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Oops. I still haven't posted this deck here. Crap. Um, I might just possibly be playing Last Epoch too much. So, for this one, I've got to be honest with you guys. I promised myself that I'd build a deck with one of the new commanders coming out in Ravnica: Clue Edition. But then I got hooked...

Three points come to mind regarding the Hullbreacher ban. You may or may not think that any of them are important here. I leave that up to you. The Hullbreacher ban was somewhat controversial at the time, and I saw some commentary online decrying players for flaming the RC over this ban...

First, let's cover the blurb itself. Then I'll talk about Griselbrand. I think there's a technical term for it, but I can't think of one right now. If anyone knows, please chime in. What the RC have done with this blurb is employ two arguments that are used together in a way that, based on...

In lieu of a proper analysis, let's just ignore this one. Feel free to sing this song I just wrote, to the tune of "We Don't Talk About Bruno" from the Disney movie Encanto. Pepa: We don't talk about Golos, no, no, no! We don't talk about Golos. But... It was Commander night. Félix: We would...

Other than Coalition Victory, this just might be the silliest choice for a card that's inexplicably still on the ban list. The official blurb here doesn't say it, and I'm starting to question the memory of the members of the RC, but this card was totally banned because it had been restricted in...

It would seem that immediately after giving the RC a pat on the back for a job well done with the Fastbond blurb, I already have to go the other direction. This blurb is bad and lazy. Firstly, Flash doesn't "effectively allow players to evoke a creature." That's not what the card does. Wrong...

I'm fine with this explanation. There's a lot that I want to say about Fastbond, in general, as a Magic card. But specifically in this format, I think that those three points are sufficient to justify this ban. Before I read the blurb on this card, I had all these ideas floating around in my...

Like Braids, I kind of get this one. And also like Braids, I also kind of think that it's futile because there are tons of perfectly legal (and often heavily played) commanders that are just as oppressive. The nature of the ban list and the apparent laziness of the RC is that commanders that...

I actually don't have any strong opinions on the Emrakul ban. Ultimately, I guess I'm against it, because there are plenty of overpowered and pretty comparable things that one can do with big mana in EDH. The extra turn thing is kind of bonkers, but now we have Rise of the Eldrazi (the card, not...

They are the Power 9 after all. If they'd just always banned those 9 specific cards for price/optics then I would never have thought much of it.

Here we are. I don't know if I'm going to be quite as critical of any of the other entries on this list as I am of this card right here. And the bizarre explanation blurb here doesn't help matters. What does "in which case Coalition Victory is far from your biggest problem" even mean? Seriously...

Won another game with this deck. Started out without access to blue mana, so that was a risk. Weathered Sentinels kept me protected and bought a little time, then Entish Restoration solved my problem. Cryptic Coat happened to hit a topdeck Shield Sphere, which gave me access to The Pride of Hull...

I'm liking the new changes. Pulled this deck out for a fresh start last night. There was initially a lot of back-and-forth, combat tricks, and such. Good game. I made a risky play by using Planar Birth after one of my opponents had milled the rest of us significantly. This gave my other two...

Brought this deck to a game last night as a deliberate attempt to ratchet down the power level (I'd just won two games in a row and one person in our pod was swapping out and being replaced by a newer player). It was a good fit. I presented a threatening board state to each person at the table...

I combined these two. Not much to say on them. Unlike ante cards, conspiracies, and the salty seven, these weren't covered in the introduction to the ban list, perhaps because there are only two of them. These cards are relics of a bygone age. It wouldn't make any sense for them to be legal, so...

Yeah, I can't really think of anything to add for this one. It's a solid explanation. Channel is broken even at 20 life. Starting at 40 life instead and always having access to a legendary creature would push Channel to absurdity. Notably, back when Channel was originally banned, the payload of...

After multiple games and some testing, I want to fine-tune this deck a bit. I also took the time to dig through my pile of lands to switch to snow basics, just for Thermopod. -1 Conspiracy Theorist -1 Field of Souls -1 Idyllic Tutor -14 Mountain -15 Plains -1 Teshar, Ancestor's Apostle +1...

This is a good explanation. I kinda roasted the RC for their weird blurbs on those Power 9 pieces, and for their hilarious take on Biorhythm. It's only fair that I give them props when they do better. The main point of interest here is the 2014 change that saw the "Banned as Commander" category...

I guess that this is, word-for-word, the same blurb as the one for Ancestral Recall, except for the card name. The thing that I didn't cover in the Ancestral Recall post is the effect that these cards would actually have, assuming that they were legal. And I find it interesting that the RC steer...

Going in alphabetical order, we've hit the first card that exemplifies a classic issue with the RC. What they've always told us with some of these cards is that the cards are ones that ignorant casual players would believe at first glance to be fun, but that these cards are actually not fun...