5.) Once it hits the battlefield, it does nothing. Which sometimes is very, very nice (ala Null Rod ). But this is much more narrow...I know the counter is, "Well, everyone has a general" but shutting down artifacts is leagues stronger and Null Rod actually does affect artifacts already o...

So if every deck packing red starts to play Blood Moon , are we going to ban that too? Perhaps, it's time to change the mindset that one's general is a given each and every single game? Having a virtually-undeniable access to a resource throughout the game is broken. And it's okay for people to sto...

Also, a T2 Magistrate makes you the archenemy. If the other players at the table are powerless to stop it, then they may need to take a critical look at their decks. That is literally *exactly* what people said about prophet of Kruphix, but T4 prophet :) "If you can't kill a 5 mana 2/3 then wh...

I feel like Auspicious Starrix is flying under the radar here a little. 6/6 stats is a big jump for a lot of things, and there's a lot of upside to the card, with the base case being "put a land into play" and the potential to just dump something expensive into play with a little setup. Yo...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=a1zYlrvGCt8 Wow professor is talking in behalf of are complaints about the fetchlands lair and what needs to happen By the way this particular secret lair is now this one is a dunce cap level now was gonna be $165 since you can get one of each for $235 TCGplayer which ...

If it's any consolation, Mark has repeatedly stated that the design space for companions is pretty narrow. We're almost certainly not going to see 100 companions on any reasonable timescale, and frankly I'd be surprised if we see another cycle of ten before the end of the decade. The number of meani...

We only own one and it is currently in our DirkGently-style Phelddagrif , naturally. It was in Daretti before then, and I'm running Journeyer's Kite instead which is arguably not a downgrade Uwotm8? It's literally the same text as the CotD, with the capstone at seven lands. Journeyer's Kite is stri...

Now that Ingenious Infiltrator exists this is only like the sixth or seventh best non-Yuriko Ninja in a dedicated Ninja deck, but of course I still run it and it is still fine. I'm still generally happy to see him in an opening hand even though he's "worse" than Yuriko or Infilitrator, be...

I have to agree that the problem seems to be far more with power level disparities between decks than the companions themselves? Sisay+Jegatha is a strong and consistent combo deck, sure. So is Flash Hulk, and that's been consistently not banned because that's not what the committee bans for. On the...

I think Tyrant's familiar suffers the most from having a crappy crappy floor at its cost. While the 7/7 flyer with haste that burns a dude to death when you attack is powerful, it's not powerful enough to make up for the times it's a 7 mana 5/5 flyer with haste. I think that gulf, more than anything...

Humility , Overwhelming Splendor . This is really conditional on how good an actor you can be, but on the "fakeout exile" front you can have a card like Act of Authority and give it to one of your opponents. Then you cast Grasp of Fate on everyone commanders, and then you go "Oooooh ...

Gifts ungiven is reasonable to come off I think. People say it's too good in combo, but I have yet to see concrete examples outside of double entomb with unburial rites , which in my opinion is totally okay for the total 8 mana that it costs. Expropriate is so stupid it's offensive. I doubt that it...

Its one of those border line cards. It certainly doesn't break the format, but at the same time it such a low cost to include it in any deck. By low cost I don't mean the price to buy one :P And on that note, inclusivity shouldn't be a factor when deciding on its impact. After all not many people c...

In casual metas, a big part of the issue was that clones/flickering/reanimation for everyone at the table all ended up centering around prime time. So yes, the first prime time typically got hit with a removal spell... but then he got reanimated, cloned, reanimated again, and by the 4th or 5th prim...

It definitely depends a lot on the kind of meta you're playing in. Back when Primeval Titan was legal, I played it in a couple decks, but I don't think he ever stayed on the board for a full turn cycle unless I was already winning that game, and of course it was a remove-on-site threat if anyone el...

Yeah, having played when they were legal, Primeval Titan and Sylvan Primordial are on the ban list for good reason, I honestly can't agree with that. Nobody I ever played, either at the couple LGSs I used to frequent or in my own personal play group, ever found either of those cards to be a problem...

I think a big reason the "dies to removal" is a valid argument against this is because... if you don't have removal, but also don't have non-commander spells to play, what exactly are you holding in hand? Like, if not being able to have your commander out is shutting you out of the game, w...

IIRC it's because people were missing mandatory triggers and getting game losses for it. so WotC experimented with making beneficial mandatory triggers optional. I'm honestly not sure if it's something that's continued to now, but it was around for a few years at least. Dragonlover If I recall corr...

Not that I want to get into an in-depth discussion about what does and doesn't deserve to be banned, but IMO... Braids, Cabal Minion Gifts Ungiven Panoptic Mirror Primeval TItan Recurring Nightmare Sylvan Primordial Upheaval So many cards currently legal that are way, way worse than these. How did ...

So an interesting interaction I think I just picked up on, that might have implications for Legendary Creature's with "Dies" effects: If a merged creature leaves the battlefield, one object leaves the battlefield and each card is put into the appropriate zone. For example, if a merged crea...

I think you're overvaluing Obosh, the Preypiercer a bit, especially as a companion. Making all your spells odd is a pretty severe restriction, and I think I'd probably slot him down at 4 along the "maybe worth it" line. You're removing around 50% of the cards available to you for a 1 time ...

I opened the image gallery and literally the first card on the list has a reference to The Wanderer . How come we've never heard anything about her being in Ikoria?? It's also the only reference to her being on Ikoria. And considering her whole shtick is "endlessly wandering through planes, ne...

Very cool build. I like the direction you've built it in, and there's a lot of nice details in here. My first concern is that you might be too light on ways to trigger her ability, as you're only running ~20 nonland sources of non-human creatures, out of 43 creatures. And some of them, like Silverwi...

And the leak was right - rare tri-type cycling lands. Meet Savai Triome , Raugrin Triome , Zagoth Triome , Ketria Triome , and Indatha Triome . One the one hand - these are great upgrades to Frontier Bivouac et al for Wedge decks and 4 or 5-color decks. Having fetchlands and Farseek be capable of h...

Well I suppose it's a good thing that discarding from Cycling is part of the cost of this would pair with Library of Leng to just let you cast spells for their cycling cost. Library of leng doesn't let you put cards on top which you discarded as a cost. smh I know I'm gonna see people trying to pul...