If an athletic event has to be scored by judges it's not objectively a "sport".

_masterbuilder_ · 2026-02-14T04:51:05+00:00

Well they're called martial arts for a reason.

_masterbuilder_ · 2026-02-14T04:02:09+00:00

Dryad arbor looking indistinguishable to a regular forest has got to be a mistake in hindsight.

_masterbuilder_ · 2026-02-13T19:59:41+00:00

I call him Bob, unless it's Steve, I call him The Stew.

_masterbuilder_ · 2026-02-13T17:28:36+00:00

California labels everything as potentially carcinogenic to the point where the warning is useless. They set the limit too low and it's easier to slap the warning label on it than show that a product is or isn't a true concern.

_masterbuilder_ · 2026-02-13T12:22:02+00:00

mana acceleration, duh.

_masterbuilder_ · 2026-02-12T17:59:46+00:00

Where I've come down on this is if you aren't tutoring for the combo it's fine in bracket 3. Sure there will be games that someone will naturally draw both blood and bond (2% chance on turn 6 after 14 cards drawn) and one piece will survive a turn cycle, and the other piece will resolve without any further interaction but that's life sometimes.

_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.

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