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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...

No, it doesn't do both of those things for a negligibly low activation cost. It does either of those things for a negligibly low activation cost. Get it right. If you're tapping Karakas to deny someone else access to that player's commander, then you can't also tap Karakas to bounce your own...

I used to run Iona in a deck, although that was way before the ban. Notably, one of the only games in which I actually used Iona was one in which I named "white" against a mono-white deck, only for the player to almost immediately use Ring of Three Wishes to find an artifact that could get rid...

This deck is probably pretty bad. I played it first game of the night in a pod that had a middling power level and where the board got kind of gridlocked anyway. I had some decent interaction and card-drawing. The commander's ability is decent. Unblockability is nice with Umezawa's Jitte, but I...

I got stuck on two lands with this deck for an eon or so. Earthcraft kept me able to deploy goblins consistently, but I was always tapping them to untap my Mountain instead of using them for their own abilities, so my results were lackluster. Eventually, I got picked off by an unblockable...

For the first time in I don't even know how long, I used Terror of Mount Velus. It's been a card that I kept thinking of cutting from the deck, but through every revision, it keeps clinging in there. Well, this time it won me the game. Incidentally, I miscounted damage from my triggers with...

Played this deck on Wednesday. Someone had an Undying creature, so I couldn't resist casting an early Solemnity. This turned out to mess with the table a lot, which made me happy. With the board building up to have dangerous attackers, I made the decision to hide myself behind Solitary...

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...