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He does it every year, but I will say he's been virtue signaling and saying more gay and political shit as the years went on.
I do find it interesting that I think the only somewhat large MTG channel that doesn't talk any politics is MTG Goldfish which includes a blue haired mega consoomer, a gay man, and a German which I find funny.
 
If Raz was in charge of Magic would there be much change? (Other than wider hips on the girls)
All planeswalkers now have free AR15s from Raz's Tesla.

He does it every year, but I will say he's been virtue signaling and saying more gay and political shit as the years went on.
I do find it interesting that I think the only somewhat large MTG channel that doesn't talk any politics is MTG Goldfish which includes a blue haired mega consoomer, a gay man, and a German which I find funny.
As far as I've seen Cardmarket and Distraction Makers don't talk politics, but I don't watch either that much though Cardmarket gets comparable views to TCC despite being a tenth the size. Rudy doesn't really either.
 
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I remember that this Kodemage dude once decided to duke it out in the comments. Somehow he went to freemagic and continued it there. And after I've posted about it in one of the two threads we have, somebody produced his personal info. Should still be there somewhere.

Benjamin Klahn, a librarian from Joliet, Illinois. Here's him with his trademark "nifty sweater" his muddah gave him.

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I mean, if your legal name is directly linked to your username, you keep posting to subreddits focused on Illinois, brag about how you're a master of all subjects because you absorb information via osmosis due to your proximity to books as a librarian, it's not really a big task to find out who you are, where you work and what a gay lil momma's boy you are.
 
I like that they have two identical brackets, completely defeating the point of a bracket system.
High power and cEDH are actually different as you can optimize your deck as hard as you want, but it will still lose in a cEDH game if you aren't playing specific commanders and strategies.
The difference is basically going to be any deck optimized to it's fullest potential without restrictions that isn't one of the top cEDH decks.
 
Hopefully they will unban cards in April as many of the banned cards were given stupid reasons why they were banned, like being "too expensive" while cards that are worth more weren't banned. It was too obvious that the cards that were banned were put there because the committee kept losing to them.
 
but it will still lose in a cEDH game if you aren't playing specific commanders and strategies.
Unless you manipulate the weaknesses that cEDH decks tend to have, If you can build a deck that has the ability to do the big early turn and be able to transition to a more midrangey game you can do quite well in EDH even without a strictly cEDH deck.
 
Hopefully they will unban cards in April as many of the banned cards were given stupid reasons why they were banned, like being "too expensive" while cards that are worth more weren't banned. It was too obvious that the cards that were banned were put there because the committee kept losing to them.
They put Drannith Magistrate on the Naughty Cards List instead of sending it to keep Karakas company on the ban list. Even if we give them the benefit of the doubt and assume they have a more competent team managing this format than the teams who manage, say, the Modern ban list, this opening salvo certainly doesn't inspire confidence.

(As an aside, I'm pretty sure the only reason Karakas is banned but Magistrate is okay is because EDH players have a life-threatening allergy to ever putting nonbasic land hate in their decks. Unlike Magistrate, Karakas actually has use some cases that don't involve keeping one player off their commander forever.)
 
Karakas actually has use some cases that don't involve keeping one player off their commander forever.)
Part of the banlist is also to prevent players from being retarded faggots and I bet we all know or have played with people who would use Karakas that way.
Karakas will also never get unbanned because think about how many legendary creatures there are nowadays and WOTC wouldn't want legendary creatures to be worse considering they make a lot of money from them.
 
I thought Karakas was banned as a too-easy to cheat the command tax rule.

"Oh you're about to hit my commander? Back2Hand."
 
I thought Karakas was banned as a too-easy to cheat the command tax rule.

"Oh you're about to hit my commander? Back2Hand."
It kind of just does everything thing you would want out of a land.
It taps for colored mana, enters untapped, ability costs no mana, bounces your commander, bounces opponents commander, and also can bounce any of the million other legendary creatures thar make up a large amount of decks.
 
EDH players have a life-threatening allergy to ever putting nonbasic land hate in their decks
Nigger, the entire player base has an allergy to any sort of land hate.

We need a fucking card that combines Wrath of God and Armageddon at 4 mana.

