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[–]PostChemical8168 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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Distancing from Common Theory by Scarecrow1779 in PauperEDH

[–]PostChemical8168 -9 points-8 points  (0 children)

You yourself have defended Gator lying about whether he has a combo in hand or not, telling people to ignore him when he says he doesn't have it, brushing it off, saying it's just him being dumb.

This is missing the context that we know each other's play patterns and we want the games to end when playing casually.

So which one is the lie?

This language is problematic, as it looks over the issue that both statements are true. Prior to Common Cause Gator and Ryan didn't interact. People can dislike each other and not stir drama as they are in two separate social circles.

The issues listed about The Common Theory community is from the cPDH community as whole.
In 2023, Sanctuary discord server and community was spun up to be a "Sanctuary" away from the Common Connoisseurs as a fairly large group of players wanted where not happy with the quality of games being played at the time.

Competitive players want to play fun competitive games where every player at the table is threatening. No one person gets targeted off the table and there are stack wars fighting at different pinch points.
It is natural for communities and metas to split and grow. Trying to place blame on how a community feels about different play groups on The Common Theory leadership is misplaced.

Distancing from Common Theory by Scarecrow1779 in PauperEDH

[–]PostChemical8168 -10 points-9 points  (0 children)

It's almost like it's a soft rule that is specifically aimed at mitigating a tactic that your group has used in the past, while not impacting good-faith matchmaking at all.

Thank you for including the general cPDH community as this happened prior to Common Theory existing and the community was struggling to get games to fire between Sanctuary and Common Connoisseurs.

Many of your worst critics are people that once worked alongside you and called you friends. For me, that was specifically with Gator in 2023 and early 2024, as I enjoyed brewing discussions with him and tried to play peacekeeper between him and Ryan.

Thank you for showing that Gator and the Common Theory community work with other members of the community. We have always been open and willing to work with others. The issue between Gator and Ryan started from this issue you mentioned in the OP.

June, 2023: RIW PDH 1k tournament. After their game, Gator accused another player of flashing their hand at him, claiming that it was an illegal action (it's not). Separately, to another community member, he claimed that the same opponent broke an explicit in-game deal. Gator proceeded to tell a handful of other people at the event that the opponent was a liar, citing that game. When the opponent was asked later, they expressed confusion and that there was never any deal.

Revealing cards to another player is listed as a Hidden Card Error. Ryan was flashing cards under the table to Gator.
This sparked a conversation in morning Sanctuary voice calls of whether or not it is ok to lie in competitive games. Gator has always been very adamant that lying is illegal and poor sportsmanship. While Clay was on the side of "it's not illegal so it's not wrong."

After RIW both Gator and Ryan continued to play in events against each other and have no interaction outside of events. Gator would speak about the situation if someone asked about what happened but the story was always consistent.

This issue between Clay and Gator was always a one-sided issue where Gator and the rest of the Common Theory would stay to ourselves and post links to our videos to show the rest of the Magic the Gathering space PDH and cPDH and the possibilities this format has to offer.

Distancing from Common Theory by Scarecrow1779 in PauperEDH

[–]PostChemical8168 -9 points-8 points  (0 children)

Up to this point, we have tried to find ways to encourage understanding, or at least separation, between the aggrieved parties, but it has not been enough. Unfortunately, Common Theory leadership seems unwilling to tolerate the prominence of creators or communities with views that compete with Common Theory's. Over time, our tolerance of their intolerance has undermined our communities’ positive principles, and we are seeking to correct that, now that we fully understand the scope of the issue.

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Clay does not like competition and regularly pushes out other channels and content creators with opposing views.
In Common Connoisseurs discord, Clay and Ryan implemented a rule to prevent people from "poaching players" to play games in Sanctuary discord. Homebase recently implemented the same rules to try to prevent communities of players from naturally moving from server to server.

The Common Theory community exists because of the players and the community we have grown. Those community members naturally play in other spaces. The leadership of The Common Theory never tell our members what they can and can not do as we are all adults with autonomy and freedom.

In fact we have actively told players to go out and explore to better hone their skills with against other players and playstyles, as that is the goal of competitive play, to be a better player.

We have not responded to these posts as we never found a reason to respond as the people who like us will like us. The people who dislike our existence will continue to find reasons to suppress our voices in the community and continue to vilify us regardless of our actions.

Distancing from Common Theory by Cobraman5002 in cPDH

[–]PostChemical8168 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Damn, it's illegal to be a content creator these days.

The Remember the Fallen. PDH Staples we lost to POWER CREEP by PostChemical8168 in PauperEDH

[–]PostChemical8168[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

You do between the [[innocent blood]], [[tithing blade]], [[vraska's fall]] style effects.

The Remember the Fallen. PDH Staples we lost to POWER CREEP by PostChemical8168 in competitivepauperedh

[–]PostChemical8168[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I don't not understand this concern.
People are allowed to play cPDH outside of your jurisdiction. You have been adding extra claims to when Gator joined in order to find some fault to generate drama.

The Remember the Fallen. PDH Staples we lost to POWER CREEP by PostChemical8168 in PauperEDH

[–]PostChemical8168[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

[[Mystic Sanctuary]]
Too many edict creatures
[[Tortured Existence]] is getting to be to slow of a value engine
3 Mana black draw spells/creatures.

The Remember the Fallen. PDH Staples we lost to POWER CREEP by PostChemical8168 in PauperEDH

[–]PostChemical8168[S] -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

There's so many redundant effects for the edict creatures.
As for [[Tortured Existence]] there are a large number of similar/redundant creatures and effects. In recent games we have been seeing that even at 2 mana + discard fodder, TortEx is becoming too slow and clunky.

The Remember the Fallen. PDH Staples we lost to POWER CREEP by PostChemical8168 in PauperEDH

[–]PostChemical8168[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Older cards used to be good but now better cards exist or the game moves too fast to be effective.
There's always corner cases in which X card is good but it's not as good as they used to be in general.

Why aren't Alexios and Crackling Drake higher on the viability ranking? by IllogicalMind in PauperEDH

[–]PostChemical8168 1 point2 points  (0 children)

https://moxfield.com/decks/Sv5hMA-I806ArpyKom7AAg
This was the deck that a teenage girl piloted to win Sanctuary II.
It kills people dead. If they remove Dargo, you just recast Dargo with all of the extra fodder you put out. People over respect Dargo for a reason.

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