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  • I have a Kwain deck that has no win condition. The entire basis for the deck is to give everyone cards and life and mana and keep everyone alive long enough to draw, resolve, and protect a Divine Intervention. Typically by the time that happens, when I manage it, the entire table has drawn through their entire libraries at least once. I’ve never had anyone - regardless of the power level of the table - tell me they found the deck to be oppressive or unfun to play against. However, it has a Fierce Guardianship in it, so I guess it’s degenerate now.


  • What’s the criteria for game changers?

    If that list is exhaustive, it seems to be “An arbitrary subset of powerful cards in each color, chosen more or less at random”.

    As an example, Trinisphere is on the colorless list, which is very good at slowing down degenerate decks and isn’t really problematic in commander in decks that would fall into bracket 3 anyway, but Winter Orb, one of the more hated effects in the game, is suspiciously absent.

    Edit: I guess they’re excluding things that fall into the ‘land denial’ category (which itself is very weirdly laid out. What about Liliana of the Veil? It can destroy at least half of a player’s lands, but only a single player, and it’s not the primary function of the card. Their definition of land denial includes ‘multiple players’, so is that fine? Can you play the card if you’re not using it for that purpose?). What if player A plays Enchanted Evening, and player B has Tranquility in hand - are they disallowed from playing it, because it would, due to the current boardstate, destroy all of the lands? What if you have both in your deck - neither card alone destroys lands, but together they do. Same goes for cards like Kormus Bell and Living Lands combined with e.g. Pyroclasm.

    In that case, what about Nether Void? Having Trinisphere but not Nether Void is a weird choice. How about Humility, or Smokestack? If I was creating a list of cards that ruin the fun for some subset of the table when they’re cast, those would certainly be on it. Mana Breach doesn’t fit their definition of land denial; neither does Vorinclex, but Vorinclex is explicitly on The List, whereas Mana Breach is not. I’m curious where they got this list from.

    My play group has a set of deck building guidelines that we all follow, and a prohibition on mass land destruction is in there. There’s a couple people with lands-heavy ramp decks, which go basically unchecked, because the cards you’d typically use to keep such a strategy in check are disallowed.




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    11 days ago

    You could break the handle on one of the Engagement Mugs and have two perfectly usable mugs. Similarly, the Uncomfortable Mug works just fine as long as you just hold it like you would a cup.

    The champagne glasses could technically be used if you only filled one side of it, and only enough that it didn’t tip over. Alternately, break the stems off and just don’t set them down.

    The fork on the other hand doesn’t seem to have any practical use. I’d nix that.










  • Your refusal to answer my question means your position cannot withstand scrutiny. I’m sorry but your credibility is destroyed and there’s nothing valuable here to salvage so I’m going to have to ban you from my instance.

    I literally could not care less. The fact that you’re still thinking about this says more about you than it does about me, I think.







  • I’m not an admin, nor a moderator, so you can take this with a grain of salt. However, I have seen you around various communities, and you spend a not-insignificant amount of time explaining your neopronouns, and arguing with people about them, and generally being, it seems to me, somewhat intentionally obtuse about the fact that referring to yourself by a neopronoun is confusing for people reading your posts, and comes across as trying to draw attention to yourself. You appear, from my perspective, to be baiting these comments, and then getting offended when they inevitably come.

    You’ve been banned from a lot of communities, as a quick scan of your post history reveals, because you seem to post these sort of rants quite frequently.

    The fact that you’re using a very NSFW username for non-NSFW purposes is not doing you any favors, either, as Draconic_NEO also pointed out.

    I don’t have a horse in this race, but maybe you should consider that if this many people from different instances, communities, etc. are all having the same problem with you, maybe the way you’re presenting yourself and acting in response to pushback is at least a significant part of the problem.