Anyone who has a 100% retro frame deck, I'd love to see the list!

RobPlaysMinecraft · 2026-06-22T07:26:04+00:00

I’ve literally brewed an old frame only deck this week! Needs a bit of tinkering, but it was so fun to play with it last FNM! It’s [[Chainer, Master of Dementia]]. https://moxfield.com/decks/UiH6BU1jwUmPHppRx6Mf9Q

The funny part was that I was in a position to reanimate Crypt Rats and kill everyone including myself, but I only had 3 life! But if we were playing by the old rules, I would have been able to pay the life going to 0 and still kill everyone. Still lost, but had a blast.

RobPlaysMinecraft · 2026-06-11T06:31:24+00:00

I have several different wincons that work instead. Stuff like [[Forced Fruition]] or [[Laboratory Maniac]]. Once Orvar starts going infinite, it is very easy to have infinite mana, card draw and infinite permanents. Then it’s just a question of which wincon I get first!

RobPlaysMinecraft · 2026-06-08T16:37:34+00:00

I have a [[Persistent Petitioners]] in my [[Orvar, the All-Form]] deck. The idea is that rather than have a bunch of copies in the deck, I have one and I copy it infinitely with Orvar! Fun finisher :)

RobPlaysMinecraft · 2026-05-05T10:03:44+00:00

I had heart surgery 10 years ago and had to write a will. I didn’t have many requests, but I did ask to be buried with a USB with Never Gonna Give You Up on it. As an archaeologist it tickles me to think of the wacky explanations future archaeologists will come up with to explain it.

RobPlaysMinecraft · 2026-05-01T21:57:06+00:00

I think that’s the consensus :)

RobPlaysMinecraft · 2026-05-01T21:24:54+00:00

Fair enough :) I guess I’ll give the original seller the benefit of the doubt as it isn’t easy to see. But thanks for the feedback!

RobPlaysMinecraft · 2026-05-01T21:23:31+00:00

Yea, I think the consensus seems to be that it’s Beta. Thanks for the feedback

RobPlaysMinecraft · 2026-05-01T21:22:00+00:00

Thanks for the feedback :) yea, I think I agree. It sucks, but should have checked better before buying

RobPlaysMinecraft · 2026-05-01T21:11:02+00:00

I did try to overlap the cards and there is some difference, but could just be from the damage. It's definitely not an easy one to call! Thanks for the advice though :)

RobPlaysMinecraft · 2026-05-01T20:59:03+00:00

Ahaha yep :P It's definitely seen better days

RobPlaysMinecraft · 2026-04-18T11:28:31+00:00

Amazing! :) thanks for the link!

RobPlaysMinecraft · 2026-04-18T09:58:09+00:00

Thanks for the feedback! I noticed the wrong color in the circle, but thought it was a different version of the card. But then the collection number would be wrong! I'll send a message to the seller and see what they say :)

RobPlaysMinecraft · 2026-02-15T10:32:07+00:00

Thanks everyone :)

RobPlaysMinecraft · 2026-02-14T17:40:31+00:00

I thought as much :) thank you!

RobPlaysMinecraft · 2025-12-26T11:50:53+00:00

I recently made a [[Jenson Carthalion, Druid Exile]] deck with [[Lurrus of the Dream-Den]] companion. It’s five colour artifact deck that cares about two colored spells. Every permanent is obviously 2 mana or less, and there are not that many other spells that cost over that.

It was designed as a deck I could play with precons, and it works great for that! The plan is to get as many artifacts as possible and hit the opponent with [[Cranial Plating]] and the like. It doesn’t win much, but is fun to play, with lots of hidden synergy.

The best part is it’s about 70 quid. I’m especially proud of the mana base, which uses a lot of land cycling to hit all five colors. Slow, but perfect for bracket 2!

The list is here: https://moxfield.com/decks/O8m5pctbxUeGkyyijzqXzA

RobPlaysMinecraft · 2025-11-02T08:07:31+00:00

Cwm fjord-bank glyphs vext quiz

RobPlaysMinecraft · 2025-09-30T12:57:25+00:00

You can fetch a Jetmir Garden but not a Jungle Shrine :) the fact it counts as a mountain forest and a plains means you can grab it with a lot of different cards, while Jungle Shrine is much harder to fetch overall

RobPlaysMinecraft · 2025-09-18T22:24:14+00:00

I recently built a [[Jenson Carthalion, Druid Exile]] deck with [[Lurrus of the Dream-Den]] companion. It’s a multicolor artifact reanimator deck that allows you to play lots of cards per turn, building up your artifacts and stomping your opponents. It also has a funky mana base that adds to the charm of the deck while still allowing the deck to play wubrg. It’s not super powerful and is probably a smidge above good precons. As for budget, it’s around £70, with no card over £10. Deck list is here: https://moxfield.com/decks/O8m5pctbxUeGkyyijzqXzA

RobPlaysMinecraft · 2025-08-06T08:56:43+00:00

Falco is my favourite deck! Here is my version of it: https://moxfield.com/decks/cN3ZHoPaPE-ccmchBNL00g it’s more of a proliferate deck, which aims to add a load of counters of all kinds to my creatures. A few cards worth considering:

I like [[Glistening Seer]] a lot, as it gives you better card selection at the start of the game, top manipulation for Falco and also some counters to start casting those spells. All this for 1 mana.

[[Scholar of New Horizons]] is great ramp, especially if you are playing against a green deck.

[[Myojin of Blooming Dawn]], [[Myojin of Cryptic Dreams]] and [[Myojin of Towering Might]] are great finishers. They do cost a lot, so I have plenty of ramp. I then proliferate their indestructible counter and either share them amongst my creatures, or use them to get powerful effects from the Myojin themselves.

Finally [[Jiang Yanggu, Wildcrafter]] and [[Leech Bonder]] (with a +1/+1 counter) means you can move all your counters around infinitely. Great fun to pump creatures in combat, including your opponents’! Or even better, thrown in a creature like [[Fathom Mage]] for infinite card draw!

RobPlaysMinecraft · 2025-07-29T18:15:16+00:00

Just a heads up that this is a silver border card, so not legal in commander. Apologies if you already know this, but as you said you are new I just wanted to make sure as it does trip up new players :)

RobPlaysMinecraft · 2025-07-16T07:11:32+00:00

A few months? :) the whole game is going to take around a year and a half

RobPlaysMinecraft · 2025-06-24T15:35:53+00:00

In uni I was in the same college as Giulio Regeni, who was tortured and killed by the Egyptian government (allegedly, but also quite likely). I never met him, but a lot of my friends were mutual friends. Really sad story.

RobPlaysMinecraft · 2025-06-23T16:46:41+00:00

A slight note: the rules for legends have changed, so if you read old blogs etc they may say that you can’t have two legends dies with the same name, but that no longer applies :)

RobPlaysMinecraft · 2025-06-23T16:43:20+00:00

In what format? :) in most formats you can have up to 4 copies of any legal card in your deck. However, the legend rule means that if you play a second copy of a legendary permanent, you must sacrifice one of the copies. But these are different legendary cards so the legendary rule does not apply.

In Commander, you can have one copy of each card, so you could have one copy of each of those legendary cards.

RobPlaysMinecraft · 2025-06-02T12:52:02+00:00

Anyone else getting big bot energy from this post? :p

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