If the sole aim of a deck is to stop a single "overpowered" player and not try to win itself, isn't that kingmaking? Isn't that not trying one's hardest to win the game? Doesn't that invalidate the win of whoever ends up winning? Doesn't that go against everything Dirk stands for? Should h...

Long ago I had a "confusing card text" 60 card casual deck. IIRC... Takklemaggot Dead Ringers Browbeat OG text, "Do you have Browbeat?" Ice Cauldron Dance of the Dead Lim-Dûl's Paladin (not that confusing but the size of the font makes it look like a YuGiOh card in paper) Camoufl...

Your favorite strategy must be cEDH, or you will be pubstomped by everyone at my locals. Even the casual "My deck is a 7" games are cEDH. Play cards over 3 mv? Lose.
I dislike what has happened to this format.

I've had Noyan Dar, Roil Shaper built since he came out and the deck just wants to do too many things at once in colors that don't support it. You need lands because your creatures are your lands, but Azorius has no way to ramp directly, so you need to run artifact mana, but you also need to run cou...

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2 years ago

I don't know how the breya couldn't win after casting spine 7 times. He could have dealt 21 damage with breya's ability to somebody's face while nuking a second player's board. Add in some breya beats I'm pretty sure thats game.

21 damage from Breya's ability is not commander damage.

Tap it backwards. If you normally tap to the right, tap it to the left. That's how I mark permanents that don't untap in general. Then when you untap, tap it to the right.

A mana ability cannot target.

I run this in my Reaper King and love it. It's surprisingly easy to get a permanent of each color, especially when your commander is all five.

It's going over my head as to why this is pre-banned already / bannable at all — can someone help me out? Thank you. Virtually all EDH decks meet this Companion requirement, so is having a Twincast that nuts? Not A Twincast. A pile of Twincasts outside the game. There is no 1-of limit for cards out...

Note that in your example your devotion to blue is one, not two. This is because Shapeshifter is a copy of Thassa, who contributes just 1 to devotion.

I played Teferi's Response in Noyan Dar and even then it was too narrow. It's a blowout if it resolves, but for the stars to align when you have an animated land, an opponent tries to target it, and you happen to have Response with mana to cast it is just far too rare to be worth it. Most generic co...

Note that the token is not your Commander, so it can't for example deal Commander combat damage. Commanderness is a property of the physical card.

There is nothing stopping your opponents from skipping as many turns as you do with Lethal Vapors.
You need something like Grand Abolisher.

Marchesa, the Black Rose would love to start the game at a lower life total.

I played this in Noyan Dar, Roil Shaper, where it's a combat trick on top of being a counterspell, and even then it wasn't good enough to keep 4 mana up for.

There are so many ways to break the symmetry of Stasis that I will immediately scoop if one is played, even if its controller does not present a way to pay for the upkeep. There are certain cards I simply refuse to play against like Thieves' Auction and Scrambleverse , and Stasis is one of them. Car...

Tower of the Magistrate is interesting in that you'll play 50 games where it doesn't do anything, but the one time it's relevant it wins you the game. My favorite use ever was in a Tromokratis deck to make him unblockable by any opponent who happens to control an artifact creature. There's also the...

Aura Thief I swear by this card. Most enchantments are no longer a problem if you control them. It's almost always relevant, it'll block flyers, it's not even expensive ($5) for being such an old card. I'm the only one I've ever played with who ran it. Fertilid Got a +1/+1 counter theme? If you can...