Thursday, May 21st, 2020; Hymn of Rebirth Unplayably bad. Resurrection if you want to trade [sym=1][sym=G] for [sym=W]. If you just want to nix the green, Breath of Life . False Defeat is pricey for a crap card, so, I'd leave it out of this analysis (but it is better than Hymn of Rebirth). At 5 cmc...

love these sets because they create a huge excess of decent casual cards. it just feels gross though, isn't M21 coming around the same time? M21 will be early July (releasing July 3rd). So we will have about 2 weeks between it's release and the official start to previews for 2XM. Lots of products c...

I can only presume you're doing it because you hate yourself. It seems like an awful idea, because Rebels are by and large bad cards in EDH, especially if you're limiting yourself to pre mirrodin cards. I guess the one lucky aspect is that they're largely human, so Silvar can eat them, but... do you...

A 4/3 flier for 6 does not impress me, even if it has flash and a single bounce. Any card that I want to consistently beat down with has to be reliable, and a card that dies to bolt does not cut that criteria for me. How awkward is AEtherling with mana, when you already run the Kraken? Granted, AEt...

Is it harder to think about what to discard once or think of what card to play of 20 in your hand, eh? :) I've seen people who cast Praetor's Counsel and have 20 card hands go into the tank for so long figuring out what to do it seems like way more work than just discarding most of the time from a ...

Cuts are always my favorite part about new lists, mostly because they're the hardest part of the deck building process and especially hard to do on your own list. So... - Starting with the creatures...I'm on the record saying that I think these guys want as few actual creature spells as possible. O...

In a world where Sun Titan exists and is always an option if Thrull is, it's really hard to justify ever running Thrull. At the same CMC, Titan has +2/+2, Vigilance, puts things directly back on the battlefield, hits lands (and a small but relevant selection of planeswalkers!), and triggers on EtB ...

Not triggering on ETB is really what drags this card down. It's already an undersized dude that needs to attack for value, but now it has to survive for a whole turn cycle or get haste in white black to even get started getting value. I could actually see it as a fairly solid staple if it worked lik...

WHITE: 6 1 Swords to Plowshares 1 Path to Exile 1 Afterlife 1 Crib Swap 1 Generous Gift 1 Oblation BLUE: 3 1 Rapid Hybridization 1 Pongify 1 Reality Shift BLACK: 5 1 Devour in Shadow 1 Hero's Downfall 1 Murderous Rider 1 Murder 1 Deadly Rollick RED: 1 1 Chaos Warp GREEN: 1 1 Beast Within I see you'...

I think it's definitely fair to say that companion has radically warped the metagame for standard, modern, legacy, and vintage. I think mostly it's lurrus, but still, it was a risky mechanic to make and I think wotc has screwed up for sure. I think it's fair to quibble about whether they've "w...

I think a lot of the criticisms of Settle the Wreckage apply here too. 4 mana is a lot to hold open turn after turn, so it's hard to make sure it's available for the "right" attack. It's obviously not good pinpoint removal, as so much doesn't attack, so it's more akin to a Fog style effect...

Very cool! Thinking on it further, the Green/White result doesn't surprise me when you consider the prevalence of multicolored cards, especially as commanders. Once something's 3 colors, it's waaay more likely to be green or white (only 1 combination of 3 colors isn't) than non-black (which is only ...

While probably not what you generally want to be doing, Expansion // Explosion can be radiated... if you picked the same target for both parts. So if you have the highest life total and/or number of cards, it works out great. But the typical use case doesn't work with Radiate, and it can't work with...

I haven't read the posts in this thread, but my 2 cents worth is that it is and will be an extremely underrated and more impactful card than people will give it credit for. People initial reactions are probably going to be "oh well its just a 1/3 easily killed card, no problems". But requ...

Wow, I didn't realize how much the price dropped. Karn, Scion of Urza is fine as a draw engine, but there are a fair number of alternatives in colorless that don't come with the downside of being able to be attacked. In terms of pure card advantage, if you alternate using the (+1) and (-1), it's a ...

The references to bad math are because your math was bad. That's... it? Hence why I appended a statement about lack of judgement, because I genuinely don't think people should be judged for being bad at math. It's a weird, complex system of rules that many people don't get properly taught, or if th...

One small point of clarification I'd make is that each cast of your commander absolutely counts. So if you cast your commander in a game, that's 1, if you do it again that's 2. If your commander taps to do something that's worth a card I'd count each activation (e.g. Prime Speaker Vannifar .) To qu...

And this is why I'm fairly confident you're wrong: because you're bad at math . Like, I don't mean that as a judgement . But in a 10 turn game, 1 commander drawing 15 and 1 drawing 7 is not them "beat[ing] a card by turn by a lot", that's barely scraping across the minimum between the two...

Its 99 lands and has like 15 lands that tap for 2 or store mana lol. I cast him on turn 3 the first time, then again on 5 and 6. I wouldn't take that deck seriously as it's basically a meme. Of the three actual decks at the table two beat a card per turn by a lot and the one that didn't likely woul...

I suspect you play in a high wrath/removal meta and are the one over-generalizing. I don't remember the last game where my commander was on the field a third of the game except maelstrom wandered and because I killed him on purpose. I do play more card advantage heavy generals than most but its fra...

It's super rough I agree. But I think if you spent a year polling people, tracking decks and games, etc., you'd find it's pretty close to 1 card per turn plus or minus a quarter of a card. Especially if you started to correct for how certain things translate into cards and try to estimate the value...

Draw two cards is the absolute floor of a commander. The ceiling is probably like...prime speaker zegana? In terms of raw cards. Or perhaps nezahal or niv mizzet pardon? So if the floor is 2 cards a game and the ceiling is 30 how far off am I really? The floor is zero. Many have talked about how th...

Draw two cards is the absolute floor of a commander. The ceiling is probably like...prime speaker zegana? In terms of raw cards. Or perhaps nezahal or niv mizzet pardon? So if the floor is 2 cards a game and the ceiling is 30 how far off am I really? The floor is zero. Many have talked about how th...

The issue is that the rhetoric feels wholly deserved here. You're comparing the inability to cast the commander with direct card advantage, and implying that the first one is more powerful. That's fairly ludicrous. I mean, if stopping people from casting their commander was that powerful, why aren'...

Wat? Why are you equating the ability to cast a commander with the ability to repeatedly draw cards? Not everybody plays ephara, you realize. Some commanders give CA. Some are wincons. Some are answers. Some are tempo. Equating every commander to repeatable card advantage is extremely strange. PoK ...