Why? Such a case has never been made for any other effect in the history of the game. Imagine that the default value of all effects legal in Commander is 1. Rule 13 has artificially -1'd Wishing, giving it an adjusted value of 0. It shouldn't be required to artificially +1 Wishing by explaining its...

Agreed that it can, but I wouldn't agree that it should not - not when there is a better way. Commander used to have a "banned as Commander" rule that was done away with. There was a "can't add colors of mana outside of Commander's color identity" that was done away with. Magic ...

While comparing to most cards that do nothing isn't right, I believe there is a worthwhile comparison in Battle of Wits . Why does BoW work in other formats but not commander? Because commander has a format restriction that other formats dont: a fixed deck size. Commander obviously appeals to people...

I want someone to play this so I can make it fall off with mirrorweave. Mega Melvin moment.

Ultimately I think this problem can be averted by simply telling newer players or really casual players to put a bit more ramp into their decks in general, I don't actually think that's good advice. I know it's weird to say in the Sol Ring ban discussion thread I started, but I think people overrat...

I play in a meta with an Azusa, Lost but Seeking deck. It routinely outramps the entire table (including our Sol Ring s) on roughly turn 4. By that I mean it will have more mana available than all 3 opponents combined. (This is in a pretty high powered meta, where things like Chrome Mox are not unc...

Gotta get a Zedruu game into this thread, but I was waiting for a good one. Rather controlly Lord Windgrace , me as Zedruu the Greathearted , and Urza, Lord High Artificer . The game started off real slow. Urza was casting mana rocks but missing land drops. I was taking Windgrace's bounce lands with...

By banning the unilateral fast mana rocks however, you take away the ability of other colors to compete with these fast starts, which will in turn lead to a warped and green dominated meta and man ynon-games where the non green people can't keep up with the green ones. I don't believe this to be tr...

At last, after many months in silence no thanks to mtg salvation, I can now comment!!! First of all, a big thank you!!!! I learned about this Zedruu deck about 8 months ago and never looked back. It is by far the most entertaining EDH I have ever played. Every game is so unique and full of interact...

I think there are certain things people want in gameplay in general, and losing those things is what causes a bad experience. To name just a few: Variety- People like to have new and different experiences. So if you lose variety in a format, people stop enjoying it. Commander has this baked into it ...

That's it. I'm making an account and posting. I can only take insensitive, rude, and hateful comments of Pokken for so long before I officially feel completely dehumanized for enjoying EDH differently. I would like to make two suggestions to you: 1) If you have something valuable to say, don't wait...

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4 years ago

Are they, @tstorm823? Becayse I see here, I'd lose half of Miss Lyz' functionality

Nah, painters servant makes them a color in addition to their colors, so you can make all your mono red creatures red/black and just draw more cards.

Thank you! Apparently they snuck a Primer tag on while I wasn't looking. Sweet. I've learned a lot building and playing this deck. I hope that people reading find use from my experience even if Zedruu herself isn't their jam. If nothing else, I'm still planning on adding a section on how to counter ...

snip about reddit You could not have this conversation on reddit. Reddit is social media, which like traditional media, is performative rather than conversational. Having a discourse on reddit is little more effective than talking back to your TV. You may be able to respond to someone there, but wh...

So it's preferred to have no transparency and have cards secretly assessed on such a list, and spontaneously banned, instead of us knowing about what they're evaluating, and will ban one way or another? Doesn't seem better to me. I have to assume the list of borderline cards worth watching is longe...

Those original Ravnica champs are all fair ways to use Painters Servant.

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5 years ago

That's an awful funny way of spelling Umezawa's Jitte...

You can get Jitte with the second one. You're clearly not greedy enough.

The MTGS link got augmented with an extra unnecessary slash at some point. You took it out and the thing came back. They never fixed it. But yeah, we're here now, no extra unnecessary slashes ;) Holy Crap, just tried it and you're right. Like... Wow. And you're right. Now we are here, where if a li...

Ashnod and Tawnos are two big ones. There's a whole pile of old Planeswalkers that never got cards: Leshrac, Tevesh Szat, Taysir, Bo Levar, Commodore Guff, etc. There's a number of old characters who have gotten woefully inadequate cards as well: Gerard is primary among them, but there's also Volra...

Blade of Selves it is.

I'm sorry but right now all of you are suggesting to ban Flash only in cEDH and not "casual" EDH? ... what the hell? why should a card that has almost no fair use the left unbanned for casuals? So that smartass could pubstomp with their flash-hulk? It makes more sense to ban it in casual ...

tstorm823 has it right. I'm going to start using the term "fast combo" as opposed to combo and maybe folks will take it as intended. Flash/Hulk is fast combo. Mike/Trike might be if you're tutor/tutor/ramp/ramp/Tooth and Nail. Winning Turn 4 or earlier is fast combo. Assembling a Rube Gol...

Istarkano wrote: ↑

5 years ago

Krark

Oh, that's a pretty good one. Think of what the other 9 fingers could do.

For a bit here, I was getting notifications of quotes and thanks but was not getting notifications of threads I've subscribed to. Then I went into my notification settings to make sure it was set to send those. The notification box was checked, but the email box was also checked. I unchecked the ema...

"Involved Topics" added, which lists "topics you've posted in" ( Also, is there a better name than "Involved Topics" that isn't too long? ) Best I could think of was swapping "involved" for "engaged", but I wouldn't really consider that an upgrade s...