opponents managed to keep Pashalik Mons off the table and thwarted my attempts to set up an engine. I also whiffed on Muxus. So it was looking pretty dicey for a while, but it worked out in the end thanks to good, old-fashioned goblin beatdown. That and Mizzium Mortars.

Turned out the next time I tried this deck, it sat around with one land for like seven or eight turns. I originally had an opening hand with Strip Mine and Lake of the Dead, so I pitched it because of the lack of black mana. Second hand had a Swamp and a Dark Ritual to get me started. Worst...

Yep. A few of those were in the 2019 version and a few more were ones I did use in Canadian Highlander, but cut when I swapped the deck back to EDH. I think Brightstone Ritual was one that I just couldn't find in my collection and I might still have failed to pick up a copy of Legion Warboss...

My trend of lousy games over the past few weeks continues. First attempt for this deck I got manascrewed and fell way behind. Eventually I managed to get Gauntlet of Might out, so I could actually try to do stuff. Everyone else at the table was playing red decks too, so that got me killed in...

This deck continues to be hot garbage. I don't know what I did wrong. It should work. It just plain doesn't. The reason for the deck failing isn't consistent from game to game. But at some point I'll have to count this as a failed experiment.