What did you ultimately decide to do with companions for your cube?
1) Running them with the rules update.
2) Run them as written.
3) Cut them.
4) Wasn't running them to begin with.
I banned all cards that reference the "outside of the game" as a zone. But I chose to do this both before the rules change and for reasons that existed before Companion was even a thing. So you can count that as either a 3 or a 4.
I dislike the mechanic, no matter how it works. So I'm happy to leave them out. But if I were to allow them for any reason, it would of course be with the updated rules. We play by the rules of Magic with my cube, which includes rules updates and Oracle texts.
I banned all cards that reference the "outside of the game" as a zone. But I chose to do this both before the rules change and for reasons that existed before Companion was even a thing. So you can count that as either a 3 or a 4.
I dislike the mechanic, no matter how it works. So I'm happy to leave them out. But if I were to allow them for any reason, it would of course be with the updated rules. We play by the rules of Magic with my cube, which includes rules updates and Oracle texts.
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