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Posted on Dec. 27, 2016, 5:59 p.m. by DarkMagician

Does anyone else love the wish cards in EDH for providing fourteen extra slots? (More if you're playgroup still lets you grab cards from anywhere)

MagicalHacker says... #2

According to the official website, if a sideboard is allowed from the playgroup, it is to have at most 10 cards.

But yes, having a card that can be one of ten cards that are all too situational to make it into the deck on their own is great!

December 27, 2016 6:48 p.m.

DarkMagician says... #3

@MagicalHacker My playgroup has been playing under the impression that it was 15, thanks for the correction.

December 27, 2016 8:06 p.m.

MagicalHacker says... #4

For whatever reason, the RC made it ten, but from my experience, ten is plenty lol

December 27, 2016 8:17 p.m.

Most fun wish play I've made: I'm at 3, with Phyrexian Arena out. Upkeep, I go to two, draw Death Wish. Cast it, go to 1, grab Magister Sphinx and set myself to 10. Value.

December 27, 2016 8:31 p.m.

Arvail says... #6

My local shop meta allowed a 10 card sideboard. Tons of people ran wishboards. My experience was that I quickly recognized which decks were the ones I ought to look out for and I actually main-borded hate to take care of those builds. Cards like Extract and Erase did serious work for me. My sideboard actually consisted of more general cards. I learned that I could ignore half of what the lesser players/decks were doing.

The people actively using wishboards didn't really make much use of them. I suppose you could make a decent toolbox out of Living Wish or Glittering Wish, but that just seems so roundabout. I legit saw someone wish for a Reclamation Sage one game to break my Rhystic Study. I was dumbstruck. I really didn't think the versatility of the card warranted a 5 mana disenchant.

December 27, 2016 9:37 p.m.

TheDevicer: That's a 5-mana disenchant AND a 2/1 body. #value

December 28, 2016 1:39 a.m.

I mean, you do have 99 cards that something like Demonic Tutor, Mystical Tutor, Enlightened Tutor, Fabricate, Worldly Tutor, etc. can nab for you. I think the wishes in EDH aren't really as good as they seem and are a wasted slot.

December 28, 2016 3:13 p.m.

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