I hate to be the guy that says a niche card is good because it works in my one specific deck, but Thorn Mammoth and Elesh Norn are my two 7 drops in Emmara, Soul of the Accord. Some games it kills one or two things, some games it is an Aura Shards for every utility creature on board and wins me the ...

DirkGently Not sure I agree with this assessment at all. While the content they create is casual, there are too many unknowns to assume that is the power level they routinely play at. Jim, for instance, always plays his Lich deck or Power + Toughness = 7 lists but has played fringe cEDH/ T2 cEDH li...

The theoretical stuff in this thread is awesome and really helpful, but I found nothing came close to understanding threat assessment than watching competitive 1v1 formats. Watch Brian Weissman play 1v1 EDH and Bosh N Roll play Legacy and you'll quickly learn how much EDH players are throwing games....

Marchesa, the Black Rose is truly impossible to build. I love her, but she gets smoked by nearly every piece of interaction. I've tried building multiple people's exact deck lists and by turn 4 I already know that I've lost.

Also, any tempo outside of the five common boring lists flops miserably.

duducrash I find your interpretation of this statement a bit weird: "And I feel like a lot of recent Legendary creatures are like [Laelia] and am not sure if am a fan." OP stated Laelia felt solved and too narrow to be unique, then stated they weren't a fan of this design. You inexplicabl...

DirkGently You might be reading too much into my comment. I truly do not care about others' decks as long as everyone is having fun. One of my mates plays the exact same Simic shell ported into the newest G/U/x commander and it is always a blast. I am more concerned with OP pigeonholing narrow comm...

Laelia can be built very differently. EDHREC is a horrid website that I won't get into. My Laelia deck was dope as hell and I quickly realized shoving every effect with exile in the text box was awful. I think it falls upon players to build more unique decks, narrow commander or not. Narrow: Tribal ...