How have your EDH games been?
Commander (EDH) forum
Posted on Feb. 4, 2026, 10:47 a.m. by FormOverFunction
Thought I would start a thread about recent games, just to check in. I just recently almost won with my Antique Shop deck, primarily with Dingus Staff against a blood-artist-style deck. It’s always fun to try to puzzle out a win with a deck like the Antique Shop. Has anyone else had recent close games like that? Anything fun or weird?
RiotRunner789 says... #3
I believe OP used it against an Aristocrats deck...
February 4, 2026 1:24 p.m.
Cool idea @FormOverFunction
Went to FNM last week with a buddy for casual EDH. He is just getting back into the game after a 10+ year hiatus. We grouped up with a couple of randoms for four games.
I won the last game with Prossh, Skyraider of Kher. I had Molten Gatekeeper on the 'field for 7 dmg with a Prossh cast.
Next turn attack, then sac Prossh to Tevesh Szat, Doom of Fools and cast again for 9 dmg with Gatekeeper. Then again next turn attack, sac Prossh to Tevesh and cast again for 11 dmg with Gatekeeper ftw. Simple and effective!
February 4, 2026 1:45 p.m.
MindBoogaloo says... #5
Hahaha, odd ways of winning the games are the best! My Happy Sweatshop Workers-deck can win with Burn at the Stake out of nowhere or this Eldrazi (Angelic Aberration), which seems to be made for my all creatures Meat's Back on the Menu, Boys! (CAUTION: STICKY)-deck, turns my meekly 1/1 lifelink soldiers into 4/4 flying vigilance Eldrazi Angels that will get a +3/+3 haste buff from my commander.
February 4, 2026 2:57 p.m.
plakjekaas says... #6
I played a The Unagi of Kyoshi Island deck. An opponent playing the new Lorwyn Elementals precon evoked a Maelstrom Wanderer out for cheap. Cascades ensue, silly board stuff happens, I had a Thing in the Ice Flip with two counters remaining on my battlefield. As soon as the Elemental player tried moving to combat, I used Reenact the Crime on his evoked (so sacrificed) Maelstrom Wanderer, spinning into Arcane Denial allowing me to counter my own Wanderer ànd flip my Awoken Horror Flip to bounce the board, then cascade the second time into Teferi's Tutelage to capitalize on the 3 cards Arcane Denial will draw me the next upkeep.
Quite the interruption to the the Elemental combat plans.
February 4, 2026 8:24 p.m.
Massive and overdetailed game breakdown incoming, be forewarned
I've been testing this mono black control list and had some epic grind fests, I just finished an extremely long and hard fought game against Simic, Izzet Storm, and an upgraded Necron precon Szarekh, the Silent King. You'll never guess who the problem was. Ok this game was absolutely wild, so after about an hour of normal play i.e. simic is simicing and has a rhystic, I have necropotence and bowmasters (2 of my 3 gc's) and I'm keeping the game mostly under control, Mizzix player is totally cucked bc they keep losing their Mizzix, Necron guy is casting Necrons, and it's mostly a fight of Vannifar, Evolved Enigma trying to gain steam and me removing all their stuff except I can't touch the rhystic so we're both full up on cards. First crux of the game, Vannifar player plays Ixidron, I tuck my Crypt Ghast
under The Moment. On my turn I pop the moment and get my ghast back, clearing the rhystic but taking a lot of collateral. I tried to completely recover from the moment wrath via Yawgmoth's Will but Vannifar had a counter for it. So I do seem to pull ahead here, Mizzix just quits and I manage to get lethal on Vannifar. So then it's me and Necron guy. Enter the halfway mark of the game, a 1v1 now. He's at full and I'm at half. I have Crypt Ghast, Gauntlet of Power and both coffers so tons of mana, also I have Bowmaster and Yawgmoth, Thran Physician. My opponent has Caged Sun and Biotransference, and a good board of Necrons with a Trazyn the Infinite threatening to copy a Bolas's Citadel in the yard. I have Dimir Machinations and Languish but most of his stuff is too big, he's mono black so my gauntlet and his sun both pump him lol. I'm so low on life, at this point I need to %100 control the game or lose but I'm in a decent position to do it with the Yawgmoth. Here's my big choice, I use machinations to get Maralen of the Mornsong, then use Talon Gates of Madara to phase her out until my next turn. I take a hit here because I tapped to attack and kill Vannifar. I fumbled a little because I could have used the Yawgmoth and discarded some lands to -1/-1 and reduce my damage. I owned it and go down to 5. My turn, the Maralen phases in, I go down to 2 life. Can you guess what I get with her? Umezawa's Jitte. I needed some kind of life gain and Jitte was just about my last hope. Because I had so much mana and lands in hand, I was able to proliferate Jitte with Yawg and use both modes to perfectly Languish all the Necrons while pumping my board. I draw back up but nothing great. Their turn. They have huge mana too, replay their flying commander and make bonus necrons from Biotransference. Threatening lethal again. Back and forth, I'm CLINGING TO LIFE against these (still pumped +2) necrons, by using yawg ability and Jitte to snipe them and proliffing about 4 times a turn. He gets Bolas's Citadel on board, recurred via the commander. I got a harnessed The Soul Stone and recur Maralen to tutor on my turn, then sac her to yawg (she died to languish before). I still don't have enough life to go for the oppo lock because they are going too wide and I have to actively snipe necrons to stay alive AND prevent the lethal Bolas's Citadel activation. I have Maha, Its Feathers Night and Night of Souls' Betrayal which does NOT kill the necrons but brings them to X/2, I tutor and asymmetrical sweep again with Nuclear Fallout and finally we are are looking a bit safer. I'm still hovering at 1-2 life each turn (on Jitte life support, allowing me to maralen tutor) and barely keeping them off the lethal citadel activation. But I drew like ass, deck has no wincons only sorc speed removal, and I'm dead as soon as they can get 10 nonland perms which could be any turn. But I do have enough cards and mana to use yawg/jitte to stay alive. Finally, I draw Plague Engineer on a Massacre Girl trigger on their turn (responding to their trigger making the lethal necrons and sniping the existing ones). They pass. I use Soul Stone -> recur Maralen and get Engineered Plague. 39 cards left in my deck. I cast BOTH PLAGUES finally making the Necrons X/0 and they concede on the spot sealing the game. HOLY F*CJKSCING NECRONS!!!! Seriously was the most epic game I've had in a while and not at all who I expected trouble from in that pod. WELL PLAYED. Well PLAYED, Necron dude.
hyalopterouslemur says... #2
Not sure if Dingus Staff works the way you think it does. (That's a symmetrical effect, exactly the opposite of what I'd put in an Aristocrats deck.)
February 4, 2026 11:15 a.m.