Eh, there's an argument to be made about the aesthetics of it, especially in a format that places such a primary emphasis on color identity...but modern Commander is shit anyway, so why not allow this? It won't make the format any more shit.
They could also just make a bunch of new chase cards going forward that have hybrid symbols so more people would want said cards.
His take is one of the dumbest fucking things i have seen said. Most of these cards aren't playable. Unless we get some hyper insane shit in ShadowLor 2 then this change is 95% irrelevant
The aesthetics argument doesn't really follow if I have to explain that crypt ghast can go in monoblack every time I play it, which will also be true for Avatar's firebending
...and they wouldn't if the rule wasn't changed? The One Ring was colorless
If you exclusively play at CEDH pods, or more likely you attempt to pubstomp precon players, sure.
I do think it shits on the spirit of the format, but you know what else shits on the spirit of the format? The last ten years of printing-for-Commander. Universes Beyond. Puke-ugly Secret Lair treatments. Giving up on the flavor and worldbuilding. So who gives a fuck at the end of the day, they'll do whatever they want and then try to gaslight the players afterwards like they always do.
EDH players will tell you it's a casual format where you can build whatever you like and then write shit like this. Also we're guaranteed to get some hyper-insane shit, if not now then somewhere down the pipeline. That's the only way Wizards can sell sets at this point. People are rightfully concerned by the precedent this sets to further homogenize deckbuilding within the format.
You can build whatever you like, but don't fucking sit there and tell me that a Divinity of Pride in your mono White Lifegain deck is going to explode the format. The absolute peak thing that a color is getting is White getting an extra Combat Spell and Genji Glove already kind of does that.
Not sure why you're getting so worked up over this, but...
I am not really worked up, I am just calling retarded takes like "Guys they are totally doing this to push powerful cards to mono-colored decks!!!!" absolute insanity because really..the only "weakness" Mono Colored decks tend to have is that interaction is less powerful.
DRS has explicit B and G pips. Figure of Destiny and the homage they're printing have hyrbid activation pips and are thus fine.
They will literally be unaffected by this change, as their rules text has explicit pips. Not unlike Torrent of Souls, the old cycle.
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at least it is an actual combo that is Feesable to use instead of that silly bullshit "You can build this infinite combo in EOE limited!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" that everyone freaked out about before they realized that getting 4 specific cards in Limited isn't exactly easy.
I agree, the best argument for it. I don't think anyone should be looking at the power of it, since the format is obviously very unbalanced if you actually try. The precedent that WotC will change the rules so the shiny new cards are available everywhere is the bad precedent. I will not be surprised if something is made for lessons when Strixhaven 2 comes out.
Giving more tools is the problem, though I guess you could argue that things have gotten so screwed that it doesn't matter. Commander is built upon restrictions, and this is lessening restrictions. Maybe most of it is just "it feels weird", like Leyline of the Guildpact being Mono-Green or Reaper King being Colorless, but I do think it goes against the spirit of the format.
You've already mentioned Manamorphose, so I'll pitch my two cents: Ashiok, Dream Render in Bx control decks. If you want something a little cuter, Dream Salvage in a Rakdos Wheels deck.
I'm sure it was just silly to act like the sky is falling over a Walking Dead Secret Lair too. It's not that it's necessarily a problem yet, people are correctly seeing the writing on the wall. This company is a monkey's paw. Look no further than NWO. They heard the people's feedback that we wanted more complexity in the lower rarities. They gave us FIRE and the power creep at higher rarities to compensate. It will homogenize the format further, it will be used to push busted shit, and a knock-on effect will be that hybrid mana will show up more frequently because it's a crutch for draft design, which will in turn make draft even less interesting.
I would like to counter that with "Hybrids being functionally no different from Normal Multi color cards" goes against the spirit of a hybrid card.
It has things which are close - mass-reanimation fits Ascend from Avernus as well as the various 2-cmc-or-less cards, like return to the ranks. In terms of affecting all players, it doesn't do that specifically for creatures elsewhere, but it does have Second Sunrise, Roar of Redemption, Open the Vaults. The closer counterparts are in black - Patriarch's Bidding and Twilight's Call, but that's really about it.
If this were true, I would agree with the critiques of it breaking identity and spirit. But since its inception, this format has imposed no meaningful restrictions at-all on 5c wallet warriors. The Golos ban brought about screams of anguish from people with thousand-dollar-decks stuffed with impeccable landbases and every single staple card slapped over every single two-card combo.
I think this issue came about because people used to 4/5c goodstuff whined and whined about having to find alternatives in mono-colored decks, as even before they started giving white draw and ramp in every set somewhere around 18-19, white had plenty of ways to do it. It was more limited and required specific construction, but it existed. The sorts of people who shove rhystic into every single deck they can are the people who Trouble in Pairs was designed as a chase-card for.
I think draft's problem isn't so much coming from them making it easier on themselves with hybrid symbols - it's incompetent designers getting certain sets. Duskmourne and Final Fantasy have been some of the best sets in a long, long time which put to shame a lot of things from a decade-plus ago, but they're complemented by trash like Aetherdrift and EoE which seemed to be built by designers with no idea of how limited works and the importance of tempo - to speak nothing of Spidershit.
Ascend from Avernus is fair enough. But otherwise White gets only "on time" mass creature revival, like Second Sunrise or Faith's Reward. Otherwise, they mass reanimate Artifacts or Enchantments, like Brilliant Restoration, Open the Vaults, or Triumphant Reckoning. Triumphant Reckoning is especially notable since it gives white mass revive of specifically non-creatures.
You could at least argue that until General Tazri, the commanders were at least actually 5 color (though there was Reaper King if you accept that). But that's in part because they figured players would self regulate. Sure, 5 color gives you the opportunity to pubstomp, but then its not fun to play against and you won't get games past the first (in theory). Of course that's just one of the problems with EDH, expecting Rule 0 to fix everything when it only works on playgroups, otherwise you are having to read a contract to play a game.
Could be. I always figured with mono you got higher consistency or at least a good commander with the downside of needing to use suboptimal colorless cards to fill the gaps or just dealing with the gaps. But I guess people felt the need for Red and White to change since their identities were designed around 20 life 1v1 rather than 4 FFA.
