Brainstorm
Force of Will
Lion's Eye Diamond
Counterbalance
Sensei's Divining Top
Tarmogoyf
Phyrexian Dreadnaught
Goblin Lackey
Standstill
Natural Order
Regardless of what they do or might want to do with the format in terms of encouraged playstyles and desired power level, the format will never look like Modern as long as Wizards keeps pumping out pushed EDH cards that are legal in eternal formats and not in others, even if they banned all the fast mana and cheap cantrips and fetchlands and duals or whatever else tomorrow.
For my confessions, they burned me with fire/
And found I was for endurance made
The next Commanderesque side-set is gonna be Modern legal![]()
Did you ever consider playing 1x Nacatl instead of 4x Nacatl? Maybe the problem with Zoo is the card quality is TOO good and it needs to be Highlander instead.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYemZZAOJ9Q
They really need to ban Murktide next, but there I'm not so confident of them actually making the correct decision.
For my confessions, they burned me with fire/
And found I was for endurance made
Wilder Nacatl [G]
When Wilder Nacatl enters the battlefield, you may choose to have it fight target creature you don't control.
Wilder Nacatl gets +1/+1 for each basic land type among lands you control.
0/1
Blue Ragavan [U]
Whenever Blue Ragavan deals combat damage to a player, create a Clue Token and Surveil 1.
Dash 1[U].
2/1
+some new pitch cycle
Am I doing this right?
I got Storm+Bushido
But I rerolled into Epic and cascade.
I think they're changing the rules. Again
I think that might also functionally ban Tabernacle and Reset but I can live with the exchange.
For my confessions, they burned me with fire/
And found I was for endurance made
That would still leave us with such gems as blue delve spells, companions, Underworld Breach, Oko, Dreadhorde Arcanist on a regular basis.
Does anyone know if they still have their meme balancing council or whatever that they made to prevent balancing mistakes years ago.
In case that still exists they probably only use it to identify cards that aren't broken to push further.
Current balancing priorities are:
1) Commander
2)
3)
4) Standard
5)
6) Who even cares anymore.
As long as commander players continue to give money to WotC like they are Nigerian princes, this is what we'll get.
Not happening BUT, some years ago, right before MTGA became a thing, there was a discussion making some headways about the possibility of giving players a way to 'define a format' in MTGO and being able to organize their own competitions for it, all done inside the software not using funny websites and all sorts of hacks. Which would allow all of these ideas and would certainly start to show how popular or not they are. Then MTGA came and it all went the way of the dodo.
Stuff like DHA, Delve, and Oko just feels like normal "occasionally there's a card that's too good in type 2" stuff, like normal Magic
It doesn't feel like a constant churn of pushed pure joke bullshit that's bad enough in casual formats like EDH but in no way a sane addition to fucking duel formats, like the Initiative bullshit amply demonstrates. Or stuff that's just designed to be Legacy playable levels of normal broken and then wildly overshoots the mark like Murktide
For my confessions, they burned me with fire/
And found I was for endurance made
It's a brand new world in the first week post-bans:
https://www.mtggoldfish.com/articles...and-new-legacy
In case this got missed.
While the strategy seems fine, the better fix would be better balancing but can't have that.
Can't wait for them to change their policy again in a few months time.
Site crashed, but I would guess it will be back up soon: https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/an...d-announcement
The important part:
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"The Ancients teach us that if we can but last, we shall prevail."
—Kaysa, Elder Druid of the Juniper Order
It feels like there are less obvious ways to kill Legacy if that’s all you want to do
For my confessions, they burned me with fire/
And found I was for endurance made
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