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Commander Discussion / Re: Tier List: Card Draw

« on: June 26, 2023, 02:30:35 pm »

How would you rank "The one ring" ?

Not OP but I'd say E. It's expensive, draws very little, you have to wait around, it hurts you. Think Phyrexian Arena but worse.

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Commander Discussion / Re: Tier List: Card Draw

« on: June 24, 2023, 10:26:07 pm »

Wow, a lot to disagree with here.

B-tier: what is Rishkar's Expertise doing there? Conditional, expensive. Sure, it is almost mana neutral but still.

D-tier: Night's Whisper is definitely better than that. C-tier material, easily.

E-tier: Greater Good is about as restrictive as Rishkar's Expertise. It's cheaper to cast, repeatable, free to use. Ponder is better than that. Dig 3 or 4 gor just 1 mana??

How did you get Bob and Phyrexian Arena that high? They're at least a category worse than what you're suggesting.

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General Magic / Re: Do you think Orcish Bowmasters will be banned?

« on: June 18, 2023, 11:04:49 pm »

meaning that you *have* to run it just to get rid of your opponent's copies.

Oh no.

flashbacks from the original Legend Rule days

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Commander Discussion / Re: Urza's Saga

« on: June 07, 2023, 07:26:42 pm »

On top of what has been mentioned, in the right deck Hangerback Walker or Walking Ballista can be instant win cons. 

However, this seems like a more general question of, is Saga an auto-include for decks.  Based on previous answers, probably yes.

Urza's Saga cannot find those. Their mana cost isn't exactly {0} or {1}.

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Commander Discussion / Re: Urza's Saga

« on: June 07, 2023, 03:37:05 pm »

The Constructs alone are quite a lot of value. I've won games with them.

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Commander Discussion / Re: Tier list: mana ramp

« on: June 04, 2023, 08:31:10 pm »

I would rank the 1 mana dorks C, and the 2 mana land ramp and arcane signet at B.  Other 2 mana rocks would stay at C.  Where would you put bonus land drop per turn ie Exploration.  Edit: I would also put Sakura-Tribe Elder at the same Tier as 2 mana land ramp, you can sac him at instant speed, so you will always be able to get that land off him.  Hell I might even place him higher cause you can declare him as a blocker then sac him to get added benefit on top of the land.

Nature's Lore is much better than the Elder. The land entering tapped vs untapped is a massive difference!

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Commander Discussion / Re: Tier list: Lands

« on: June 04, 2023, 08:28:56 pm »

I would be tempted to put reflecting pool and the OG duels in A tier.

That's a bit deck dependent. Reflecting Poo cannot fix colours so it's not very good in that sense. It can help double-pip if your deck runs stuff like Thoracle Consultation (double blue). OG duals are good... but in a weird spot. There already exist lands that can produce more colours for similar downsides so while they're extremely good as standalone cards they're not the best lands you can have. Combine them with fetches and the story is a little different as that is definitely an A-tier "combo".

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Commander Discussion / Re: Tier list: mana ramp

« on: June 01, 2023, 05:54:36 am »

That's a land, not ramp. Looking at that list though, it was set at be B, likely for the extreme conditions on it being more than just colorless mana

It's cEDH turn 0 ramp.

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Commander Discussion / Re: Tier list: mana ramp

« on: June 01, 2023, 05:37:29 am »

Gemstone Caverns?

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General Magic / Re: Helm of the Host / Copying rules question

« on: May 26, 2023, 11:50:12 am »

Confirming the above. Any static effects (such as Bastion Protector) are not copiable values.

Here's a long article on how copying works. I'm not going to quote all of it, too much text: https://blogs.magicjudges.org/rules/cr706/

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Commander Discussion / Re: Cards that are no longer staples.

« on: May 22, 2023, 08:02:26 am »

Another thing I use to see way back in the day that I haven't in forever is Hall of the Bandit Lord.

Still a staple in my non-red aggro decks!

Green: Cultivate, Kodama's Reach and Skyshroud Claim.

All still good cards in low power metas but powercreep has pushed them out of favour in mid to high power decks. I don't personallu use them but I know a couple of friends who have had good success with them. Those decks have been mostly landfall / other stuff that benefit from lands, though. Like super mana hungry decks, for example. But all in all I see less of them.

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General Magic / Re: "Looking for Games" Discord for Deckstats (Deck-Smash!)

« on: May 17, 2023, 12:19:03 pm »

Double posting just to bump this thread up a little - very few people joined but there was initially a lot of interest so I'm just wondering if some folks missed the thread. That's all - sorry and thanks!

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Commander Discussion / Re: Green Sun's Twilight

« on: May 17, 2023, 12:17:53 pm »

Depends on how cutthroat you want to go but this wouldn't cut it in stronger metas I'd say. I'd much rather do Genesis Wave than this. Run a ramp spell in Twilight's place - that way you get the Overlord out faster and have more activations.

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Commander Discussion / Re: The wheels on the bus don't go round and round

« on: May 17, 2023, 12:15:15 pm »

I've never seen these commanders in cEDH. Nice to see fresh strats!

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General Magic / Re: The Walking Dead cards to get in-mtg-universe reprints in Wilds of Eldraine

« on: May 13, 2023, 12:41:50 am »

FINALLY

Now I can stop hating on SL.