Is the hybrid "issue" really that difficult when it comes down to it? Yes, hybrid cards are both colors in terms of rules (AND), but the intention behind them is to make it so the cost can be paid with either color and the card can be played even in a mono-colored deck (OR). So what it comes down to is what you value higher: The letter-of-the-rules stuff or the designer's intention/gameplay stuff.
The problem if we start going down that road is what do you do about phyrexian mana? The intention is that you can use life instead of mana, and every deck can pay life. What about reanimator strategies who don't even cast their big creatures? Alternate casting cost with no coloured mana requirements such as Salvage Titan? Potentially free spells such as Archive Trap or Ravenous Trap? There is all kind of cards in Magic that can ignore normal casting cost. Why favour hybrid versus everything else?
I personally only see two options:
- Keep the rules as is
- Get rid of the commander identity restriction but restrict mana production: a deck can only produce mana colours in its commander's colour identity.
I'm fine with both of those scenarios but anything in between just won't feel right.
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The problem if we start going down that road is what do you do about phyrexian mana? The intention is that you can use life instead of mana, and every deck can pay life. What about reanimator strategies who don't even cast their big creatures? Alternate casting cost with no coloured mana requirements such as Salvage Titan? Potentially free spells such as Archive Trap or Ravenous Trap? There is all kind of cards in Magic that can ignore normal casting cost. Why favour hybrid versus everything else?
I personally only see two options:
- Keep the rules as is
- Get rid of the commander identity restriction but restrict mana production: a deck can only produce mana colours in its commander's colour identity.
I'm fine with both of those scenarios but anything in between just won't feel right.