Decks can still threaten to win on turn 3, but not so consistently, What makes Flash/Hulk so consistent? Spellseeker / Summoner's Pact ? There must be an awful lot of sets of hands that don't win instantly.... If decks can threaten to win turn 3 (even inconsistently), it doesn't seem like it will e...

you're using the slippery slope fallacy. It's not a slippery slope when it's well documented that, before Flash Hulk (because Hulk was banned) and the partner commanders (because they weren't printed yet), there existed 5c Hermit Druid decks that were fairly well explored on mtgthesource and other ...

"Flash is format warping, nearly all games are solely about whether or not a flash can be cast and resolved, and if it is resolved the game ends." People can and do have some fun in those situations, but it limits choices, and games often become carbon copies of each other. I understand a...

My reading of the discussion was more of a meta-discussion of how the Flash ban relates to why a casual player might disagree with the assessment that banning "purely competitive" cards is harmless to the community -- which I think is extremely topical and important. I agree. Flash appear...

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4 years ago

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

I have played it casually for a long time in a non-degenerate way, alongside Scout's Warning, Leyline of Anticipation and Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir.

I like having instant speed creatures.

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4 years ago

Tuesday, July 16th, 2019; Nightscape Familiar

I really like this chap; I'm not sure it would be playable bordering green, but Grixis needs all the rampy help it can get. It also can chump and regenerate, which is not insignificant.

Ultimately, if players would adhere to the "build casually, play competitively" philosophy of Commander, there would be a lot less strain on the RC to police the format. I think this is the main question/divide. Non-competitive players, in my experience, talk about the kind of game they w...

There are obviously corner cases like Muldrotha, the gravetide but even then, you're better off with a sakura-tribe elder Muldrotha was one of the decks I thought it would be best in. Since you can recur one card of each type per turn, it makes some amount of sense to have artifacts (so you can fre...

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4 years ago

Flash is very popular in cEDH, and generally never used in normal EDH.

I play it from time to time. Mostly as another copy of Scout's Warning.

I've had a fun exercise in my brain for a few years now about how to change a 99-mountain Ashling deck into a 'real' Ashling deck. The task is to, one card at a time, remove a mountain and add another card that would make the deck significantly better. It could even be a fun forum game. Step 0: 1 As...

I'm absolutely in favour of cEDH players running a separate ban list. It's happened in the past with the French banlist, and I see no reason why it shouldn't happen now. cEDH as a concept is entirely antithetical to the principles around EDH. The only solution that will ultimately result in both gro...

There isn't really anything in cEDH to the level of absurdity as flash. Nothing is close. Tbh, I think you side-stepped the question. Once Flash is banned, what's the next most broken thing? Is it also going to dominate the format? One of the huge problems surrounding trying to adjust the ban list ...

Re: the people harping about Flash I play Flash in a non-degenerate way. The same deck that plays it also plays Scout's Warning , Leyline of Anticipation and similar cards. I like playing things at instant speed. Yes, sometimes I get a cute ETB or dies trigger out of it, but it's never something lik...

Dear Sheldon, My thoughts for the format align pretty closely with yours. I have, personally, cultivated a small group from LGSs, and created groups on social media to schedule games with like-minded people. It's what we wanted the format to be! We talk about what kinds of games we want to play, and...

I'm genuinely surprised that Deadeye Navigator didn't get more votes to get yeeted out of this game. My local groups have soft banned it for years.

I think the only one not mentioned that I want to see is Commodore Guff. I just love the art on Planeswalker's Mirth and Wild Research . For the most part, they printed my old favourites (several incarnations of Jaya and Teferi, and that one version of Freyalise). Edit: Sorry, more than anything, I ...

July 12th. 2019; Maelstrom Nexus In honour of the end of this thread on @mtgsally, I felt it appropriate to take the final card there in a moment of remembrance. Well done. I definitely appreciated the Sally thread, and look forward to similar discussions/opinions here. I might be a black sheep on ...

Mirrodin Besieged I appreciate this pun from Modern Horizons ("It's like the Palace Siege cycle!"). What deck do you think this goes in? The deck obviously wants to play a lot of real artifacts, rather than just generating tokens. Something like Sai, Master Thopterist rewards you for play...

My generals usually last about a year or less, with some exceptions. It's less that I have a pile of cards that I want to put a new general on, and more that there are generals I want to build and haven't. I get bored of my piles eventually; there's only so many times I could cast Maelstrom Wanderer...

Historically, I have not. There are plenty of two-cost green cards that will do a better job (i.e. find a less-vulnerable mana source). That said, I would strongly consider it if my deck were based around Restore Balance or Magus of the Balance . It's not that they're totally useless, but you need a...

I'm so glad this thread is remade. I haven't played Jaya in a while, but, I'm excited to continue following this. Monored is always going to be in my deck circulation, since I impulse bought a Gauntlet of Might several years ago.