most cards are banned because the rules committee deems them “unfun.” unfortunately, they are VERY inconsistent with this. cards like biorhythm, and sway of the stars are both banned, but they unbanned worldfire somewhat recently, a card that people dislike for the exact same reason as sway, and biorhythm. there are also cards that would probably get banned if edh wasnt almost entirely a casual format, like gaeas cradle, or mana crypt. most ppl cant afford them, but theyre MUCH more powerful than most of the banlist.
The commander banlist is a strange beast. It is run by the Commander Rules Committee and is not used like other banlists. Power level is rarely a consideration (Sol Ring is available and basically a staple), while homogenization, price, full board resets, and one and done instant/sorcery win conditions are reasons things get banned. Additionally, the Commander banlist is not exhaustive and meant more as a guideline highlighting card effects that may be unfun, and heavily relies on playgroups making their own social contracts of what is allowed, which is why you may hear a lot of talk about "Rule Zero" regarding the banlist. "Rule Zero" is basically just a reminder that Commander can be whatever your playgroup wants it to be, including adding more to or completely ignoring the banlist, or changing the rules of the format itself. Personally, I dislike how the banlist is run, as at a base level it assumes you have a dedicated playgroup that shares views on what is acceptable and what is not. If you want to play a game with random people, you have to build your deck assuming "Rule Zero" isn't in effect, meaning anything not on the banlist is available to play, and likely will be played if it is good enough. Commander is fundamentally a broken format, and the banlist isn't really doing enough because of the reliance on "Rule Zero". It really should be the other way around, where the banlist does a lot, and the players can use "Rule Zero" to allow things they find acceptable.
@@connorhamilton5707 To be fair to the Commander committee, Sol Ring, at least, would likely not be banned even if the format was treated like a normal competitive format. Commander is a Sol Ring format in the same sense that Legacy is a Brainstorm format. Is Brainstorm too powerful for Legacy? Probably, I think even with all the stuff going on lately, Delver still dominates. However, Brainstorm is an iconic cornerstone of the format's identity, and they'd sooner ban every other card it sees play alongside than Brainstorm itself to keep the format somewhat balanced. Commander is in the same boat, where every Commander precon, and a good chunk of the other Commander product since Commander first became an official format have included Sol Ring. No matter what banning philosophy they use, Sol Ring is never getting banned in Commander.
Well I run blade historian and marauders in my Winota deck because the only thing scarier then double strike on all creatures is all those double strike creatures also doing double damage, quadruple damage is a game ender
In the spirit of "Top 10 Light Attribute Fusion Monsters who have Dragon in the Name but are not Dragons" I vote for a top 10 cards with a color in their name that don't use that color of mana.
You spelled Fervant champion wrong. Ragavan isn't so much power creep as just a genuinely strong card, and it's more the power level of the formats he is legal in making his ability rarely wiff.
@@superbaas8822 champion definitely has a lot of text, but it comes nowhere *nowhere* close to the format breaking powercreep of monke. Champ is great (in a certain kind of deck), but monke is never a bad card to use - very few decks *don't* want card & mana advantage on a 2dmg body for 1 that can dash for...reasons
@@fernandobanda5734 1 mana creature with 2 relevant creature types and four relevant abilities. Card saw a massive level of standard play, and should never have been printed.
@@superbaas8822 I don't follow Standard that closely but I thought it was an okay card? Like 1/1 first strike haste is pretty terrible. Applies extra pressure only with an underused tribe and can't pump itself. And the other upside wants you to use a completely different card type. I would have to research if it had some incredible synergy or something because it really sounds "meh" when compared to any 2/1 for one with a little upside. Edit: Plus, we're talking about the same set that had Oko, Once Upon a Time, Emry, Brazen Borrower, Murderous Rider, Bonecrusher Giant, Cauldron Familiar + Witch's Oven, Questing Beast, Fae of Wishes, Wishclaw Talisman, Fires of Invention, Escape to the Wilds...
