That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime [PDH]

[Oversoul]

I had a few Gamekeeper ideas for this format, but going all-in on Slime Against Humanity was my favorite. The premise here is simple: ramp, kill Gamekeeper, and attack with gigantic slimes for the win.

Commander:
Gamekeeper

1 Ashnod's Altar
1 Battlefield Scrounger
1 Conjurer's Bauble
1 Fog
36 Forest
1 Gaea's Touch
1 Harrow
1 Longstalk Brawl
1 Lotus Petal
1 Lull
1 Moment's Peace
1 Nature's Claim
1 Nature's Lore
1 Prey Upon
1 Provoke
1 Quicksand
1 Rampant Growth
1 Reclaim
1 Savage Swipe
40 Slime Against Humanity
1 Smell Fear
1 Three Visits
1 Wild Growth
1 Wilt
1 Wings of Hubris

 

[Oversoul]

I built this with 6 copies of Slime Against Humanity and 34 basic Mountains as placeholders for the rest to test the deck. Picked up 9 more copies last night. In my first trial run for the deck, my friend seated opposite me was pondering how I'd try to kill Gamekeeper and whether he could stop me from killing it. Our other opponent then immediately triggered his own commander: Zoyowa Lava-Tongue. So I didn't need to kill Gamekeeper. Well, I managed to make a 20/20 ooze on my next turn and to attack him on the turn after that, but he was a turn ahead of me and struck me down with his commander: Mm'menon, Uthros Exile. If I hadn't gotten a modest start against such a blitz from Mm'menon, I could have won.

After playing a couple of my other decks, I went back to this one for a five-player "Star" variant pod. After mulliganing away two three hands with Battlefield Scrounger and only two lands, I got off to a rough start. One of my opponents was running a deck helmed by Zidane, Tantalus Thief. Since he could steal a creatures and sac it every turn and all I could do was make one big ooze per turn, I was practically locked out of the game. I managed to hang on with Fog and Moment's Peace for long enough that the player to my left struck down both of his opponents.

 

[Oversoul]

After losing two games with this last week, I finally brought the deck to the table with the full 40 copies of Slime Against Humanity. Despite lousy topdecks (I was able to get Ashnod's Altar, cast Gamekeeper, sac Gamekeeper to the Altar, and cast Battlefield Scrounger (which I'd topdecked). My opponents forgot that the ooze tokens from Slime Against Humanity come with built-in trample. So I killed both of them with a 40/40 token.

 

[Oversoul]

I participated in a Mystery Booster 2 draft on Saturday. After the event was over, a few of us played some Pauper EDH. Most of my PDH decks are in a BCW long box, which I forgot to bring with me. So I was borrowing deck toward the end of the night and trying them out. Helped a friend test his Jasmine Boreal of the Seven deck against a copied version of another player's Trelasarra, Moon Dancer deck in a 1v1 setting. A cool thing about this format is that it's not too difficult to put together most decks from bulk collections, because everything except for commanders are commons anyway. But yeah, the Trelasarra deck was simply too fast, and the JBotS deck couldn't withstand the initial attacks. I also piloted a Bloodbraid Elf deck in a long game in which it was behind the whole time, but won in the end because my opponents weakened each other. Finally, I piloted a goblins deck helmed by Uglúk of the White Hand, but was killed by attackers flying over my blockers.

Before those other games, I played my Gamekeeper deck in 1v1 games against a Vega, the Watcher deck. I had brought this deck, since it was in my bag and not in that long box. But yeah, my opponent couldn't keep up. He killed Gamekeeper himself in the first game, underestimating the danger of doing so. After he learned his lesson, he tried to play around my commander and keep my oozes locked down, but there was simply too much pressure from them.