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>Most recent bracket system update
https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/announcements/commander-brackets-bet a-update-october-21-2025
>Outline article introducing the bracket system
https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/announcements/introducing-commander- brackets-beta
>Current banlist
https://magic.wizards.com/en/banned-restricted-list#commander-banned
>Gay Bolas
https://e621.net/posts?tags=nicol_bolas
>Former Commander website, where you can learn the basics, and read the format philosophy laid down by the rules committee
https://mtgcommander.net
>Statistically see what everyone else puts in their commander decks based on what is posted to the internet
https://www.edhrec.com
>Learn about PDH, Commander's budget pauper format
https://pdhhomebase.com
https://www.pdhrec.com
>Deck list site: You can search for decks that other people have made. Authors often have comments that explain their deck strategy and card choices
https://www.archidekt.com
https://www.moxfield.com
https://www.tappedout.net
>Find out what lands you can add to your deck, sorted by category, based on a chosen color identity
https://managathering.com
>Card search
https://scryfall.com
>Proxy a deck or a cube for cheap
https://pastebin.com/9Xj1xLdM (embed)
>Precons
https://magicprecons.com
>TQ
What's a land you feel more people should play?
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>TQ:
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>TQ
They need to reprint this fucker already, I never got a foil when my friend and I were cracking JP boxes for Liliana and now it's stupid expensive
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in every deck
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>TQ
If you're in black, and care anything about getting commander damage/triggers in, then there is no reason not to be playing this. It's expensive now, but I still hardly see it.
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Pathway lands. Come in untapped in whatever colour you need.
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>>97466724
Thanks for advice last thread guys. I think I'm just take those cards to my locals and sell them for store credit, then figure out what deck to play.
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>>97467032
I'm biased because it was my first deck but pirate tribal is fun and decently strong.
It also has a precon that is very cheap as a base and cheap to upgrade.
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>>97467139
Wizards is a pretty robust creature type with lots of options. Personally if that's what you like I'd recommend Kuja.
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and the back side
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>>97467139
or if you'd rather focus less on damage and more on control then I like Azami
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Managed to snag the Mothman secret lair. I want to make him; what should I add? I want to focus on counters and mill of course.
(I wanted to just buy the precon but I'm not spending $200 on maybe $90 in cards)
These are just cards I happened to have in my binder, haven't sifted through my bulk yet.
https://archidekt.com/decks/19474850/moth_man_owned_cards
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>TQ
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>>97467150
wotc has some weird takes on things.
Shaman tribal rocks
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>>97467163
What about from Bloomburrow? I really like the art from those cards. Teferi or Jace? Is that too basic? I recognize Jace as the poster boy for the game.
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>>97467204
Alaina might be the one for you then
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There's a couple cards this deck could still use if I really wanted to perfect it, but for the time being I think I'm finally content with leaving it as-is. I'm pleased with how many decision trees there are deckbuilding-wise for Errant & Giada, even when you're focused on flash.
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>>97467166
edhrec is that way lil bro
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>cheap (mana)
>cheap (money)
>unblockable
>rogue
>looter
>with upside
But is it worth introducing day and night into a game just for this?
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>>97467235
Something I'm also interested in is playing a lot of cards that feature art of my Commander, what kind of decks can I do that in?
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>>97467282
Spider-man
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>>97466917
My brother; I think we were separated at birth.
>TQ survivors camp in my ‘Kalamax: Oops what spells?’ Is a powerhouse staple and part of the permanent 50/100. Emergence Zone is the other; but admittedly it’s close to being cut when I’ve got stuck on 1 fetchland 1 emergence zone after mulligans.
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>>97467297
NTA, have you tried Arcane Denial in Kalamax? I go back and forth on it being useful tech or too cute. In theory when Kalamax is tapped you Arcane Denial any spell someone casts, then the copy targets your Arcane Denial. Copy resolves first, you draw three cards on the next upkeep for 1U at instant speed.
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>>97467282
You could do one of the flip planeswalkers that start out as a creature and theme the deck around them, but unlike yugioh archetypes the cards won't necessarily be designed to work together.
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retro or booba lady? or 1x of each?
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>>97467365
Fuck that, let's talk deck building.
If I'm going to be a supreme dickwad and run Eldrazi, what's the best way to do it? Zhulodok as the commander with tons of ramp/rocks and all the big nasty titans? Or smaller Eldrazi with Ulalek to copy spam them?
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>>97467166
You don't want greaves, shroud makes you unable to put counters on mothman. Consuming aberration doesn't count as mill for triggering mothman.
I usually find that mothman grows fast enough without needing much dedicated +1+1 counter or proliferate support. He's kill on sight, so I prefer to put in more protection for him.
Syr Konrad belongs in any deck with mindcrank.
Cards with flashback or other ways to recur themselves are your friend.
Tinybones Joins Up, Alter of the Brood, the crabs, and those enchantments that make people mill when you draw a card are good ways to get repeated mill outside of radiation.
And whenever mothman comes up I like to mention my personal spicy pick. Mothman can target your opponents' creatures.
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>>97467289
But Wizards...
>>>97467293
>Magic doesn't really have lore or story or noteworthy characters. Most named characters might appear on 2-3 cards in a set, if even that.
That sucks.
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Also meant for >>97467314
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Basking Broodscale
Duskshell Crawler
Cursed Wombat
Winding Constrictor
Bred for the Hunt
Benthic Biomancer
Fathom Mage
Ripples of Potential
Wave Goodbye
Drown in the Loch
Basking Broodscale
Those are some cheap cards that come to mind.
