Because 7 is what WotC settled on for best-of-one on Arena and there's no real reason to not follow WotC's lead in this matter.

1. that's not all they can do, sadly, they can also find game winning bombs and extra sweepers and so on. 2. I disagree with you guys that anyone should get to play sideboard level power of cards without drawing them and having to have dead ass cards in their hand. There's a difference between focu...

Think about it like sideboarding in competitive formats. Back to nature is never maindeckable but it can completely turn a post sideboard game against an enchantment deck. Having access to ten narrow cards that aren't maindeckable is more powerful than the best card in your deck right now in many c...

Fundamentally I think a three card wish board is probably safe. That's where the line is for me. I think 5 lets burning wish and living wish get a little too close and 10 is where it's more powerful in enough circumstances that I draw a hard line. Can you explain this? I don't see how a Wishboard o...

Would wishes actually make the format better? I'd ask you to define "better" but ultimately I don't really think it matters. Did unbanning Protean Hulk make the format noticeably better? It's a card some people wanted to play with and despite being a fairly risky unban (seeing as how it's...

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now, we would almost certainly put restrictions in place, but they're be philosophically poor

I fail to see how bringing EDH into line with basically every other format in existence, even BO1 on Arena, is philosophically poor.

Sideboards would move the format further away from its casual origins You mean the origins that included an optional sideboard ? From the link: Optional rules for Commander Sideboards Rather than filling every deck with banal responses, it is preferable to allow some flexibility in the composition ...

These work exactly the same as planechase schemes. ,,,except for the fact no actual cards reference "schemes" and it's impossible to bring a scheme into a non-Archenemy game. No one tried to argue that since you can have an 83 card planar deck the RC should allow wishes. And again, with t...

Dungeon cards do work. The RC announced almost instantly that they do. Haha, of course they do. First it was all outside the game cards don't work period. Then it was outside the game cards work if they're self-referential. Now it's outside the game cards work because we decided some of them do and...

Yeah, I don't consider dungeons to be equivalent to wishes or learn / lesson - they don't have any mechanical function on their own and don't interact with anything. They're effectively just being used as a memory aid, comparable to the monarch token. The fact that they don't take up sideboard slot...

I can't help but notice there's another outside the game mechanic being introduced.

Boy howdy, it sure would be nice if some of these new cards actually worked.

Your absolutist approach to argument is childish. So strike two on your ability to actually engage with an argument instead of being histrionic. and while I shouldn't have to point out why, you probably need me to (and will probably dismiss it because that's your thing). Ah, yes, now I remember why...

Your absolutist approach to argument is childish. I never said that everyone would suddenly be running Tsunami, and trying to exaggerate a position rather than engage with it is insipid. Sorry, I assumed you were making a point instead of just uselessly announcing what is now possible if Wishes wer...

Its not "no reason", its a reason you don't like. Plenty here like it, and know why its like that. You not liking it is miles from it not existing. Pray tell, what exactly is the reason? Because as far as I can tell, the only reasoning for why Wishes aren't legal is a decade old post from...

Tsunami is a poster child for this, not because it's necessarily the worst thing that can be wished out, but because it checks all the boxes. I'd argue that a player that plays Tsunami is a player I don't want to play with full stop, regardless if they put it in their mainboard or Wishboard. That's...

What I don't want is anti-climactic, lame developments in games just because someone wished for their narrow silver bullet answer. Wishes reward lazy deckbuilding. This doesn't make any sense. Bullets, no matter how silver, don't end games by themselves. If somebody is Wishing for a Grafdigger's Ca...

I'm just so damn glad it's never gonna happen I can't express it It will eventually. WotC clearly isn't going to stop using "outside the game" design space any time soon. And each new card is a constant reminder that EDH stubbornly refuses to acknowledge the existence of sideboards for se...

The rules baggage alone is worth keeping wishes out of the format. How many cards in a wishboard? Can I have duplicates of cards already in the deck? Can I have multiples of cards in the wishboard? What would we have to ban if we allowed wishes? Weird how other formats don't have this problem. Almo...

The power level increase is pretty serious; for most decks it's going to be like having an extra copy of demonic tutor that you have to build a wishboard for and then carry those stupid cards around. Is it, though? What, exactly, are you Wishing for that is so powerful (and why isn't it just in you...

They're so far removed from what Wishes actually mean to the format that it looks ridiculous to debate any similarities or to not understand the difference. The two aren't even comparable and it seems like people are outright choosing not to or refusing to see the forest from the trees. This should...

I sure hope somebody picks up that phone : But either way, we now live in a brave new world in which there are currently 3 different cards (Vivien, Arkbow Ranger, Mastermind's Acquisition, Karn, the Great Creator) that reference "outside the game" in Standard now. This appears to be a desi...

In Standard Treacherous Blessing curves pretty well into Vraska, Golgari Queen.

Would you feel any differently if someone without proxies plopped down a tuned cEDH Flash Hulk list? To me, proxies are a tool, and while they can be used by jerks to pubstomp, in this instance the problem lies with the person, not the tool. This hits the nail on the head. I think a lot of people a...

I've always been a fan of classic Akroma, and then by extension her Memorial:

ah, I see. Didn't know there are many outside the game cards printed... so I assume outside the game means the sideboard? and thanks for letting me know about the eldrazi wish. Put three of it in my scg cart. Will be fun to test at least. You would be right in that assumption. In a tournament setti...