If people are sick of reading about stuff just stop taking part. You have 100% control over what you read. Simic Ascendancy isn't going to get banned just because you didn't tell someone to shut up on the internet.
Like many though, I saw this coming, and it was overdue. I'd been looking for a good reason to put Karametra, God of Harvests into my Sisay deck, and this is the perfect reason.
It was stupid...I couldn't HELP but go off when PE was on the field, and I didn't need too many people/rocks on the board. Sel 2.0, Mox Amber(in hand), Sisay, Priest of Titania or Elvish Archdruid, and bam...suddenly I had Laverne and Shirley and you have no lands.
Maybe now I can enjoy my Sisay deck again instead of being bored.
Banned because it wins seemingly out of nowhere. No other criteria mentioned.
While other cards also meet this criteria, it seems they leaned on the fact that it requires little deckbuilding focus to be effective.
I believe this is the first card to be banned because it wins seemingly out of nowhere since Coalition Victory. I do not know if this means other cards will start being more heavily considered for banning... but that seems like the logical conclusion.
Certainly shocked, that’s for sure. There’s precedent now for similar cards gaining traction for potential bans. Tooth and Nail being the first card I think falls into a similar category.
You know that tooth and Nail can be sued to tutor anything else that isn't combo right? Tell me what does Paradox Engine offers other then straight up combo? Untaping a couple of mana rocks to add more mana? Woow.
Tough i think they could have explained more the reason why it was banned, but now people aginst the comitee will twist their words in this and used it as more ammuntion.
I use it in two decks.
Phenax uses it to mill opponents - kinda like Intruder alarm.
Maelstrom Wanderer is competitive and can use it to combo, but main use is being able to activate Crystal Shard and Tradewind Rider multiple times per turn.
Banned because it wins seemingly out of nowhere. No other criteria mentioned.
While other cards also meet this criteria, it seems they leaned on the fact that it requires little deckbuilding focus to be effective.
I believe this is the first card to be banned because it wins seemingly out of nowhere since Coalition Victory. I do not know if this means other cards will start being more heavily considered for banning... but that seems like the logical conclusion.
Certainly shocked, that’s for sure. There’s precedent now for similar cards gaining traction for potential bans. Tooth and Nail being the first card I think falls into a similar category.
You know that tooth and Nail can be sued to tutor anything else that isn't combo right? Tell me what does Paradox Engine offers other then straight up combo? Untaping a couple of mana rocks to add more mana? Woow.
Tough i think they could have explained more the reason why it was banned, but now people aginst the comitee will twist their words in this and used it as more ammuntion.
Giving your team pseudo-vigilance by casting a spell after the attack step. Being able to use cool tap abilities multiples times. Untapping stuff that doesn't during your untap step.
As someone who loves cool tap abilities and synergy engines
Paradox engine is much, much too pushed to be casually used for that and lead to a fun time. No one is taking out their mana rocks and draw spells in edh so that they don't go too far with paradox engine.
Even tooth and nail, which I have never seen cast for anything other than a player killing combo, is easier to play more fairly.
Like many though, I saw this coming, and it was overdue. I'd been looking for a good reason to put Karametra, God of Harvests into my Sisay deck, and this is the perfect reason.
It was stupid...I couldn't HELP but go off when PE was on the field, and I didn't need too many people/rocks on the board. Sel 2.0, Mox Amber(in hand), Sisay, Priest of Titania or Elvish Archdruid, and bam...suddenly I had Laverne and Shirley and you have no lands.
Maybe now I can enjoy my Sisay deck again instead of being bored.
EDH decks: 1. RGWMayael's Big BeatsRETIRED!
2. BUWMerieke Ri Berit and the 40 Thieves
3. URNiv's Wheeling and Dealing!
4. BURThe Walking Dead
5. GWSisay's Legends of Tomorrow
6. RWBRise of Markov
7. GElvez and stuffz(W)
8. RCrush your enemies(W)
9. BSign right here...(W)
I use it in two decks.
Phenax uses it to mill opponents - kinda like Intruder alarm.
Maelstrom Wanderer is competitive and can use it to combo, but main use is being able to activate Crystal Shard and Tradewind Rider multiple times per turn.
8.RG Green Devotion Ramp/Combo 9.UR Draw Triggers 10.WUR Group stalling 11.WUR Voltron Spellslinger 12.WB Sacrificial Shenanigans
13.BR Creatureless Panharmonicon 14.BR Pingers and Eldrazi 15.URG Untapped Cascading
16.Reyhan, last of the Abzan's WUBG +1/+1 Counter Craziness 17.WUBRG Dragons aka Why did I make this?
Building: The Gitrog Monster lands, Glissa the Traitor stax, Muldrotha, the Gravetide Planeswalker Combo, Kydele, Chosen of Kruphix + Sidar Kondo of Jamuraa Clues, and Tribal Scarecrow Planeswalkers
Giving your team pseudo-vigilance by casting a spell after the attack step. Being able to use cool tap abilities multiples times. Untapping stuff that doesn't during your untap step.
Paradox engine is much, much too pushed to be casually used for that and lead to a fun time. No one is taking out their mana rocks and draw spells in edh so that they don't go too far with paradox engine.
Even tooth and nail, which I have never seen cast for anything other than a player killing combo, is easier to play more fairly.