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>>97467371
Neither. Run the titans as a payoff in a mystic forge style deck, preferably blue, so you can also use crazed tutors for complicated nonsense. Alternatively, in a KCI deck run glaring fleshraker to make tons of eldrazi AND burn people AND play more eldrazi.
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>>97467387
it didn't use to be like this, when we had blocks there was room to show the fewer legendaries doing stuff. the narrative was shifting towards planeswalkers doing things either way, because they're the only thing the narrative designers had between blocks
you can use the tagger site to check what cards have art of what characters. alania is not on any other cards, though there is an "alania's" other card. https://tagger.scryfall.com/tags/ar twork/alania
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>>97467311
Of course! it’s in the pool of instants I pick random 50 out of, you don’t have to wait til an opponent casts, you can cast a non-instant spell and hold priority and cast arcane denial on your own spell; doing as you said to draw the 3, it’s good to do after an extra turn spell so you refill with gas before your next big turn. It can be a cheeky uncounterable (more or less) counterspell in a pinch with a huge downside obviously but, I’ll take an opponent drawing 2 over resolving an entwined Tooth and Nail.
Have you played Vivi’s Persistence in Kalamax?? HOLY MOLEY. It’s so strong I want to make it part of the core 50 but that breaks the central theme so can’t do it.
My theme is 49 non instants 50 instants, and all instants shuffled from a pool of idk how many now it’s almost 2/3 a fat pack box. Deck is perfect in my opinion as far as interactive and fun to play but I admit, I wish I had fewer foreign cards as playing the deck feels a little schizophrenic at times. And yes it’s completely biased, opinion based and entirely correct.
Mono Green Thrun the Last Troll Voltron is my secret deck don’t tell anyone.
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>>97467477
It's still a thing, depending on the legendary in question.
https://scryfall.com/search?q=art%3Akellan
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>>97467480
I haven't updated the deck beyond one or two odd cards in years, so I'm not up to speed on the new instants. That definitely looks very good for the deck but the only card UB card I've been willing to play is Out of the Tombs.
These are what I'm running currently, but I might swap Ashling's Command over Prismari Command because making a copy of Kalamax to save him from removal sounds funny. Unexpected Assistance is also interesting just because convoke lets Kalamax be tapped in cases where combat isn't safe, but I already have Springleaf Drum and Sorcerer Class for that.
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Robots
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>>97467616
the only MLD in mine is Planetary Annhilation
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>>TQ
>What's a land you feel more people should play?
The extra turn land
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I HATE MODERN HORIZONS
I HATE MODERN HORIZONS
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Trees in the mail today. Have to finish making Garland, Royal Kidnapper first though.
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All seems good to me, mana leak seems a little weak. An offer you can refuse would be easy upgrade imo if you need counter magic, or Giantfall also good, gets rid of whatever you need to attack in or the ensnaring bridge
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hey my mail showed up as well
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This is what I currently have bought so far for the commander deck
https://moxfield.com/decks/IKXVilvf5EG0bZdiXmv24w
And this is the list of cards I could buy to complete the deck (all suggestions welcome, as I'm lacking black cards or maybe there better options that I don´t know)
https://moxfield.com/decks/SvlTVuQps0aSWI6kq4qNGA
I am having doubts on what to cut on the list, as there are many cards that I could use, but idk which ones would be the best for the deck ...and I still need to add lands.
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>>97467690
sorry not shards but khans because things like numot were still being printed with wonky pip ordering in 2011
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>>97467477
It seems like Jace Beleren has a ton of cards with him in the artwork, is it common for people to make Jace a commander and then fill the deck with "his" cards?
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>>97467749
Also who is Nicol Bolas? I thought Jace was one of the strongest guys. I actually have a Nicol Bolas card though.
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>>97467767
he's a dragon and one of the most featured villains in the lore
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>>97467747
You like games?
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if you're still the ygo player from last thread a thing you need to know is that mtg sucks at building their own ip
jace was meant to be the poster boy of mtg but for various reasons could never commit to him, we haven't even been to his home plane of vryn yet
jace did get a pivotal moment in the latest arc and nicol bolas is a big bad boss character all the way from 1994, honestly that's all you really need to know about them
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Idk why I always struggle with mana. I have 37 lands and it's like I'm cursed or something because in my pod I never seem to draw lands consistently. Either I draw less than 5 lands by turn 6 or I get mana flooded and nothing to play.
Also, I become the target very soon, as my pod already knows how to get around Elenda by exiling her or simply not blocking. But mostly because I run the infinite combo (Exquisite Blood + Vito) [I don´t have sanguine bond)]
The main strat is lifegain by sacrificing things, BUT most cards I don´t want to sacrifice because they help the drain combo (blood artist, cruel celebrant)
Another strat is making my vamps bigger with Cordial Vamp, or trying to make tokens with Charismatic Conqueror (which my friends hate and never give me the token)
Is there something I'm missing to unlock her full potential?
https://moxfield.com/decks/zHyHk2yb0UOvq5sNxBfmAQ
Also, the Stars captcha sucks so bad (pun intended)
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>is it common for people to make Jace a commander and then fill the deck with "his" cards?
no
maybe if you started out playing 60 card during an earlier core set, this could have seemed like a good idea given all the Jace's Whatevers running around then, but there's not enough of those for EDH. somehow, as said earlier, there IS for chandra, but they don't have actually good creatures to be commanders. it's just a flavor choice.
