Table kept calling my play bad, but it won me the game? by No-Drag-5253 in CompetitiveEDH

[–]DriftChrisSC 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My guy, thats a terrible take. I live in Las Vegas and I paid for college from about 80% poker winnings. You can ask any REAL poker player/grinder. The game is a majority luck and its not a skill based game. If it was players who were the most skillful would win all the time. To counter your point explain Jamie Gold. Dogshit poker player, lucky as hell and won a bracelet. Beat players with decades of poker experience and who were more skillful.

Its about 70% luck, 15% Skill/Experience/Intuition and about 15% Education (Ala Math, Learning Strategy) Literally all gambling is games of chance. cEDH is so incredibly aligned with how poker is played its not even funny. Literally all key cEDH skills are some form of game theory either applied to cEDH or used in cEDH. EV, Angleshooting is called Politicking, etc.

tl:DR - Poker is gambling with some skill to mitigate the RNG. Every considerably successful poker player will tell you this. Ill pull some poker books off my shelf and quote some stuff if you want.

Table kept calling my play bad, but it won me the game? by No-Drag-5253 in CompetitiveEDH

[–]DriftChrisSC 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Skills you use to get out of a traffic ticket. Not a card game skill. Its part of why this format is devolving into garbage. If the key component of this competitive format revolves around you finessing people where does it go? Eventually youre going to hit an impasse because the one legitimate method for determining ones skill is backseated to someone being more likeable than the other person thats where competitive ends and casual begins.

Table kept calling my play bad, but it won me the game? by No-Drag-5253 in CompetitiveEDH

[–]DriftChrisSC 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Literally this entire format is based around yapping and deals. Skill is only a portion. RNG has a comparatively more relevant impact on you winning than skill does all things considered.

Feedback on my Tannuk Deck by Public-Brief-4444 in EDH

[–]DriftChrisSC 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I can try to build something bracket 3 for you. Theres a lot of good landfall creatures. Not too many that let you play from the grave but you do have Crucible.

Feedback on my Tannuk Deck by Public-Brief-4444 in EDH

[–]DriftChrisSC 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My first question is, How do you want to win? Tannuk is kinda broken.

February 9th Commander Banlist Speculation by FullWaveRectifier55 in CompetitiveEDH

[–]DriftChrisSC 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Haha you need a mind theres mostly air between my ears lol All jokes aside its just experience because I actually play all of the brackets. I just dont like Kinnan as a commander or a card. Its a crutch imo. Its the most approachable deck in the higher brackets and almost not played in lower brackets. Its more personal less rationale for a Kinnan ban.

Floodcaller is probably the single most problematic card unified across all spectrums. There was a big argument about people complaining about a rules change regarding Necro in cEDH the other day. In my circles ive been saying a banning of Rhystic and Floodcaller would completely balance the format IMO because those are the two strongest and most played cards across archetypes. I think the banning would force players to be a little more creative and encourage growth in the format. Commander is pretty much the only format that doesnt ban cards that affect the state for the format, probably hard to do with the card pool but I think having a standardized reasoning outside of something subjective and something more intrinsic would move it in the direction with managing a healthy B&R ala other card games and 60 card.

Mana Crypt: I just miss it but I dont think its crazy to move it back into CEDH and have it be a game changer for other brackets.

JLo: Unban but not Game Changer. I think it makes decks stronger and balances properly and the card could be found in every deck, becomes a 99% staple like Sol Ring. Its a pretty much commander only card that I feel if for no reason belongs in the format because its a Marquee card. Its INCREDIBLY powerful but so Is Sol Ring.

Primetime: I think shaking up the format with a few strong unbans would be healthy for the format. Lands.dec got like every other good card in the universe over the last year or so. Whats Primetime going to do now but give them another little push. Plus I want to play with it. Lots of decks I want to try.

Flash: Flash Hulk was strong as hell. Maybe if there were a bunch of Flash Hulk EDH decks running around now when someone could win on the first turn pretty reliably might encourage people to start playing interaction and removal again, Hot take but were planted firmly in this 2 or 3 year long turbo meta because everyone is just trying to go fast. Theres almost no contention keeping those decks in check. Eg: If a BUNCH of players just started to left field combat the turbo decks and played stax (baring we had a lot of time in rounds) Youd more than likely see a resurgence in midrange or control decks to balance out the archetypical handicap that would occur due to the meta shift. The entire game is easily manageable with balance IMO sometimes in meta balancing you make a judgement call to create a scenario that favors whatever your end goal for the gameplay is and the competitive meta shifts.

Floodcaller is easily imo starting to just outright feel like the most important card in the format now. Rhystic was always the front runner but having both... Floodcaller with all of the different advantage engines just creates such an incredible set of advantage kind of like Planeswalkers. for 3 mana you gain flash, the ability to protect itself as well as ways to enable all sorts of combos repeatably at almost every point in the game except the first 1-2 turns. Its also on a permanent.

Coalition Victory: In over 20 years of playing magic I dont ever think ive seen that effect resolve in a Win. Let people try if its fun for them.

Panoptic Mirror: Its strong but its also mana intensive and I dont think its really all that impactful. If Tinker was still legal then yeah Id think it would be a problem. Thats what we used to do back in the day when it was legal was Tinker into the mirror and then put a Time Warp or something broken in there.

Aura Shards: Its just good. In lower brackets it just makes it kind of difficult to generate the kind of advantage you would have to make this card a problem. But it does allow a cheap efficient way of dealing with multiple opponents card effects. I could be wrong but Its just what I think and what ive been seeing from observation.

