legendofa,

The defunct RC lost the plot regarding their purpose. To flip the narrative of the bans on it's head, it could have been "No deck in Commander is legal without one copy of Sol Ring". I had a buddy I played with who disliked the card and opted to never include it. He was also a psychopath who believed all commander games should last at least 2 to 3 hours. Again, the issue of policing power should be up to the players, not people ill never meet or play with. The RC's job was to create a narrative: a framework for us players to use when trying to communicate the experience we wished to have when we gathered.

I don't want to have to beg randoms to let me play with a card. I just want to play with power and fulfill the fantasy of building my Commander deck to it's absolute limits with the best options possible along with everyone else at the table.

All, small tangent here:

Commander is a format that offers a wide variety of experiences and the bans to me communicated the sentiment "that any group who wishes to play with power and have only the most efficient options in their deck simply shouldn't." I take umbrage with that because Commander is a format bigger than the RC and the opinions of Sheldon Menery. It's a game where we the players tailor the experience we wish to have. The reasons for the bans betray that which made Commander popular in the first place and further states that players should be tailoring their experiences to what the RC thinks they should have.

Matt2Beck

As, as fellow enjoyer of the Poison mechanic I can absolutely relate to the 3v1 experience whenever I breakout my Atraxa deck for a Bracket 4 game. The bans did lose me alot of money and i'm still not okay with that. But i'm not going to sell any of my cards (I wasn't going to anyway) as they are treasures I'll keep regardless. Thinking back on how the bans went down, I wish the community at large was actually consulted as opposed to just a small group providing anecdotes and personal opinions on why the bans had to happen.

RufusTheGrufus, I hate to be the well,

guy but to be a Bracket 3 deck the maximum number of game changers you can have in the deck is 3. Reference is the official Wizards site Commander Format: Game Changers. Other than that, I do like your take on Anikthea. I'll definitely be referencing it for any ideas as I to am a bit of a Anikthea enthusiast myself.

Icbrgr, thank you! I was really worried that my browser was secretly lying to me and the page looked horrible lol. At Wihito's suggestion, I turn most of the css coding off for mobile devices. I don't want this deckpage to be a resource hog for small screens.

I love watching folks crack packs and do deck techs. Your deck gets a +1, deck cycle, and a subscribe on Youtube. Question - do you play games online? I play on both Convoke and Spelltable. Might be a fun source of content to have tappedout exclusive games.

Gandolfini, do you think there's a way we could get your cool feature integrated into tapped out as a means to better showcase deck descriptions? I'd love it if we had a simple button that we could click presto! add the cool animation.

Hey Venum, You are preaching to the choir regarding your points about Atraxa. As for poison, the table banding together once you assemble a dangerous enough boardstate is a natural progression of playing the archetype. I carefully assembled and pilot "that Atraxa deck" - I think that when the table or even one player makes it their mission stop you it should be received as a high compliment. It means you're doing something right, some decks are naturally going to be the Bolas at the table and that's fine - as long as everyone at the table agrees as according to the meta and the bracket system. On that same note - yes, I also assembled and pilot "that Sliver deck". What can I say? I have a type :)

Separately, what have you been brewing up lately? Also do you play online at all? I play on both Spelltable and Convoke. I'm always down for a game.

VladMarkov, left your deck page a +1 and a constructive comment. I hope what i've shared will generate some good discussion and help get your deck to where you want it to be. As for me, I've finally completed my latest deck:

The Underworld Slayer

Commander / EDH Mortlocke

SCORE: 14 | 871 VIEWS | IN 1 FOLDER

The deckpage is all fancified, putting all of my meager CSS skills to use. For all who check out the deckpage i'd appreciate if you could help me with any or all of the following:

1. The text on the page is legible, and does not strain your eyes.
2. If the aesthetics (overall, how the page looks) isn't too compacted or looks generally misaligned or "off"
3. The deck description itself - are there any good cards i'm missing? Any combos i've misunderstood? (all of that is under the "Combatant Supreme" section of the accordion)
4. If you stop by, I'd appreciate it if you left a +1 if you like what your see!

VladMarkov, saw your post on deck help and I think I may have come across a few cards that can help you further define your "consuming all reality-free" diet. I highly suggest you consider

For a potential commander instead of liberator. Omnath has a solid play pattern of getting bigger and bigger until it can swing for lethal commander damage, or as your deck theme has already listed - it can go for infect as well. Additionally, I have some notable non-eldrazi card suggestions for you:

• Cityscape Leveler: this guy warps games the second he shows up. Having big scary beater that just makes important things go away makes this guy the GOAT. He's a must include.

• Portal to Phyrexia: as a Phyrexia fanboy, I highly suggest you include this nice bit of one sided mass removal. Also having some reliable recursion in your deck will help with you rebuilding a boardstate or getting ahead.

• The Dominion Bracelet: this is a personal pick for me. The bracelet always makes players think twice on whether to focus down on you or not. While it's on the board it also has a minor p/t boost for your voltron creature.

I don't want to spam you with suggestions, but please let me know what you think on the new omnath. I think it'll greatly benefit your deck archetype and ensure you can get consistent access to mana and more importantly have a giant threat in the command zone.

Another tangent thought regarding Atraxa: Reality fracture has easily the best plainswalker support since War of the Spark. So many bonkers cards that can potentially revitalize the Superfriends deck archetype. Sadly Atraxa will likely be defeated by Tam, the Possibility for the de facto superfriends commander - but that doesn't mean everyone will just switch over because of that. 5 color decks have notoriously expensive manabases that can easily be uncooporative for any given game - regardless of how much money you sunk into it. That barrier to entry alone can make some potential deck builders hesitant to adopt Tam.

Regardless, for those who stick with Atraxa for a Superfriends commander they are absolutely eating good.As for Y'shtola, Night's Blessed - (I don't pilot her, ive only played against her so don't @ me) her archetypes (control, spellslinger, lifegain) seem somewhat pigeon holed into roughly similar experiences across the board:

1. cast big thing.
2. capitalize on big thing resolving.
3. ???.
4. profit.

While i'm sure having a simple game pattern is good for newer players, I'm of the mind that the experience will get samey and players will start branching out for something new. Atraxa doesn't have that problem. She can be built in very different ways and will continue to draw in interest over time. But that's just my two cents anyway. Thoughts? Counterpoints?

Gandolfini, I didn't just like it - I gave it a spot in the Feature Queue as well. I love seeing deck pages with cool style sheets and yours is indeed very cool.

test comment stuff

This is so cool. Thanks for making something for all of us!

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In my infinite glaze of one of my favorite commanders: Atraxa, Praetors' Voice I forgot to mention another major theme of hers: Infinite turns. Contagion Engine + Magistrate's Scepter , and Myojin of Towering Might + Sage of Hours . I guess the point here is that Atraxa has many different ways you can build her. Again, I'm confident that it's the powerful marketing behind aesthetic + general strength behind Y'shtola, Night's Blessed's popularity. But only time will tell if Y'shtola has staying power once her list is "solved".