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what made you think he he's str- ok, hang on
jace was gassed up super hard for most of the writing starting in zendikar, but he was mocked by players because he's the personification of that "apologies my friend. as an INTJ, I find these illogical actions of yours to be amusing." meme. at best. at worst he's "dumb writer tries to write smart character." he also had one of the most centralizing cards to ever feature in 60-card with Mind Sculptor, which -har har- left a bit of a psychic scar on the playerbase.
bolas has been a villain since nearly the beginning of the game and is one of the original Elder Dragons that Highlander is named for. he has been the villainous force for everything that wasn't phyrexia for a number of years, and lost relatively recently when he staged a full scale cross-planar invasion. he's probably coming back soon.
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>>97467803
I'm no expert, but from a quick glance I'm seeing too little cheap draw, and too little draw in general.
also, I don't think a deck like yours even needs ramp or mana rocks since you run a lot of cheap stuff.
I would probably replace some of the mana rocks with cheap draw like night's whisper. Then I would start sorting out creatures that never did anything for you and look for even more draw.
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>>97467825 here. Yeah, I was fucking right about you not having enough card draw. You have exactly four cards which draw you cards, and one of them only draws you one card. Cut four bad creatures for a Dark Confidant, a Crossway Troublemakers, a Sign in Blood, and a Greed.
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Reminder
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bob, batbob, the enchantment, there's an inspired bob, duskmantle seer, horse, raid bob, stronghold arena,
keen duelist, the spider man enchantment that keen duelists any two players,
that one sorin,
ad naus sort of
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This card is slept on. At least for decks that discard/sacrifice their own lands or want to reuse fetch-type lands.
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been completely replaced in my decks
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>>97466986
in a similar vain
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>tq
should be in every single deck under the sun.
people apparently no idea how good this land is.
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>>97467559
>ff
>trooncore
huh?
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>3 mana to tutor a land
I wouldn’t even pay 1 mana to tutor a land. I have better things to be doing. Play Evolving Wilds if you need mana fixing. Otherwise what land is so important to 100% of your decks that youre essentially going to run 2 copies of it by including a tutor?
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I cut out crossway because its expensive af (5B)
I also have Twilight Profet, but idk if that one is good enough wihout having City's Blessing
I'll buy Read the bones and other cheap draw (3 mana or less)
I have Keen Duelist, may start using her, but I just have few cards who put +1/+1 counters for her to draw me cards, but I'll try using her
Now that card draw is out of the way... do I need to run reanimation spells? or maybe more things that create tokens to sacrifice?
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I also have some other Black cards that I could use, but I want to make a Mono Black Vito deck, so I try to separate them...
https://moxfield.com/decks/YfqM-bq4u0q-3OfNun1vig
I guess I'll use what I have into the Elenda in the meanwhile
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>>97467993
>give me proof of an Internet meme!!!! this definitely is NOT an attempt to derail your point by saying no amount of evidence is enough
>>>/vg/555658072
Here ya go. They’re talking about changing their appearance IRL, doing “twirls” in the mirror, dickgirls, and HRT in this thread
Now what?
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>>97468013
None of those are worth running in most decks
>Field of the Dead
In particular lmao. Unless you’re playing landfall what does this do for you exactly?
>if I play lands with all different names
>and get 6 others on board
>I get a WHOLE 2/2 token
Wooooah holy shiiiiiit the craziest turn 7 play woaaaah
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>>97468039
I play 14 and he is right, it's absolutely the most infested game of the series
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Not a shitpost. Like i said, even troons joke about FF14 being a troon game. Sorry I didn’t save every meme I ever saw about it. You do not have to believe me, I do not care. Your disbelief disproves nothing and you are simply mad that I am right
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Is this a 2 card combo? My friends say it doesn't belong in bracket 3 but IMO they are just salty, it literally uses 3 cards
Meanwhile Finale of Devastation uses 1 card and wins the game on the spot
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I'm >>97468046, not >>97468071, I just plain think you're being a fuckwad on purpose.
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Favorite 'last words' text?
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Oh this should be good. Go ahead and tell us the line anon, I’m sure it’s completely reasonable, not a waste of mana, and can be slotted into any deck right? After all this entire argument is over running Urzas Cave in 100% of decks and FoD was an example of a card to tutor with it
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I'm jealous of your pod where you can sit there fucking around not doing anything and wasting mana on nonsense to play with a bunch of do nothing meme cards though let's be real, you don't play games you just theory craft.
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>>97468394
good idea anon, thanks. too bad they all are clear, but I guess I can just cut some thick colored paper for the backsides.
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>>97468037
Urza's Saga is one of the most bullshit OP cards ever printed
It's good in every artifact deck in every format where it's legal, and in EDH you don't even have to worry about it saccing itself because LITERALLY EVERY DECK has at least one good target for it
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Isn't it meant to be his Shadowmoor version?
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>>97467994
EW can't fetch filterland which is the superior mana fixer
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this card is funny with ognis
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>>97467681
Here you go.
>>97468469
Yes, but that has nothing to do with pip order.
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>>97469009
I sure will call the judge for that illegal play
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>>97469009
Not him, but I'd argue that to be different because you can go off without the GSZ in that equation. Boonweaver + Gift doesn't do anything itself without a sac outlet, which necessitates a third card of some kind.
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I activate Metalworker and reveal... a Memnite.
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>>97468098
this is an early game 2 card combo.
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>which necessitates a third card of some kind.
which third card? cast boonweaver (1 card) > cast blasting station (1 card) > win the game with 2 cards
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>>97468037
Field of the dead is outrageously strong, and I understand reading the card doesnt convey it's power level, but it has been supremely powerful in every format its been legal in, and it can absolutely end a game because it doesnt make one 2/2 every turn, it usually makes 5-10.
