Aggressively Casual

Didn't? Well they did. And we got a raincheck from them, and just got 10 packs of Khans for $20.

And played 5 pack sealed!

Of note is how we got 3 sets of duplicate rares. Avalanche Tusker, Master of Pearls, and Abzan Ascendancy.

Mod Paup Peas Stride

So, for the first of hopefully many posts (I have a lot of EDH decks), I'm gonna talk about one of my EDH decks.... yeah.

Sludge Strider!

This is one I just built, and its my first Pauper Commander deck. So, its untested at the moment, but I really like the look of it. I built it as a modular Pauper/Peasant deck, with an 8-card Uncommon Board to switch between the two formats.

Here's the deck!

Since its a Modular Pauper Peasant Sludge Strider Deck, I call it Mod Pop Peas Stride. Because the point of communication is the clear transmission of ideas, and this really helps with it.

So, some cards.

First, what's missing: Peace Strider and Parasitic Strix, because I apparently don't have any of those cards. And the best part, I think, of making any Commander deck, but Pauper in particular, is just going through the collection and making something work. Later you go to gatherer, and then the stores, and you get all the perfect little things that fit, and spend all your money, and blah, blah, blah. Anyway, making decks out of what you have is fun.

Also, there should totally be some Extort in here, if only there were artifacts with extort. Maybe after a bit of testing I'll see.

So, the cards that are actually in it.

Soooo many mana rocks, because it combines what this deck wants as much of as it can get; artifacts and mana.

The last sets of 8 are the UncommonBoard and the Commons that get pulled out for them, and this is how the deck morphs between Aggro/Control and Combo/Control.

What I see as the real greats are the Spellbombs, Capsules and Replicas, because they're cheap enough, and there are good enough effects that with the drain from Strider I hope I can just cycle through everything and suck everyone's life away.

And backed up with cheap efficient flyers ( or value engines in the UnBoard) Should be enough to take down other PDHers. Not that I've met any.

Chrome Steed and Frogmite are cute as "4 mana 2/2s" that are anything but. And the biggest threat being Razorfield Thresher is pretty perfect.

Other cards... Well, I remember losing to Glaze Fiends a lot back in the day, so maybe its time for some belated revenge.

This here be Emily's draft deck from last night. Also apparently the best deck she ever lost with.

I think her first non-white deck in draft ever, which she was intimidated by at first, but did alright enough anyway.

Icy Blast was a... blast.

We ended up playing each other in the last round to be king of the losers, which, yeah, not where you want to be.

Oh, and Dragonscale Boon was quite a boon.

I could do this forever. Magic puns. That's an angle. Not a unique one, but still.

Presenting: The best deck I ever lost with. Horribly.

I don't quite know what went wrong. Well, I do, I don't have enough lands. Always have more nonbasics. Always. Not that I passed on too many I believe...

Funny enough, Trail of Mystery was Pack 3 Pick 4, I believe, followed shortly by a secret plans.

The Villainous Wealth never got cast sadly, as I only saw it once, and won before it was relevant that game.

So yeah, the U/G morph deck has power, but it's soooooo slow. Got run over by Mardu/Jeskai, then Mardu again.

Another draft, another set of decks from myself and Emily. I went evasive Jeskai, she went B/W warriors.

While we both mostly liked how our decks turned out, our results were a bit disappointing, though she did better than usual. This is draft #4, and she keeps getting better.

As far as my deck goes, I really probably needed some better manafixing. (I even had an Ankle Shanker in there off I think one basic and one dismal backwater, that brainfart didn't last long.) And better removal.

For her part, Emily's deck served her well, though she said she felt short on removal. A couple of Debilitating injuries, or a kill shot or something would have probably made it.

And this is silentnova's draft deck from last night.

Blue/White Skies is always a classic draft archetype, so its nice to see it can be pulled off in khans. Even though it goes against the "play enemy two color and maybe splash/move in on a clan" wisdom. Do what you want, man. The deck itself looks like it's solid enough. Maybe more 2-drops (you always need more 2-drops.)

Note on Quiet Contemplation: Other than in our 2HG prerelease, where I had another deck to hold the field for me, I haven't been able to run it myself. Emily said it didn't do enough/anything for her when it actually came down, which is a shame.

She had some close games, but too many big dudes overwhelmed the ground, and High Sentinels showed up too late/not at all to make a difference.

Still, for her 3rd draft ever, she's doing good.

My 3-1 Draft Deck from last night. (The cut off cards are Mardu Heart-Piercer and Armament Corps)

It was suuuuper fun. Lost in the finals to a really good Abzan deck, took him to game 3, then drew only plains for 6 turns. It happens.

4 color is really really easy as it turns out, though the double-colored spells can be tough to pull off. Incremental growth was probably greedy, but hey, Greed is Good.

Feat of Resistance is my favorite Khans combat trick, and why I'm actually willing to play white.

For me at least.

So I looked at my Roon of the Hidden Realm deck, and realized its boring as hell.

So here we come, Surrak Dragonclaw.

Posting my 3-2 FNM draft deck. Mardu Tokens. Could've probably done a bit better if I didn't overextend into a death frenzy round 4. Was really fun to play, all of the anthem effects are complete blowouts.

Starting a new mtg blog here.

It'll be about whatever I feel like it being about.

Mostly EDH though.