The first commander deck i made myself with cards i owned was a Beckett brass pirate tribal. It's obnoxious and very fun to play even if it's really hit or miss
I have an Extus deck that's designed to just cast Awaken The Blood Avatar over and over, and it does incredible work there in letting me activate it one or two more times each turn.
The reason why Ragavan is much stronger in Legacy and Vintage is because decks that play it also play Force of Will and Daze which nullifies any early removals or blockers.
Everyone is talking about 'Willy' Goblin, but where are my 'enite board' fans at? ~~I think it's supposed to be 'entire board', but don't quote me on that~~
Ik that stormtamer was only good in one deck but so are a few of the cards above it and mono blue tempo was a fairly dominant deck, a championship deck and the stormtamer was a key piece of the deck so I think it should be a bit higher, although I might be biased because the mono blue tempo days was the only time I was consistently playing standard
Please errata both Ragavan and Dockside Extortionist: - make Ragavan a 1/1 where the controller has to choose between the Treasure token or the "impulse draw from opponent" - make D.E. to not include enchantments and lose 1 life for each Treasure created this way (there are some cards, usually white ones, that gains life on ETB)
@@williamdrum9899, also because most of the cards that were pure soldiers, pure clerics and things like that were errataed and gained the human type, so just because of that there were already a huge amount of humans that were not humans before. Then you add the Inistrad synergies.
Malcolm is 1 of the best pirates (res its a commander card) but its 1 of the best cards in any pirate tribal deck. Glint horn is also a thing. Before i get hate i assume this video is based on 60 card formats
always had a question about chatterfang: it's not really infinite because you need a legal target, right? or can you still pay but it fizzles once everything is dead?
While the ability is on the stack, your Plunderer triggers creating the Squirrel tokens to replace the ones you sacced for the cost. Then you use one of the treasures to pay the mana cost of the ability again. So yes it is infinite, it's just that you do indeed need a legal target to start the combo. If all creatures somehow had Shroud you couldn't do it at all.
(2:38) Pfft... "Willy Goblin"? Did you pronounce it like that on purpose? (8:03) My brother and I both pulled the anime version of Spectral Sailor from the Jumpstart 2022 packs we opened on Christmas, and both of them ended up getting some good use in the duels we played against each other.
I highly doubt the pirate girl in the thumbnail is an actual Magic card, yet I also wouldn't be surprised if it is. This isn't Magic related, but I'm just going to leave a Top 10 Monsters That Mill Exactly One Monster From the Deck here so I don't forget about it.
Spectral Sailor, part of the Azure Lane x MTG collab event. But I get your skepticism, MTG's "anime" cards are usually not that much in the typical anime aesthetic so this girl definitely stands out.
The top 3 cards of this list probably shouldn't have been printed in their current forms. Each one should be at least 2 mana more expensive for their effects and probably would have been if they weren't pushed so hard in Commander and Modern(Dockside and HullBreacher for Commander and Ragavan for Modern).
2 mana more is overdoing it. Even with a single more mana, they would immediately become mediocre. Hullbreacher isn't that bad if you compare it to things like Spirit of the Labyrinth and play it in a "fair" way. It's the asymmetry that really pushes the card too much. Maybe the wording wanted to be something like "If an opponent's effect would cause them to draw a card..." The other two I agree are way too busted.
Siren stormtamer can protect u n ur creatures but not any type of permanent like u said n wrote. Glad i was reading n not simply listening. Also u pronounced Wily Goblin wrong, u kept saying Willy like the word Will but it is Wily n is prounced like the words Wild n While, or most famously like Wile E. Coyote whose name is a pun of Wily Coyote
After watching ~20 of your videos Im just gonna assume you're mispronouncing words on purpose to troll/increase engagement. Who doesn't know how to pronounce 'wily'? Did you not watch Looney Tunes?
If you want Dockside banned in commander, you are the stereotypical toxic casual. If dockside is making 5+ treasures, the game state had long since passed a point where the effect is unfair, it literally scales with the powerlevel of the pod, it's honestly kind of genius really.