But more to the point, tutoring a land is CRAZED, especially to the battlefield, even when tapped. That anon listed some stupid lands with a few good ones but missed some of the best. Entire decks are built around Cradle. Mishra's workshop is legal. So is Bazaar. Cavern of souls is a staple, as is shelldock isle. Urzatron isnt 3 lands at random, it's two with that "this land is every land type" card. Talon Gates is a combo piece. Minamo goes in every deck, as does strip mine. I'm partial to Inkmoth, but that's situational.
I can continue listing broken fuckbusted insane lands, but it really seems like you are a person with limited experience. Would I run cave? No, not really outside of specific decks. Would I run 1 (Sorcery) "Tutor a land to your hand"? Yes. Every single deck would.
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>>97469258
AIIIEEEE
>>97469272
The tricep is one muscle. The delts go from like the collar bone in a cap that comes to a point just beyond where the tricep and bicep connect to the bone. The delts are drawn like pauldrons, there is an extra piece at the end where the tricep connects to the bracheus, and underneath the tricep near the lats, though I know it's confusing for an artist. I'll accept symmetrical triceps, but that's wrong too.
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Am I stupid or is this insanely good in the blight precon?
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>glaring fleshraker
>pic rel
>instantly win
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>cast
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>>97469538
Not so fast, library diddler
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The sexiest card from Lorwyn.
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I really don't undestand the point of high power commander games
Me and my guys play mostly with precons/bracket 2 stuff cause we don't want to invest too much and even if games do drag out everyone has a chance at winning and there's lots of comeback and board fighting action
I tried out playing at a "serious" table and all games were over by turn 3 with some bullshit tutor combo, we did a bunch of games but they all ended up with the first guy comboing out everyone else (usually whithin the first 3 rounds of the game)
Where's the fun in that, i was looking to improve and build up my decks but if that's all it boils down to i'd rather stay at the level i'm at
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>>97469634
>library diddler
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What's your favorite tribe, and why is it your favorite?
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>>97469654
having played Yugioh recently, I can say with full confidence that some people like playing OTK solitaire counterspells.
Honestly I don't think theres a single CEDH player that, if exposed to yugioh, would continue playing cedh.
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>>97469698
demons, by far
I love how they all look like super muscular, purely evil entities that you don't wanna fuck with. I also like the recent support they got, stuff like Speed Demon and Ardyn really helped pushing them over the edge for me.
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>>97468098
Even if it was a 2 card combo (its not) if it comes down on or after turn 6, its perfectly fine for bracket 3. Tell your buds to get fucked.
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>>97469940
lmao I just saw it on my german imageboard
I can't name a single tcg player by name, and I hope it stays that way. I don't even know the name of the professor, even tho I respect him for encouraging people to use proxy lands for 3 color decks.
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>>97469764
Yes. But you have to do math, and casting the artifacts to make more bots is the only practical part.
The average deck has 65 nonland cards in it. Of those 65, one is the thing and one is fleshraker, and a varying number are mana sources. Of the 34 lands, there are 22, but technically 19 because two are artifacts that become lands, and one is arena exclusive or whatever. That means 15 lands are nonartifacts, minimum. Of those remaining lands, 7 enter untapped, but they are generally limited by colour fixing, so we'll accept the premise you're in 5 c playing all the artifact lands. In order to cast it, you need six mana, and six more mana to tap it. In magical christmasland that means 6 turns, then another turn, and 6 cards that arent artifacts, plus the thing. That also means 5 cards are in your hand, plus the 6th you draw on the turn you tap it, and for the sake of argument all those are nonartifacts. That means there are 3 nonartifacts in your deck still, and 82 artifacts, which sounds reasonable, and that's in a perfect scenario. If someone has 84 life and can stop you from attacking for four turns, you just die.
So, we get into the second part. Some of those lands may be artifacts; likely more than half. Some of the cards will be artifacts. Each artifact you play subtracts from the total, and if 43 artifacts are displaced and no one does any damage, you cannot kill the table. More than likely, you will need nonartifacts, but even if you dont, you still need a way to get your thing to cast it. If in randomization it is deeper than 57 cards, you cannot win, assuming all the cards remaining are artifacts and your opponents are at 40 life, which you have no way of knowing. If you are tutoring, you're either adding nonartifacts or removing artifacts. Same with card draw and ramp. These can not be more than 42 cards total, assuming lands 17 cards required to be nonartifacts as part of the total of the 82 remaining cards (15 lands plus the two combo)
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>>97470000
A conventional artifact deck has approximately 30 discrete artifacts plus lands. You need at minimum 40 IN YOUR DECK when popping off, which is super high. You draw 7 cards assuming to hit all of your land drops and both cards, which means 14 total cards are excluded, and if we assume 60 cards are artifacts for arguments sake (lands plus 40 artifacts) on average you will have 5.6ish artifacts in those 40 cards and 55 artifacts remaing. That means you can play/ mill/draw no more than 15 artifacts in terms of interaction and set up, assuming all the remaining cards are artifacts. If 60 cards are artifacts that means you have 60.60606060% of any given card being an artifact but a 39.4% chance of any remaining card being a nonartifact each additional card you see, so in the magical christmasland you have on average 50.904 artifacts remaining. Then ON AVERAGE using more than 10 artifacts means you cannot do the thing.
In short, you need to cast the artifacts or this whole silly thing will not work.
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>>97469907
Gross. Enjoying the new banlist update? But that makes it even sillier if I'm being real. Yugioh has 10 (technically 11 or 12) zones for cards on the feild divided by type and no mulligans or resources beyond cards in the requisite area. Magic has a bunch of resources and ways to interact with your opponents resources; yugioh is either get your boss monster or your floodgate and gg.
Now the most compelling part of yugioh? Stax. I was playing Diabalos and just straight fate sealing people with the 2000 attack sacrifice deck devestation virus thing. Can't do that in magic. Luv me sum Danger! Darkworld.
