Reprinting things into the ground feels bad too. Nah, if it made EDH more affordable, I love it if every rare I had got Butcher of Malakir 'd. I mean.... sure. I miss the old days when cards were cheap. It's not a great feeling when every EDH staple is a $40+ card. I'd like to build new decks but c...

I find it funny your post because some of the cards you complain about were reprinted at some point. The fact is that WOTC does not want to devaluate cards through Secret Lairs, and that many reprints just don't make sense in supplemental sets. I do agree that some of the decision making is odd, bu...

Anyone know what cards are on "the list" for Neon Dynasty? EDIT: Think I just found it. https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/feature/whats-new-list-kamigawa-neon-dynasty-2022-02-03 So according to this, a lot of the cards I was complaining about got an inclusion here. Not sure how...

After the initial ire wore off, I will say that i know this isn't a huge deal. 1st world problems right? We will see reprints eventually. The set itself is great and has lots of new power in it. But it's still a fact that wotc's reprint policy, whatever it may be, annoys the heck out of me. At the e...

I started ranting in the unreleased and new card discussion topic so I decided to start my own topic instead because I think this is a fairly important subject. My apologies if this has recently been discussed, but I just really need to vent! I'm just really dissapointed with the secret lairs becaus...

Wanted to share some custom commanders I've been working on based on some feedback in the topic. Keep in mind my cards usually are overpowered to begin with, then get balanced. :P https://i.ibb.co/gmtTsyJ/Thule-Enlightened-Veteran.png https://i.ibb.co/6mHkQfZ/Raime-Queen-of-the-North.png Another ver...

I was planning on building a 100% enchantments only Bruna, Light of Alabaster deck just to see if I could pull it off and this was one of the potential includes. Basic strategy being to stall the game with stax enchantments until I can land Bruna and beat face. As others have pointed out, Overburden...

I'm suprised nobody's mentioned Tameshi, Reality Architect . Probably a decent azorius control commander although I have to say I find her quite boring. She is decently powerful though offering both card draw and recursion at an efficient cost. She can also bounce lands to enable the deficit plains ...

I don't see this leading anywhere other than... sadness and despair. DON'T GO THERE!

I think i would just do Glissa, the Traitor and ignore the random generator. Green artifacts, but you at least are using a decent engine and doing similar things but less janky. My 2 cents.

Let us sac Plains (to keep our land count behind) Yassssss! This is something I didnt know I needed and I'm not sure how design hasnt explored this yet! There are some ways to do that in mono white... kind of. Zuran Orb however, probably a bad card unless your commander actually cares about you hav...

My answer: Tallowisp Would love for it to be Two-Color Azorious. Or possibly add something else to get some of that spice. But honestly, I would be 100% happy if I just got a one for one copy of Tallowisp except legendary. I think Light-Paws, Emperor's Voice is probably as close as we're going to g...

Millicent is pretty close to mine. A swarm aggro deck with surprisingly deep resiliency, with some tribal elements for an underappreciated tribe, but almost every creature does interesting things on its own, so I rarely feel like I'm just looking at creature's typelines. I've also got a couple of m...

So we got some potential things to try out in this deck. Wasn't expecting so many artifacts from this set. Shorikai, Genesis Engine Fairly efficient rate here and gets way better with Unwinding Clock Added bonus of turning into an 8/8 creature situationally. I like that it actually creates tokens th...

I don't see why we can't use BM or BoB, consider they'd be mostly useless against mono-color decks. It's no different from people slotting Pyroblast to counter blue based strategy, at the cost of it being worthless against non-blue decks. I was just pointing out that there currently aren't too many...

Ideally, there are pros and cons in having extra colors, i.e., extra options and versatility at the cost of consistency, but WotC had been way too aggressive on helping players mixing colors, and done less to support mono-colors by comparison. As result, there's almost no drawback in having extra c...

My opinion has remained the same regarding this for many years. As long as all decks at a given table are on a similar power level or able to interact with eachother in meaninful ways, the experience will be fun. There are lots of different types of players and lots of different decks out there. I t...

Yeah, I think you bring up a good point in that white doesn't really have any great engines in the command zone. The commanders you mentioned are the closest we get. At the beginning of your end step, you may sacrifice one or more tokens. When you do, return target permanent card with mana value les...

So my question to you is: Are there any mono white or Azorius commanders you can really get behind or have had positive experiences with? If not, what kind of commander would fill that niche for you? Are there specific cards that would support those colors and strategies? Mono white and Azorius have...

EDH Deckbuilding has a video on color pairing popularility that also looks at specific commanders. Video was from July of last year so some things have changed since then. Of note, he only includes the top 12 commanders in each color combination and excludes 4 color commanders. https://www.youtube.c...

hmm... I'm not really in favor of outright deleting too many cards. I'm more of a revisionist. Many cards could to stand to be buffed or nerfed. I have to agree with turning non-symmetrical cards into global effects. A lot of those type of cards are funner if you are able to break parity on them. I'...

March of Swirling Mist . Although this is a bit less flexible in terms of types of permanents it can affect, I think this could be a good swap in over Reality Ripple or even just redundancy alongside. I like the dual function of protecting Niv while having the option to use it offensively too. Marc...

The thing with your general is that when you hit with it you get card advantage. Getting more ramp cards in your deck, even though they are weaker in the late game, is not so bad. Worse to not get to 8 mana! You have a high curve! You can also play looting effects to throw away extra ramp spells. E...

Breya, Etherium Shaper seems decent. Get access to most of the vehicles and vehicle support.

Hmm, Goldspan Dragon is a card I picked up pretty cheap because I was hyped about it, but I really think it fits best in a deck that's "treasure tribal" i.e. Korvold, Fae-Cursed King or Prosper, Tome-Bound . Failing that, I can see it for decks that get multiple attack phases or multile at...

The new dragon cycle was MADE for my Zenith Seeker version of this list. I can abuse the heck out of those death triggers. Out of the three, Junji, the Midnight Sky is really pushed and will most likely win games almost all by himself in my meta. Little by little, I'm trimming down my mana curve. A ...