Also was watching a streamer comment on it and someone brought up the idea of Prime Time being unbanned, Motherfucker if that happens I am gonna raise Sheldon from the dead so he can slap the shit out of everyone.

Primeval Titan should NEVER come off the ban list, Overlord of the Hauntwoods is a good Primeval Titan at home without the obscenity that is getting the utility lands that have been powercrept into the stratosphere lately, there is no world where.

"Primeval Titan into Talon Gates of Madara and Mirrorpool" Should be a thing in EDH.
 
I like that they have two identical brackets, completely defeating the point of a bracket system.
The only reason I can think of having tiers 4 and 5 separate is that one of them is a placeholder: perhaps a future plan for Vintage Commander that allows Erayo, Prime Time, Griselbrand, and all other kinds of degenerate horseshit.
Nigger, the entire player base has an allergy to any sort of land hate.
It is interesting to me how social pressure can keep Armageddon, Ruination, Shivan Harvest etc in check but not extra turn abuse.
 
Also was watching a streamer comment on it and someone brought up the idea of Prime Time being unbanned
For some reason all at once a bunch of edh channels all talked about the banlist and they all said Prime Time should come back and it showed how out of touch they are with their non controlled show meta; lands are so fucking broken in edh and for the love of God I hope WOTC doesn't listen to them.
It is interesting to me how social pressure can keep Armageddon, Ruination, Shivan Harvest etc in check but not extra turn abuse.
People have a more favorable view of extra turns as the odds of them being able to win are extremely high while you just have a high of chance of someone blowing up all the lands just not to lose. Worldslayer is a card I run in Odric as I can protect my own lands/creatures at best and at worse I will have a full board of creatures and no lands while my opponents have nothing.
People are fine with mass land destruction as long as you can win in the next turn or two, but a bigger problem for normal games is there are only so many targeted land hate people are willing to run so you can have a bunch of games where no one has the card needed to get rid of a problematic land.
 
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For some reason all at once a bunch of edh channels all talked about the banlist and they all said Prime Time should come back and it showed how out of touch they are with their non controlled show meta; lands are so fucking broken in edh and for the love of God I hope WOTC doesn't listen to them.
I just think most haven't played with it, Prime Time got banned long long ago before all of this happened, the closest thing we have to it is Golos and..that was banned, but people think it was for the ability..and it wasn't.

Golos was banned cause he gets Non basics.

Like even Sylvan Primordial, which is not prime time is absurdly powerful given Surveil lands exist now so if you have 3 of those in your deck the card comes with 3 surveils after you finish searching.
 
He also destroys non-creature permanents, one per opponent.
Yeah that's pretty strong but we have cards like that..that aren't banned like Windgrace's Judgement, the combination of killing 3 non creature permanents, and getting 3 lands is what made it too strong.

Now it is even stronger cause we got more typed non-basics, but the Surveils would put it into the stratosphere, I've actually been debating putting in Surveils over my Triomes in my 5 color deck.
 
Yeah that's pretty strong but we have cards like that..that aren't banned like Windgrace's Judgement, the combination of killing 3 non creature permanents, and getting 3 lands is what made it too strong.

Now it is even stronger cause we got more typed non-basics, but the Surveils would put it into the stratosphere, I've actually been debating putting in Surveils over my Triomes in my 5 color deck.
Prime Time, Sylvan Primordial and Golos being creatures also makes them far better thanks to all the etb focus and creature tutors. You can't flicker Windgraces's Judgement every turn.
 
"I sure am glad they spent months and months and recruited tons of people to get these brackets together! Now I can find a deck for the pod tonight and we won't have imbalances!"

"Yeah, my deck is a bracket 3, I bought the precon last week and threw a couple of cards in to give it a small boost. Great, everyone is running a 3? Nice! Let's see, Yuriko, Atraxa infect and Gaddock Teeg...huh..."

I've already heard people suggesting that they can't rely on the bracket system at all, and that it's not even supposed to gauge power. The suggestion is to use the bracket system AND the old power rating, which is friggin hilarious. Wizards spent months to slap together a list that's highly abuseable and doesn't accurately measure power as the system people were trying to use to keep monitor of power levels. Great job, nailed it in classic wizards fashion. Every deck is a 3 AND a 7 now.
 
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