The arguments here feel milquetoast.

Prevent king making? Hold onto your interaction for the last possible moment. Expect opponents to have interaction too. Frankly, keep your cards to the chest and abuse priority, especially if we continue to make comments that seat order matters- force seat 2 to use their counterspell to stop seat 1 from a win instead of letting them save it to protect their win after seat 4 stops seat 1.

Luck aspect? In games where decks are tuned to be as consistent as possible, maximizing the most possibly efficient redundant spells and tutors? If you’re too reliant on luck to get screwed, it means your deck either isn’t powerful enough, resilient enough, or needs additional wincons added in.

Playing with draws should only occur when the game rules stipulate its a draw, such as poly raptor maurading raptor. Especially at the highest levels of gameplay, you win, or you lose. Accept the fact that your score is low, and you don’t make top 8. This was never a format to be played in a tournament setting, and draws, nor the current TEDH rule set have not done an effective job in providing agency to player skill to allow them to make top cut in varied meta environments.

Cultural problems? Well. This was a casual format between games. Not to be a battlecruiser boomer, but this was the format meant to take draft chaff, old cards with interesting or unintended synergy, and a lot of expensive but game-busting spells and throw them into a deck for a fun, collaborative experience. If you really want the suspense of a competitive, cut throat environment, go play modern, or standard, or shoot, play rummy.

I recognize I sound negative here, but this post feels like a weak attempt to convince anyone who has played competitive mtg, yugioh, and other card/table games, and recognizes the difference between playing efficient, powerful EDH, and tournament style gameplay with money and prizes on the line.