I won't say any of your analysis is wrong; but I do feel that that it is indicative of what is wrong with Commander (as opposed to what EDH was). I really miss EDH. . . Especially since Commander Killed Casual By that, I mean that on MTGO I have not seen a non-Commander Multiplayer "casual"...

I average about 15 basics per deck (regardless of CI) and refuse to go below 10. But then, I'm not playing cEDH (and have no desire to do so) so I prefer an affordable balanced manabase aver "max efficiency."

Seems like it might be good in my Exalted deck (which want to tap creatures for effect before my turn starts but after they would have been needed for blocking).

My favorite use for Academy Rector (which I only pulled off a handful of times) was deploying her (attack or block) with Sneak Attack . Usually searched for Debtors' Knell , True Conviction or Cathars' Crusade (to be followed by Rise of the Hobgoblins ). Mardu Aggro Enchantments FTW. Edit: I should ...

For the nostalgia factor, IMO, every "human" deck needs to include Márton Stromgald and Homura . I can't help much with the OP premise since my Human deck is mono-R and uses those two as swap-able Generals (where Marton is frowned upon, I put him in the 99 and put Homura in the big chair i...

I use this in my mono-Brown Karn's Golems deck - because Karn's ability means I can activate for 1 with no loss of P/T. . . That makes a significant increase in it's efficacy (instead of 8 to cast and 5 to activate it is usually 10 to cast and copy ( Mirrorworks ) and 2 to have 16/16 available on at...

I've had an Enduring Ideal deck on MODO for a long time, but it's been years since I've played it. I wanted a version that could be interactive (it's one combo backup plan is Day of the Dragons and, of course requires enough setup to have the creatures to Dracoize and a haste enchantment). It had th...

Venedrex wrote: ↑

1 year ago

So yeah, that's going to be a no from me.

I took most of the "unban X" comments to be sarcasm pointing out the hypocrisy of the RC saying "Everything's good" when we have X banned, but A, B, C, etc. are all still unbanned and equally annoying.

slightly longer: No changes. We're generally very happy with the state of Commander at the moment. We wanted to wait for the release of Aftermath to make sure there wasn't anything of concern in it, but it looks good and we're excited for all the new toys that March of the Machine has provided the ...

Like I said, it is you and your playgroup(s) that really matter in the determination. If you have no out and I'm taking infinite turns and have demonstrated a win condition, I think it's good sportsmanship and polite to scoop and shake, personally. And I think it's good sportsmanship for the combo p...

You're dead either way, but one takes a hell of a lot longer than the other. That said, I do feel really bad about playing solitaire if someone wants to stick it out because they're a stubborn ass . Thanks for the compliment. Though, I would like to note there are other reasons for playing out a ga...

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1 year ago

Sure, but hatebears are a necessary evil and this one is the only bastion of hope against stuff like Kinnan.

But, it doesn't stop Kinnan, since those aren't "cast" just dropped into play.

Kinnan, Pubstomp Prodigy is the worst kind of power creep - just subtle enough for so many people to think "this is casual" (look at the cost on that activated ability is usually the next sentence) that it makes both deliberate and accidental pubstomp games when it shows but in the casual...

Generally speaking I would agree, but I like to think EDH is on a spectrum of power on multiple axes and that there has to be something between casual and competitive. The delineation isn't - and shouldn't be - perfectly clear. Exactly. I think we need at least three more words (that are not <adjec...

Assuming you're playing with other Adult Person decks, these seem like compact and decent win conditions. Would you complain if you lost to any of these methods? I would be upset to see any of these win conditions in any game with "casual" in the table description. The only one I have so ...

Surveil 2 should have been Fateseal 2. Lose the "flashback" and slot in some other blue effect (maybe even Scry 2).

Sorry, no plans to use this as-is.

Do people feel this Sakashima Syndrome sometimes? For me it manifests as " Thousand-Year Elixir syndrome." Less likely to lose the enabler to a random WoG, and the ability pseudo-haste can be relevant. My pet interaction is, of course, Thousand-Year Elixir + Ovinomancer to make all the sh...

Walking Archive I remember my first Sydri deck running this with Retribution of the Ancients to break parity (remove counters to kill stuff - add back with the ability or Power Conduit , proliferate, repeat as necessary). I miss the fun Rube Goldberg decks. . . and games that would allow you to ass...

And the crowd goes wild! silent?

Generic Enrage Enabler for Dinos. Might be more relevant if that ability spreads or we get more Stuffy Doll/Shaman en-Kor type critters.

Just to be clear, Lunar Mystic has a trigger, not an additional cost. If you're casting a spell that doesn't normally benefit from the cost reduction, Sapphire Medallion won't do anything to Lunar Mystic's trigger. I think you understand that interaction, and are just saying that the cost reduction...

While I agree with most of the above I would like to note (exerpt): The total cost is the mana cost or alternative cost (as determined in rule 601.2b), plus all additional costs and cost increases, and minus all cost reductions. If multiple cost reductions apply, the player may apply them in any ord...

The real issue is the +1. It's really bad. There aren't many creatures that you're dying to get through for damage AND want to return to your hand. And on top of that, attacking and spending your mana recasting the same creatures is not a very effective way of protecting a planeswalkers typically. ...

I'm using scryfall to research cards for a deck with Durnan of the Yawning Portal as the commander. Therefore I want to do scryfall searches on green and/or blue creatures with mana costs that contain 2 or 3 generic mana. But I don't know how and i can't find it in the scryfall help or using google...

Something I've noticed when tuning my decks is an effect that feels like convergent evolution. Convergent evolution is the idea that given a similar environment, different organisms that evolved in that environment will often resemble each other. For example, dolphins and fish both have many simila...

I run it in wincons since it can just get me there with at least two of the wincons. Cool card, even nuttier if you clone it. I'm fairly certain cloning this does nothing as Academy Manufactor is a replacement effect by it's wording. Similar to having this out alongside Xorn . Just something to kee...