I think this is just unfortunately where the game is going. They'll put more and more money and set design effort into these and less into the standard sets.
Standard being a turn 4 format is too crazy for me. That feels like Modern.
I'm glad they acted on this in Bo1, I think its totally fine and should be encouraged to be pro-active about bans in Bo1 in Arena. That is definitely a different game than Bo3 and should be treated as such.
I just really am not very interested nor do I see what the crossover appeal is for the Marvel Universe. These cards look kinda neat but Marvel already has Snap as a game. Also, is this basically a preview of the upcoming two Marvel UB sets that are to be released?
This is one I would love to have a framed print of. So beautiful.
I think this was the most important part of why Commander grew so big in the first place. Having WoTC/Hasbro decidedly NOT involved in the governing of the format was what allowed it to become and stay fun.
Yeah I completely agree. There is so much context with all the cards that I don't know how they do this. It's really just four different ban lists they're now managing. And that I think sucks so much fun out of the decks that it almost becomes what's the point even.
Here's the idea: There are four power brackets, and every Commander deck can be placed in one of those brackets by examining the cards and combinations in your deck and comparing them to lists we'll need community help to create. You can imagine bracket one is the baseline of an average preconstructed deck or below and bracket four is high power. For the lower tiers, we may lean on a mixture of cards and a description of how the deck functions, and the higher tiers are likely defined by more explicit lists of cards.
Ok... I'm listening 🤔
In this system, your deck would be defined by its highest-bracket card or cards.
This now becomes an eternal battle over which cards are in Tier 3 and which cards are in Tier 4 imo.
For example, if Ancient Tomb is a bracket-four card, your deck would generally be considered a four. But if it's part of a Tomb-themed deck, the conversation may be "My deck is a four with Ancient Tomb but a two without it. Is that okay with everyone?"
This seems kinda gnarly to me. Perhaps it can work though by farming this decision out to every single play group.
Ty that is a good explanation of that, that makes sense
Sad but necessary for the Professor to spend the first 7 minutes telling magic players to not harass or threaten people online anonymously.
But onto the video - I have to disagree with the Professor entirely on this:
[08:57] I was much more in favor of reasonably reprinting these cards so that they became affordable
He first says that Commander will be more fun in 3 months, and then says he thinks WoTC should have just re-printed the problem cards to make them more available. I can't understand how any entrenched player could believe this. Especially given just how long and how many reprints were needed for Sol Ring to get the cost down.
But beyond that, if you first agree that the format is better without the cards, how and why are you suggesting to first reprint them to oblivion? There is a clear problem with fast mana in commander (and tutors and other things) and there's no amount of reprinting that will ever solve this.
He also says that Jeweled Lotus should never have been printed, but then says it should not have been banned? And instead just printed MORE? A card that should never have been printed should now be printed more? This makes no sense, and it's inconsistent, which is very out of character for someone who approaches things very logically.
Also, the comparisons to other formats like Pioneer make no sense to me. There is no comparison with these formats, Commander is completely unique compared to competitive 60-card formats. It's not even apples and oranges, it's apples and baseballs.
Finally, his suggestion to put the cards on a watchlist as a waiting period does a huge disservice to players who don't follow news closely. It would create a cash-out event for entrenched players and leave non-entrenched players as the bag-holders. That is nuts to me, and this is yet another reason why I agree with the path they took here.
Crazy how much they raised so far. As of now it's at $30,000 on a $3,400 original goal.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/17504773
I wish they still made green faeries, or even just one Sultai faerie commander. Maybe I should make a custom one.
Also Susan Van Camp's Magic art is so great, eye patches and side profiles for days.
Thank you for posting this, I think I definitely would have forgotten this was starting tomorrow.