I've built almost everything mentioned in the OP because I was like "Great! Some open ended cards for shards/wedges with few options!", other than Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy , Golos, Tireless Pilgrim and Kenrith, the Returned King . When I saw those I felt WotC had gone too far and frankly was...

I have two main issues with Partner as a mechanic: #1: 9 out of 10 Partner decks I've played against are just generic goodstuff decks that use the partners for their colors less so than their abilities. Or they're just so generically good, as others have said about Tymna the Weaver and Thrasios, Tri...

I hate it when this spell is cast because every time I see it cast, it does the following: 1.) Demoralizes the table. The effect is so potent that everyone automatically throws the towel in, just votes for time and says let's go to the next game. Nevermind that if everyone voted Money that many of t...

The weird stigma against "net decking" or using available resources when building decks be it for Commander or other formats is an absurd form of gatekeeping that should have died in the late 90's with the rise of Magic search engines and discussion boards to share ideas, and frankly the ...

The weird stigma against "net decking" or using available resources when building decks be it for Commander or other formats is an absurd form of gatekeeping that should have died in the late 90's with the rise of Magic search engines and discussion boards to share ideas, and frankly the m...

An understanding of what your play group does and doesn't find fun, and being willing to compromise to make the best experience possible for the most people rather than expecting everyone to cater to one individual. Not expecting people to power up their decks beyond their means to meet you when you...

Usually the posts here are people that have pet peeve cards, so it's nice to see a SCD about an actual problematic card. Frankly I'd equally like to see Narset, Enlightened Master go because she creates very similar games. While Golos doesn't have to attack to become broken, he doesn't have the buil...

Any updates on this list? The new treasure dragon Gadrak, the Crown-Scourge looks great here. Also all the free commander spells from c2020 Was just stopping by to post about this, myself! I ended up replacing Metalworker with Gadrak. Metalworker is an immediate target and usually gets removed befo...

Purphoros, God of the Forge has always been my favorite Mono-R Commander. Something true of Mono-R is that it's in the color with the least protection for it's Commanders. I built mine to be rather Artifact and token heavy to speed out Purphoros and as many tokens as possible, with a decent amount ...

Regarding the rules update, I can say based on an extensive amount of experience playing her, that I feel like it'll actually end up being a meager difference. At least I feel it is. With a combination of Anointed Procession + Ashnod's Altar and either Phyrexian Altar or Pitiless Plunderer , you can...

Elenda, the Dusk Rose is now $45 . Does this change really make her that much better? Sure, it's nice to have the option to put her in the CZ upon dying, but wouldn't the plan be to reanimate and sac her a lot? I was actually going to start brewing with her a few months ago. I should've picked up a...

I also play in a variety of places (Magic Online, XMage and on the PlayEDH Discord servers. etc.) and never see Companions. The claim or idea that they're "running rampant" is baffling to me. Most people I talk to that play Commander (and that's mostly casual players; competitive is neithe...

Dungeon homies - are we gonna playtest Obosh? I don't think I've used a damage doubler yet and while it might be a "win more" card if we end up with a few damage dealers, or could expedite the win I don't feel Obosh really adds anything to the deck. Obosh, the Preypiercer 's damage double...

The other night I sat down with my husband and a couple friends and we played the Commander 2020 precons for a while. We got 3 games in all told, and much to my shock, I won all three with the Mardu Humans precon, having switched Jirian Kudro out for Trynn, Champion of Freedom and Silvar, Devourer o...

Here's a few suggestions, as well as suggestions for cuts: Suggestions for Additions: Spawning Pit - An additional sac outlet. It's one of the very few outlets that doesn't have a cost tied to it's activation. Altar of Dementia - Also a sac outlet with a free activation cost. Can mill yourself to hi...

I'd wager that cEDH players cared about Flash. Trying to marginalize them as "not playing EDH" is why there has been so much animosity over the years. The "animosity" exists because they're the ones asserting themselves into conversations with casual players calling every other ...

Thinking a new "Flash" won't pop up is foolhardy. By nature, being competitive and going out of one's way to play the best possible decks, lines of play and cards results in there always being decks that overshadow the rest. In a format as large as Commander, it is supremely easy for one t...

Not meaning to specifically call out Hermes here, but his post is an example of why polls like these useless: I voted for worldfire because I want another way to pop barren glory lol Polls on the internet are seldom voted on by people being objective, and the internet's penchant for both recency bia...

Companions are self referencing and don't refer to others, so the comparison to Wishes that everyone wants to latch on to isn't even a good one. There are some distinctions that exist that people ignore for the sake of debate or inability to separate their personal desires from what is objectively t...

It's astonishing how people can bemoan not being heard and/or being ignored when they're not getting their way. "No one is evaluating Flash, just the philosophy!" Could that be because, other than a very small, overly vocal minority that... Flash isn't a problem for everyone else? That the...

Yeah I held out for as long as I could, I do feel a bit guilty about putting the build into the more competitive zone and pricing people out of seemly playing it. But at the same time, if people have the cards already then might as well show them an optimal build with still most of the same ideas. ...

Yeah I held out for as long as I could, I do feel a bit guilty about putting the build into the more competitive zone and pricing people out of seemly playing it. But at the same time, if people have the cards already then might as well show them an optimal build with still most of the same ideas. ...

Would there be any merit to making temporary (or optional) bans on cards to get feedback and more perspective from players? For example, make an optional ban of Card X until the release of the next core set, and encourage players to drop that card and give feedback on how much they like or dislike ...

cEDH doesn't have its own banlist for a very simple reason: It's not a different format. It's a different philosophy to deckbuilding, gameplay, and player interaction within a game, but that just means that when we sit down to an agreed upon "cEDH" game, we've just already established our...

At first glance cards like Yarok, the Desecrated are completely boring value engines, but I've also seen it built a few different ways that isn't always the default ETB value train. Sheldon and a few others have found the only actually viable Energy commander so far (for what little of the deck actu...