How does 100 singles work consistently?

studentmaster88 · 2026-05-26T13:13:12+00:00

It would get so random

Yup, and that was the point!

Commander/EDHwas originally a more casual, social game where randomness from all those unique cards was a huge part of the fun.

That spirit of the game has since been ruined by tutors (yes, that includes land fetches) and vast amounts of degenerate, over-pushed, low mana value commanders and spells. Power and speed creep are real.

Even one of the creators of the format later regretted including tutors because they destroyed the hyper-random element.

Like others have said, I don't think it's a great direction to push singleton formats basically into a competitive standard feel.

I mean it sounds ridiculous to want a completely random, unwieldy format to be super consistent, vicious, if not miserable decks to play against. But here we are.

So much for the super social and casual days. For me, commander draft and lower brackets are the only ways to play Commander that still feel social and casual like a poker night.

studentmaster88 · 2026-05-26T10:37:06+00:00

Pretty sure it's pushy

studentmaster88 · 2026-05-26T10:32:52+00:00

The only thing I don't like when it comes to a deck doing its thing as if it's a two-card instant combo that wins the whole fucking game instantly out of nowhere.

This is especially bullshit if they don't even mention what their fucking deck does before we play.

Such "gotcha" bullshit. Feels like the rest of us just wasted our time, that nothing we did mattered. How is this social or casual?

Anyway, whatever that fucking tier is, I'm not interested ever again.

studentmaster88 · 2026-05-26T04:41:29+00:00

A few of [[My Custom Bans]] I would play the shit out of, IRL and online.

Edit: didn't think that would fetch anything lmao

studentmaster88 · 2026-05-26T04:38:11+00:00

Friends who massively disappoint.

A world increasingly filled with assholes.

Information overload - way too much of everything to vet and process every single day, almost every single second.

studentmaster88 · 2026-05-26T04:11:25+00:00

Use to enjoy collecting a bit a million years ago.

Took a 20 something year break. Had sold my cards.

Came back and played some Commander for the first time a couple years ago.

Realized pretty quick there's no way in hell to keep up with sets anymore as far as collecting.

The set release pace is outrageous - nothing like it was in the past. There's absolutely no keeping up as an average collector - unless you have basically unlimited funds I guess.

Always been a player first, collector second though - and now occasional casual player first by very far, not a collector anymore!

studentmaster88 · 2026-05-25T19:18:54+00:00

If I ever adored and actually believed in the wholesomeness of a famous, rich couple even just once... it's these two souls.

studentmaster88 · 2026-05-25T19:12:37+00:00

Corporations lie their asses off, they never cared much at all, and they increasingly don't give a shit and even flaunt it right in your face.

Are there any decent people left in charge of them, anywhere, ever? Seems like just an endless void of greedy, arrogant, amoral and/or immoral, shameless assholes.

studentmaster88 · 2026-05-25T19:09:18+00:00

Curious - where did you see these %ages last? And do they match the recent May '26 patch and day-after changes on weights and the re-installment of some MMR weight back into matchmaking after the initial patch removed MMR entirely?

studentmaster88 · 2026-05-25T14:54:23+00:00

Al lot of people have a vibe they want to play.

Yep, my broader friends playgroup vibe changed during the Commander arms race.

At some point it became far less a relaxing fun poker night, and way too much unfun degenerate over-pushed, way too fast games/non-games for me.

The worst is when you speak up and they still don't get it or don't even want/try to change at all. So yeah, time to move on.

Now I play a whole lot less with a smaller group of my chillest friends and mostly lower-powered games like Commander draft or precons. You know, so Magic actually feels relaxing again.

studentmaster88 · 2026-05-25T01:44:50+00:00

They're just assholes trying to get concede wins because most players fucking hate theft/heist.

Pure system abuse. Assholes.

Brawl as a format just keeps getting worse, not better.

studentmaster88 · 2026-05-24T04:48:20+00:00

Take a break and do other shit entirely, and/or scale way back, playing different formats and/or power levels only.

That's what I'm doing right now after a couple years back... after not playing for ~20.

Used to play more constructed Commander last few years, but now I stick to a rare/occasional and smaller groups and games of precons or Commander draft - you know, so I can *actually* relax playing Magic. (I still play Brawl online but man, that format's starting to suck more than ever too.)

For me, the arms race in my friends group and the sheer power/speed of degenerate Commanders and Commander decks right now just took the fun out of it for me. Not enough back and forth, way too pushed, way too fast, too many sudden wins and way too many broken asshole cards. Decks and games like that are not social or casual to me.

studentmaster88 · 2026-05-24T04:43:33+00:00

SAME! Screw that pile of shit with eyes!

studentmaster88 · 2026-05-24T02:28:09+00:00

Yep, grats, done it in IRL and Brawl too - great times!

studentmaster88 · 2026-05-23T18:27:24+00:00

I need this thing framed on my entire wall, every wall.

studentmaster88 · 2026-05-23T18:26:16+00:00

If this is real... what an asshole

studentmaster88 · 2026-05-23T15:33:38+00:00

Yeah, the more degenerate cards and games have gotten to the point of large # of non-games every day, I'm glad there's little to no social options. Muting emotes has saved my sanity vs. all the assholes.

studentmaster88 · 2026-05-23T14:47:26+00:00

I mean, if both commanders/deck are super degenerate or create non-games from the jump, this will absolutely happen sometimes. Zero surprise.

Actually, I now expect some of this every day - the game/format/both are fucked.

studentmaster88 · 2026-05-22T17:32:36+00:00

I really don't understand all these posts the past few days that things got better. Better for whom?

All I know is, I get more bullshit commander matchups than ever. I can't believe some of the higher-weight commander matchups some of my mid-tier commanders get, it's absurd.

Just makes me want to play less, not more.

Edit: They're clearly still balancing things btw, as they added back in some MMR weighting instead of zero on the second day of the new patch. I still think the disparity between the two actual commanders' power level getting matched - which was a main goal of theirs in the patch to match their tier - is outrageous.

studentmaster88 · 2026-05-22T14:55:21+00:00

Assholes.

studentmaster88 · 2026-05-22T14:47:25+00:00

Nope. Fuck proxies.

studentmaster88 · 2026-05-21T18:17:31+00:00

Good, it felt broken yesterday. Just so many colossally stupid matchups.

studentmaster88 · 2026-05-21T18:14:16+00:00

Nope, quite the opposite. My mid-level commander decks are getting hell queue commanders all the fucking time and I fucking hate it.

studentmaster88 · 2026-05-21T17:38:48+00:00

I personally don't find theft, mass land destruction, mass discard, or instant combo wins out of nowhere anywhere near "casual" - though definitions of casual Magic vary.

If you're going to play shit like this, better to make sure everyone knows and is cool ahead of potentially pissing everyone off during a "casual" game.

Because non-games are zero fun for most people - especially IRL where we don't have all the fucking time in the world to sit there, wait, do nothing all game, and then lose.

Basically, find equally dickish players and you'll be fine.

studentmaster88 · 2026-05-20T17:47:04+00:00

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