I'm just glad that the RC and CAG listened to their actual players, over combative loudmouths on the internet.

Regarding them being similar to tutors, they are so in effect, but not so visually. Casual EDH is a system of heuristics, not of hard rulings, so how something looks is important. I've seen groups that ban tutors, but let Golos pass early on, because "he only gets a land, that's more like Kodam...

Jegantha and Lurrus are quite annoying, and I find the companion mechanic fundamentally opposed to the spirit of EDH. The Rules Committee have often spoken about the need to manage consistency, and indeed the singleton structure by nature discourages it. For them to then give special rules to a mech...

I've seen it do work as a lightning rod for removal in draw-heavy decks like Locust God, where it forces someone to kill it fast or you win.

Is Thermopod feasible?

Have you considered Veilstone Amulet, as it can turn all your tricks into additional protection?

Ban Emergent, for being the concentrated incarnation of all %$#%$#% wincons. Gifts is Blue Buried Alive, which means it has a slightly higher annoyingness ceiling, because Blue. That said, I haven't seen Buried be that gross in casual, and if you're not running gravehate in 2020 ano domini, you've l...

I also think Companion doesn't belong in EDH. I feel like a lot of the commander-targeted stuff has been eroding the identity of EDH. It used to be, you had a 100 card deck, with a creature as commander, in that creature's colors. Now you have a 100* card deck, with a* creature* as commander, in tha...

Free spells aren't bad. It's jank, but it's the sort of jank I love to play and play against. And hey, everyone will remember the time Gavi hit a Decree off this out of nowhere.

I hope the Sultai one includes enough Hydra tokens for Zaxara

Splendid is where they all should have been. It'll get some play in decks that want it, but isn't an auto-run in its colors and won't make casual tables miserable until they local-ban it. It's a serious haymaker in Narset or Jodah, and isn't bad by any means when you cast it fairly. The incidental l...

Temur is twice the draw and triggers off creatures though. Also, you only discard at your own end step, so you can rack up a ton of value off instants and flash dudes.

Najeela already combos with a stiff breeze.

Seven mana should get you ahead a good amount; stuff like Sheoldred, Consecrated Sphinx and Platinum Angel set the bar here for me. Seven isn't even hard with a slightly rampy deck. Single card wins on the stack are dull and toxic no matter how much they cost. Time Spiral shenigans, Doomsday sheniga...

What a day for cardboards! Ruinous Ultimatum makes me long for Cyclonic Rift . At least the spoiler season lull was broken. That's something, I guess? :P Ruinous is a big plague wind. It goes with Eerie in the "strong, but not an abomination" pile for me. The decks that it's probably goin...

BUG is pretty common in my experience, as the acknowledged best tricolor, with a ton of powerful generals, and a long history of pseudo-casual nonsense for pubstompers(hello Leovold). I see this as like Pengine, in that people will initially use it as a value play, then slowly gravitate towards chea...

I don't really think it's any worse to see than Intuition , but that's just me personally. If I can make it work, I'll probably run it. If not, then meh. This ends games on the stack. With Intuition, you at least have to pay for what you tutor, and typically show the opponents what you're up to bef...

These ultimatums are busted for sure but I guess I'm not *that* bent out of shape about other colors getting expropriate level bombs. Sultai goodstuff needs no help, especially not in the form of another nauseatingly braindead wincon. Eerie is fine, imo. If you're letting the BGx deck build a fat g...

I cannot view the article as I'm at work, but I'm going to assume it doesn't allow you to mutate for free so that lower's it's power a bit for the specific deck I'm thinking. It just says cast, so I'd assume alternate casting costs (as opposed to additional costs like kicker) would work with it. Th...

A super late tutor that allows you to cast two of the spells you tutored for without paying their mana costs. And as the article shows, it can lead to some pretty busted plays. I would not be surprised if it eventually ends up getting banned. Here's hoping it does, though the lack of an Expropriate...

My meta has enough grave-hate to keep stuff like Eerie from getting too stupid. It's still good, but it's not "lol guess I just win", and can be responded to on enough different axis to keep it in check. Emergent is boring as %$#%, and goes into all the boring as %$#% Sultai goodstuff deck...

Well, Eerie Ultimatum goes into every Abzan deck that cares slightly about the graveyard. It even brings lands in untapped. Hope I can pick it up at a decent price for Nethoi. Emergent Ultimatum pulling two boring wincon spells is a boring wincon spell. I doubt I will ever see this used except for E...

Looks like the manabase for these isn't half bad. Tangos, Odyssey lands, and enemy pains

Have you considered Doubling Season, Hardened Scales, and/or Gargos?