To me, the 100 card limit is like banning wood elemental . It doesn't actually do anything, but I guess it doesn't hurt anything? What percentage of your time interacting with Commander is spent actually playing games? Between deckbuilding, general theorycrafting, forum discussions, other conversat...

Two thoughts: First: While I see the comparisons to wishes, it just doesn't hold up. It's the difference between letting a little old lady with 1 item go ahead of you in line at the checkout vs letting every and anyone do it. It's a matter of scale and scale matters. Companions (excluding the otter)...

In my (biased) opinion, it's this simple: - Flash wasn't a problem before the Hulk un-ban - Flash isn't a problem anywhere now, except C2 Flash-hulk metas - Flash isn't the problem, remove Hulk again and let us casual players keep Flash - or - ban Flash locally in your meta. The primary issue that ...

I don't get why the card is particularly polarizing - Part of the reason the card is so polarizing is that it has been put in EVERY commander precon. (That may not be technically true, but it has been reprinted in every commander set, and is one of the very few cards that has been - it's in 90+% of...

Turning all Timetwister/Wheel effects into Mind Twists is the reason that he is banned.

How much delineation is meaningful? Look, the point of rating decks is to break the decks into categories/tiers so they can play against each other and have a good game. How many tiers do you need? We have two "established" tiers to start with: Unmodified Precons cEDH cEDH is obviously the...

No question, keep up the good work. Also, please keep retweeting links to your articles after the 1 week period when they become free to those of us who don't have a subscription to Starcity - it's greatly appreciated.

There is literally no worse feeling to me, than coming out of a game (especially if I won, but even if not), only to have someone show their hand and mention that they had an early chance to win and just didn't take it. It very seriously invalidates the entire game for me, because we essentially pl...

Efficiency is important. Curving out and out-tempoing my opponents is not necessarily. In a 1v1 setting, that's something you can do. In multiplayer, it's much harder. A large number of the 1-drops in my decks are not turn 1 plays. Swords to Plowshares Path to Exile Swan Song Nihil Spellbomb - can b...

"Bad decisions make great stories" I want to win. I will try to win. But when I play standard or limited, I will search for the "correct" line of play that gives me the highest percentage of winning the game. In Commander? A lower percentage play that has a much higher chance of ...

Talk of Platinum Angel but no talk of Platinum Emperion? Seems like an oversight.

I'm still blown away by people talking about Artificer's Intuition like it's a powerhouse. It's not better than Survival of the Fittest and is barely in the same league. It's not ridiculous. It's a niche card that can be powerful if built around, but requires a massive deck building requirement to m...

Your life total can't change, but if you break the protections damage prevention (like with Questing Beast), you can receive poison counters and be killed through infect damage.

If you don't have your commander out (Doran), it's still a 4/4 trampler that cost 1G with a G every turn cost, which is not nothing. Still not worth playing, but not a total blank. It's a neat idea but the implementation simply doesn't work. It's too fragile. It's supposed draw is it's cost, but the...

You seem to have this false ideal that you need to be tapping out every turn while not catching that said birds you're protecting pay for half the cost of the prohibit that's saving them from the aforementioned bolt that otherwise spelled their doom. If I am excited to have the birds in order to ha...

And it's totally acceptable to counter that early lightning bolt to protect that birds of paradise. It really is. Expecting to have 2 mana untapped when my bird gets bolted seems presumptuous. Unless I'm sitting around with mana to spare, in which case, why do I care if my bird gets bolted? This ca...

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This card is bad. There are a significant number of better options. You should not play it.

What I was surprised to see is that Strip Mine is only in 10% of EDHRec's decks from the past 2 years, Ghost Quarter is in 9% and none of the other land killing lands cracked the top list. I won't build a deck without an answer to a problematic land, but it seems people like me are a much smaller m...

I love the card, but it's always so hard to justify not cutting for something more versatile. What I was surprised to see is that Strip Mine is only in 10% of EDHRec's decks from the past 2 years, Ghost Quarter is in 9% and none of the other land killing lands cracked the top list. I won't build a d...

I think you are asking the wrong questions. Well, not that any questions are "wrong", but I think there is a more productive way to think about the process of building. Don't start with a 'which cardtype synergies should I focus on mentality'. Focus on the goals of the deck, and how best t...

It's desirability is for pauper.
It's scarcity combined with the desirability creates the high price.

Rosewater's column today. https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/making-magic/more-odds-and-ends-theros-beyond-death-2020-02-03 That's why it's not in Theros Beyond Death. I am happy to say we found a way to template it so it can fit on a card (that's the real reason we haven't done it for so...