How to Have 250 Decks!

Wow. So I started this project about 7 years ago  (it has been 2,848 days between Game #1 and Game#250).  I know I had some followers awhile ago, but seeing as how it took me 893 days to get from Game #241 to Game #250, I’m not surprised that this blog is now really just a place for me to write stuff for myself.  And I will fully admit that the depth and quality of the writing has gone way down (Kids and D&D, I tell you).   I’ve noticed that most of my card image links have gone dead too.

However… I am feeling a bit more invigorated to play and build decks again, and I still have a crapload of decks that are nearly done.  So, to you one lonely cricket out there:  I’m still here.   

Things I plan to do / Things to look forward to:

Decks including: Brudiclad, Nazhan, Jenara, new Tazri (party!), and a bunch of Partner combos.

Updates to the TappedOut.com lists for previous games.

Maybe some more “My 5 Cents On….” posts.  I’ve been watching some YouTubers and I want to complain about their complaining… And about the speed of the format, and cEDH, and about Secret Lairs and entitled communities.

Lastly, since I love to make bad Spreadsheets,  here’s the digest version — with stats, and (soon) Graphs — of this blog in Google Sheets format (still very much a Work in Progress).  Feel free to leave comments on it.

Game #250 : Thalisse, Reverent Medium

Game #250: Thalisse, Reverent Medium
Date: 2021-1-2
Location: My House, Portland, OR
vs: Hamza, Guardian of Arashin
Result: Fun Win

Quietly, oddly, and in the least auspicious way,  I hit the 250 mark   (2 days late of my unpublished personal goal).  In doing an actual deck reckoning, I realized that I technically don’t have 250 decks built currently (it’s closer to 245-247, depending on how you count the deck that is a 50 card base and can combine any two of the three 25 card packages that come with Lazav/Sakashima/Dragonlord Silumgar) because at least two of the decks in the game write-ups have been completely retired.  I also haven’t counted my Nazhan deck that is still 85% stock and I’m swapping in new cards (and pulling out Cats for a different deck) as I play it.   But Game 250 is still a milestone!

My wife had to work on the weekend, so I asked my Brother in Law if he wanted to bring his kids over to play with their cousins. He, unprompted, also brought his Commander deck, and as the 3-year-olds played noisily, and the 9-month-old tried to sleep. After they got too noisy, we moved them upstairs, and tried to get a second game in while they played with Harry Potter Legos.  We sat on the floor with a blanket as playmat.

Despite never getting more than 5 lands, I had a ton of great cards that set me up well from the beginning.  Hamza also started building a pretty strong board, but I played Thalisse on turn 5, and then just kept making blockers.  Having Prava to buff them on attack, Cruel Celebrant to make them hurt on the way out, and then my #1 gal Teysa, Orzhov Scion, and her Twin Sister Teysa Karlov to remove stuff and do damage in the process.  I ended the game with a Bastion of Remembrance, and sacrificing 6 creatures to do the last 24 damage to win.

About the Deck (TappedOut — Someday):  I know I play a lot of WB decks, and they’re mostly either Tokens, Lifegain, or both.  I just really liked Thalisse (probably my favorite Legend from Commander Legends), and knew I needed another one.  While it has overlap with decks like Teysa, OS  and Teysa K,  it leans more into a Go Wide strategy than the former (Which is combo/engine based) or the latter (which is trigger based). It also leans more into non-creature tokens. This was a draft run, as I am still waiting for some slow shipping cards (Elenda and Pitiless Plunderer.