What are the odds, of a cycle of 5 monocoloured legendaries that partner with eachother or with any legendary creature with partner
There's pretty close to no chance of the original partner ever coming back. It's just too hard to balance and widely viewed as a mistake and has been suggested as such by WotC making the partner with mechanic to replace it. They could maybe do a partner with for 5 legends but that would be A LOT of text. Perhaps they partner with a specific creature type unique to those 5 legends though, which could be pretty interesting
Why does Electrodominance work with sorcery speed permanents at instant speed, while Idol of Endurance does not? I understand that the rules are listed on the Gatherer, but I want to know why these rulings aren't considered inconsistent.
Anything above a normal masters set price (which it's so obviously not gonna be) won't be worth. Buy the singles. Don't support wotc's unreasonable greed is my opinion
Ah ok thanks for the info. It does seem unlikely to become a problem since there would have to be a companion powerful enough and some really specific circumstance for people to even get any kind of benefit from it and also get away with it. Hopefully nothing like that comes to fruition
So I know there's already a lot of controversy around the Companion mechanic, but I've been really wondering something. How can you make sure early in a sanctioned tournament that your opponent is actually meeting the deck requirements of the companion card? Are people just going to have to call a judge to confirm that the submitted deck meets the requirements as soon as they see a companion creature cast?
I know that later in a tournament people start to find out about other players' decklists and feature matches can catch a cheater. But what's to stop someone early in a tournament from shoving in an unsubmitted companion creature in their side board just in case they can get away with it when they know they're not in a feature match?
If people have to call a judge every time one is cast and it becomes a regular thing I would imagine this will slow play like crazy
The mechanic should probably just be outright banned rather than the cards. It would require a new rule by the RC but it's better than getting rid of cards from the format. TBH I think there should be a rule out in place for the original partner mechanic along the lines of they can only partner with the same color identity since the "partner with" mechanic's existence is clearly wotc saying partner was a mistake
I'm confused, wouldn't companion just not work in Commander? The rules of companion state that the card must start in your sideboard. There are no sideboards in Commander, therefore the mechanic shouldn't work
Edit: Nevermind, I didn't realize there were different rules for Commander. Mod feel free to delete this post
I think if you're ahead and going for lethal then menace and deathtouch, but most cases deathtouch and lifelink are just going to be so rediculously potent and deathtouch and menace will often not both be needed to get attacks through
Though it still gets quite a bit of praise, Mystic Remora is a card I've seen a lot less lately. And when I do see it now, it never does anything because people have gotten better at building decks that can play cheap utility creatures instead of just Mana rocks, etc. early in the game to easily wait it out and get way ahead of the remora player
i've heard people claim that, but they're just not playing it right. the card still does MAJOR work. you just have to know your group, and don't play it t1. i've seen a lot of people drop it t1 and everyone just waits it out, i've seen even more people play it t4 and it draws a crapton of cards
its all going to be relative to the group though, the cards brought up in this thread that is, so your group may definitely have gone a different direction
I've seen what I described happen early, mid, and later in the game pretty much always in my play group now. We've just all gotten to the point where we recognize that a well built deck can usually win off of the value Remora can very easily generate so it's a particular card we take into account against when deck building. I could definitely see people with less experience against it, or too stubborn to learn to play around it having trouble against it though. That's just what I see from it these days. It is certainly still efficient though. And like I said, I could see some people still having trouble against it. I suppose it's also worth noting that any deck that can reliably recur it should pretty much auto run it
There's pretty close to no chance of the original partner ever coming back. It's just too hard to balance and widely viewed as a mistake and has been suggested as such by WotC making the partner with mechanic to replace it. They could maybe do a partner with for 5 legends but that would be A LOT of text. Perhaps they partner with a specific creature type unique to those 5 legends though, which could be pretty interesting
I know that later in a tournament people start to find out about other players' decklists and feature matches can catch a cheater. But what's to stop someone early in a tournament from shoving in an unsubmitted companion creature in their side board just in case they can get away with it when they know they're not in a feature match?
If people have to call a judge every time one is cast and it becomes a regular thing I would imagine this will slow play like crazy
Edit: Nevermind, I didn't realize there were different rules for Commander. Mod feel free to delete this post
I've seen what I described happen early, mid, and later in the game pretty much always in my play group now. We've just all gotten to the point where we recognize that a well built deck can usually win off of the value Remora can very easily generate so it's a particular card we take into account against when deck building. I could definitely see people with less experience against it, or too stubborn to learn to play around it having trouble against it though. That's just what I see from it these days. It is certainly still efficient though. And like I said, I could see some people still having trouble against it. I suppose it's also worth noting that any deck that can reliably recur it should pretty much auto run it