My months-long unundefeated losing streak in Magic: The Gathering continued the other night

I have played another game of Magic: The Gathering using my revised Seto Kaiba deck. I lost again!

It was a three-way game between myself, Caoimhe³ and Tigris, who I also played in the previous game I posted about. Tigris was using a revised version of her defender deck with Arcades the Strategist as commander while Caoimhe had Derevi, Empyrial Tactician commanding a deck based around tokens and snowballing counters.

Tigris pulled ahead early, getting a lot of mana production off the ground, aided by Arbor Adherent, allowing her to put out The Pride of Hull Clade, which proceeded to knock out a huge chunk of my life in the first attack of the game. When she tried to put out The Walls of Ba Sing Se I Power Word Killed it immediately and then a turn later was able to use Crux of Fate to wipe the board of everything other than Arcades and a couple of dragons that I had managed to get on the board. With her big mana reserve Tigris remained quite scary and between myself and Caoimhe targeting her after that she was the first to be knocked out.

Unfortunately this did allow Caoimhe enough time to get some of her counter-creating engines up and running with Felidar Retreat having buffed Derevi to the point where it made it difficult to attack with the couple of dragons that I had gotten on the board and Elite Scaleguard stopping me from putting up a proper defence. With the big blow that Tigris had already dealt to me I was loosing life quite quickly. I used Exude Toxin to wipe out the token creatures that she had put on the board thanks to Moogles Valor and Martial Coup but because of Resourceful Defense all the +1/+1 counters on them were able to go straight to Derevi, making her powerful enough to wipe me out with one attack. Forgetting about Elite Scaleguard, I thought that I could hold out for one more turn, so when I drew Haunting Voyage I foretold it, thinking I could activate it next turn to bring a lot of dragons back for a counter-offensive—my graveyard having been filled up a bit previously having milled when Kairi, the Swirling Sky died—but Caoimhe was able to simply tap my would-be blockers and end the game.

I enjoyed the match, though from my two games so far it does strike me that multiplayer games lead to a first mover disadvantage where the first person who gets too strong will be ganged up on. It reminds me of Munchkin in a way that I dislike.