Yeva works really well as a commander, too, because of how generic of a card she is and relatively cheap cmc. She also doesn't break your strategy if she becomes too expensive to cast. Having her at the helm doesn't immediately paint you as a target.
I also play Restore Balance. It’s the same as Balance, except it has Suspend 6 for one mana. I love just letting it sit there in exile. My friends just… don’t play stuff
I use Yeva and Seedborn in my Selvala deck and it is an obnoxious combo that as long as I have like fauna shaman or nylea keen eyed is usually gg over a round. Prophet allowing that in one card and not being green locked is wild
'Powerful banned cards' Showing Biorhythm is a joke. Just unban a majority of the list by player base votes. Something like Balance is a completely reasonable ban, but something like '9-Mana, 1 color is off' with zero protection attached is a joke. Also, the 'Run Intuition in place of Gifts Ungiven' is funny when that card hasn't been reprinted and is easily over $100. Yes, proxies exist, but that should be enough of a sign that maybe it needs a reprint.
they ban cards as representations of unfun play patterns for groups, there can be many nearly identical cards with similar effects but they don't ban every card just the worst offender of an effect. You can play anything with your regular group if you want but don't be a weenie and run these rolling into your legs with strangers who are just looking to play some games
Weird comparison, the cards are nothing alike. Nadu can still be shut down with simple cards like Collector Ouphe or Horobi. Once Prophet hits the table however, the game drastically shifts in favor of the controller. Creatures at instant speed with all your land and creatures untapping each turn. Especially if you’re playing Simic or Bant, you just own the game now. There are a few ways to get around her, like Kutzil or Grand Abolisher, but that won’t stop the land and creature untapping. As someone who’s been on the receiving end of Prophet of Kruphix, and I can more than understand why they ban it.
Gifts being banned while Intuition remains free is hilarious. Sure Gifts gets an extra card, but if you're playing either you probably already have a game winning pile in your deck regardless so they're not really that different from each other. Sure is convenient that the cheap one is banned whilst the Reserve List card gets to remain in the format 🤔
Because the cheap one saw for that reason way more play and is therefore a bigger problem? I know crazy concept, but if you have 100 games with gifts for every 1 intuition while doing somewhat the same, then it's the bigger problem. And they often ban one card out of a bunch with similar effects to show that you shouldn't play them to begin with.
@@lisan3627 well wizards decided that sol ring is THE card to represent commander and the rc is too afraid to ban it. Also the reasoning for the p9 ban was to emphazise that commander is a casual format that doesn't need cards that cost so much to be enjoyed and that is good. Again they didn't ban all of them and just the worst offenders as signal. It's not exactly rocket science my dude. Also you can allways rule 0. Gifts is an notorious unpleasant card to play against, but you can use it if everbody agrees. It's not like there are sanctionend tournaments hindering you.
@@spane81 So which one is it? Do we ban expensive cards to prevent price from being a gatekeeping factor or do we keep expensive cards legal because price stops them from being too common? These are in direct opposition to each other. It's not rocket science to figure out the EDH banlist is comically arbitrary.
@@lisan3627 first of, do you really compare the price of a p9 to intuition? I think they're just a couple of thousend bucks off. You know it's not all black and white. And of course the banlist is somewhat arbitrary. Otherwise it would be quite a bit longer. That happens when you ban one card out of a bunch as example. So you can even choose why you shouldn't necessarily play intuition. 1 it costs a lot of money and you can easily play on a lesser budget (especially if you think it's in the same price range as a p9); or 2 it is an notorious combo peace that sets wins up out of now where and is hard to interact with. So if you aren't resisting in the thinking department, or are playing cedh for the most optimal deck, there is no need to run intuition in your deck at all. Pretty clear i would say. Would you prefer we have a couple hundret cards banned for a more clear ban list? I'd rather not. And yeah still not exactly rocket science, yet obviously to hard for some.
