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[MtG] Commander Rules update


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Back to talking about the banlist. Someone on Reddit posted three criteria which were what he saw as making a commander "abusable" under the new no-tuck rule, and thus should ban them:

• Commanders that completely dodge the general tax (Derevi)
• Commanders that generate advantage on cast, so that removal or countermagic doesn't help (Prossh, MW)
• Tier 1 commanders that protect themselves, and previously were most vulnerable on the stack (Zur, Narset, Purphoros)

With that, the (hypothetical) additions to the banlist are as follows:

Derevi, Empyrial Tactician
Maelstrom Wanderer
Narset, Enlightened Master
Purphoros, God of the Forge
Prossh, Skyraider of Kher
Zur the Enchanter

Thoughts? I think it's a pretty reasonable list, although I don't entirely think Zur belongs on it.


I think the worse part of this list is they SAY that they know making this change will make a bunch of commanders a TON more powerful. If the choice is either ban a bunch of commanders (my friend has a Prossh deck is would likely be pissed if he was banned) or keep tucking around it feels like a no brainer since banning cards is never what you want to do.

Also, two of the things I saw to defend the change
1) Play with a house rule that has tucking allowed: This seems dumb since people WANT to play by the official rules. Its the same reason people want 4 color legendary creatures to use as commanders. Sure we COULD use the Nephilim, but people want to be official.
2) Just gang up on the guy with the busted commander: This just sounds miserable for people.

Honestly, one of the things I found pretty funny is the major negative reaction here while the few MTG players I saw talking about it on twitter really liked the change.
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Most kids at my LGS are ecstatic over this change, they've only been playing for a few months though. I'm going to start playing Narset just to show them how bad this rule change is.


Poc playing fun police. You should play Darksteel Mutation and Nevermore just for the extra salt they should generate.
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Poc playing fun police. You should play Darksteel Mutation and Nevermore just for the extra salt they should generate.

 

 

It's a dirty job but someone has to do it, and I'd rather it be me than that guy who plays a turbo stasis deck holy fucking christ I hate that deck so goddamn much.

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