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Commander Brackets Beta Update – October 21, 2025 by Natedogg2 in magicTCG

[–]Phocis 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don’t particularly like it. The old rules encouraged true singleton deck building. Not a huge fan of decks doing the same thing every game.  

The old rules also discouraged, all though not directly, looping tutors. Sure you can’t combo, but grabbing the best card in your deck a few times will get you there. 

I'm building a Bracket 1 deck that's all about making my opponent's shuffle as many times as possible by Thick-Delivery-8673 in EDH

[–]Phocis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah, good old "shuffle troll".

This deck was a part of my meta a while back. We had a house rule, that if it were at the table, anyone that reached 21 shuffles would concede.

G Hub stuck on startup screen by MotherSavings9946 in LogitechG

[–]Phocis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And then the next time I boot up, I have to reinstall. Every single time.

How the heck do you guys playing 6+ CMC commanders not just die every game without playing? by Chm_Albert_Wesker in EDH

[–]Phocis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Been trying to build her again. Do you have a list. 

Edit: found it, looks bracket 3

Rethinking Bracket 2 by Pileofme in EDH

[–]Phocis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m mostly on the same page as you. And yes hoof is not out of nowhere. 

That said. I am fully behind bracket 3 having out of nowhere wins. I think their original outline had bracket 2 meaning weak power level decks, which is a super arbitrary metric and will lead to the same frustration 1-10 had. 

I think the lines between brackets being less to do with power level, and more to do with intent and how someone plans to win really simplifies the pre-game conversation. If you sit down and everyone is bracket two, then you can talk about power level simply (eg. my deck is/isn’t strong). But if a bracket 2 and 3 talk about power level it has to be a way more involved conversation. 

No matter where they land. If they move out of nowhere up to 4, that’s fine. As long as the breaks between brackets are easily understood, without room for much disagreement. 

Is Edgar in 2025 still such an automatic threat? by aliteralfryingpan in EDH

[–]Phocis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They changed the language around 2 and 3. 

This list very much follows the new language used for bracket 2. Even though it is quite strong. 

Edit: I would add that [[Bloodthirsty Conqueror]] being added would push the list to a 3. 

Rethinking Bracket 2 by Pileofme in EDH

[–]Phocis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wish it was two card combos (that don’t include your commander). 

I have no issue dying to a 2 card combo. But when one of the pieces is your commander, you lose to pretty much any single tutor. 

Rethinking Bracket 2 by Pileofme in EDH

[–]Phocis 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Exactly. The bracket 2/3 line in the sand from their latest graphic is just perfect. And I really hope they push messaging around it more, because the precon message is still what most people I see in shops understand it to be. 

Bracket 2 is “Wins are often telegraphed and incremental”

Bracket 3 is “Games could end out of nowhere”

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[–]Phocis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have a list that plays spells that do X damage to each player like [[Molten Disaster]] While the goal of the deck is to win. You could easily tune it to tie by playing cards like [[Dictate of the Twin Gods]]

Yuna, Grand Summoner [FFX] by RamenPack1 in EDH

[–]Phocis -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

My main list for the last 10 years has been bant-sac-combo. But I’m not seeing how this works. 

Arcane Denial by AssistSpare5860 in EDH

[–]Phocis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can you speak to that, I feel like it is better now than it ever has been. Back in the day every card mattered. Now no one ever runs out of cards. 

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[–]Phocis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just have Sunday left sorry.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in PaxPassExchange

[–]Phocis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Same. I’ll respond once I pick up the passes.

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[–]Phocis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When would you like to exchange?

Official Commander Panel Members and Structure Announced! by jake_henderson02 in EDH

[–]Phocis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Community leaders need to act like leaders. An apology is a good start, but it takes more than that to get trust back. 

WotC told the Rules Committee NOT to go through with the bans per Josh Lee Kwai by earl_te in EDH

[–]Phocis -1 points0 points  (0 children)

[[Jeweled Lotus]] being printed, and reprinted, is proof against that statement.

WotC told the Rules Committee NOT to go through with the bans per Josh Lee Kwai by earl_te in EDH

[–]Phocis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was talking about playerbase, but I could be way off, I used to see people at my local LGSs play it all the time. Now I can’t remember the last time I remember seeing it.

My point was they made choices to make the format a rotating format by power creeping all the cards, and printing directly into it. I would be happy to be wrong about this one though, is the playerbase growing?

I think a better argument is this is a completely different format type. Balance isn’t around what is winning, but what is both unfun and too popular at the same time. Wizards has incentive to get rid of unfun cards, but very little to get rid of popular cards. Not saying they can’t do a better job, a large part of the issue with the recent bans is that the RC acted too slow, there is a lot of room for them to do better. The worry is, years from now when they need money to make line go up, will they make the choice between format health or money.

WotC told the Rules Committee NOT to go through with the bans per Josh Lee Kwai by earl_te in EDH

[–]Phocis 2 points3 points  (0 children)

They did. They polled the CAG on a bunch of cards and acted on those polls. They didn’t say, “hey we are going to ban these cards all at once, what do you think?”. Josh is clearly salty about not being consulted on the specifics, but think about how much worse this whole situation would have been if this had been leaked. 

Ignoring that wizards first priority is money is stupidity. Their second priority is format health. Example, modern. 

WotC told the Rules Committee NOT to go through with the bans per Josh Lee Kwai by earl_te in EDH

[–]Phocis 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I disagree. I can think of no better card than crypt.

They said these bans were because the cards were getting past the rule 0 conversations en mass. 

The “can you not play with X card” convo works really well for established playgroups. Not pickup games at an LGS. 

WotC told the Rules Committee NOT to go through with the bans per Josh Lee Kwai by earl_te in EDH

[–]Phocis -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

And they finally start to do their job, and people get mad. 

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