Part of the desired result here is not simply "in this one game, the aggro player can now kill the combo player first, thus solving the problems in the format". The desired result is that, because lower life totals incentivize more aggressive strategies, there AREN'T two combo players at ...

The point is that even if dedicated combo decks are weakened with a change in starting life totals, even creature/combat decks are still going to run insta kill plays. I just don't see that going away. My reply to this is to reiterate a point Dirk made: a LOT of choices made in terms of deck constr...

The point is that even if dedicated combo decks are weakened with a change in starting life totals, even creature/combat decks are still going to run insta kill plays. I just don't see that going away. My reply to this is to reiterate a point Dirk made: a LOT of choices made in terms of deck constr...

Hell no. Already began ordering a handful of singles, though, since the prices have come down significantly.

Based on what's been spoiled so far, agreed.

Day of Judgment combos with Fanatical Devotion but not sure I've ever experienced the no regen rider mattering personally. Wrath mostly gets the nod in my decks where I'm worried about cmc (Perhaps bc I'm building a bit higher power deck). Otherwise I'll run the upside sweepers.

I love this card but I am an admitted token addict. That being said I don't think I'm currently running it anywhere. For a long time I had it in my mid-power-non-infinite Prossh deck. But when I powered that up to 8.5-9 it was an easy cut.

An open sac outlet in the command zone is a really powerful effect (that's unprecedented afaik?) [...] yahenni, undying partisan My first though was that Yawgmoth is, but you already provided another example in your post :) I agree with the idea that most partners so far haven't really stood out an...

I run it as an uber hate card in a Junk tokens deck. I agree it can lead to some feel-bads but I also feel that deck is pretty fair at abusing it by being built to simply generate more 1/1s than anyone else and close the game fairly quickly. To me that's less annoying than my buddy who runs it in Go...

@ squirreltoken

We did the exact same thing with frozen shades! Card would have been oppressive....if we weren't playing with decks that used every card we owned 😭