I think this is unfair to those who don't have a favorite magic card.
Thinking hard would give me:
Past in Flames
I'm a Johnny. This is a Johnny card. I love non permanent spells more than anything else in magic, and this works really (like really) well with them, while being one itself. It enables cool combo (and control!) decks, which are my favorite type of decks. It's just all around good.
I really like Past in Flames. Even if my favorite colour is blue :/
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I'm making a lot of money for a student, but woah, that's expensive.
I want to get a large amount, but I don't want to pay $.25 or $.5 each for like 200.
Blehp...
Are you having a stroke?
Now 1001.
I actually have. I have read the wikipedia page for Burritos before, for fun.
Let me give you the -10k. I owe the school for this year.
I thought I was bad. I think I accumulated something like 21 or so infractions. Acutally I have 41 things on my http://www.mtgsalvation.com/members/130704-theendisnear/warnings page. Eesh.
Nothing since 2014, you get better.
Glad to hear you had fun at FNM
I think the reason for this is that OP doesn't play very competitively, so the differences are less pronounced in their meta (look at their decks, and I guess the fact that they consider Ingot to possibly have a place in competitive EDH)
As OP though, this does differ on the types of deck. I'd think at the top level competitive decks the best mana rocks are not represented in the list. Stuff like the Legal Mox and other hyper cheap rocks.
I also happen to disagree with everything you said ;D
I'll try to take it in order: I think your assessment of MLD is wrong, and hinges on the fact that I actually mentioned above: people not expecting you to play any. You are actually saying "MLD is good because you can MLD, then cast Gisela, and then hit people a few times to kill them before they cast removal".
Armageddon is the cheapest MLD I can think of, and Gisela is 7 mana. You are saying, "My strategy works because I can get to 11 mana, and give my opponents three turns before they can answer my creature with no built in protection". This sound exactly like it only works against casual metas where people don't expect MLD and therefore don't play artifact ramp, keep up counters, keep lands in hand, or pack low costing removal spells.
I probably don't need to keep going because at this point it is obvious why you are wrong in this case.
To address the second point: I'm not saying Infinites are not good. I'm saying they are good against those that don't expect them. If I don't expect infinite combos and don't run ways to interact with them (either through counterspells or creature removal for creatures based ones) then they are good (like way better than they normally are) against me. If, however, people anticipate them, and play ways to stop them, they lose power against their un challenged version. I don't think you can disagree with me here either.
The Alesha deck you linked plays two pieces of MLD, Blood moon effects, and then a lot of ways of disrupting resources in ways where it hinders the opponent more than itself. The number of MLD vs the Resource denial is heavily in favour of resource denial, like I claimed it should be in my post. I guess thanks for proving me right again?
The deck is cool and all, but also falls short against the most competitive decks of the format, so I don't know where it fits.
So first of all, I'm going to ignore the insanely stupid "If you haven't logged at least 100 hours actually playing Boros competitively, please refrain from posting."
The gist of my post was this:
MLD doesn't help Boros.
MLD is good against people not expecting it, which makes it similar to infinite combos and what not. But if you're playing competitively, the MLD won't help you win.
Boros has a harder time recuperating than Green, and is as affected as blue (but not actually, cause blue can dig for lands) really, the only advantage is that the Boros player expects that MLD, but then so should the other players, assuming they are playing competitively.
I think Boros decks would actually fair better as control decks, with an agressive commander that ends up being an efficient win-con.
TBH, it depends what you mean by competitive. Competitive is competitive, but you can't play with the top tier decks. I mean turn 2-3 wins, where MLD is also bad. Let us go a bit slower.
At this point, you can play MLD, but as I said before, it won't be super effective. I do think making the game harder to play is the way to go, but not by reseting everyone. Unfortunately, this playstyle has nothing to do with Boros (would actually be better in blue, but w/e) but would use a large number of artifacts. You just want to make the game hard to play (think stax) but have the deck the least hindered by it.
On a different note, I think the strongest asset to Boros might the political applications. When playing boros, unless you are beating someone's face in next turn, people are less likely to pay attention to it. I feel like that is where the real advantage might be.
I'd recommend doing just that, but with special flavour of control. It's commander, if your playgroup isn't hardcore, then you can afford to go a bit lax with your control. Add in some cooler, less efficient answers. Steal Sac stuff is really cool, less efficient, and ends up giving you more value than regular answers. It ends up being cooler for EDH.
haha
Now: Off memory:
Airithne
yeah? or naw?
Let's see.
WHAT
How?! I've looked at that card for DAYS!
How did I miss that?
Arinthe (or however you spell it) becoming a mod isn't as surprising as Jivan ;P
Not sure how good it seems.
Comes from this:
http://ee.heavengames.com/new/eeh/gameinfo/units/img.php?src=pics/prophet_ww1.png
Which I played in 6th grade. I guess I thought it was cool.