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Freaky Wednesday Edition

>Most recent bracket system update
https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/announcements/commander-brackets-beta-update-october-21-2025

>Outline article introducing the bracket system
https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/announcements/introducing-commander-brackets-beta

>Current banlist
https://magic.wizards.com/en/banned-restricted-list#commander-banned

>Former Commander website, where you can learn the basics, and read the format philosophy laid down by the rules committee
https://mtgcommander.net

>Statistically see what everyone else puts in their commander decks based on what is posted to the internet
https://www.edhrec.com

>Learn about PDH, Commander's budget pauper format
https://pdhhomebase.com/
https://www.pdhrec.com/

>Deck list site: You can search for decks that other people have made. Authors often have comments that explain their deck strategy and card choices
https://www.archidekt.com
https://www.moxfield.com
https://www.tappedout.net

>Find out what lands you can add to your deck, sorted by category, based on a chosen color identity
https://managathering.com

>Card search
https://scryfall.com

>Proxy a deck or a cube for cheap
https://pastebin.com/9Xj1xLdM

>Precons
https://magicprecons.com

>TQ
You wake up in the body of the last commander you played, how fucked are you?

>>96967866 (OP)
I'm a big fucking dude with tiny arms and a huge green shlong
So not much has changed

Is Merieke Ri Berit decent or is she just a Post Malone meme?

>TQ

I wish I woke up this sexy

Teysa looks like a hooker

>>96967866 (OP)
>You wake up in the body of the last commander you played, how fucked are you?

Umm....

>>96967930
Logically orzhov is the color of prostitution

>>96967927
>unironically engaging with commander on youtube

>>96967866 (OP)
>You wake up in the body of the last commander you played, how fucked are you?

>>96967939
Perish the thought, but I want to know if she can actually be made decent or if it's just retarded bandwaggoning.

>>96967935
Based.
List?

>>96967944
I used to play against it a lot back in 2015 ish
She was pretty good, very annoying. Im sure not much has changed

>>96967930
Wasnt she literally a fuckdoll for the council?

>>96967973
Whoa! He's fast!

>>96967964
Yeah. Pretty sure her uncle whored her out to all his council buddies.

I pull up and Discover X your bitch.

>>96967866 (OP)
>TQ
>mfw I'm Zhulodok
>mfw I am THE problem for multiple planes
I guess I'll go gorge on the void or some shit. Also, does being an Eldrazi fry your brain?

>>96967947
I don't have it. It's an old meme deck where it's Prime Time, Saffi, Emeria, the Sky Ruin, Privilaged Position and Sterling Grove that lets you sac and recur everything in your deck and spits out all the land really quick and folds to farewell.

>>96967866 (OP)
>TQ
>tfw im both my own brother and my own sister

>>96968036
>primetime
Man must be a pretty old deck, that bitch has been banned for longer than Ive been playing

>>96968060
I brought it out because PT is going to be unbanned. I want to update it for modern days because back in the day it was absolutely the biggest non-blue, non-infinite combo pubstomper I saw.

>>96968100
What makes you think its prime time for prime time to be unbanned?

>>96968112
why is rhystic legal but prime time isn't?

>>96968123
Because apparently everyone loves Rhystic, so they can't ban it. [Not to mention my foil anime Rhystic and Smothering Tithe would crater in value if they got banned, and I can't have that happening./spoiler]

>>96968112
WOTC is clearly moving towards unbanning every card except for those that don't work with the format in a very, unfun way.

>>96968136
people love prime time too btw
>reminder that rhystic was never banned because sheldon used it himself

>>96968123
Because you cant pay one mana to undo a primetime among other reasons, probably related to repeated tutoring
But again I ask what makes you think is going to be unbanned, try to give an answer that's a little less
>it came to me in a dream

>>96968161
i've already told you the answer and so did
>>96968142
it's not our problem that you're in denial, you are unable to read official announcements, and you are too dense to survive on your own without assistance

>>96968196
>Prime Time, Emrakul, Dockside, Jeweled Lotus, etc come off the ban list
How much of a shitfest will the meta be?

>>96968196
The picture does a much better job than your whatsboutism.
Thanks.
I still am not convinced though, I doubt we will see it as a GC.

>>96968210
being limited to 3 GCs in B3 is a bigger restriction than you think and adding more GCs will further highlight that
cedh will be for the better because every sweat will readily admit that the previous meta was better than the current rhystic one
and b1/b2 babies will finally know to stay in their lane
literally no downsides

>>96968210
>cockside
>Jeweled Lotus
Its really insane how much better the format is than before the mana crypt and co ban, I wouldnt put it past wotc to fuck this up.
>every day I am reminded how fucking spineless the RC was
I mean shit, how many people would it actually have taken to keep the format from falling into wotc's hands? Literally one?