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>>97469654
I was the arch enemy at my friend's table when we used to play bracket 3 goodstuff. when I started to play a budget bracket 2 deck on the regular and had not a single win at several commander nights in a row while still having fun, everyone started to build low power budget decks too.
there is something really enjoyable about those tooth and nail fights with retarded mechanics. last night my friend with the highest losing streak of all of us won several games with a draft chaff commander he threw together the night before. don't know when I saw him this happy the last time.
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>>97470125
Nibiru? More like Nibricku! Haha!
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Command zone worthy?
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>>97469953
heliod ballista combo is not allowed in bracket 3 and it's the same mana cost
you can even deploy heliod on turn 3 to setup the combo for later, exactly the same as blasting station
how are they different?
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>>97470150
Honestly? Most things in yugioh are the type of stax that would make a loam pox player blush. This guy reads "time walk with upside".
>>97470176
No. But it is legacy worthy.
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>>97468098
>all these replies saying that this is OK in bracket 3
good thing I don't play with any of you retards
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>>97470187
It's not the same cost. It's 2W+4+1W and two cards. Boonweaver is 6W+3 and three cards. It should also be fine, but dorks do stupid math where they count the mana across multiple turns as faster because they're doing this curve-over-turns-as-efficiency nonsense.
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>>97470217
I've tried, it's KIND of doable with Azlask as the commander, but honestly we need a few more experience counter cards using cards. You just don't have enough redundancy if someone kills the few cards in your deck that use them other than your commander.
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>>97470303
Am I missing something? It's 5$.
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>>97470071
Eh, I think the argument falls a little flat when you realize that Magic only gives certain colors access to certain interaction points in a sizeable amount. Yu-Gi-Oh pretty much every deck can run massive amounts of interaction and still do their thing. Regardless this is some apples to oranges level shit.
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>>97470187
>heliod ballista combo is not allowed in bracket 3
Yes, it is, assuming you have the selfcontrol to wait until turn 6 to windmill slam it or at the very least tell the pod of 3s its in there and can come down before turn 6 but not usually.
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Intentionally playing your deck suboptimally doesn't change its bracket
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>>97469538
Wtf that's disgusting. That's just an auto win with this
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>>97470339
I mean at this point interaction in YGO completely mogs MtG interaction even accounting for how much better YGO creatures are. Cecil, Dark Knight is a damning example of this where Cut Down rotated so now he literally can't be answered in Standard on-curve. There's many cards like Stormchaser's Talent that just instantly make more bodies when they enter, which at 1 mana means they literally can't be answered 1:1 without going first and drawing a counterspell. There's a reason YGO has had blind second decks ever since Evenly Matched while Magic has never had any decks that consistently chose to go second and the winrate gap between play/draw keeps getting bigger (it's as large as 65% in game 1 rn)
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>>97467767
Bolas is one of many resident homosexual dragons of MtG. He has repressed romantic feelings towards Ugin and recently came out of the closet.
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>>97470470
Those are also jank. I'm not sure why you think they arent unless you are like... just not playing wincons and hoping whatever cards you topdeck eventually win the game.
"Optimal" is about 7 or 8 things, none of which are KCI or grinding station or blasting station. Sounds like you have a terminal case of limited scope.
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>>97470486
Until recently there was a fairly strong untieres dredge deck in both modern and legacy. Oops is generally more consistent and easier in legacy, and the fuck do I know about modern I think it's just all amulet titan and energy, but it's absolutely strong, absolutely goes second, and will only be stronger as reanimator and oops get limited by the meta; it was just limited by no "transformative sideboard" and incidental hate.
Dredge has always been a fearsome deck in any format with Bazaar.
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>>97470529
Hmmm, do they want to go second... lately I thought it was galaxy brained +1 raw card in decks that have free interaction and limited card advantage, but those decks dont really care about going first either if they can be fast. Either way, look at this sick deck from a tournament in october.
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>>97470553
NTA but I built Purphrous 2.0. Very fun deck, and can easily be switched out for Tannuk. Really fun finding ways to keep the creatures/ getting repeated death triggers / a bit of reanimation also. You basically build the board up the first 3 turns with stuff like erratic portal, Flameshadow conjuring, etc then go ape shit with the commanders sneak attack ability
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>>97470605
Both of those are illegal in all brackets, and flash hulk isnt even good in the current meta.
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>>97470585
Especially because cEDH is so specific and it’s a problem that solves itself in more casual play. If you don’t like what a deck does, just stop playing against it. All the bracket serves to do is turn you into a sneaky Jew who decides to try to find a slightly more broken technicality i. A way that will cause even more seething and bickering between people you’re supposed to be having fun with.
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>>97470585
>Brackets are bad for commander because they give a decent framework to understand the power of your deck and the powers of the decks of people you are playing against to best give you a more accurate amount of information for a pleasurable game playing experience and to sniff out pubstompers and disingenuous people during the rule 0.
Shoot yourself with a .22 to build up an immunity to small caliber bullets.
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>>97470622
Technically, if you dont break the rules you can. The rules are 0-3 game changers and no mld or whatever. So, if you follow those rules and wait until t6, it is what it is, other than some elaborate nebulous this or that.
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The entire point of brackets is to facilitate the existence of the Game Changer list so they can keep chase cards desirable while placating the whiners. If you imagine anything else, congratulations! You’re a useful idiot.
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>>97470635
In what situation are you sniffing people out? Even in your made up fantasy, you’re a creep. You just want socially endorsed language to rulesfag and cry about some edge case when you lose.
You can just get up and walk away from people you don’t want to play with, you don’t need a pretense to do so.
