If infect were in the list of keywords, I would build this deck in a heartbeat. Probably good for the mental health of my opponents that it's not, though.
Ghired: Hah! Okay, that "populate as attacker" thing actually got me good, that's some super clever design right there. I'm not usually the fan of the "big stompy" Commanders, but I'll be honest, Ghired seeems spicy. Honestly, the only thing I don't like about it is how it already enters with one of the best body sizes for Populating you could get. Yeah, you could play stuff like Advent of the Wurm, but is it really worth it just for that 1 extra P/T? Making any Token below a 5/5 Flying Dragon feels like a waste when you could just get more Rhinos.
I can't speak to politics, but insofar as the question at hand is concerned with regards to where a good community is to migrate to after this one's been shut down, I've found a home on nogoblinsallowed.com
It's a site whose community splintered off in a mass exodus when the official forums exploded back in 2013. We don't get as much new traffic as we used to, because when you search "Magic forums" it's not the first result in the same way the Wizards ones were, but all the most passionate and brilliant members of the old guard are still there having a blast. If you're looking for something warm and cozy, with a strong membership for other Wizards products besides just Magic as well, namely D&D, I highly suggest you checking it out.
Magic: the Gathering is a game about two all-powerful sorcerers coming together and battling it out on a cosmic stage. What better way to embody this fantasy than by allowing you to play as a Planeswalker? The Duel Decks tried to make this work, but a Commander deck with a Planeswalker at its helm would bring this idea to its logical conclusion. The rules are already there. All this format needs is a little push.
I understand that many Planeswalkers would be broken in repeatable form, but even if almost half of them had to be banned, I think that going forward, allowing all Planeswalkers to be allowed as Commander as a default, and banned if they become problematic, would be spectacular for the depth of fun and capacity for innovation within this format.
When I saw the preview of the new Domri today, my excitement was matched only by my disappointment that I would not be able to run him as a Commander.
If, beyond a simple ban list, more global methods of reducing the toxicity of their recursion proved necessary, you could even alter the rules so that they, say, enter the battlefield with fewer loyalty counters each time. Or maybe the Commander tax could be increased from 2. There are ways around this. I believe the idea of playing as a Planeswalker is simply too amazing, and too intrinsically tied to what this game is all about, to reject the idea out-of-hand.
Commander 2014 was proof-of-concept. I understand that many Planeswalkers—JtMS and Elspeth come to mind immediately—would have to be banned. But I think that cultivating a ban list that expands the format in this fashion without breaking the game is well within this community's purview, and that it would be a shame if such a culmination of everything Magic was envisioned as were never even explored.
Isn't the mana cost order for Sultai supposed to be BGU? Even before Khans, Vorosh, the Hunter was GUB. BUG seems objectively wrong, unless they're trying to make a pun on it being a "bug" in the system or what-have-you.
I usually check spoilers on my phone, and for whatever reason, on my browser (Android/Chrome fwiw), it's impossible to scroll right through the spoilers, so only the first card and the left half of the next one are visible. If the scrolling mechanic were fixed to work on mobile, this would be largely a non-issue, but in lieu of that, could we have an option to sort the full spoiler in the same order as the reveal feed? Basically the only option I have when I'm away from my computer is to click on each reveal manually from the list of links at the top of the spoiler, and that's quite the hassle.
Question and Answer — U Sorcery (C)
Name a nonbasic card. Target opponent reveals their hand. If a card with that name is in their hand, scry 3.
Draw a card.
Unless Commander damage includes tokens created by the commander (which I don't think it does), I don't see her working in this format. Even then, seven times is a bunch of times to get thru. Better to run Isamaru or Skullbriar if you're gonna go the cheap aggressive Commander route.
What an awesome card.
He also works with things like Mimic Vat, Kiki-Jiki, Feldon of the Third Path, Giant Adephage, Eternalize, and Embalm. It doesn't necessarily have to be a "normal" creature token.
yeah but this one happens on turn 3 in colorless
Instant
Add RRR. If that mana is spent on a creature spell, it gains haste.
It's a site whose community splintered off in a mass exodus when the official forums exploded back in 2013. We don't get as much new traffic as we used to, because when you search "Magic forums" it's not the first result in the same way the Wizards ones were, but all the most passionate and brilliant members of the old guard are still there having a blast. If you're looking for something warm and cozy, with a strong membership for other Wizards products besides just Magic as well, namely D&D, I highly suggest you checking it out.
I understand that many Planeswalkers would be broken in repeatable form, but even if almost half of them had to be banned, I think that going forward, allowing all Planeswalkers to be allowed as Commander as a default, and banned if they become problematic, would be spectacular for the depth of fun and capacity for innovation within this format.
When I saw the preview of the new Domri today, my excitement was matched only by my disappointment that I would not be able to run him as a Commander.
If, beyond a simple ban list, more global methods of reducing the toxicity of their recursion proved necessary, you could even alter the rules so that they, say, enter the battlefield with fewer loyalty counters each time. Or maybe the Commander tax could be increased from 2. There are ways around this. I believe the idea of playing as a Planeswalker is simply too amazing, and too intrinsically tied to what this game is all about, to reject the idea out-of-hand.
Commander 2014 was proof-of-concept. I understand that many Planeswalkers—JtMS and Elspeth come to mind immediately—would have to be banned. But I think that cultivating a ban list that expands the format in this fashion without breaking the game is well within this community's purview, and that it would be a shame if such a culmination of everything Magic was envisioned as were never even explored.
And why is Phyrexian Soulgorger a Construct and not a Dinosaur. My turn 2 with it in WB tokens off of Kinjalli's Caller was gonna be epic af
Making an artifact creature a Construct is like throwing Human on some nonartifact creature's typeline and calling it a day
(While I'm going on about this, Phylactery Lich should absolutely be a Zombie Wizard and it bothers me that it's not)
Sorcery (C)
Name a nonbasic card. Target opponent reveals their hand. If a card with that name is in their hand, scry 3.
Draw a card.