I'm only returning what those people are giving out. I think I was clear that I'm not contemptuous of all cEDHers, just the ones who are disdainful of EDH players.BeneTleilax wrote: ↑2 years agoThis is why people think you're a dick. Because you go out of your way to be insulting. I don't play cEDH, but I've always found the anti-cEDH folks to be far more condescending and aggressive than the pro-cEDH ones, here especially.
If that makes me a dick then I'm good with it.
And I think it's fair for EDHers to harbor more aggression for cEDHers than the reverse. EDH is basically the only casual format in magic, so if all of EDH were to become cEDH, there would be no format left to play casual magic (not that I think that's likely, but it's fairly inarguable that EDH has become more competitive over time, whether that's the fault of cEDH or other factors). Whereas if cEDH evaporated, there are still loads of other competitive formats available. There's also the fact that one pubstomper ruins a casual game, whereas one casual player wandering into a cEDH game probably has no impact at all. And that EDH was a casual format first.
Blurring lines between the formats is at worst neutral for cEDH players and at best it massively grows their format. Whereas it's a big negative for the casual crowd who want to play jank without getting run over. I think it conforms to expectations that EDH players are touchy about power creep whereas cEDH players don't mind.
Why?I think you need some pretty firm evidence before you start declaring something an "existential threat".
It's my opinion. I don't need permission to have an opinion.
Also how do you propose I do that? I think my (incredibly tedious) combing through the wayback machine does a reasonable job of illustrating my point given my 100% success rate with everything I thought to search for. If that's not enough for you to believe me, then you don't have to agree. I don't think it's possible to prove a causal link here, at least not with the information I have available.