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>>97470629
And then what? What does that have to do with anything other than a mad anon being upset that he doesnt know what "jank" means who is going to be mad about whatever I post, and is trying to set up some weird binary gotcha to compensate?
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>>97470674
I’ve just known how to have a discussion like that since before brackets were a thing because I’m not a fotm bandwagon fag who thinks this is a format worth conflating with my ego. You can talk about why and how you’re playing, and shit you don’t like without needing to say daddy WotC banned it.
For most people who have actual friends, that sort of shit is implied, really. If some fag shows up to tutor Maralen and Teferi’s as more than a gag while everyone is trying to chill and have beers, you just kick him off the table until he plays something else. It’s not rocket science.
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>>97470707
>"they need to reprint this so the foil is cheaper"
>"just don't buy the foil LOL"
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>>97470726
Ah, I missed the word foil in the original post, I thought the complaint was about the price in general. I was thinking it had hit Wan Shi Tong or Toph, Earthbending Master prices for a regular version or something.
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>>97470661
The system has introduced more problems and confusion than it has resolved, without there ever having been a need for it in the first place. They wanted a soft ban list so that they would be able to keep printing pushed cards without losing the casual audience entirely.
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>>97470633
That was another anon but if you’re bringing shit to play in bad faith it’s not a loss when I simply don’t play with you. Go home and grab something else or spend all night seething about it online, what do I care? You brought something to intentionally fuck with the vibes.
What happens with brackets is you bring aforementioned 3-card combo and everyone spends all night debating whether or not to allow it per the (((official guidelines))) instead of getting to the heart of the issue and multiple people leave bitter and lesser for the discussion to go home and seethe online all night. Case in point: This topic.
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>>97470760
>The system has introduced more problems and confusion than it has resolved, without there ever having been a need for it in the first place.
Bold claim with 0 proof.
The only issue is has is from retards without phones being retards.
Which, clearly (you) are.
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>Purphrous 2
I hadn't thought of that one. I ended up with Ivora when I finally settled on a mono red. Let me use the various discard draw stuff red has gotten over the years and I really enjoyed how low to the ground and quick she scales. Ended up having a similar sub theme of reanimation too. Purphoros 2 does look cool though and I've got a bunch of extra red stuff left over that should work for him and the itch to try another mono red.
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>>97470795
Not an issue if you have friends, but in the interest of humoring you: If it’s between playing duel commander someone in bad faith and going home to jerk it to tall women lifting heavy objects, it’s no loss for me to choose the latter.
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>>97470796
I'm a FF fag in general but the prices on a lot of the art treatments being driven up by people that don't play Magic have stopped me from getting a lot of cards I want. Thankfully some have settled down like pic related, but at the same time the chocobo track foils are all still pricey.
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>>97470807
I don't even want all the various printings, I just want one copy of each unique card because the set ended up being a perfect immortalization of ARR -> Endwalker, which was probably my favorite FF story (thank God they didn't print Dawntrail shit on any of the cards).
>>97470808
Bad combo of Jumpstart mythic+Super good card+popular character. She's unironically a self-contained earthbending engine which makes any landfall deck even better.
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>>97470830
Oh right. I forgot she's the landfall trigger. That makes a lot more sense. The rest are like a dollar to maybe ten so seeing Toph eclipse then so much stood out a lot at first.
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>>97470802
This is a problem. The discussion is a problem; specifically the online bickering. Your attitude is a problem. The egoism of being good at this but not at that, then saying this is better than that because feelings are problems. The skill ceiling of lower brackets are problems. Stagnating and minimizing anything stronger for ideological purposes is a problem. The unintuitive vague rules that have no specific definition regardless of what Gavin says are a problem. A deck with 4 game changers being the same as a real deck built to fuck in bracket 4 are problems.
And these are the result of a half measure community system based on the loud opinions of people who dont spend money, dont play the format, and will be mad about literally anything. And to top it all off, I've never seen anyone in person care, good players will always be better regardless of the rules, and this is the silly looney tunes format for happy fun times with tournaments exclusively at the top end so it doesnt make a difference at all, other than in the lives of scrubs trying to minmax things they dont like instead of adapting or simply enjoying what they say they enjoy.
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>>97468098
If you have to ask if it's bracket 3, then it's not bracket 3
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>>97470852
You're right but this thread is literally full of people who can't make friends despite playing the casual format of a game popular among people who have low standards so don't expect a lot of validation. These are the kinds of people who live to have bad faith arguments about rules and therefore love guidelines like brackets.
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I think I'm going for Zo-Zu. I've got a lot of punishment cards for playing lands, and with the meta being so landfall ramp heavy I think that will be fun. Goblin creature subtheme, some big mana dump burn spells with some redirection and MLD. Should be some good fun going full red and not knowing if I will survive, but definitely will bring some pain.
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>>97470852
>The skill ceiling of lower brackets are problems.
God I feel this one and its so fucking frustrating.
I like playing at lower PLs/Brackets because I fucking hate Grixis comboslop goodstuff piles with no sense of identity just being the norm, but holy fuck some people act like youre some angleshooting pubstomper because you dont build and pilot your deck like a complete retard and actually sit and read other peoples cards as well as your own.
The fact that alot of deckbuilding sites insist my monored Shitbrew is Bracket 4 because I understand basic concepts like synergy and manacurve and interaction.
I hate it so fucking much
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>>97470875
While true, the solution is to ignore them and tell them to fuck off. They're going to bitch either way, just accept it as a feature, not a bug
>>97470878
Not what happened. A magical corporate fairy made tenuous rules list with a tremendous amount of wiggle room as a response to a community run oversight commitee going pants on head retarsed, and I am reading them literally, as rules ought to be read when implemented.