>>96968240
>I mean shit, how many people would it actually have taken to keep the format from falling into wotc's hands?
>Literally one?
naw I'm pretty sure it wasn't unanimous

I want to put together a deck that punishes a few deckbuilding trends in my meta that I am tired of seeing. First is landfall, specifically that there are like 4 people with hearthull in rotation and I'm sick of it. Second is cheaty vomit decks ie cascade, discover, dinosaurs in general, etc. I think the second I can handle with some stax effects - ie containment priest, weathered runestone, grafdiggers cage, but I'm not sure how to punish landfall. Any suggestions for commanders, cards, or general deck directions to build into? I don't think the deck necessarily needs to be full on stax, but some stax elements are likely needed.

>>96968285
>watching the Etali commander piss and shit all game and begging the other 2 to do something about this card

>>96968196
We already have a bunch of format warping cards. Either ban then all or allow them, GC, rule 0, etc.

>>96968281
I would really love to see the minutes of that meeting
They fucking owe us more than that

>>96968285
Zo-Zu
call people a Dingus
I like Rivalry but it's bad, there's other red stax as well.

>>96968285
Ive been playing a lot more imprisoned in the moon effects to deal with the random value decks.

>>96968293
>mfw someone tried this shit on me once
>mfw Ulamog played a game of peekaboo with him

>>96968293
Yeah this is likely an auto include too. Right now I am looking at Elivere or Arabella with a bunch of hate bears, but I feel like some kind of light control deck with evasive creatures sort of thing could also work. Neither of those two particularly excited me.

>>96967866 (OP)
>TQ
>Lyse Hext
Given the games I’ve won recently with her I’d say my chances are very good.

>>96968317
Agree on this too. Darksteel mutation, song of the dryads, imprisoned, oubliette, etc etc are all on the "probably must include color pending" list. Cards like this are also why I'm not sure that this necessarily needs to be a hard stax deck - some key answer cards might be enough.

>>96968319
as an ellivere enjoyer I can tell you that her time as a hate bear commander are pretty much over.
current cEDH is way too midrange and grindy for her. hatebears dont work as good outside of a definied meta.

if you want hate bears go for winota.

>>96968285
>hearthull

Am I missing something here? 8 power of creatures to become threatening.

>>96968293
It actually makes me mad that this card (dies to lightningbolt btw) is a (((game changer))) but something like Entomb is heckin' valid.

>>96968335
>Darksteel mutation, song of the dryads, imprisoned, oubliette, etc.
Not the anon you responded to but my main friend group plays similar decks and these cards have always been great at keeping their bullshit in check. Special mention to Gishath and the people who bitch that I “hate target it” with those cards. If “hate targeting” is stopping a bunch of Dinos from killing everyone on the following turn then so be it.

>>96968369
entomb really should be a GC and if the recent bans of it are anything to go by maybe wotc is finally realizing it

>open up sonic SLD
>Chaos Emerald bonus card
It's just that easy guys

>>96968360
Doesn't need to be cedh - in fact, I'm looking for closer to high 3/low 4 range.
>>96968367
No, other than the fact that landfall decks are very resilient and targetting land based strategies is difficult

>>96968385
>open up sonic sld
Ew

>>96968370
Good to hear, thanks anon. Atla palani for my group but literally same idea.

>>96968395
Mechanically unique UB SLDs are cool and I refuse to pretend otherwise. They were an excellent midpoint for WOTC.

Thirty (30) starting life is objectively superior to fourty (40)

>>96968405
Mechanically unique and SL should never had been a thing
Its just such an obvious fomo generator and dumps even more egregious IPs into the game that could never have made it in any other way

>>96968420
Y'all niggas quit buying product so yeah they needed a fomo generator

>>96968285
Boromir and Elesh Norn

>>96968420
i just want anime waifus to have fun with and not to sweat with, i already have decks for the latter
>i already have an MTG waifu but the way women are depicted nowadays make me want to look elsewhere

>tfw used to post pic related for giggles
>tfw its basically what were getting now
Grim

>>96968385
Nice but also fuck you. Really don’t understand why they just didn’t give everyone one of 7 Chaos Emerald versions of Lotus Petal alongside the Master Emerald version of Command Tower. But at the very least I’m getting use out of every card except Miles Tails Prower

>>96968431
I quit buying AFTER walking dead, nice try jotc

>>96968451
Sorry for your loss anon. At least my cardfu got a god-tier anime artwork to piss off my anti-Japan friends when we do higher powered games assuming they don’t just up and leave when I pull it out or play mono white Cloud from the FF set.

>>96968495
considering the profit line kept going way up I wager about six people were interested in playing MTG when they could play as negan or whatever I didnt watch that dogshit show, was sick of the comic

>>96968492
league of legends would be an incredible UB pickup ngl

>>96968545
Riftbound needs to implode before Riot will consider it. That said, they are speedrunning so please wait warmly.

>>96968433
As much as the LotR set fucking sucked with all the race-swapping bullshit it did, The Ring Tempt mechanic being very meh and introducing the cancer known as The One Ring, mono white Boromir is fucking fantastic.
>Solid 3/3 with vigilance
>Shuts down free spellcasting
>Can give your creatures indestructible for the turn
Even if he just had that second one it would be a godsend.

