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Inktober 2017:

Day 1

True Name Nemesis First day and I already broke my predetermined theme. The plan was to design some scribbles for unloved/underutilized tokens, however I felt like doing some fan art. Today is Zack Stella’s birthday, so after sending him a nightmarish image on twitter, I wanted to draw something nice. A nice and surly True Name Nemesis is a wonderful gift for all.

Match in italics, review in bold at the bottom.

First off, my opponent was my brother, playing Prossh, the Jund deck

My game starts off well. I keep a hand of a Jwar Isle Refuge, 2 plains, Disciple of Griselbrand, and Nevinyrral's Disk. Brother has the play, and just plays a mountain. It shifts to me, and I proceed to gain 2 life, and another 1 for playing the Refuge. I drew a Greed, which, later on, helps a lot. Turn 2, I played the Disciple, and got some more life.

Etc. 

Much later down the line, I'm sitting at what I like to think is comfortable at 63 life, with a Sharding Sphinx, a thopter, and Kongming. 

Brother has a Darksteel mutated Prossh (thank you heart of the cards), an Endless Cockroaches, and a Fell Sheppard. 

It might look grim, but he's much lower, at 16. He ends up getting Endrek Sar, and a buttload of Thrulls to wipe my field. 

Somehow, I end up getting him down to 8, and have him on a clock, but I notice if he pays attention, he can swing for lethal. I crack the disk that's remained on my field this long. 

All this tension just to tell you I lost. I drew a buckets of lands.

I had fun though. I need to update the list with better (to me) cards. I'm leaning more "away from artifacts" and more into the card draw/life gain area. 

Already have a Felidar Sovereign on my desk just for this deck.

If you can pick this one up in a store, I fully recommend it. Especially since it's just as much derpy life gain combos as it is punching with dudes.