99 cards the same colour as your commander. Singleton except for basic lands. Ban list. Commander goes back to the command zone as your choice when it dies. All that is reasonable, inuitive, enforcable, and straight forward. If you require additional semantics, look up the section for more details. Brackets are not that.
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>>97470900
Yup. I dont mind playing lower power formats, but it's the same shit as complaining a deck made of one standard draft isnt viable in modern, despite being legal. No shit. The card pool is bigger and as the card pool is bigger, the level of what's required to be viable goes up. Just because it isnt the top doesn mean any pile of cardboard is fine, and people dont have to improve, but choosing not to also means you shouldnt be upset when you lose.
New players should not start with edh.
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>>97470878
>Brackets are logical and easily readable
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>>97470879
>Zo-Zu
Oh you are going to thoroughly fuck some players with this guy. If he's catching your eye then go for it anon. Having a consistent source of damage like him with all the additional damage dealers and multipliers red has could be fun. And the sub theme of goblins could give you a sort of backup for if/when the table turns on you.
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>>97470879
sat down ar
t a random game with this once, someone pulled out his zozu deck and the landfall player started crting all game becaythe two of us didn't remove zozu immediately and he "couldn't play the game"
turns out he runs almost no removal and just has bunch landfall value cards
I hate landfall players so much
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>>97470958
>New players should not start with edh
I hate precons for implicitly encouraging this.
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>>97467625
it's my dream to use this on the great work while its first abiliy is on the stack targeting a token player
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>>97470958
Its funny because I actually DID start with EDH myself, but I found the game of Magic so interesting that I found myself consuming alot of different content from pros and creators of a variety of formats.
I feel the problems mainly risem out of the fact that alot of formats have been slaughtered by Wizards in one form or another, so now you have WAACfags populating the MAKE NEW RAT format, and that has created the big counterpush of snooty overpolicing Redditors who demand cards be banned or cordoned off because they're too up their own ass to consider concepts like interaction, removal, or that their shitbrew isnt the big brain pile of cards they thought it was.
The main problem with this community is the complete and utter lack and animosity towards introspection. Go on r/EDH and see how many posts are people bitching about a card or deck or opponent without ever taking a second to consider their own faults or shortcomings as a deckbuilder or Magic player.
Every time I lose a game of EDH I take 5 minutes to think about it. I think about my opening hand. Cards that worked well. Cards that didnt. Did I misplay. Was it just pure dumb bad luck?
Your average EDH player doesnt do this. They either blame their opponent and demand they need to go to a different sandbox, or they stupidly blow 20-30 dollars on generic staples without understanding why they'd want the card or if it works in their deck.
I'm so fucking over it.
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>>97470852
Nailed it. The problems it purports to solve remain, since the exact same conditions are still in place: vague, feels-based guidelines that are paired with hard, explicit rules and then presented as if they’re one and the same. Bad actors can still be just as bad with the same justifications applied to a slightly narrower scope. Meanwhile, it has fragmented discussion and introduced new arguments that even the well-intentioned can run into because everything except for game changer count is about intentions.
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>>97471111
>Everything but game changer count is intentions
I would be forced to play in Bracket 3 exclusively because I run Gamble in a discard oriented deck and Im often fishing for a Crucible of Worlds.
Its just as based in intentions.
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>>97471131
Or bracket one if that's your theme. Bolas' citadel is fine after all in a bolas deck, why not gamble in a gambling deck or a discard deck?
But what anon's saying is the rule about game changers is clear. You count them. Everything else? Not so much.
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>>97471131
Number of game changers is an objective metric that can’t be argued around the same way that “turn you usually expect to win by” can. The only actual rule introduced is division into
>0 game changers
>1-3 game changers
>4+ game changers
Everything else is about vibes.
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>>97471144
Gotcha.
Also reminds me that that stupid "Win By Turn X" metric Gavin was so fucking proud of coming up with has been absolutely disastrous for people trying to figure out what bracket they belong in, because thats such a stupid and ethereal metric to judge a commander deck by, since it completely dismissed the idea of variance in a four player singleton format.
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>>97471161
Personally, I think the funniest part is that it literally does nothing to assess the strength of control decks. A stax deck winning after ten turns is not the same thing as a burn deck winning after nine.
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> go on r/edh and /edhg/
> complain that commander players are terminally online losers
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>Here’s a list of powerful cards. If you don’t run any of them, you’re in Category A. If you run between one and three, you’re in Category B. If you run more than that, you’re in Category C.
Okay, that makes sense. I can work with that.
>By the way, as part of the same update to the format, we want to note that the number of tutors you run will also dictate how your deck is classified.
All right, fair enough. How many tutors for each category?
>Oh, you know, just don’t run too many.
I got that. How many is “too many”?
>More than would be considered a reasonable amount.
And what would be considered a reasonable amount?
>A number of tutors that suits the category.
And what is the number that suits each category?
>Probably less than ninety-nine.
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>>97471298
Alright.
>But you can also discard any rule for any reason and play in the lowest bracket.
I thought the categories were by power?
>Not really. Any deck in any of the categories can be as strong as weak as you want. But in the lowest bracket you shouldnt try to win.
Then what should you do in that bracket?
>Anything else. Use your imagination.
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>playing Myrel
>end up whittling down other players through combat
>down to 1v1
>opponent assembles infinite 1/1 token combo
>no haste
>looks at me smugly
>my turn comes around
>"Whelp I guess all I can do is this"
>Cast Elesh Norn
>opponent becomes visibly upset
>looks like he's gonna cry
>give him a big grin
>"gg bro that was a clutch draw"
God I love Mommy Norn
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I hate that image. Fat bitches? We cool. But elesh norn is my guro waifu; bloody fingerprints on her white patina, skinning the lesser so they embrace glorious perfection. That woman has all her skin. Disgusting.
