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Commander Discussion / Cards that Might be TOO Popular

« on: November 20, 2022, 09:02:55 pm »

I haven't posted in a long time, so here goes; I make a lot of sort-of-bad reference lists, and I get stuck VERY easily.

For several years (I know, it doesn't look like it), I've been making a list of cards that would probably be in EVEN MORE Decks if playgroups didn't keep banning them.
The CURRENT reason is that I'm trying NOT to make a pure "goodstuff" Deck and I'm stuck because I don't LIKE using subpar cards.

The ORIGINAL reason was that I wanted to find a Green card for the set of Magistrate, Hullbreacher (now Notion), Opposition and Dockside; likely Ilysian Grove.

(I was thinking Eternal Witness or maybe Loaming Shaman, but they're not AS good as the first four).

What other cards are SO good that you'd rather see FEWER of them, and what cards in my list AREN'T as popular as they look?  (I'm thinking Spellskite, but I HAVE seen that one A LOT).

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Commander Discussion / Which Tribes Don't Have a Commander?

« on: January 14, 2021, 02:05:36 am »

I just had an extremely silly idea: Morophon, the Boundless tribes-without-Legendaries Tribal.  I started to look up all of the Creature types (to see which ones didn't have Commanders) but quickly got overwhelmed because Magic has 252 of them in black border alone, some of which are Land-or-Token-specific and therefore CAN'T have Commanders per se.

Someone might think this topic is similar to Morganator's "next tribe to get a Commander" thread but I thought the scope of this was sufficiently different as that was more of a wishlist with most participants naming tribes that already had Legendaries they didn't like.  Unlike my other next-Deck topic this time I have a shell and just need the Creature types to put in to complete it.

Xantius was happy with Jeska, Thrice Reborn as a Phoenix Commander but I'm not entirely convinced by that argument; other tribes I'm aware of include Egg (unless you want to count Atla Palani, Nest Tender who's a Human Shaman and not an Egg) and Myr.  What other tribes don't have Legendaries of their own Creature type?

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Commander Discussion / Dual Help Request: Choosing my Next Commander and Navigating xir Options

« on: January 07, 2021, 05:15:39 pm »

I've run into a problem wherein I'll start making a Commander Deck, grab the first two dozen or so cards and then get stuck and not be able to continue; I know we're supposed to post complete Decks for advice but I can't seem to finish these.  Of the following options I'd like advice on a) which one I should focus on and b) how I should go about it:

Archelos, Lagoon Mystic ("grouphug" // bidirectional speed control, most likely through Freed from the Real and similar)
Kathril, Aspect Warper (Keywords matter; I've made a Keyword Deck already but it has a very different approach)
Sen Triplets (assorted theft, with Rogues // Mill as a strong subtheme)
Tariel, Reckoner of Souls // Obosh, the Preypiercer (all aspects of her flavor, most likely through the paradigm of Angel Tribal Reanimator)
Xyris, the Writhing Storm (Wheels)

I'd especially like to build Archelos or Tariel but I'm open to any of these; I usually won't use obviously subpar cards to save money, but not spending thousands would be nice.

EDIT BY REQUEST: Here's loosely what my "meta" looks like; it varies wildly.

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General Magic / Help Request: Stopping Various Strategies

« on: December 08, 2020, 02:26:32 pm »

I apologize if this has been covered or is in the wrong place; a brief perusal didn't reveal exactly what I wanted.

I'm building a list of "outs" to potentially annoying strategies (not quite only sideboard or stax stuff), but I need some help filling it out.  Obviously different things upset different people and/or show up more often in different places, so this probably won't ever cover everything, but I think having a baseline would be nice.

Here is what I have so far; I'll improve the title independently.  I don't know how to link to a specific revision, so suggestions will show up as I implement them.
EDIT: OK, I've added a lot of contributions and I want to clarify something: this isn't a format-specific, hate-specific or stax-specific list, and it's really more for me than anyone else and is only public so I could get help and possibly help others.

@Morganator: I went through some of the threads you linked and tried not to pick anything that was stax-for-the-sake-of-stax like Winter Orb or Null Rod, but I will revisit them and reevaluate all of the options I've found over time.

Thanks to everyone who has already contributed, and please feel free to make more suggestions.

DOUBLE EDIT: I've fixed the description link and subsequently cleaned up this post.

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Commander Discussion / Help Request: Managing Playgroup Power Level

« on: December 06, 2020, 05:05:32 pm »

Please move this if it's in the wrong place.

Wherever I go and whomever I play with, I tend to attract insanely aggressive people.  I don't mean just "competitive or GTFO" types, but also mass-everything-destruction.dek and no-turn-for-you.dek types as well.  Scrubs, basically; the kind of player who's only good enough at the game to make everyone else miserable but NOT enough that they couldn't be considered "casual" players.

A few people I know (myself included) would rather have a "fun" game where shenanigans galore occur but we can't do that because all of these brutal randos keep showing up and we can't say no.  What can I do?

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Deckstats Feedback / Header Cleanup

« on: November 14, 2020, 12:36:13 am »

The only option in the top-right menu that isn't an icon button right next to it is "Log Out", which could just be a button in its own right.  If the menu is more important, easier to read, etc. then the buttons can be removed instead.  I think having all of them twice is redundant, especially in almost the same place.

Also, the "Collection" label and 'My Collection" button that are both on the header link to the same place; I don't think both are needed, but again I could be mistaken.