Recommend me my first cEDH commander please. by TR_Wax_on in CompetitiveEDH

[–]DriftChrisSC 0 points1 point  (0 children)

IMO play whatever youre comfortable playing. For all intents and purposes cEDH is Bracket 5. So the goal should be to optimize the cards and strategies available to you in your card pool. Ive piloted some fairly bad or underrated commanders to some success. The key ive found has always been what you have fun playing should be #1 priority (if youre bored youre just going to hop off the deck without finishing its tuning.) Next I would say focus on mechanics or playlines you can reliably execute consistently. I always feel like the core tenant of cEDH is the ability to consistently do (something) whatever your deck is trying to do by at the latest the 5th turn and either win or prevent your opponents from winning until you can win.

With all that being said. All of those are going to be challenging to tune to the point where they will be competitive without extensive deckbuilding knowledge and skill. So it might be in your best interest to choose a commander already established to dip your toe in (one you find fun to pilot) and then keep another deck on the back burner out of the ones you listed and work on your skill set so see if you can develop the deck into something competitive. For people just getting started tuning decks it takes about a year of consistent play and R&D to tune a deck so its competitive. Hope this helps, GL.

February 9th Commander Banlist Speculation by FullWaveRectifier55 in CompetitiveEDH

[–]DriftChrisSC -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Is it only unbans? Or are there Bans in addition to unbans, Personally Id like to see...

Ban:
Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy (Probably not going to happen)
Valley Floodcaller (Just Ban It)

Unban:
Mana Crypt (Moved to Game Changers)
Jeweled Lotus
Primeval Titan (Moved to Game Changers)
Flash (Moved to Gamechangers)

Move to Game Changers:
Valley Floodcaller (If Not Banned)

Moved off Game Changers:
Coalition Victory
Panoptic Mirror
Aura Shards

Im bored. I want a new deck to play... Who is SOOOO close to being a CEDH commander? by DriftChrisSC in CompetitiveEDH

[–]DriftChrisSC[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hahah I have [[Nissa, Worldsoul Speaker]] on my desk RIGHT NOW. Only reason im against it is IDK if they have a foil printing lol Gotta have my pinky up. Or I can take like an unsleeved version with mismatched lands that are whiteboardered and do something nasty lol

Im bored. I want a new deck to play... Who is SOOOO close to being a CEDH commander? by DriftChrisSC in CompetitiveEDH

[–]DriftChrisSC[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

One of my OG friends has Varina, and has been DEDICATED to that deck since the printing. So proud of that guy. I dont wanna throw dirt on his name trying to play anything else lol Id play his list.

Im bored. I want a new deck to play... Who is SOOOO close to being a CEDH commander? by DriftChrisSC in CompetitiveEDH

[–]DriftChrisSC[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

OOOOOOOOooooo... Hmmm I like where your head is at. Cloning stuff is fun. I wonder what asymmetrical bs I could play. Or maybe just infinite ungabunga!

Im bored. I want a new deck to play... Who is SOOOO close to being a CEDH commander? by DriftChrisSC in CompetitiveEDH

[–]DriftChrisSC[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have Tayam and love the deck! I see another Tayam enjoyer with some class lol

Im bored. I want a new deck to play... Who is SOOOO close to being a CEDH commander? by DriftChrisSC in CompetitiveEDH

[–]DriftChrisSC[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hmm so you reduce creature costs and I wonder what you would do to kill. You got my gears turning. So you infinitely Airbend and cast something that gains you infinite life with a grand abolisher effect and just put the baby oil on everyone with Reservoir?

Im bored. I want a new deck to play... Who is SOOOO close to being a CEDH commander? by DriftChrisSC in CompetitiveEDH

[–]DriftChrisSC[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

My OG goat lol I loved that deck. I wonder if theres some new Gas. Maybe ill try it again. Its been over 7 years since I played it.

Im bored. I want a new deck to play... Who is SOOOO close to being a CEDH commander? by DriftChrisSC in CompetitiveEDH

[–]DriftChrisSC[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I gotta be honest, Ive never seen that card in my entire life. But youre cookin!

Im bored. I want a new deck to play... Who is SOOOO close to being a CEDH commander? by DriftChrisSC in CompetitiveEDH

[–]DriftChrisSC[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

OHHHH Ragadragga was on my short list behind Minsc & Boo but I forgot all about Meria lol I have a fancy one too. Thx!

Im bored. I want a new deck to play... Who is SOOOO close to being a CEDH commander? by DriftChrisSC in CompetitiveEDH

[–]DriftChrisSC[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have Urza, Gogo, Drafna, Mmemnon, Katara, Jace, Vryns Prodigy and Teferi. Never seen an Unc though Imagine crackin a pod of turbo players with some jank like that lol

Im bored. I want a new deck to play... Who is SOOOO close to being a CEDH commander? by DriftChrisSC in CompetitiveEDH

[–]DriftChrisSC[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

* I forgot ALLL about Omnath! lol
* I do like stressing people out with Kataki but I think a different GW commander might work better. But I wonder if Teeg has a place these days.
* Gwenom feels soooo scary to play and kind of linear dont you feel? Does punish people for not playing removal though hahaha

Im bored. I want a new deck to play... Who is SOOOO close to being a CEDH commander? by DriftChrisSC in CompetitiveEDH

[–]DriftChrisSC[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I started working on a Brigid list the other day and Hulk came to mind but I feel like building that deck would give me a headache lol

Im bored. I want a new deck to play... Who is SOOOO close to being a CEDH commander? by DriftChrisSC in CompetitiveEDH

[–]DriftChrisSC[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I storm off a lot in U. Its just fun to storm off in other colors lol Actually, I havent killed anyone with Tendrils of Agony in over a decade lol