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>>97471358
Nice. Let's see braphog Saffi's cosplay.
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>>97470796
if you bought every single FFXIV alternate treatment in foil then one way or another you're being a little baby about snapcaster's price
like either you could afford it or you couldn't, snapcaster isn't so outrageous as to break your bank by comparison to the rest
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>>97471512
Just 1x of each cards in some form, I don't need the Chocobo print Emet-Selch or Tataru for example. Snapcaster is 150$ which outclasses all the individual card prices by far. That said you're sort of right, I'm also an FF8 fag but I will NEVER be spending 1200$ for the Jap print of Edea on Force of Negation, meanwhile I acquired every other card for like...90$ in foil because the FF8 cards are unplayable outside of Jumbo Cactuar memes and Squall. FF7fags also have it way worse because all of their shit is inflated by secondaries so they command pretty high prices even for the bad cards.
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>>97471161
It really fucked up my Tifa, MA deck.
>T1 forest, avacyn pilgrim
>T2 mountain, birds of paradise
>T3 Tifa, start eyeballin the guy who has no blockers
>T4, mana dorks each attack different opponents, Tifa gets to 7, double combat, 17 commander damage
>guy scoops
>"thought this was b3, wtf, I'm not supposed to lose on Turn 5"
I hate this player base
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>play kresh on 4
>one player with no blockers
>smack for 11 damage
>next turn, still no blocks
>smack again
>"wtf you should be hitting everyone one after the other so I can have 3 more turns to prepare"
>"wtf edicts are unfair you can clear any creature for 3 mana"
>"wtf how am i expected to remove something that big"
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>>97471161
Win by turn x with no interaction is the ONLY metric for power level that makes any sense, don't know what Gavin said as I ignore bracket nonsense anyway, in case you want to argue my clearly correct point
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>>97471733
Jesus christ reminds me of one of the cringiest interactions Ive ever had.
>Went to new LGS cause thought Covid killed mine
>Play some games
>Take out my Neheb deck
>Pretty standard game. No bullshit, no acceleration.
>Hand kinda sucks, so I have to go all in
>Play Heartless Hidetsugu, no haste or anything, basically complete hail mary
>Inform the table that if we go a rotation and Hidetsugu stays and Im allowed to resolve Neheb, I will win.
>All nod in understanding.
>Nobody does anything.
>I fulfill the prophecy. Make a bunch of mana, dump into an X spell.
>One dude stands up, looks me dead in the eyes.
>"Anon we don't play CEDH around here. If you want to bully people this isnt the store for you."
>Wut.png
>Dude takes out his cracked out Grixis cEDH deck
>Mops the floor with me, obviously
>"I hope you learned your lesson dude. Don't play decks like that if you dont want smoke."
>Wut.png
>Buy a foil Umbral Mantle they had in the case.
>Never go back
EDH players are a different fucking breed dude.
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>>97471854
>cEDH players who dont take their cEDH decks out on your average LGS EDH night
Now can those cEDH players you know distinguish a neheb pile from a cEDH deck? The answer is yes, and so could anyone who has a cEDH deck. Anon just made up some character who is impossibly retarded.
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>>97471935
>there's no such thing as gamechangers
Sorry Anon, I'm not going to call you retarded for having a retarded opinion but you and your one ring have to go to the sweathog table with the other tryhards.
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>>97472071
It's not bad. Like all cards in magic, it doesnt win the game on its own, and is not a crutch. And more to the point, if it was a crutch, it would be run in the highest powered version of the format to win the game.
Cant help stupid. Particularly loud wrong embarassing stupid who is frantically googling to say "no u".
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>>97472128
>4 mana and 6 turns with 15 damage
>still doesnt win the game without other cards
Not very good at this are you.
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>>97471888
It's about deck efficiency. Any deck can blow out a table by getting t1 land ring signet or similar. But If your deck can -regularly- kill 3 other players <3-4 turns without an answer your deck is not going to be tuned against some shitpile that that wins by several turns of combat. It's not about 'could' it's about 'will likely unless stopped'.
Its not perfect but it's the most consistent . Obviously there's niche cases like someone going to play a graveyard deck and someone bringing a commander that stops someone from interacting with the yard or other silver bullet shit but that's easy to see at a glance and switch
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idk why people are saying this card is so good. It doesn't win the game on its own and only does anything with a janky combo.
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somebody bought this card from me for 55€.
would you spend money on such a damaged card?
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>>97471996
TRO is the strongest case for an Anchored-type keyword that prevents things from changing hands or being flickered I've ever seen. It would be fine if not for exile/boomerang abuse.
Also hopefully they print the other rings in The Hobbit because it's weird af for none of the others to exist.
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>>97472147
Not legal in the format. Nice try though.
>>97472149
Oh? And why isnt it played in the best decks in the format if it's "so powerful"?
You need to practice your argument if you want to make that claim that combo decks only win with crutch cards, when many combo decks dont use the specific crutch card you suggested.
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>>97472270
its like 60-70 euro for an english card. i had this only for 3 months for 60€ and nobody bought it. it has been the cheapest replenish on cardmarket for that time. so yea I dont really think it was a rip off
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>>97472222
But an answer that can go in any deck is only 2 mana?
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>>97472267
Yeah they even did the whole 3, 7, 9 thing with them already. But who knows what the Hobbit will bring. Maybe they will make them actual cards instead of just stupidly expensive Sol Rings.
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