I don't normally speak out much on bans and what nots but I have to shake my head again for Sheldon really has to put the crack pipe down.
https://articles.starcitygames.com/select/commentary-on-the-commander-september-2021-quarterly-update/?_ga=2.159140666.1664873696.1631466611-289247199.1582396687&fbclid=IwAR3Ti8Ky0r0rN1KVfmwOI6n3pXDV4NF05f6erZ-spgO4IlbmgNS-LMGcJxII am just going to get into the who knows what he was smoking reasoning for the banning of Golos.
Starting here
"I’ll ask those players to look beyond their own enjoyment and attempt to see the bigger picture."Look beyond having fun? I am sorry but am I missing something to actually ask players to look beyond having fun.
Then
" In my mind, the most important is that it’s too generically good" Is this included in the bigger picture being all about you Sheldon or doesn't the "Whole" commander community matter to you?
More "Where the first falling boulder leads to the
avalanche is that it has a five-color identity, but it doesn’t cost WUBRG to cast. With a five-color commander, you have no restriction on what you can play in your deck. You get to pick from all the best spells legal in the format. The price you generally pay for that is that your commander is more difficult to cast and your manabase can get kind of awkward.
Golos negates both of those issues by having no color requirements in its casting cost, and then helping you smooth out the manabase by virtue of simply casting it and having it enter the battlefield." So there are no other cards in this format that do such things as well? Are you really that blinded by your own selfish rightousness not to realize that there are other cards in this format?
You get to search for any land card, not just basic land. If there were a five-mana noncreature artifact that did the same thing, it would definitely see play. You really need to look into and know your artifacts. They may not cost 5 mana but they do exactly what you are mentioning.
"Conversations about the danger of five-color commanders that don’t cost WUBRG started in earnest during my time in Studio X in late 2019. I did my best to impress on my fellow designers the dangers such commanders posed to the format."
Still being selfish and self rightous again but do as I say not as I do correct? Again Quote "Look beyond your own enjoyment and see the bigger picture"
Abilities which cast spells for free are very good. They’re also the kinds of things that you have to really keep an eye on. Not if you are doing your thing and aiming to win the game 1st or just don't care because you are having fun just playing your own deck.
Even if you’re only using the ability once per turn cycle (most often on your own turn, since Golos doesn’t change when you can cast the spells), playing three things for seven mana is ridiculous value. You’d normally pay six to nine mana in activated abilities just to draw those three cards. I don't know how in the life of me he comes up with 6-9 mana to draw 3 cards is absurd.
Its simple presence means that some other commanders don’t have a chance and that’s not a good circumstance. However "Some" other commanders have a chance and it is a great circumstance.
Golos is an easy default, so some of the exploration of unusual themes and deck styles gets lost. So some of the
exploration of unusual themes and deck styles don't get lost.
When a commander leads players into just jamming the same cards into decks, we find it intensely problematic. Some commanders are linear you twit and have to have the same cards jammed into the deck.
Everything Bold is what Sheldon said and the rest is responded back to his responses. With all that said he flacid reasoning behind this ban completely shows how selfish, self centered, self rightous of a person he is.