A little over a month ago, I did my usual blog post on my Commander Night - which also happened to be a "Magic Presents: Pride" event, which also happened to fall a scant few days after Wizards of the Coast engaged in some transphobic fuckery as part of their union-busting efforts.
Since then, I've been busy on my Friday Nights. Work, "Summerween" at the haunted house where I work, a trip to Too Many Games, more work...
This was the first time in over a month where I could even consider going out to play Commander.
I decided I was going to go. I just don't plan to spend any more money on Magic product any time soon. A little unfortunate, because there are a couple of upcoming sets I had previously been looking forward to - I am not (wholly) immune to Universes Beyond, because I love The Hobbit and would've been more than glad to pick up a fair bit from the set.
But... Not right now. Not unless I see something that indicates Wizards plans to be less of a shitty company, which is a tall order.
Which brings me to tonight's games.
I, uh, may have flown too close to the sun. Only one of the games I played today was with a pod of four.
Winota may have done her thing a little too well. Two of the four players in the first game I played tonight broke off into another pod (though I think part of that was also that they had more friends show up... but still), leaving me and the last player just playing one-on-one games against each other for the rest of the night.
I got one game in with Sanar, winning it because my opponent looked at it, wondered if it was "the meme deck", decided it wasn't, and then when I got my turn with Sanar in play, they realized it was the meme after about four or five lands.
Next up was the first of my two games with The Wandering Minstrel, which went swimmingly - I had my Token Nonsense™ set up and churning out two 4/4 Angels with Flying and Vigilance every turn, sometimes four Angels if I drew into a land!
The problem was that my opponent had a Platinum Angel with a Lightning Greaves attached, and I had no way to get around the Shroud and remove the Angel, so while I was able to handily beat them deep into a negative life total, it ultimately meant nothing in the face of their inability to lose the game.
This was followed up by a game with Ashling, which I ultimately won, my Elementals engaging in quite some shenanigans. I realized early on that Myriad of Mysteries was mostly ineffective in a one-on-one game due to Myriad doing nothing without more opponents to make copies of my creatures, but it was still a five-color permanent, letting Shimmercreep do a fair bit of life-drain thanks to Conjurer's Closet blinking it for a few turns.
And finally, I pulled Minstrel back out to play against their Yuna deck, and we had...
Frankly, a hilariously bad game where neither of us had anything going on for like, ten turns. I did a lot of work swinging with Emet-Selch and the Regalia, and finally got an 11/11 Hero out of the "Lasting Fayth" Adventure attached to Zanarkand. Combined with the Minstrel's activated ability, this gave me enough power to finish my opponent off, who had still not seen much of anything from their deck.
After that, we both decided to call it for the night.
