Recent content by Oversoul

Looking at cards I've used a lot over the years, one that stands out as not having its own Magic Memories thread is Ashnod's Altar. I like sacrifice-themed decks and mechanics. I like creature-based combo engines. I like making lots of mana. Ashnod's Altar is one of the best cards for many of my...

I was having a lot of fun coming up with names for this deck. Ultimately went with the one in the thread title, but here were my candidates... The Firm (Where Everyone is a Partner) Time Enough for Friendship Partnership is Magic Group Marriage Star-Crossed Friends Til Death Do Us Part(ner)...

At long last, here it is. I have built what might possibly be my most stupid EDH deck thus far. The original inspiration for this project was WotC's Pride Month gimmick from 2022, where they'd temporarily make all commanders have the "Partner" ability. I quipped that I would build a deck that...

It had been a long time since I'd played this one, so I brought it out for the second and, it turned out, final game of last night. After mulliganing a hand with mostly lands and Battlefield Scrounger, I kept an opener with Nature's Lore, three Forests, and three Slimes. After I got Gamekeeper...

Only played two games tonight. First game I rolled a die and randomly chose this deck. It occurred to me that it had been the most recent deck I'd played, but by then I'd already shuffled it up. I kept a hand with Urza's Tower as my only land and did get some one-drop artifacts, but couldn't...

As mentioned in the Diseased Marsupial thread, I got a couple of Pauper EDH games in on Sunday after a Theros Block draft. In the first game, Casey's Persistent Petitioners self-mill deck helmed by Laboratory Maniac drew heavy aggro and was eliminated early. While the rest of us kept playing...

On Sunday, I participated in a Theros Block draft. Yes, it was quite the throwback. After the draft was over, four of us stuck around for some Pauper EDH. I only had time for two games, and I'd only brought five of my PDH decks. I hadn't played this one in a while, so I started with it. We...

Technically, I played this deck in two separate games last night. After winning with Undercity Hustle, I brought this one out as the only deck of mine I'd never yet gotten to test. Casey had misplayed and gotten stuck in our previous game, so he ran back his Hare Apparent deck. Bryan switched to...

Played this deck last night in a three-player pod. Last night we only had three players show up, and only two of us have decks for the "background" theme built, although hopefully we can get a full pod of that in a couple of weeks. In my first game with this deck, Casey was piloting his new Hare...

I had initially been told that Eric was going to be running late to last night's PDH session, so I opened with this deck for a game without the one player that kept running it over. Turned out Eric was never able to make it. But this deck was! Despite a slow start, I was able to stabilize...

Although I was already building a deck based around the "Undercity" dungeon, I decided to build a second deck helmed by a "background" commander. Commander: 1 Amber Gristle O'Maul 1 Cloakwood Hermit 1 Arrogant Wurm 1 Ashnod's Altar 1 Basking Rootwalla 1 Battlefield Scrounger 1 Bayou Groff 1...

I built this deck for playing Pauper EDH against other background commanders in the playgroup in September of 2026. I wanted tot see if I could make the initiative mechanic work under these conditions. The deck is built to establish the initiative and eventually loop Undercity rooms for the win...

Played this deck for my final game last night. My opponents had both expressed some statement about bringing the power level down after the previous game, but the lie detector revealed those statements to be lies. I struggled to protect myself as they took freakishly long turns and ramped out...

After the other players in my first pod went home, I jumped over to a table where two more players were also leaving and joined, grabbing this deck because I hadn't played it in a while. One of my opponents seriously pulled his commander, which I never asked about or bothered to look for, from...

I managed to recover from an initial manascrew, use Vedalken Plotter to get a swamp, and used Dream Thrush and Grixis Illusionist to achieve full domain for Nael before I died. One problem was that I actually managed to get some blockers, fog effects, and other combat-focused protection. But my...