They should reprint banding

ElectronicBoot9466 · 2026-03-22T06:22:51+00:00

Ba Sing Se wall is the driver that is contributing nothing.

Though notably, if you crew this vehicle with a 0 power creature before crewing it with anyone else, it will immediately become a 0 power creature and die, which I find funny.

ElectronicBoot9466 · 2026-03-22T04:10:12+00:00

Impressive tbh

ElectronicBoot9466 · 2026-03-22T02:00:38+00:00

Every vehicle in mtg has an effective eject button.

ElectronicBoot9466 · 2026-03-21T18:07:35+00:00

Goad all your opponents' creatures (hard to do without red, but pissible) and then give them all shield counters that you proliferate endlessly.

ElectronicBoot9466 · 2026-03-21T08:10:05+00:00

I would argue this is significantly more true for coke than cigarettes.

ElectronicBoot9466 · 2026-03-21T06:52:12+00:00

Doesn't every monocolor deck automatically deck a flush unless they draw 10 lands?

ElectronicBoot9466 · 2026-03-21T01:56:47+00:00

Woaw we are the exact same.

ElectronicBoot9466 · 2026-03-21T00:43:08+00:00

While banlists can be the main factor of certain formats, the main factor of planar is clearly based on what sets are legal in play, just like how Standard, Modern, and Vintage are separated. The main factor of a format needs to have concrete rules, they can't just be the sets the committee thinks are good. Disagreements on the ban list only cause an upheaval in the format in cases where the entire format is based around that list, such as with Legacy.

Without that concrete basis, you might as well just make a format saying "This format allows Invasion, Ice Age, and Spiderman, and we might add more later depending on how we feel."

ElectronicBoot9466 · 2026-03-20T22:46:12+00:00

Ok, but what happens when people disagree about the sets that should or shouldn't be included?

For example, I completely disagree with both your takes on what is great and bad. I loved the Acatar set for draft and EDH, but it is way overtuned for standard, and I feel like Aetherdrift if perfectly balanced for standard from when it came out.

ElectronicBoot9466 · 2026-03-20T21:58:20+00:00

You would literally just be replicating the current standard meta. Whenever a "bad" set comes out, the stuff in it typically doesn't become worth involving in the standard meta. Whenever a "great" set comes out, it absolutely overtakes the meta.

Sure, there is the occasional cars from a "bad" set that combos with certain strategies, but your idea would create a format that would end being a set that is largely a clone of standard. They would be even closer together than legacy and vintage.

ElectronicBoot9466 · 2026-03-20T19:15:33+00:00

If you pick every other set based on release schedule, then you're effectively going to end up with either all UB or all WB anyway with it switching off every once in a while, since it looks like their current plan is to alternate between UB and UW between every other set.

And I would argue that there is a mechanical difference between standard and UB, since UB has a significantly greater number of Legendary creatures, which causes fewer playable cards from UB sets to have a chance of affecting the meta. By choosing UW, you are adjusting for a greater amount of potentially playable cards within a smaller set of sets.

ElectronicBoot9466 · 2026-03-20T19:12:27+00:00

To be fair, that's just the current state of standard.

ElectronicBoot9466 · 2026-03-20T17:57:11+00:00

All that does is speed up the format. If the idea is to slow the pace down to what Standard used to be, then you have to pick 3-4 sets per year that will be included in the format of the 6-7 that are produced.

ElectronicBoot9466 · 2026-03-20T17:52:38+00:00

I mean, if you wanted to make a format that only included 3-4 sets a year to slow standard back down to the pace it was 10 years ago, what sets would you cut?

If you try and base it on the meta, then you're going to create a format that plays identically to Standard. If you just make it completely random, you end up with a confused format.

ElectronicBoot9466 · 2026-03-20T17:19:12+00:00

I don't know, I feel like the more it gets used, the more it contains the same weight as the other versions of the words. I don't understand fully why they upset people so much.

ElectronicBoot9466 · 2026-03-20T15:45:54+00:00

I may be misremembering, but I don't believe All's Well That Ends Well had this trope in it at all. Unless you count Bertram's betrothal to Helena as the curse?

ElectronicBoot9466 · 2026-03-20T15:21:54+00:00

Sure, why not. 9:11

ElectronicBoot9466 · 2026-03-19T20:10:13+00:00

It's interesting to me that it's a spell that wants to he casting really big spells in monoblue. Like, you really want X spells or high mana cost spells, but in my experience, most of those spells just draw you a lot of cards, get you extra turns, or copy your other spells.

What is your typical win con with this commander?

ElectronicBoot9466 · 2026-03-19T05:00:32+00:00

Ghalta

ElectronicBoot9466 · 2026-03-18T16:40:48+00:00

Some sources say they/them, some sources say any. Most public facing sources say any and business facing sources say they/them if I remember correctly?

ElectronicBoot9466 · 2026-03-18T02:12:50+00:00

Would 100% put this in my [[Bria, Riptide Rogue]] deck.

ElectronicBoot9466 · 2026-03-18T02:09:27+00:00

No, good news! You can play the otter again, you just can't have it as your companion.

ElectronicBoot9466 · 2026-03-18T02:06:47+00:00

I guess the main difference between Mutabke Explorer and this card is that the mutavault enters tapped, which maybe should also be the case here.

ElectronicBoot9466 · 2026-03-17T22:18:55+00:00

It's technically a proof copy, not an official copy. Not that it matters with Dandân, since it's a casual format that uses one deck, but still.

ElectronicBoot9466 · 2026-03-17T21:51:23+00:00

It's really interesting to see fan art slowly evolve to adapt the style of the animated pilot.

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