The two new Battle Decks from CardKingdom arrived.

They both have the infect deal poison mechanic. Which is why I got them.

I just love the whole Battle Deck idea.

They are cheap ($11.99) decks, designed around a theme to be played against each other.

At the price you ain’t getting any expensive cards. These are almost pauper decks!

However I do know one thing. They are damn fun to play.

This morning I thought I’d check out a couple of deck boxes whilst I was waiting for my coffee to brew. And colour me pleasantly surprised when I came across a Battle Deck I’d forgotten all about plus an elf deck.

The battle deck is a blue/black dimir deck that abuses the on enter battlefield mechanic. Memory serves me right it’s a bloody fun deck to play.

I’m not sure of the origin of the elf deck. I don’t think it was a Battle Deck. It might have been a list that I got online and then just ordered the cards for. It’s a fun deck to play either way. Iirc it only had nine basic lands.

I did have a Mindcrank and Duskmantle Guildmage combo deck that I also net decked. But that got stripped for other stuff. It was a cool go infinite mill/damage combo deck. So this morning after finding the other two decks I once more found a deck list for the combo and ordered the cards to build it. Another birthday treat for myself.

I may have to get myself a storage solution for these decks like my gaming pick up and go bag. So I can just grab and go.

Whilst I’m talking MtG we had a bloody cool three player game of Commander last Sunday.

Dave played my Simic Horrors from the Deep Commander deck for both the games we played. Archie (Charlene’s son) played an official pregen Commander deck for both games. Whilst I played my Dinosaur Tribal deck for the first game, and my Elf Tribal deck for the second.

Sadly for Archie he was mana screwed early on for the first game. Which made him an easy target especially when I had Gishath, Sun’s Avatar out. I was building up an impressive battlefield of dinosaurs. Unluckily for me my Horrors from the Deep deck has answers in it. Answers that bounced my dinos back to hand, and allowed Dave to get the win.

Our second game saw my elves doing elf stuff, despite a slow start due to lack of mana or elves that tapped for mana. But once I got off the starting block it quickly became oppressive, tapping for mana and life.

Again my Horrors from the Deep had answers and once again I had a hand full of cards. Twenty seven to be exact. Luckily on my next turn I had an opportunity to get an unlimited hand size so I didn’t need to discard. I was soon back to the very scary looking board state.

Just as I was going to one shot kill Dave and Archie with twelve flying buffed up elves, Dave pulls out another answer to bounce everything back to my hand.

That was the last chance I got before Dave managed to kill me before taking out Archie.

Both fun games. Looking forward to playing Commander again soon.