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I'm a bit saddened by this one, but also not surprised. There aren't really any major formats in which Shahrazad is legal, and I struggle to think of what might be its real niche in the game these days. Go back 20 years or so and the card was legal in pretty much any formats that allowed Arabian...

I wasn't expecting a good blurb for this one, but somehow they still managed to be disappointing. The Rofellos ban is laughably dated. At least for stuff like Griselbrand and Erayo, the RC have a kind of plausible justification that they'd be too oppressive as commanders. Not so for Rofellos...

Can we get a blurb from someone's who has actually played Magic before? This take is just not realistic. Recurring Nightmare can be stopped by enchantment removal, graveyard removal, instant-speed discard, bounce + discard, board wipes, creature theft, mass bounce, mana denial...

The only major problem with this blurb is that it uses the word "inevitably." In rhetoric I've noticed that often people will throw around superlatives, then accuse me of pedantry when I point out that the term is factually incorrect. Don't want to have your misuse of words pointed out? Then...

Played this deck on Wednesday night. Got a bit stuck just because I missed an early land drop and everyone else was racing ahead of me. I didn't present a great target for attacks, although if anyone had attacked me, my defenses would have been depleted quickly. A board wipe the turn before I...

Played this deck Wednesday night. It was fun. I was in a pod that happened to consist entirely of decks helmed by commanders from the new Fallout precons. People were doing some powerful stuff, but I was mostly able to protect myself. Between my deck's plethora of land-enchanting auras and...

On the surface, this explanation seems reasonable. They're invoking the higher life totals and multiplayer pod setting to emphasize that this is a slower format, one often defined by big spells. Primeval Titan is a 6/6 trampler that ramps lands out both when entering the battlefield and on...

As soon as I saw the Preston Garvey card spoiled, I knew what I had to do. This deck isn't a labor of love. It's not really powerful and maybe it's not even fun. That's not what any of this is about. I must do my duty for the Commonwealth Minutemen and for auras that go on lands. Also, another...

Some cards on this ban list have a reputation, whether or not it's true, of having been banned because RC members lost games to them and didn't like the way the cards played. Paradox Engine seems like a card that was probably a victim of circumstances. Does it often lead to drawn-out turns full...

Panoptic Mirror's presence on the ban list serves to remind players that the RC are so inactive that they can't be bothered to reevaluate a decision from 19 years ago and compare gameplay back then to gameplay now. Back in 2004, Panoptic Mirror was a uniquely compact and flexible way to loop...

That whole blurb only talks about the past. What about now?

Standard: No changes Pioneer: No changes Modern: Violent Outburst is banned. Legacy: No changes Vintage: Ponder is unrestricted. Explorer: No changes Pauper: No changes

It would be silly to let all decks with blue and red in them have access to an extra card from outside the game at no cost (so long as they're not build to use those cards you can use as many copies of in your deck as you want to, or I guess Seven Dwarves). So this should be a non-controversial...

Hey, someone had to beat Spiderman's record. :P

Heh. Well, this one's easy. Yeah, they're totally right about Limited Resources. No argument from me on this one.

Hey, I did a "Magic Memories" thread for this card! So, one of the points I keep thinking of whenever the Library topic comes up is that the majority of analytical discussion I've been seeing in Legacy and Vintage have been in favor of unbanning or unrestricting this card. It's not really at the...

Piloted this deck for the first time in a while. Game got gridlocked and we had to call it with the game store closing down for the night. I don't know how it would have gone. Omarthis was pretty big, but my opponents were very deliberately avoiding killing my commander. Oh well.

My second game with this deck didn't really give me useful data. I think that my start wasn't too slow, but it didn't matter because the Zhulodok deck at the table went totally bonkers broken.

I didn't have any new decks ready last night, so I brought this out for my first game. The board got pretty scary, but I was shielded somewhat because I had Maze of Ith alongside Dueling Grounds, with Greater Auramancy to protect Dueling Grounds. Once things build up even more, I deployed...

I mean, I definitely get this one. I remember being totally unsurprised when Leovold was banned. I think it's reasonable to build a case that certain effects are OK in the maindeck in casual EDH, but just don't belong in the command zone. And if "banned as commander" is off the table, then...