Goblin Grenade

plakjekaas i know exactly what i said.

CrimsonWings3689 it wouldn't add more problems at all. if "time" is the only thing you have against sideboards, that's not a problem.

hyalopterouslemur: imo, the simple fix is Transguild Courier could go in any deck, rhys can go into any deck with green or white, wort can go in any deck with red or green, and Memnarch would stay in blue.

plakjekaas don't put words in my mouth. the only restrictions i listed were the number of copies of cards. don't extrapolate any further than that. everything you said was subjective at best. lets hear what you want in commander, rather than you telling other people why they can't have what they want in commander.

CrimsonWings3689 don't use'em then. this is "what would you like to see more of in commander", not "tell other people why you don't like what they want to see more of in commander".

plakjekaas still singleton vs 4 copies. still 100 cards vs 60. still a difference in legal sets. and unless your group allows proxies, 5c commander players are shelling out hundreds of dollars for good lands.

theNeroTurtle right, it would depend on factors like time, number of people, and how many decks they have.

plakjekaas i'm talking about commander. not modern. very different.

DreadKhan color hate and "steal" cards can also just be mainboarded, so i'm not sure how that means you can't run a sideboard. and how does "best of 7" mean you can't go into the sideboard until after game 3? i don't know anyone who plays best of 7 in the first place. nor is anyone sideboarding before game 1.

anywho, i'm gonna move on from the hybrid mana since that's been beaten to death and nobody is going to change anyones mind.

i'd like to see sideboards in commander. some cards only work with a sideboard, and it'd be interesting to see how people sideboard for multiple opponents. maybe make it 20 cards to account for the increased size of the main deck. technically 25 would make the mainboard:sideboard ratio the same as 60 card, but that seems a bit much.

Caerwyn me disagreeing doesn't make me "wrong". i've still yet to see any "hard" evidence that the design philosophy behind hybrid mana is as you claim.

hyalopterouslemur i'm "getting it" just fine. i just don't agree.

CrimsonWings3689 i wasn't cherry picking.

and nowhere in that article did it say that "every color on the card can do every mechanic on the card" was a core design philosophy or a requirement. it simply stated it just happened to turn out that way. so i'm still not convinced that any hybrid cards are a true color break.

to finish your quote: "but the Guildmages showed that hybrid mana could allow designers to make things they otherwise couldn't."

i think you're misinterpreting "mono color card of either color". i'm sure they meant casting the card, not mechanically. i would need to see sources that specifically state they meant mechanically, because the hybrid cards i'm aware of simply combine strengths of both colors, and certainly aren't limited to "every color on this card can do every mechanic on this card".

legendofa: good point that people can always "rule 0". on the "2brid" thing though, i'd be fine with that since those cards become quite expensive for what they do if you're only capable of using 1 of its colors. even with 2 of the colors available, those cards you mentioned are still do expensive (imo) for what they do.

plakjekaas if you think 1500 allows for more freedom than 7500, then i think you just have nostalgia glasses on because you liked the deck you were playing then.

hyalopterouslemur: Augury Adept isn't a color break in the slightest. card advantage is blue, life gain is white. a color break would be a card where neither of its hybrid colors is supposed to be able to do any of the cards given mechanics.

i don't consider it disingenuous. it's a casual format. just sling the cards you want, and let the opponent sling the cards they want. if you want the format to "stay original", then only use elder dragons as your commander. changing your commander doesn't have to mean redesigning the 99. the 99 should be able to function without the commander in play anyway. and i simply will never agree with "restriction breeds creativity". smaller card pools means less competitively viable options. restriction breeds homogeneity.

this is why i basically only play eternal formats and 5c commanders.

theNeroTurtle: under current rules, yes. but i'm not talking about cards like Damn. those can stay under current rules. i'm talking about cards like Boggart Ram-Gang. the way i see it though, color restrictions in commander are meant to represent the colors of mana the commander would have access to for their own magic, since they're the leader of the deck (army). so anything they could cast (meaning fully utilize all parts of) should be fair game imo. so since Krenko, Mob Boss can use red mana, and Boggart Ram-Gang can be cast with purely red mana, krenko should have that in his arsenal. personally, i just don't think it's right to say "i have more fun by limiting what my opponent can use" in a casual format.

i really don't think hybrid mana is that complicated. lotta hate for no reason. if you're not worried about losing to it, then i don't see the problem. again, nobody is forcing you to use hybrid mana cards.

hyalopterouslemur which cards are color breaks? i think most hybrid mana cards have mechanics that are relatively within their colors.

plakjekaas creativity comes from options. restrictions impede creativity. when the card pool gets too small, the options are "play these few things, or lose". that's not creative.