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    Commentary on the EDH/Commander ban list

    At first glance, this blurb seems OK. And perhaps I shouldn't be too critical. Ultimately, I totally agree that Tinker deserves to be banned. It just really strikes me with this one, perhaps after analyzing so many of their other blurbs, that the RC could really add "this card does too much for...
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    Commentary on the EDH/Commander ban list

    This is the same blurb from the other seven P9 cards that are banned in EDH. I already criticized the RC for the weird "optics" excuse on Ancestral Recall, Black Lotus, and the five original Moxen. No need to rehash that. I guess the only real point of interest I can think of here is that the RC...
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    Commentary on the EDH/Commander ban list

    Yeah, I have no problem with this one. Good job, RC.
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    Commentary on the EDH/Commander ban list

    Well, this is the first I've heard that Sylvan Primordial was "considered" a fixed Primeval Titan. The cycle of primordials was always just kind of their own thing. Also, they're powerful cards. They're seven-drops, so they'd better be strong if they're going to see any play at all. The white...
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    Commentary on the EDH/Commander ban list

    I hardly ever say anything about Sway of the Stars and wasn't even really interested in talking about it now. Out of curiosity, I went back and searched the CPA to see if I'd ever had any reaction to the card in the past. I found something I'd forgotten all about. In our old Tribal multiplayer...
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    Commentary on the EDH/Commander ban list

    This blurb irritated me enough that I actually used the Wayback Machine to find Sheldon Menery's original statement from when the card was banned. Turns out that it didn't help. But I'm getting ahead of myself. I have a too-vague, yet very firm recollection of discussion around Sundering Titan...
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    Epic [EDH]

    Played this for the final game of last night. Kinda threw the game on purpose. I could have tried to devote resources to drawing into Enduring Ideal or Humility, but instead I had stuff like Silent Arbiter and Kami of False Hope. I saw an opportunity to do something silly and went with it. Last...
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    Peacock's Clues [EDH]

    Played this deck last night. It performed normally at first, but then I topdecked Eldrazi Monument and was able to make infinite mana with the Basalt Monolith I already had. From there I was able to use Senator Peacock as a draw engine and recur artifacts to build up life with Aetherflux...
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    Golgari Save the Queen [PreDH]

    Had a game that presented an interesting puzzle, but ultimately I couldn't deal with massive proliferation on planeswalkers by an Atraxa Superfriends deck. Picked off with the -9 on Vraska, Betrayal's Sting followed by proliferation. Oh well. I did design this as a preDH deck, and those don't...
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    I Got Word of a Settlement that Needs Our Help. I'll Mark it on Your Map [EDH]

    Serra Ascendant is a Magic card and is legal in this format. I played this deck last night. Didn't have a lot going on initially other than my first-turn Serra Ascendant. The use of Heartless Hidetsugu with Basilisk Collar fundamentally changed the dynamic of this game after some initial...
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    Commentary on the EDH/Commander ban list

    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...
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    Commentary on the EDH/Commander ban list

    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...
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    Commentary on the EDH/Commander ban list

    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...
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    Commentary on the EDH/Commander ban list

    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...
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    An Elephant Never Forgets [EDH]

    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...
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