The main issue with Recurring Nightmare is the fact that, because of the way it was worded, it's nearly impossible to interact with outside of countering it outright. The return to hand text is part of the activation cost, so upon resolution, you hold priority and activate it, and it's back in your hand before anyone else gets priority to remove it.

@thetrinketmage

10 ай бұрын

Are you able to hold priority? It says activate only as a sorcery. You can only do instant speed stuff and hold priority. And yea it’s a little tough to interact with but all graveyard decks fold to a RIP.

@mattdeters8306

10 ай бұрын

@@thetrinketmage Whenever a spell resolves, the active player (the one who cast it) receives priority first, so that player will always have priority to activate Nightmare as soon as it resolves, regardless of sorcery speed. And you're right. There's enough graveyard hate in the format that all colors have access to that RN would be a safe unban.

One of the most reasonable one of these videos I've seen. Panoptic mirror is too cool to stay banned. Golos is defo super unbannable imo. There are plenty of generically powerful commanders, its kinda shocking they banned a commander for being boring. He would definitely be a strong commander, casual and cedh, although I'm really not convinced he'd be the strongest, but I didn't play cEDH when he was legal so idk how he was. I also wanted to add that I really like building a deck with a companion. I play with friends online so we build a lot of decks and usually bring new ones every week, and its kinda a joy to be experimenting with different restrictions that allows you to build around another creature. I made a WUBRG jegantha deck and an artifacts zirda deck and they are both a blast. Neither need the companion but breweing around them and using them to get value feels great. It's my hot take that companion is awesome for commander and limited but absolutely horrendous for 60 card constructed, and they should have figure out some way to exclude it from the 1v1. I am almost entirely a limited player so maybe my MOM draft shaped rose tinted glasses make me like companion more than it deserves.

It is my right as an American to copy Shahrazad 17 times

@thetrinketmage

10 ай бұрын

The first amendment at work

Agree with most of your list but no one playing Emrakul ever plans on getting 15 mana lol. Decks that build around it plan on cheating it out early as 3 mana with Show and Tell. Those decks aren't that good but i think the ban is justified as you either get the big bungus creature and win, or you brick 8 turns on a row and lose. Not much inbetween.

@thetrinketmage

10 ай бұрын

I get what you mean but you can just show and tell in omniscience which is just better. Or you could cheat into play razaketh who will combo off easily. My point is there are better things to cheat into play already in the format

@noobie7727

Ай бұрын

​@thetrinketmage as someone who once had an ulamog the ceaseless hunger deck I can fully understand and think emerakul being banned makes sense. Ive turn 4 won the game from ramping HARD into ulamog with mana to spare. Youre telling me I could do that and have another turn to guarantee a win even harder? 15 mana in colorless is so easy it hurts. Turn one, wastes sol ring, turn 2 wastes thran dynamo pristine talisman, turn 3 wastes forsaken monument hedron archive, turn 4 wastes and bam thats 20 mana, cast emerakul get an extra turn equip swiftfoot boots to emerakul and now you've already ruined 2 players entire boards and are so far ahead it isn't funny

Back when I was in high school, I used Flash in my (very bad) Riku deck. Flashing in Primordial and copying it with Riku was so fun. Banning those two was probably the right decision.

I miss paradox engine too!

My playgroup had a proxy no ban list commander game where my buddy did end up copying shahrazad like 20 times

Limited resources is a problem if it comes out too early, like turn 1 or 2. 10 lands split into 4 players pretty unfairly, two players get 3 lands and two players get 2 lands.

@thetrinketmage

9 ай бұрын

But if you are able to get out 2 or 3 lands you can just remove the enchantment and still cast spells that cost 3 or less so isn’t that weaker than Armageddon?

NOOOO, don't remove companions, I think the deckbuilding restriction is really fun to build around, especially in commander where everything is available. I think a better solution is just to either ban lutri as a companion or print another lutri that doesn't have companion.

@thetrinketmage

10 ай бұрын

But some don’t even work in commander… and most work better as your commander anyway. Like Obosh as a companion sucks cause if you lose him that’s the only odd cards matters card you got

Shaman of Forgotten Ways is basically Biorhythm on a creature for a few more mana and an extra condition. Still no hard to hit, though. Emrakul, yeah, I don't see why she is banned. Maybe back when she was printed she was harder to deal with, but we have so many board wipes, sacrifice effects, hell, even Shriekmaw can take her down.

