Yesterday I played Deckmaster: A MTG Variant Format by Jim Bowie again - and this time, as often recently, against the Horde (the solo variant for MTG). Pretty cool, slowly my Main Stack is becoming quite usable for this. Still some fine-tuning needed, but it's getting there. The special thing this time: out of the three games I played, I basically played three different archetypes. In the first game, a classic lifegain deck, where I almost didn't care how many Minotaurs attacked me, as I kept coming back up through lifegain and could block with smaller creatures and attack with a few boosted creatures. In the second game, one of the funniest deck variants: Voltron. But not just any creature, but a 0/4 Ox from Theros. With the Vows of Wildness on it, a 3/7 for power-blocking large Minotaurs from the Horde and with the Firewhips then double strike after Titan's Strength as a 6/8. It went through the Horde like butter. But the coolest round was the third one: no creatures appeared, only removal and board wipes. The result was a classic control deck with which I could clear the Minotaurs right at the start. My deck still went down to only 4 points, but then it stabilized and in the meantime a finisher appeared with the Stalker from the sixth district. The Stalker gets a boost for every creature in the opponent's graveyard - and the Minotaurs have a lot there after a while. Which led to the Stalker, thanks to removals, simply clearing the Horde deck with 20-point hits. Cool.