Juuuussst A Bit Outside (RETIRED)
Commander / EDH
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A recap of this deck's first (fairly epic) game —May 19, 2019
I was finally able to play some paper magic for the first time in a while and I took the deck out for a spin. First I would like to note that the deck is only about 70% complete. I am still missing some of the major pieces.
I played one game with the deck against a Grand Arbiter Augustin IV + Persistent Petitioners mill deck, a Karador, Ghost Chieftain hate bears + combo deck, and a Tawnos, Urza's Apprentice combo deck.
A T2 Null Rod from the Karador deck and a T2 Grand Arbiter Augustin IV from the mill deck pretty much shut myself and the Tawnos player down early. After that though the Karador deck struggled to find its combo pieces which allowed the mill deck to build a sizable collection of Persistent Petitioners. Because of the graveyard synergies of Karador, the mill deck opted to just beat down the Karador deck with help from Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite while simultaneously milling the Tawnos deck. They largely left me alone as I was the hardest hit by Null Rod, had a sizable blocking deterrent in Bosh, Iron Golem sitting on the battlefield, and had earlier copied his Elixir of Immortality with Sculpting Steel. I just quietly amassed lands and mana rocks (which I couldn't use yet due to the Null Rod).
As soon as the Karador opponent died, with all of my now available mana, I main phased a massive Comet Storm to remove Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite (whom he in response copied at instant speed with Rite of Replication thanks to Teferi, Time Raveler...yeah...these were super fun decks to play against...), Grand Arbiter Augustin IV, and all of the mill deck's PW's. The Tawnos player then played and immediately popped a Nevinyrral's Disk dealing with the Elesh Norn copy and all of the petitioners. I then chucked most of my about to die artifacts (including Bosh) at the mill deck. A couple more trips around the table occurred where the Tawnos and mill deck mostly focused on each other. This allowed me to replay Bosh and some new mana rocks. At the right moment I dropped a Nim Deathmantle and finish off the mill deck with a few Bosh's to the face while the Tawnos player lost due to an empty library.
Overall I really had no business winning that game, but I just had to share it as a) this was my first time playing the deck and I had a blast piloting it (even with all of the stax going on), and b) the game serves as a great example of how correctly navigating the table and playing politics can still result in the win even while facing the most bleak of circumstances.