Crown of Fire
Commander / EDH*
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Victories 2.0 —Sept. 29, 2021
Four player pod with Tormod/Kraum, Zur the Enchanter, and Prosper. It took all 3 players 3 hours to take this deck down!
I ended up going for the Smothering Tithe, Revel in Riches synergy after tutoring the Tithe early in the game and netting a ton of treasures already. It was thrice removed - survived two cyclonic rifts, a Seal from Zur, and an Austere Command.
I was exhausting my own resources stopping their combos and I was running out of ways to dodge and ways to protect.
Eventually, I was able to Reverberate a tutor from the Kraum, Ludevic's Opus *f-etch* player and search for Ad Nauseam with Phyrexian Unlife deployed and ready to go. I drew my deck, played Dockside Extortionist and followed that with Exquisite Blood/Sanguine Bond + Backlash.
Since that was not Plan A in this scenario, I realized one thing this deck desperately wants - a Vedalken Orrery. In the early incarnations of this deck I ran it, and I can't remember why I ended up taking it out. This was at least two years ago and my meta has changed so much, that regardless, it needs to be in the deck.
Ghostly Prison has been under performing recently. I was keeping it in because it's quintessential Pillowfort, it just makes sense to run it. And there were a few games where it saved me. However, this deck already has so many ways of halting damage, it's overkill. Several games now it's been dead in my hand. However, had I had the orrery, there were plenty of opportunities to play it and because of it, I would have won far earlier in the game.
However, it was really satisfying winning a three hour game that, looking back, I had all along. I like to play with my food.