@thetrinketmage

10 ай бұрын

I think I just forgot to read the part of my script which me filmed the shaman but you are totally correct!

@jeanpierrepolnareff2356

10 ай бұрын

Protection grants imuinity from efects so no bord sweepers do not work except the new one from the CM collorless precon

@AlexOvTheAbyss

10 ай бұрын

@@jeanpierrepolnareff2356 Protection prevents targeting, damaging, enchanting, and blocking. It does not prevent board wipes because they do not target.

I feel like paradox engine would be fine and nice in cEDH but it would just make some artifact decks absolutely explode LGS tables on commander tuesdays. Like, my Myr deck could just play Cryptolith Rite turn 1 or 2, Urtet and some manarocks, play the Paradox Engine and tap infinitely, make Urtet and all Myr infinitely big and since it's an artifact it's decently easy to tutor in WUBRG. Would I put it in and make it so consistent? Probably not, since it'd make it too competetive... But maybe that's good? I feel there are too few "power level 8" decks. Strong enough to be frowned upon in rando pods, but too weak for cEDH. Idk. Or maybe people just rarely make those (to me) sweetspot decks.

I find it really interesting that you put sundering titan in a different spot than primoridial

@thetrinketmage

10 ай бұрын

Primordial always can hit 3 lands regardless of land type and ramps you putting you way ahead!

The proublem with aeons torn is it is almost imposable to ineteact with and since it is collorless it can go in any cheat/fast mana shell and would function as a better blightsteel

@thetrinketmage

10 ай бұрын

How is it better than blightsteel? Also how often do we see decks that cheat big things into play? It’s not a common archetype

These takes are based, Id put balance higher up personally since if you play only artifacts/enchantments its just 2 mana boardwipe and get past indestructible, and beyond that use it is somewhat versatile. Its just 2 mana too cheap for my taste. Although I'm definitely more of a casual player to cedh

Great video! Well thought out. I disagree on Fastbond, Gifts Ungiven, and Hullbreacher. I played in a rule 0 group with Fastbond, and all of the decks that weren't lands decks cut it. Gifts Ungiven I think is Intuition but you get 2 cards. 2 kinda Demonic Tutors at instant speed is scary to me. Hullbreacher 2 card combos with wheels in your deck, and also 1 card instant speed combos with your opponents' wheels. Not even Thoracle typically does this. I also think Balance is kinda too good, after testing, but would be willing to budge. Golos was the most egregious ban in rules committee history. Golos was banned for being too popular. At the time, a very powerful Kenrith list was popular in cEDH. I think the mark of a good design is a card that is really popular without being too strong. They literally banned a card BECAUSE it was a good, healthy design, which is absurd. I think if I woke up as the rules committee tomorrow, I would ban Thoracle, Breach, and Dockside, and unban Fastbond, Sylvan Primordial, Braids, Golos, Recurring Nightmare, Paradox Engine, and obviously all of the cards in the bottom tier which I think you're completely spot on about

@thetrinketmage

10 ай бұрын

Really fast bond? I agree non lands decks won’t use it but does it not make lands decks very very strong?

@Jundsac

10 ай бұрын

@@thetrinketmage It did make lands decks very very strong, but as you pointed out in the video, it felt about as broken as Underworld Breach, so it gets a pass by that metric. Was pretty borderline broken tho, I would like to see it unbanned to have the players test it and decide

@thetrinketmage

10 ай бұрын

It did get unrestricted in vintage recently and didn’t do much so you might be onto something

With fast mana we either need to get rid of the rest of it or just allow the ones banned. I can't take people seriously who say sol ring is fine but a mox isn't all the while they are proxying gaea's craddle.

@thetrinketmage

10 ай бұрын

I get the sentiment like is mana crypt that much better or worse than a mox ruby. But also not all fast mana is the same. I think mana vault is noticeably worse and there is something to be said about having some fast mana to help combo decks! I think we could afford to lose some fast mana but I wouldn’t cut all of it!

