I will be completely honest from the outset here: I do not remember almost any other deck tonight aside from the four that I played, and in the order that I played those four. The one exception is that one of my opponents for tonight played a Thrasios/Tymna deck all night.
It was... an experience. They continually insisted it was just "a slow, grindy midrange deck" but consistently played cEDH staple after cEDH staple and did absurd shenanigans. They were hated out in almost every game that we played, but the fact remains that it was the first time I got to come across the "Oh, sure, it's those Commanders, but it's not that kind of deck!" experience.
Dear reader, it was absolutely that kind of deck. But I digress.
Cloud, Planet's Champion
For the first game of the night, I played my Cloud deck. I've had this finished for a few weeks, but this was the first time I've been able to actually play it since then.
It went swimmingly for me. Unironically, it did almost everything I could have asked to have it do. I even managed to play the copy of Buster Sword I picked up at last week's anime local anime convention, and it was genuinely the reason that I was able to win this game.
The final opponent standing was a mono-green stompy style of list, and they swung absolutely massive creatures at me. I barely managed to survive that turn, I was left with exactly one life point. I drew Buster Sword, played it and strapped it to Cloud, then thanks in part to my Mask of Memory, I was able to draw 3 cards off of the first attack, which hit for 10. I then played Zack Fair for free with the second half of the Buster Sword trigger. Before the second instance of damage from Cloud, I used Zack's effect to put his +1/+1 counter onto Cloud so that the second attack dealt 11 damage, putting my opponent at 21 Commander Damage and winning me the game by the absolute skin of my teeth.
Baral, Chief of Compliance
This game was a lot. It effectively wound up as a cEDH game between the four players, and while it was mostly a fine game, the very final turn of the game turned into an absolute mess. The Thrasios/Tymna player was a major part of that.
I made moves to combo off and win the game, and the stack turned to an absolute mess, in part because the Thrasios/Tymna player utterly ignored the concept of Priority, and tried to do numerous things in rapid succession, though ultimately we did manage to untangle the mess that the stack had become.
And then I didn't even win off of my intended effect, I won because the Thrasios/Tymna player was at a low enough life total that they were taken out by their own The One Ring on their upkeep, while the other two players had scooped by that point.
Krenko, Mob Boss
After the insanity of how the last game turned out, I wanted a game where I could just turn off my brain and slam a few creatures into play and turn them sideways.
I did, in fact, have a game that required zero brain power. This is because Krenko was destroyed multiple times, and the handful of other creatures I was able to play were taken down by a board wipe.
So I basically didn't really get to play this game, is what I'm getting at. It was a lot of hilarity hearing the cEDH player, who had no other decks with them, say that Krenko is "scary" and that was why they were hating my Goblins down so much.
Y'shtola, Night's Blessed
At this point, the Thrasios/Tymna player had to leave, so this was a three-person game to close out the night. One opponent was taken down incredibly quickly, and then went up front to poke around at the store's goods and singles for like, twenty minutes before myself and the other player finally finished our game.
I wound up losing this one, but it was the sort of game that I had been hoping to get in with Krenko, where I had a relatively simple plan and didn't need to do a ton of thinking to make it work.
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