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by NotMyOwlbear
4 years ago
Forum: Competitive (cEDH)
Topic: Atla Palani, Nest Tender - Break an Egg
Replies: 5
Views: 10816

Re: Atla Palani, Nest Tender - Break an Egg

Pod is definitely a good line for this, but without black tutors it is better as a secondary line. Unlike with artifacts such as pod, Naya can easily tutor for creatures, therefore... For the primary line we are probably better off with Mirror Entity, along the lines of: 1. Buff Atla (due to layerin...
by NotMyOwlbear
4 years ago
Forum: Commander
Topic: Having Your Voice Heard
Replies: 354
Views: 43387

Re: Having Your Voice Heard

https://edhrec.com/top/salt Mass land destruction, stax, and extra turns all tend to be heavily represented. The one I always found odd was Cyclonic Rift, but to me that is more in how it is used. I have always been a big defender of it, partially because of how I end up using it as part of the glu...
by NotMyOwlbear
4 years ago
Forum: Rules and Philosophy
Topic: [SCD] Flash
Replies: 75
Views: 11834

Re: [SCD] Flash

Even with Flash/Hulk, its gotta be Flash/Hulk ftw rather than Flash/Hulk for value to get it banned, Yeah, most likely. I would be pleasantly surprised if they banned it anyway, but the arguments and counter arguments to that are just circular at this point. In my mind forms of flash hulk meant the...
by NotMyOwlbear
4 years ago
Forum: Rules and Philosophy
Topic: [SCD] Flash
Replies: 75
Views: 11834

Re: [SCD] Flash

Flash rector is vulnerable to removal on the thing rectored and also by graveyard hate on the rector. Fair play in my opinion. Flash Rector is a fairly common mid-powered play and something I think would be a definitely loss in removing flash from the format. I haven't seen it played, but much of t...
by NotMyOwlbear
4 years ago
Forum: Rules and Philosophy
Topic: [SCD] Flash
Replies: 75
Views: 11834

Re: [SCD] Flash

My issue is what I often refer to as "arms race": no matter how much they claim to be all about "casual play", it is a fact that people want to win. It's part of the human nature. And when a group is set up so that each player often plays the same people over and over, this desi...
by NotMyOwlbear
4 years ago
Forum: Rules and Philosophy
Topic: [SCD] Flash
Replies: 75
Views: 11834

Re: [SCD] Flash

If some element of the philosophy document is destroying more fun than it protects, is it really succeeding just because the victims play differently? Or should it be made slightly less absolute? Or preferably just interpreted in a less absolute way when the situation calls for it. How would this b...
by NotMyOwlbear
4 years ago
Forum: Rules and Philosophy
Topic: [SCD] Flash
Replies: 75
Views: 11834

Re: [SCD] Flash

I am apprehensive about bans in general. I have been playing EDH for a long time, very little of it cEDH. I never personally valued the absolute nature of the statements regarding competitive play. Maybe others have. I valued the type of games they seek to create, and the results of that, but I alwa...
by NotMyOwlbear
4 years ago
Forum: Rules and Philosophy
Topic: [SCD] Flash
Replies: 75
Views: 11834

Re: [SCD] Flash

The idea that 1000 cEDH games should suffer so that 1 casual game may live can't be healthy. If some element of the philosophy document is destroying more fun than it protects, is it really succeeding just because the victims play differently? Or should it be made slightly less absolute? Or preferab...
by NotMyOwlbear
4 years ago
Forum: Rules and Philosophy
Topic: [SCD] Flash
Replies: 75
Views: 11834

Re: [SCD] Flash

If a card is doing only harm by existing in the format, it should be reasonable to consider banning it to improve the overall health of the format.

The philosophy doc clearly establishes the primacy of casual, but there is no need for it to tie the RCs hands completely on this.
by NotMyOwlbear
4 years ago
Forum: Commander
Topic: Having Your Voice Heard
Replies: 354
Views: 43387

Re: Having Your Voice Heard

What reason is there to not ban Flash, outside of philosophical posturing or spite? Occasionally acknowledging that there are other ways to play doesn’t require throwing out the mission statement. It would involve a tiny addendum at most, and could be carefully qualified to be clear that no actions ...
by NotMyOwlbear
4 years ago
Forum: Commander
Topic: Having Your Voice Heard
Replies: 354
Views: 43387

Re: Having Your Voice Heard

I’m not asking for the RC to do anything that impinges on casual. I (along with some others) am asking only for those few and far between changes that can help cEDH without hurting anyone else to at least be considered. I am also not expecting fast movement, in fact, the conservative ban rate has be...
by NotMyOwlbear
4 years ago
Forum: Commander
Topic: Having Your Voice Heard
Replies: 354
Views: 43387

Re: Having Your Voice Heard

The RC has managed to preserve a format that, against all odds, does a decent job of being “all things to all people,” at least to the extent that such a thing is possible.

Listening to differing voices can be a way of preserving that, rather than changing it.
by NotMyOwlbear
4 years ago
Forum: Commander
Topic: Having Your Voice Heard
Replies: 354
Views: 43387

Re: Having Your Voice Heard

If there is an action that can have a major positive impact on competitive metas, without any significant effect on other metas, why not consider it? Not expecting it to be frequent, but every once in a while could be a huge boon if handled carefully. If cEDH players really wanted another format the...

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