What the ban list looks like depends on what you're trying to accomplish. Need to start with the principles of CEDH.

Honestly I think crafting a principles document is something that should be done for CEDH even independent of a banlist.

Welp, I'm frankly glad to see it unlocked as I learned a lot and appreciated most of the perspectives in the thread. I hope this is the right place to ask this but could we get a little official guidance on how tightly on topic you would like this to stay from here on out? I *personally* was enjoyin...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_TZjis3J7s A channel that I really like watching uploaded a video debating Brought Back . TL;DR is that it's great on its own as protection from removal, and it also combos with cards that can sac themselves. The classical examples are self saccing creatures: Glen E...

From what I've seen sentiment wise there're basically a few groups of CEDH players (and all of these were represented in the recent thread) * wants everything to stay mostly the same (committee action wise) and doesn't really care about bans or unbans for competitive purposes * wants minor changes i...

I think there's definitely an appetite for a banlist more tuned to competitive play among some CEDH players. Tough to say where the actual sentiment is.

Solemn or Golgari findbroker would be my picks as the worst cards. The flicker engines (esp. slownjurer's closet) are ones I would consider as possible cuts as well, but they are pretty powerful once you get going and especially with witness. I might do something like: -closet -displace +mystical tu...

2019/07/15 update Cut Blasting Station Add Altar of Dementia With the cut of trophy mage, station is no longer more tutorable, and I have muddle and e-tutor. I believe Altar will beat a lot more things (such as hexproof) and is cheaper, and also functions as a full sac outlet to protect my board fro...

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If I remember correctly, no one played Flash before unbanning of Protean Hulk...

Only cos griseldad's banned too

Actually, Hermit Druid is an effective way to stock a graveyard in a reanimator deck. Food Chain is more iffy on its "fair" uses. I used hermit as a way to hit my land drops and stock my yard in fair-gitrog. It was always super good (Oh, and I had it in Skullbriar dredgechantments too for...

I never had any serious trouble explaining the combo to people but it wasn't very fun to do so :) One time someone made me play it out so I emrakul-mindslavered him and killed the table with his combo instead, but most people don't play promised end in competitive hehe. Personally I think the rules ...

You might like some ideas from my Gitrog deck that does the same thing. https://deckbox.org/sets/1368747 Probably the most unique thing I added to this archetype (I think) are the land-drop tappers. More 1 cmc land drop effects is just, well, really strong for achieving mass landfall - and also crit...

There is a reason that flash is banned in legacy/restricted in vintage and not protean hulk or griselbrand.

That's what we want to find out. If it's possible to ban certain cards to balance the cEDH metagame without affecting "casual" Commander, then that's a discussion worth exploring. I think the answer to that is already a pretty obvious hard no sadly. I brought up some of the most obvious e...

I'd play cedh if it had it's own banlist. Take that for what it's worth j guess. I don't think coexistence precludes separate ban lists. I have gotten. many ideas from duel lists over the years and I am sure cedh would be closer. The thousands of playgroups with different house ban lists kinda prove...

The angst from me is that many cedh players have expressed desires to have the RC change their approach to a degree I disagree with. Conflicting desires for the official rules are 100% my issue. What exactly are you referring to here? The idea that the RC does not ban for competitive metas is a thi...

The angst from me is that many cedh players have expressed desires to have the RC change their approach to a degree I disagree with. Conflicting desires for the official rules are 100% my issue. I think Flash is something of an exception that proves the rule. (I can't imagine even a single example t...

I definitely don't think I'd remove venser. Infinite 4 mana remands is good and 4 mana capsize is gross. His second trigger hitting himself is, well, absurd.

I think this may be misguided as an idea just a little, mostly built on a Food Chain or Isochron ban "have almost no negative impact on normal EDH". I see both pretty regularly for value , certainly not for infinite wins . I think thats a fine idea, but breaks down on actual execution. Su...

I think there's a thread in there somewhere about the arguments pro and against splitting the format. I am not convinced by the arguments I've heard so far that it's obviously bad. I'd be interested in who we think it's bad for and why :) I do think it would be a very valuable topic. I'd start it bu...

Just a tiny side note but I usually prefer tormod's crypt to relic in EDH because it can be recycled (and is findable the same way and costs 0 mana instead of essentially 2).

But I do think a piece of artifact grave hate would go a very long way with it having flash.

I have noticed that even when zoomed in in mobile view in Android Chrome I am unable to click on say, page 5 of a multipage thread, and clicking on the thread always takes me to page 1. This was my #1 issue with mobile on MTGS, and it's super irksome. Any ideas on what I'm doing wrong, or if this is...

Based on my quick refresher of current CEDH strategies I think it'd probably be small as long as you're willing to make a commander point list (so that say, Niv Mizzet, The Firemind cost a couple points because he combos with Curiosity , and similar. Probably easily under a hundred cards. At least t...

Commander 1 Inalla, Archmage Ritualist Creatures 1 Archaeomancer 1 Bloodline Necromancer 1 Nightscape Familiar 1 Venser, Shaper Savant 1 Watcher for Tomorrow 1 Trinket Mage 1 Trophy Mage 1 Timestream Navigator 1 Snapcaster Mage 1 Spellseeker Instants 1 Arcane Denial 1 Archmage's Charm 1 Brainstorm ...

I started with the canadian highlander points and then added my own and removed some (I removed strip mine, jitte, and protean hulk, mind twist, stoneforge, and I think that's it) Then I added the current BAAC list with a thought that this is probably "if this is your commander" (but I rem...

If a thousand CEDH Sisay decks have to die so that one casual one can live, I am fine with that :) At this point it's clear you have a chip on your shoulder about CEDH. We get it, you don't like how we play. So don't play with us! That's the beauty of the format, and we don't want to change that. W...