.. I set up my army and non-land mana while opponents land ramp, then wipe all lands and proceed to beat them with my army. It's obviously harder to accomplish in 100-card singleton than 60-card 4x, but certainly not undoable. I'm surprised how many players would go all out ramping without holding ...

At times I just can't understand some people's mentality. Ramping 7 mana by turn three, and I can't even punish you for overextension? False analogy. If you want to punish the ramp player, do so. These do not accomplish that task. They are a minor setback to the ramp player, and ruin any casual dec...

I don't think hall of gemstone really fits with the others. It doesn't punish expensive manabases, it punishes multicolor cards and interaction. In particular, for anyone who isn't running artifact fixing, it's going to turn off their ability to cast their commander, which is definitely going to be...

Literally all of the signets can be found in the top 100 most played edh cards. Half of the talismans are there too (I think this is mostly due to availability. They've been printed only in one set after all.). The mana rocks are very much basic component of modern edh deckbuilding. So what? I neve...

E.g. a Rakdos deck in a meta that has lot of enchantress decks is basically %$#% because you can't play a simple Disenchant in a Rakdos deck. Only option here is to just accept the fact that you are always going to lose or play a different deck. Neither of them seem very fun. This is a rhetorical f...

I have played EDH for almost 10 years and I've come to a conclusion that restricting what colors a deck can play based on the color identity of the commander is a bad idea. I've been playing EDH for more than 10 years, and I disagree. E.g. a Rakdos deck in a meta that has lot of enchantress decks i...

Permission style control decks have an inherent weakness in multiplayer. No one player/deck can stop everything (excepting stupid combos, and only if you let it be assembled). Rule 0 should be the first option - talk about the problem with the playgroup. Be honest, let them know that you are not enj...

I apologize if it was unclear, but I'm like the Zedruu player. I've spent thousands of words across multiple websites gushing over the card, so I decided to betray expectations this morning and call myself dumb. I wasn't sure what to make of @Treamayne's response to your post, but perhaps if he'd h...

@Treamayne you got that idea from Iron Chef competitions at The Giant, didn't you? Have you seen the Junkyard Wars variant too? I could start that and host it here, if the interest was enough. I'm not sure where the idea originated (other than Japanese TV/Food Network), another person started the f...

I still have my (updated) Iron Chef:EDH* Zedruu Monk from way back on the old official forums. Loads of fun without being combo based, but also without ignoring Zedruu's ability. I think the key to casual Zedruu is, as Oscar Wilde said, "everything in moderation... including moderation." Y...

Antis - Concur. I love this format for being able to effectively employ niche cards like Phyrexian Splicer or Nature's Blessing ; as well as old favorites like Hurkyl's Recall or Wiitigo . Henlock's story just reminded me of that one time, when Ensnaring Bridge control was beginning to dominate tou...

Of course, or Return to Dust , or Sylvan Reclamation , or what-have you. I'm just saying that, in casual games, my experience has been those cards are rare (and things like Rack and Ruin almost non-existent); I'm far more likey to lose the slate to a random Austere Command ; and the far more common ...

I think it is a fun, casual, and niche addition to the right deck. seems great for mono-white go-wide strategy. For any other color combo, there are better draw options for 8 mana!! At the casual end of the spectrum, I've had good success with Slate of Ancestry in mono-brown Golems (which also featu...

I got that a couple of times in other formats with people complaining about cards that "shouldn't be there". One I remember in modern was a guy playing lantern and hating the game though the three matches because I olayed Leave // Chance . Reminds me of using Volrath's Shapeshifter and Ph...

There aren't any deck strategies that bother me. Too many take-backs bother me. If you're the habitual do-over guy, you bother me. That's pretty much it. I feel this in my bones. I generally don't ask for take-backs myself, so if I tap the wrong mana or do something out of sequence, I just live wit...

I think that if players have such a strong reaction to <this>, that should have been discussed before shuffling up for the game. For me, that's Slaver effects and Stax (card-wise: specifically Memnarch and Felidar Sovereign really irk me). If you have those decks, I would rather play elsewhere, and ...

Keep it simple. You have 9 categories. That's already plenty differentiation as it is, but if you want even more nuance making each category a range of 5 integers should be more than enough. I could see you wanting to do that to show that certain cards in a category are better when copied than othe...

I wonder how much less obnoxious players would find Craterhoof if his ability was like Iname as One ("When <this> enters the battlefield, if you cast it from your hand, creatures you control...")

Craterhoof is one of those cards I avoid unless it is very "on-theme." That said, it is in my Gahiji Beast deck. The closest I can get to tutoring for it is Cream of the Crop . But, since I am also running Lurking Predators , I figure there is a chance that an opponent's spell will drop h...

I've definitely never done Thassa's Oracle lines, but I don't get this. A combo is a combo. Why should one thing result in salt but not another? If I won outta nowhere with [x], then you should be insulted at me winning outta nowhere period, not just because it involved [x]. Combo wins are a spectr...

Rather than quoting and responding to a bunch of great dialog, I'll just say this (couched in the original point carried over from the Random Card Thread): There's a difference between countering a T3 Cultivate by the player that already ramped on turn 1 and/or 2 (probably in a mono or two color dec...

I hate this card, and I refuse to play it. Not because of the textbox or mana cost. Because of the insane flavor fail the card represents. She's on the list with Ulrich , Nekusar , and others; where most of the card forms a cohesive whole, then that one element is so wrong it's like expired dairy - ...

c)according to their customer outreach, for many it was the first mtg cards they owned Sounds like a great reason they should have been silver bordered. Little to no drop in sales if it was mainly bought by WD fans that do not play Magic, and they wouldn't have broken another promise and upset the ...

I've had a number of HoN decks, and IMO the recursion ability should be thought of as a scalpel more than a bludgeon. Five CMC for a 5/5 with V/T/H isn't too far behind power creep. That's still a decent value, and to consider that value lowered because the activated ability is expensive seems like ...

Huh. You learn new stuff everyday. Also boo on no flip legends. I always wanted to use Bushi Tenderfoot // Kenzo the Hardhearted as a Voltron Commander. Well, MTGO can't really support "house rule" style changes (although, back in the day, the Multi-player room did support things like att...