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EDH Story Circle from Episode 217

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Hey look, another Story Circle!  Episode 217 featured none other than Jack Lacroix!  You know, that Southern guy from Monday Night Magic, Horde of Notions, and @JackLacroix on Twitter.  You know him.  But we couldn’t pass up the opportunity to do a Story Circle with Jack, so here it is!

After clicking past one of the legendary monowhite birds from Odyssey block (What? I didn’t want to do a monocolored deck!) I ended up on the Sapling, as you can see in the picture to the right.  We took turns naming off cards (you know, what we do in a Story Circle), which I wrote down so I could make this companion post for the episode.  They’re listed below in the order we came up with them and separated by each round.  I labeled who picked what in the first round – that order applies for the subsequent rounds (you know, so you’ll know who to blame).  If you want commentary and reasoning and whatnot, just listen to the episode!

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EDH Story Circle from Episode 216

treva EDH Story Circle from Episode 216We did a Story Circle with Daniel Beach on Episode 216, and it turned out so well I wanted to immortalize it here for all to see.  We hit the Random Card button on Gatherer until we came across a legendary creature, and it just happened to be a great one for a deckbuilding exercise – Treva, the Renewer.  Everyone loves using the Invasion dragons as generals, right?

So we started with the general and went from there.  We took turns going around and naming off cards for the deck until we decided we had a good  base, and we stopped.  I know I’m just telling you stuff you know already, but I’m trying to take up room so there’s not a massive chunk of empty space on this post!  And it looks like I succeeded, so on to the list!

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Chewie’s Kaervek CMDR Decks Video

Kaervek the Merciless Chewies Kaervek CMDR Decks VideoAs promised back in Episode 211, I did a video for CMDR Decks featuring my Kaervek deck.  After the jump you’ll find the video and the full decklist, complete with card popups and links to Cardshark as usual.  If you have any questions, comments, concerns or suggestions, then leave a comment for me.  Just so you know, there are a few cards I want to add in as soon as I manage to find copies of them, like Spiteful Visions and Temple Bell.
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Fix That Deck! – Fumiko the Lowblood

fumiko Fix That Deck!   Fumiko the LowbloodEvery deck starts with a plan, but sometimes our natural inclination to be massive screw-ups gets the best of us.  We could have started with a pretty great list, but a series of many small tweaks and changes over a period of time have ruined something fundamental that was making the deck work, or the deck could have just been bad to begin with, and we never figured out what the problems were.  Either way, there often comes a time when a deck just gets laughably bad and the builder needs to take action to fix that, and that could mean anything from subtle adjustments here and there to tearing it down and starting all over again.  I don’t know if “Fix That Deck!” will become a regular feature here, but I do know it’s a common enough experience among all players and deckbuilders that it has some potential.

 

The Set-Up
When I first got into the Commander format (still known as EDH at the time), I decided to go in relatively hard.  My very first deck was a Scion of the Ur-Dragon build, focused on rolling up with the namesake as often as possible and casting cool dragons when he was otherwise indisposed.  The format was a blast, and I looked forward to building my next deck, waiting for inspiration to strike me.  …continue reading, “Fix That Deck! – Fumiko the Lowblood”

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Make It Count Deck Lists

Here you’ll find the decks we built for The Mana Pool #207 – Make It Count, submitted here for your perusal.  Tom from MTG Radio joined us on this episode. We each took the simple idea of “counters” and built a deck around that theme.  As you can see, they varied wildly.  Leave a comment and tell us what you think!
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