Another Friday, another Commander Night, another good three hours of game.
Singular.
I played one game of Commander tonight, that took a solid three hours, and while everybody playing acknowledged how long it went, it never really - to me, at least - felt like it had dragged.
All four players held the role of "The Threat" at various points. We all got to do our decks' thing, we did knock one player out weirdly early on and all thought the game would be coming to an end sooner after that than it did, but, uh. It didn't end quite that quickly.
Tonight, I decided to play a deck I haven't used in a long while, my Saheeli, Radiant Creator deck.
And what a wild game it wound up being. Like I said, despite its length, it never really seemed to drag, there was constant play and counterplay going on.
There were five or six separate board wipes, four of which were mine (two activations of Aethersquall Ancient, a Blasphemous Act, and a Chain Reaction). In my last two turns I had successfully activated Aetherflux Conduit once each - meaning back to back turns managing to generate 40+ energy to successfully utilize the Conduit, thanks in large part to my Aether Refinery.
I made a misplay and overreached in my last turn, inadvertently wrecking the plan of one opponent, playing Perrie the Pulverizer, who would've otherwise been able to finish off the third player, Quintorius, History Chaser, which in turn would've left me to win the game. Unfortunately, I screwed up, and the Quintorius player finished the two of us off on their turn.
But honestly, after everything, despite being upset at myself and my misplay, I can't even be mad. The game was long, but I can safely say I managed to do everything I could have ever wanted to do in a game playing Saheeli.
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