The Commander Bans: Hard Truths | Magic: The Gathering

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[Outlawstar]

The bans doesn't affect me cause I'm too dam poor to have these cards

[Rafikichu]

Aw, shucks. Now I have to swap my proxy of Dockside Extortionist out for a proxy of Jeska's Will.

[maxmacdeath]

Watch WotC print "Cooled Lotus", "Mana Tomb" and "Portside Extortionist" in Modern Horizons 4

[DaijDjan]

Sad to see there even is a need for a "harassment is bad" speech..

[LatinxGoyslop]

Sending death threats over a fucking card game is total insanity

[the_cmoose]

Prof continues to be the most measured and reasonable person in Magic.

[bobross]

Its partially on WOTC for never reprinting these cards in a meaningful way. Such as in new precons

[THMX]

As of today the RC has stepped down and handed it over to Wizards. What a week for commander.

[cobbeaver]

My two cents. Anybody who can be tied to the accounts making threats of violence should be permabanned from public MTG events.

[vividwavers]

said it before and will say it again

Nadu, Jeweled Lotus, and Dockside Extortionist are the reason why WOTC should stop desigining specifically for commander. People will find broken stuff to do with 1v1 cards like they have pre-Throne of Eldraine era, so there's no need for spoon-feeding us with unnecessary powercreep.

[Ellicess]

I’ve always had a rule that if I open a card worth over $100, I’ll sell it immediately bc I need the money more than a fully-optimized deck.

Edit: In case you didn’t know there’s this cool thing called limited, and that’s where I open 99.99% of my packs. I’m not gambling on these things, y’all.

[keegandalfonso]

I kind of feel like the RC deliberately banned Mana Crypt and Jeweled Lotus because they were so expensive. Everyone can afford Sol Ring, but in a table of casual players the one deck with one of those rocks has a massive advantage that most casual players can't afford to match.

[SirJusticeNugget]

I was happy with the bans! I got to add four cards to my Golos deck "One Time At Banned Camp".

[josephhoffman]

Between this and value manipulation (refusing to reprint), they can't be surprised when players proxy cards.

[Iquamasharu]

To be fair, dockside was also a long time on the watchlist

[afroraykun]

The hardest truth of all: Magic cards are bits of cardboard with rules text on them and you get exactly the same experience with proxies.

[Draffut]

Reprint everything till no card is worth more than $20.

Edit: I should clarify, I am just referring to the cheapest version of any card. You can spend as much as you want on vintage/premium cards.

[stardust]

I blame WoTC exclusively. They continue to make uber powerful staples for commander then wildly short printing them. They’ve also heavily incentivized many people to start treating this game as a financial investment with the serialized, variations, secret lairs etc they continue to churn out that fetch high prices until their usefulness diminishes. I hate the fact cardboard costs more than my college tuition. I literally have to choose whether to keep up with a card game OR continue to pay for my education when, 10 years ago, that wouldn’t even be close to an issue. They’re building a game for the 1% and until we see it and stop supporting it things will only get worse. The disgusting responses to these bannings have completely soured my view of the community as a whole and now they’re no better than LoL players. Change is desperately needed and it needs to come asap.

[Florkl]

9:04 The neat part is that you can just reprint them yourself! If a table is casual enough to be bothered by the inclusion of an expensive card, it should be casual enough to accept proxies.

[tychuk]

Does anyone else ever look at themselves and their friends and see kind, cool players and then ask, "Who is sending these harassing messages?". Every time I see these reactions, I wonder who in their right mind would react this way?