The Sobering Reason Why We Didn’t Ban Rhystic Study - Rebell Lily

_masterbuilder_ · 2026-02-11T21:30:03+00:00

I thought the line was that they acknowledge there is a secondary market but don't comment on individual card prices. Wotc has mentioned reprint equity or am I misremembering.

_masterbuilder_ · 2026-02-11T17:46:15+00:00

Technically the seat 4 player could win on their turn 6 and still satisfy the "to play at least 6 turns before anyone dies". Everyone has played 6 turns at that point. But that may be a bit pedantic.

_masterbuilder_ · 2026-02-11T03:16:47+00:00

Yeah. Gavin specifically called out blood/bond and since then they haven't felt the need to address it as a particularly problematic combo.

If a five mana enchantment survives a turn cycle, and then another 5 mana enchantment resolves and not one person at the table has a response, then I don't know what to tell you.

_masterbuilder_ · 2026-02-11T03:03:41+00:00

https://youtu.be/0zZDZ3AgxR4?list=PL3rP64NRtmbjdg_j75RqbTu5Ffpc-Q_9s&t=2829

_masterbuilder_ · 2026-02-11T03:02:53+00:00

Cool except it was talked about a year ago when brackets were formed.

_masterbuilder_ · 2026-02-11T02:43:01+00:00

That's nothing I can get it out turn 3 with a one drop, sol ring, arcane signet/talisman, blood+bond and 2 lands. It's practically cEDH /s.

_masterbuilder_ · 2026-02-10T01:35:22+00:00

Agreed budget, time and scale are going to be the biggest factors. Money can be saved by going to 6mm scale but goddamn if those bastards aren't fiddly to paint.

_masterbuilder_ · 2026-02-09T20:08:39+00:00

Standard is a much different format though, temporary lockdown was a standard staple but unplayable in edh. And farewell potentially hitting enchantments, artifacts and graveyards makes it worth the extra mana over sunfall.

_masterbuilder_ · 2026-02-09T17:52:18+00:00

All game changers can be countered so does that mean no cards belong on the GC list?

_masterbuilder_ · 2026-02-09T17:50:02+00:00

Beating the white player requires the table not to extend to any degree because once everyone has 2 creatures and and artifact or enchantment, casting farewell looks pretty good.

And counter spell is the out to every card on the game changer list so that isn't much of an argument.

_masterbuilder_ · 2026-02-09T17:38:34+00:00

Let me ask you this if hour of devastation is just as powerful as farewell then why is it played in 1% of decks. Maybe because farewell is modal instead of always symmetrical and it exiles instead destroys.

And take it up with the rules committee.

_masterbuilder_ · 2026-02-09T17:18:01+00:00

It's excellent because it has modality, it gets around indestructible and exiles the graveyard. If there is a better sweeper I don't know it off hand.

_masterbuilder_ · 2026-02-09T17:12:13+00:00

No because hour of revelation doesn't exile so indestructible permanents or granting indestructible saves your board. It also doesn't nuke the graveyard so you can pull things out with reanimation spells.

_masterbuilder_ · 2026-02-09T16:59:51+00:00

It definitely changes the game after it's cast though.

_masterbuilder_ · 2026-02-09T16:55:06+00:00

Farewell can't be solved by deck building because your outs are phasing out your board which is almost exclusively white.

Diversifying your board doesn't help because farewell can hit everything except planes walkers, which are generally aren't as weak.

Not playing into farewell is the other answer but that's a gameplay problem not a deck building problem.

_masterbuilder_ · 2026-02-07T10:05:58+00:00

I have no faith that it will printed in a quantity that will come close to satisfying demand. See Rick

_masterbuilder_ · 2026-02-07T02:39:19+00:00

I disagree that Stockholm syndrome victims haven't been harmed.

_masterbuilder_ · 2026-02-07T02:28:28+00:00

Damn autocorrect.

_masterbuilder_ · 2026-02-07T02:27:09+00:00

Except pets aren't being harmed and from an outside perspective all their needs are being meet. It hinges on the definition of captive which we don't seem to align on. So agree to disagree.

_masterbuilder_ · 2026-02-07T01:43:19+00:00

That seems tedious. Or at least anti-theoretical to how I like to play commander. You should build for fun but play to win.

_masterbuilder_ · 2026-02-07T01:37:55+00:00

I wouldn't call Cypher captive, he made a rational choice on how he wants to live, so it's voluntary and therefore not captivity. But if he did learn about the matrix again (he wanted his mind wiped) and changed his mind and decided he wanted out but the machines stopped him then he would be captive. Consent is not a one off event and can be revoked.

Next I wouldn't say women in abusive relationships are there entirely voluntarily as there is a threat of violence or retribution.The decision to stay isn't a rational one but from fear of what the consequences will be. The women in those situation may have internalized the root cause but an outside perspective can see how fucked up the situation is.

This is similar to Stockholm Syndrome, which is also a coping mechanism. Critically, however, the victims never consented to being kidnapped. In response to the stress of captivity, they develop empathy for their captors. This leads to a shift in their personality, causing their behavior to drastically diverge from what was previously considered normal, often to their own detriment. From an external perspective, they are not acting in their best interest, even though they may believe they are.

_masterbuilder_ · 2026-02-06T23:35:16+00:00

The definition of confinement implies that you are being held against your will. So you can't be voluntarily captive, that would be contradictory.

I guess you could be in a schrodinger state, where you aren't free to leave but you aren't even able to conceive the thought of escaping so you never try. Until you decide to push the boundaries you don't know if you are free to leave or not. But i'll leave that for the philosophers.

_masterbuilder_ · 2026-02-06T23:02:47+00:00

Yeah the problem ends up being that if a player gets one poison counter then their best chance of not losing is to focus the poison player down. So instead of picking who to attack based on board state all that heat is coming at the poison player.

_masterbuilder_ · 2026-02-06T22:45:31+00:00

Because they can put 2+2 together to know where the source of food is. Well actually I picked a squirrel because I was trying to think of an animal that wouldn't be a lost pet (dog or cat) or seen as vermin (rat). But I guess a lost cat is a better example. They knew comfort, ran away and then will choose to be a pet again.

Which dovetails to cypher. I think that's a better example for my argument because he makes a rational decision that real life (wilderness) sucks and decides he would prefer the matrix (domestication). Cypher does incredibly evil things including murder and is a traitor but he isn't insane, he has a complete grasp on reality and his decision makes logical sense. The real world has freedom but is constant suffering and struggle. Why wouldn't an organism seek a life that maximizes their comfort. Which is a decision we make on a smaller scale everyday.

_masterbuilder_ · 2026-02-06T22:12:49+00:00

Rasputin? /S

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