>>96968495
I truly thought I was the only one

Whats even the point of UW anymore, if wotc is going to whore out the game for a cheap buck may as well just burn the whole thing down, fuck it.

>>96968645
I think there are some people still at WotC / Hasbro that realise if they did this then they both collapse once all the noteworthy IPs have been used up.

>>96967866 (OP)
>You wake up in the body of the last commander you played, how fucked are you?
Very fucked, going by the exhentai tags.

>>96968367
Yes anon 1 mana to sac a land and draw two cards isnt powerful at all.

>>96967866 (OP)
>You wake up in the body of the last commander you played, how fucked are you?
I'M STOKED

Im already signed up for 2 ATLA prereleases

Have treasures been a positive or negative impact on the game, as a whole?

>>96968904
Negative

>>96967866 (OP)
>You wake up in the body of the last commander you played, how fucked are you?
Uh how does it work if I have two commanders? Am I in older David Tennant or inside Jenna Coleman (Clara Oswald)?

>>96968293
Too bad you can't play this against me because Etali is any bracket and this isn't lol

>>96968451
Then it'd make way more sense if you played a game based on sexy women or some shit and not magic. You are even less a MTG player than the sonicfag

>Pod actually unhappy I bought the Dwight lair and have Hayking in my deck
lmao not my problem. Bow to the king of the office.

>>96968800
They'll be the quenchiest pre releases!
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>>96968545
We doing more "way past their prime" lairs?

>>96968545
Still disappointed they never did an Arcane S2 lair.

>>96968998
>this way 4 years ago

>>96968645
but they are? they are slowly printing uglier and uglier cards in UW exclusively to drive people to UB. then they can point to their sweet sweet precious data and kill it just like they did with draft boosters

>>96968953
>implying I consent to brackets
>implying I will let you noobstomp to inflate your microcock

>>96968973
>be unfriendly
>lose friends
>lol not my problem
sure, buddy

>>96969037
I also don't consent to rules. I draw cards whenever I want and add life when I feel like it

>>96969047
>using a card I don't like the art of is unfriendly
lmao nmp

>>96969050
Well that's cheating. Ignoring brackets is just a faux pas. I'm going to pay 3, summon the LGS Owner, and tap him to exile you from the store.

You cannot counter this spell.

>>96968973
Thanks for reminding my to pick him up for my all UB Buttercup deck.

>>96969060
NOOOO THIS IS UNFRIENDLY AND RUDE! USING OFFICIAL MTG CARDS IS MEAN AND RUDE!

>>96969058
He probably isn't going to care because he and the other 10 employees are busy selling products and looking at collections to buy
>hmmm do I buy the 5000 dollar PSA 10 Pokemon card or got fuck around in the back room over a free event?

Can you guys tell me something?

>>96969068
I paid the 3. He has to care.

>>96969069
Something

On the free online sites, when a game is slow to start or just slow at points, is there a reason someone can't just do something else that's short or even open another window at their keyboard? Why do they rage-quit like the other person or last man standing isn't going to mark it as themself winning in the winner declaration part?

>>96969062
Farm boy, fetch me that ballista.

>>96969050
Brackets aren't rules

Who came up with the rules for them, anyway? "Moxes" are at least 4? Since when did players give a shit about things like that?

>>96969100
>Who came up with the rules for them
The guy who makes up rules for cards he designs (Gavin) and the Command zones side piece (Rachel weeks)

>>96967866 (OP)
>TQ
I could never go outside again. Sonic fans are deranged.

I always play 1 bracket above what I state or join.
U mad?

>>96969129
you have no idea what swordbro would do to you.

>>96969100
>Who came up with the rules for them, anyway? "Moxes" are at least 4? Since when did players give a shit about things like that?
Huh?

>>96968545
Please more boomer franchises! The middle age player base that makes up the majority of magic players love seeing things from 35 years ago when they were children in their game! It's been nothing but positive responses from them seeing TMNT and FF and Avatar and SpongeBob! Fuck people under 25 who want to see thing they recognize like Minecraft or Hunger Games or Kill la Kill or Paw Patrol! They don't matter millenials will consoom forever!

>>96968645
I too wish WOTC would give us more gay pride and interracial relationships and afro kween imagery. I'm tired of all the cute UB characters we're getting on cards. I want to see more people I'd stumble across in a Seattle homeless encampment in art.

>>96969171
Avatar is a boomer franchise and far less relevant than most 35+ year old franchises. You always get really angry they use IPs people care about and not the newest series that gets 2 seasons before cancellation.

>WOTC do Iron Maiden album cover lair
>don't bother making any playmats of them like they often do for SLD cards
What a fucking missed opportunity

>>96969089
WRONG

>>96969152
rape

>>96969171
this but unironically. children don't have adult money yet and we all know this game is not for childred. it's for manchildren

>>96969266
>>96969265

>>96969302
tl;dr btw you are wrong

>>96969266
Brackets are guidelines.

>>96969340
so are rules