#UnbanEmrakul #FreeEmrakul

I think Primeval Titan should at least be in "Strong but fine", but probably in "Maybe". I see why it's banned, but it might not need to be. One thing about Dockside is it requires opponents to have artifacts and enchantments, which they usually do, but not always. With prime time you always have lands in your deck, and it just fetches out Gaia's Cradle or other powerful lands. As far as paradox engine, I think it absolutely should stay banned. It can be abused so easily. Saying, "It doesn't go in EVERY deck" is a moot point. It could be built around so easily that it would warp the format immediately.

@thetrinketmage

10 ай бұрын

You are correct that sometimes dockside is a dead card and prime time would almost never be a dead card. But how often does that happen? For engine I’m saying it doesn’t go in every deck cause the RC said it does which I disagree with

I believe the reason Sundering Titan is banned is because it really hard stomps mono-colored decks, which are already relatively underpowered. I do agree it probably shouldn't be banned but that is probably why.

@justass3001

Ай бұрын

It doesn’t hurt mono-colored decks, you can only choose one of their lands. It hurts more the more colors you have

I want Tinker so baaaaddd lmaooooo. It’s too op, an auto include as you’d say but FUCK it’s a hysterical card

Magda would love Paradox Engine.

LET THE OTTER SWIM FREE

I think emrakul is fine in the command zone, because it is harder to cheat her out. But when it is in the 99 there are just so many ways to cheat her out that i get why she is banned. As a colorless eldrazi player, i still want her to be released.

@thetrinketmage

10 ай бұрын

I know you can cheat her out but is that better than cheating out blightsteel or omniscience. It wouldn’t be close to the best thing to cheat into play

As someone who is just now getting into CEDH and built Blue Farm, any talk of bans makes me extremely nervous. I quit constructed formats like standard, modern and Legacy because I was sick of bans happening constantly.

@thetrinketmage

10 ай бұрын

Congratulations on starting cEDH! It’s fun! As for bans I’d say 99% of the casual edh bans don’t affect cEDH so you are fine

Unban black lotus coward

17:52 think of braids this way. The braids player goes first and manages to put her into play on turn 2 after a lucky turn 1 sol ring play. You have until your upkeep to remove her before you have to sacrifice your only permanent; a simply forest. Oh and you have to do this at instant speed with only 1 mana available. And this is not counting all of the crazy shit CEDH players can do to put her down on turn 1. In the 99, I guess she’s fine, it’s annoying but whatever. But as a commander, it’s absolutely backbreaking for most decks.

@thetrinketmage

10 ай бұрын

I totally get that, you jam all the fast mana like dark ritual and mana crypt to get her into play. But… let’s say they played a turn 2 braids off of a dark ritual. Can’t you just not play land number 2 or 3 or 4 and just wait? It’s not like braids will kill you and they will eventually run out of stuff to sac unless they also found the perfect token generator. Then once braids is gone just play the lands you held back

my deck has 3 was to cast emrakul for free so i guess i get it but i want it in my deck anyway lol

@thetrinketmage

10 ай бұрын

Right but can’t you use that to cheat into play many many other things that win the game? Like omniscience or blightsteel

YES! UNBAN EMMY

This video sounded mostly like "I opened these cards that are on the banlist, please let me play them. These other cards I don't have can stay banned."

@thetrinketmage

10 ай бұрын

I think I don’t own anything that is banned other than hullbreacher. Many of these were banned before I started playing edh so I never picked up a copy

Dockside is inherently fair

You put, like, nothing in Not Healthy, when a lot of those things deserved “Not healthy”

@thetrinketmage

10 ай бұрын

Such as?

@zsewqaspider

10 ай бұрын

@@thetrinketmage Sundering Titan and Iona are the big two, the just lock a mono-color player out of the game while being big reanimation targets.

@thetrinketmage

10 ай бұрын

Sundering Titan is 100% not as good as terastadon. Would you ban the elephant? Iono is fine I played for so many years with that card I’m the format and saw only one player ever get locked out from it and actually lose. It gets board wiped too easily to be a serious threat

@Garl_Vinland

10 ай бұрын

@@thetrinketmage They're still not healthy. One other combo piece away from soft locking any opponent. Pretty much any sign post bann is "Not healthy"

@zsewqaspider

10 ай бұрын

@@thetrinketmage Titan very much is more of a problem as it's entirely a land destruction card whereas the elephant is just noncreature permanent removal, and the reason that Iona didn't see much play is that while yes it was easy to remove, it was still a massive dick move so people just didn't play it.