You can read about it here if you’re curious what Dredge decks looked like before Future Sight came and turned the dredge mechanic into a combo deck with Bridge from Below and Narcomoeba.
When Ravnica: City of Guilds came out, Wizards codified the intersection of green and black in the Golgari guild, and suddenly I had an actual named Magic game philosophy that connected with my playstyle, and I’ve been Golgari ever since, starting with me making Top 8 at the Virginia State Champs with pretty much the first-ever Dredge deck! I snuck out an early Oath of Ghouls, and then each time he countered my creature I’d just get it back and cast it again.
The next game against a Draw-Go deck went pretty much the same. Then on my next upkeep I recast Spike Feeder and Birds of Paradise, and the look on the face of my burn opponent was amazing. My opponent tried to kill it with an Incinerate, and I removed the +1/+1 counters to gain four life. On my upkeep, I got back Bird of Paradise and then I cast Spike Feeder. I cast Oath of Ghouls and passed the turn. I started out with a Birds of Paradise, and my opponent killed it with a Lightning Bolt. I remember the first game I played with Oath of Ghouls. I quickly became a huge fan of pairing up the best green creatures with black recursion spells like these. You could invest four and five mana and all your hopes and dreams on some big giant creature, and your much cleverer and smarter opponent would use two mana and counter it or kill it with something like Terror.Īt one point when I was lamenting the woes of being a green mage with a friend of mine, he pointed out there were black cards that brought back creatures from the graveyard, and no matter whether they got there by being countered or killed, I could get them back. Of course, the big problem back in the wild early days of Magic is that spells were so much better than creatures. I quickly fell in love with big, bad green creatures and played them whenever I could. That goes all the way back to the beginning of my Magic story in 1994 when I opened up an Unlimited starter deck and found Force of Nature staring back at me. Before I wrote regularly about Commander, I wrote a lot about decks I played in various competitive formats, and anyone who read me regularly no doubt noticed an affinity I had for green and black. But nearly as many people also mentioned Golgari, which pleased me too. So, I put the question out on Twitter, and the majority replies came back Commander, which made a lot of sense, obviously. I mean, I’ve been writing about Magic for decades now and have certainly presented myself in certain ways over the years, but I figured the best way to get a sense of my brand is to see what people thought when they think about me and Magic. A couple of weeks back, I was curious about my Magic brand.
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