If your games involve people spending removal on 2 Mana commanders except to stop a combo I don't think our games have enough in common to compare. That's probably the crux of it. Never used to experience a Thrasios in casual games at my LGS, and since expanding onto PLAYEDH, another fat zero rando...

I don't buy that a card with the power level of a draft uncommon as printed is anywhere near enough of a menace in casual as something like Kinnan, Korvold and Golos. If you aren't abusing Lil' T with infinite mana or fast combo, there are better ramp and card advantage commanders.

A lot of the time he ends up feeling like a worse land tax that could even lose you something valuable. I swapped him out of my Raff Artifacts and Friends list despite how synergistic it appeared on paper.

Greetings Sheldon! After looking a bit more into what some others have asked you about "power creep" in the commanders being printed, I noticed a pattern I would like to hear your thoughts on if you don't mind? We've moved from combat-based conditions such as Narset/Kaalia/Brago/Derevi int...

Ditching Flash really hits the instant speed nature of the win, removes the potential of Hulk continuing to be a problem long term, but also denies you the instant speed win by just using it on the Oracle itself if you already have Pact/Consultation in hand. In a meta where there are multiple player...

What makes the Ancient insane is the wording. Let's say you have a signet and a talisman on board. The talisman taps for 3, but for 1 mana your signet produces 6. It is also a multiplicative effect for your High Tide style doublers. I wouldn't sleep on something an early Tasigur could Neoform. Of El...

Sheldon has already mentioned on Twitter a ban is being discussed re: Thassa's Oracle, be it the card itself or another offender relating to its obvious power as the single hardest wincon to stop in the format. Here's your Hulk line without the need for White: Thassa's Oracle + Spellseeker to fetch ...

Anyway, has anyone at EDHrec ever addressed the fact that they don't get data from Tappedout? That seems like a big, if not the biggest deckbuilding website out there. They've said on their podcast that the Tappedout guys believed it would add an unnecessary amount of strain to their servers to pul...

For 3 mana in White I'm looking at Eerie Interlude and Teferi's Protection over this and another card to get it in the yard at the same speed.

I've faced zero decks running him and only run him in Korvold atm, where he is honestly a bit slow for my taste. Sure, I could Entomb>Reanimate him early, but even I did that consistently, I have no fodder then to make immediate use out of him (thus allowing interaction). Honestly, I've found Vilis,...

Um...something is wrong with this data. That or I'm misinterpreting something. Atraxa gets up to over 7K at the end, but there are only a little over 3K atraxa decks on edhrec,,,? Anyway, you do have to remember just how many total commanders there are out there. Sure, Atraxa is the most popular, b...

100% consistency of K'rrik into Vilis sounds horrible.

I think the big shame in Anje is really that it doesn't remotely attempt to reward you for playing fair. Compare her to a recent case of the opposite issue, Urza. Urza can be built as casually as you like, but making your Myr Tribal deck suddenly ramp ahead of even the Green players for 4 mana in th...

I agree and sign up to the philosophy of proxying pricey cards I own already. SDT, lands like Coffers and Fetches, Demonic Tutor etc. Something new I've started to do however is proxy cards I own in multiples that are heavily talked about ban Fodder. Cyclonic Rift is one example, where I've kept the...

I'd actually ban Rest In Peace tbh. Shuts off way too many Mono Red/Black or Rakdos options for 2 mana when there are tons of already played alternatives that don't flat out stop the GY from being a factor in the game and erasing all cards sent to it. Graf Diggers Cage, Bojuka Bog, Ground Seal etc a...

Do not swap out the Cavalier! That thing is the solid abusable removal the deck needs, along with the bonus of retrieving a Helm of the Host or other accelerator for the strategy when they get removed. You're unlikely to care about a board of 3/3s when you'll have as many 4/6 vigilance bodies on ave...