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Last night, I kept an opening hand with five lands, then kept topdecking more lands. I used Time Spiral with eight cards in my hand, just because nothing in my hand was doing anything anyway. On the turn before one of my opponents was about to kill us all, I cast Cataclysm, buying some time. I...

Played this deck in yet another game where it was completely outclassed. One of my opponents was playing a very high power-level deck. Didn't stand a chance.

Somehow, this deck actually won another game. I kept an opening hand with Thawing Glaciers and just barely managed to get enough defense to protect myself from the occasional attacks swung my way as my opponents focused on each other. There was a lot of back-and-forth, but my grindy Simic...

I got to take this into its first game last night. I was outclassed by everyone else at the table, but got to have a bit of fun messing with them anyway. I even managed to kill Visara the Dreadful with Earthbind.

Back in 2019, one of my decks built for the West Coast Commander League was helmed by Gosta Dirk and crammed full of cards to attempt to fulfill special point categories for the League. One of the point categories involved causing creatures to gain flying, so I threw in Predator, Flagship and a...

In an analysis where I called out so many of my own old takes as being dubious, I'm going to have to admit, just a few years later, that I am finding some of my own comments to exhibit the same problem. I don't intend to fully review the whole thread. At least not yet. But since I happened to...

Thread necromancy! I was looking for something else and accidentally found this instead. Anyway... I have to contradict 25-year-old Oversoul on this one. He was young and stupid. Or perhaps more diplomatically, I have seen players get a lot of mileage from Starke of Rath in EDH. Looking it up...

Played this deck for my final game on Wednesday night. It actually got off to a decent start, but stalled out and never recovered after one of the various board wipes that hit the table in this game.

On Wednesday night, I played this deck twice. First game was looking pretty good for what I'd expect out of the deck, but both of my two opponents were operating at a much higher power level than me and quickly killed me way before I could defend myself. They duked it out against each other...

There are three blue cards that swap control of lands (Political Trickery, Shifting Borders, and Vedalken Plotter). There are also some lands that can be activated such that they will not remain in the possession of the player they are traded to (Thawing Glaciers, Undiscovered Paradise, Rainbow...

After I flubbed my first attempt at teaming up with three other players to face a Zombie Horde deck, I tried again with this one. Initially, I was contributing the least because the Horde kept managing to kill my creatures before I could untap with them. My teammates carried my dead weight for a...

Played this deck in a special game against a "Horde" deck. It was a poor choice for multiple reasons. I'd forgotten how many of the cards in this deck care about "opponents" specifically, not just players. So a lot of the cards I'd imagined might be used to help my team were just dead. Also, we...

This week, I didn't go to an LGS, but played in a small group at a player's house. Might be doing that more often. Might have a "regular" pod going here. We'll see. Anyway, I actually played this deck twice, sort of. We were told there'd be five players showing up, so preparations were made to...

It's been a while. I played this deck again last night. I managed to cast a third-turn Entish Restoration into a fifth-turn Etherium Horn Sorcerer, which cascaded into Bloodbraid Elf, which cascaded into Shardless Agent, which cascaded into Hypergenesis. I knew that Hypergenesis might hand an...

Well, this deck made my opponents kinda stupid. Because one of my opponents had Caltrops and I couldn't find a way to pump up my team, I basically couldn't even attack. But my board was so scary that my stuff kept getting targeted. They were practically high-fiving each other each time they shut...

Played this deck last night, but it stalled out on me. Opponents had some crazy board states and I couldn't keep up. I was the last player eliminated, but I think most of them could have killed me earlier if they'd been determined to.

This was the last deck I played for the night a couple of days ago. I was about to say that I won, then thought to correct it to say that we ran out of time. But the reality is that I had this one in the bag and that my opponents were essentially stalling, consciously or not. Doesn't really...

Had I not played this deck since December? Weird. Well, I played it on Wednesday night this week. Two of my opponents worked together to eliminate the third, but were too late to turn on me. I protected them from each other with Moat, then locked down all creatures with Humility. Protected by...

Played this deck this week. I couldn't stop a player from setting up a win with Jace, Wielder of Mysteries and neither could the other players at the table. Good game anyway.

In this deck's first outing, it almost immediately played Chrome Dome and Technodrome, which made me look like I had an all-out Ninja Turtles theme going on. I do not. Opponents blew up some of my artifacts. They took out my Technodrome and my Nim-Deathmantle. But I was able to use Moonsilver...