#cedh

[gregor-never-leaves-the-house]

Another proxy made with just toys. The child allowed it even. Ragavan is one of those cards I wouldn't play myself because it's just too effective. But you have to admit a monkey pirate is great.

[peoplegettingreallymadatcards]

[plab]

Today was like the 2007 housing market crash for CEDH Players

[chairsarefornerds]

Babe wake up they banned cEDH

[magical-grrrl-mavis]

The bracket system is a stupid measurement of power because I could absolutely build a lethal cEDH level deck with bracket 3 restrictions.

[devoid-of-love]

i understand that i am trying to race lawnmowers in the Sunday Morning Mowing Fandom™️, but i am not a fan of the commander-ification of magic: the gathering

its weird that trying to win is no longer seen as the default mode of play in a game that ultimately must have 1 winner. even in multiplayer boardgames this doesnt happen. there is politics in those too but ur not gonna catch anyone playing suboptimally just to draw the game out longer

doesnt matter if i win thru combo or combat or stax someone will always get pissy about it. but if im playing cEDH, when somebody wins its just "good win! lets go again"

[ceoofjosuke]

the average edh round lasting 33 minutes factoid is actually a statistical error. the average edh round is actually just a little over 1.5 minutes. izzet georg, who's rounds last over 29 hours, is a statistical outlier and should not have been counted

[magicwithclass]

Squandered resources is a powerful card with a powerful effect. I am actually shocked that this card flew under the radar for as long as it did especially since there was a blog, site, or other form of media that carried the name squandered resources. The card was actually under a dollar until the end of 2016 so there was a time since prices were formally recorded that you could have picked up this card for absolute bulk prices. If every good card on the reserved list has been picked dry and there is nothing left to speculate on then how do you explain squandered resources being 60 cents less than ten years ago? Did no one see the potential in a 2 mana ramp card that is also a free sacrifice outlet. There are many decks that want lands in the graveyard or can easily recur lands so a free sacrifice engine is absolutely paramount for those decks to function. Zuran orb and sylvan safekeeper are cheaper options but redundancy is important and this offers the effect on an enchantment. The payoff is also stronger. Never underestimate extra mana even at the cost of a resource especially if you can easily get the resource back or you are using that sacrifice to you advantage. Many decks can make excellent use of squandered resources in their combos. The gitrog monster, muldrotha the gravetide, and lord windgrace decks all benefit from having lands enter the graveyard and can put them right back into play. Even so, the number of commander decks that use this card on edhrec is astonishingly low. I would think any landfall deck that utilizes combos that sacrifice all lands only to bring them back with aftermath analyst or world shaper would need to use squandered resources. Very few cards let you sac all your lands in a single turn and leave you mana positive but squandered resources has combos and synergies. The card was five bucks after 2016 and reached almost 20 dollars during the initial buyout of 2018. By 2021 the card was about seventy five dollars as a all time high. So why is the cars going up now? Why is there a renewed interest on a reserved list card that has spiked a number of times? In short, the necrobloom. The necrobloom is the second strongest commander released in modern horizons 3. A little birdy can tell you what the strongest commander in the set is. The necrobloom is also highly competitive and is potentially cedh. The card wants lands in the graveyard to dredge and some decks have a land in graveyard theme. Is it any wonder that squandered resources can fit into a necrobloom cedh deck? Desert decks and a jund graveyard commander deck also got a boost in 2024 so it was a good year for squandered resources. Currently, the card is approaching fifty dollars. That is higher than in 2018 but I do not think it will reach its market high. However, this has become a soft staple in necrobloom decks, appearing in over 20 percent of decks. That deck is competitively viable, popular, and new so I think squandered resources will probably hold onto a higher price tag for the foreseeable future. Will it go back down when the hype dies or will you have to squander your resources getting a copy of this card?

[irishkae]

For some reason my brain keeps coming up with mtg themed band names. So far I have:

- The Untapped Lands

- Gisa and the Decayed

- Praetor Sluts

- The Compleated

- The Deathtouchers

- Holding Up Mana

- Jeskai

- Ward Two

- Forgotten Triggers

- The Mana Dorks

...why? 😂

[sword-bitch]

Moxfield's automatic commander deck power bracket calculator fucks

[shamanistic-tendencies]

i am plotting devious things 😈😈😈

[gregor-never-leaves-the-house]

So, I did another Magic Thing:

Ever since Twilight was shown, I wanted to build a Commander Deck with her, and let me tell you: I *hate* Commander. 100 individual cards? So much mana balancing? So much removal? So many goddamn staples?? I hate staples! But hell, Twilight did it for me.

So I printed them, and it works! I'm really glad.

Printing these Proxies is always a highlight.

Anyway, I'm never building a Commander Deck again. Cube all the way, babyyyyyyyy

[peoplegettingreallymadatcards]

[bastard-number-5]

Mtg peeps, I'll get straight to the point: I'm building the new Teval from Tarkir Dragonstorm that gives all your spells delve but then kills you for playing them. I'm currently making a casual version and a cEDH version of the deck. The casual one is gonna try and showcase some cool interactions with Teval to abuse his abilities, while the cEDH version will just benefit from being able to play some more expensive combos since Teval makes them cheaper. Any kind of help is appreciated, like if you have an idea for what should go in the deck or out of it or whatever, thank you so so much!!

Casual decklist: https://manastack.com/deck/gravestorm-edh

cEDH decklist: https://manastack.com/deck/teval-cedh

[tea-time-for-bee-time]

COLLATERAL THOUGHTS ABOUT “FAST MANA” COMMANDER BANS

This is the PERFECT time for WOTC to create an official “cEDH” format.

Commander has been in desperate need of a power schism. Sure rule 0 and saying “what power level is your deck” works ok. But it’s a bandaid on a constantly widening power gap.

It allows the regular casual format to remain casual under the current RC

It lets people play the expensive cards they want in the manner that they want (competitively, or at least at higher powered tables).

WOTC will have more control over the value of what they print

It shuts up the asshole who keep saying commander isn’t real because it has no “official tournaments”

I already know of a few larger LGSs that split commander nights by power-level anyway. (Beginner/pre-con/learn to play + casual + competitive)

@benna-benna

[pro-prin-prinny]

When you mass buy consoles and games to sell at a higher price you are called a scalper. When you mass buy Magic the Gathering cards to sell at a higher price you are called an "investor."

This is why I approve of the recent commander bans.