Magic tonight!
Psst - this was posted 1 year ago

Headed out to some games tonight with the same crew for some Thursday night Magic, first chance to see an Eldrazi cards in the wild. I think we’re going to be playing some EDH games.

Despite loving Black and Blue, my EDH deck is Bant (GWU for other n00bs), featuring a bunch of legendary creatures (Barrin, Ertai, etc.), all led by Rafiq of the Many. I’ve never used him before, having picked him up at the local card shop for $6. I’ll let you know how it goes.

Initial thoughts are that he’s a bit weird for multiplayer games as his special ability, Exhalted and Exhaulted-enabled double-strike are intended for single creatures who attack, something that doesn’t happen all the time in multiplayer games.

UPDATE:

The deck didn’t work very well at all, mainly because I forgot how to play it and also because of bad draws.

Almost all of the creatures in it are super small 1/1 or 2/1s, so when another player dropped the black Crovax Evincar (non black creatures get -1/-1), I was basically stymied for 3/4 the game while I waited for someone to do something about it (my draws just weren’t working out for any removal). This didn’t turn out too badly for me as because I wasn’t a threat, nobody ever attacked me.

I also never actually played Rafiq. Ever. For the longest time because I wasn’t playing any creatures from my hand I had to start discarding them and did so on top of Rafiq. I actually forgot I had two piles, one for a general and one for a graveyard. So Rafiq sat on the bottom of the “graveyard” and never saw the light of day.

I need to find some new, bigger creatures for the deck that might actually be able to protect me against the much larger threats my opponents were playing. Any thoughts?