First time in a while I've actually agreed with the Rules Committee's decisions. The Prophet ban doesn't phase me too much; I'm not certain it was necessary, but I don't think the game will be poorer for its being gone. The change to Rule 4 makes Dragonlord Silumgar very happy, as now I can slot in Chromatic Lantern to make use of all the saucy activated abilities I can steal. With the addition of colorless as a specific cost, it was a necessary change, and if it gets rid of lockdown-via-loophole a la Zedruu donating Celestial Dawn, then all the better. The one that seems to be getting the least discussion but which seems to be the most important and beneficial change is the switch to the Vancouver mulligan. I've always refused to play with Partial Paris, and I've always felt that most of the issues of degeneracy in the format (namely Sol Ring issues) come from allowing cutthroat combo decks to more or less sculpt their ideal opening hand every game. I mean, when prison decks are getting away with playing 25 lands because they know the mulligan rule lets them get away with it, that's a sign that your rule is garbage. This change should add back a level of randomness and variety to games that was originally one of the foundational points of the format.
A player is bad for playing lightning bolt if there isn't a horribly centralizing card like prophet to justify it. There's just very little that can get bolted that runs away with the game.
Calling a player bad for responding to their meta is bad logic -- and just bad in general.
If you're responding to your meta by playing bad cards, you're bad.
if you're inferring that lightning bolt is bad in edh, you're bad. see i can do it too.
hell, the reasoning behind banning prophet as stated by the rules committee basically says that casual groups DON'T respond to their meta by playing different cards. maybe you should try that sometime. it might make you a better player.
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the thing that gets me is that the rules committee is basically saying "we're banning this card because casual tables don't know how to modify their decks to fit their meta"
and i don't think thats the proper philosophy when it comes to banning anything
it promotes stagnant play, and encourages whining to get your way over adaptive play
its not as abusive as something like say prime time or sylvan primordial, but it is broken if you don't do anything about it.
that a thread discussing its banning has devolved into the merits of lightning bolt in edh shows not only how easily dealt with it is, but how obtuse casual players are to trying new things to adapt to their meta, or new things at all
and that the rules committee caved to that, i feel like that says everything that needs to be said when it comes to their competence of function
I've been running Bolt, Flame Slash, Pongify, Rapid Hybridization for over a year against Prophet. For what it's worth I also run Electrolyze, lol obviously not against prophet. It all seems like marginal damage on the front end, but in my metagame where 1 on 1 American EDH is common and most game reach four players at most, yeah that bolt was so very often worth a Prophet, Oracle, Animar, so many tiny creatures that Bolt deals with better than any other card. Great for mitigating tempo gains, especially.
So yeah, even with prophet gone, I dont think Ill be cutting any of those cards. My deck performs very well where I am: as another poster mentioned, its not the kind of metagame where someone can be expected to stick a bunch of large creatures and get away with it, I have to be able to kill creatures very early in the game. Bolt is also a capable planeswalker killer.
So I'll double down: it's weird to say someone is bad for playing Lightning Bolt in EDH, for so many reasons. It's such a spikey thing to say about EDH. You have to weirdly assume that your EDH meta game is representative of a broader, global EDH metagame or equally weirdly assume that the broader EDH metagame is reprasentative of a slice of life LGS. Idk its just a *****ty way to express that you think youre better than someone.
People who say that Lightning Bolt is bad in EDH probably don't realize how much value utility creatures create in the format. Sometimes that Goblin Welder needs to go. Turn one. The format isn't all Thorn Elementals and Omniscience, you know?
As for Prophet, well, it was a fun card, but it did steal games too often. It was basically a card that demanded an immediate answer, or it would immediately become unanswerable.
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People who say that Lightning Bolt is bad in EDH probably don't realize how much value utility creatures create in the format. Sometimes that Goblin Welder needs to go. Turn one. The format isn't all Thorn Elementals and Omniscience, you know?
As for Prophet, well, it was a fun card, but it did steal games too often. It was basically a card that demanded an immediate answer, or it would immediately become unanswerable.
Thank you for this. Removal is a key component in my meta, be it destroying value engines like goblin welder or taking out a Rafiq before it gets absurd. I didn't want to respond to all the people calling me bad for playing a removal spell.
Removal is a key part of this game. Just because your meta might not need it doesn't mean other metas wont. It's sad to see a FIVE MANA 2/3 without any built in protection (shroud, hexproof, etc) be banned because people complained it was to good and refused to adapt. Not that it matters to me much, our table allows any cards, but it means I won't be bringing Griselbrand to any tournaments or pods and now the UG player won't be either.
Dies to removal doesn't apply when "Wins immediately if they are tapped out" usually applies too, though. I am basically the removal guy in our meta, and I still understand that certain threats just outpace the removal.
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I've seen an Mizzix of the Izmagnus deck retrieve the same Lightning Bolt spell at least seven times in a single game. They mostly used that same Lightning Bolt on utility creatures with low toughness. I also know they are planning on picking up Jori En, Ruin Diver as they can regularly cast two spells per a turn.
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Wow, a lot of over judgmental alpha players here. If people want to include cards that are only good in their own meta, let them.
I had a run of great success using Lightning Bolt in an Eye of the Storm storm combo deck in my own local meta, which my group reacted to by increasing the amount of instant speed enchantment removal in their decks, meaning that I had to change up.
A constantly evolving meta is both healthy and fun, and frankly one of the only ways the game stays fresh.
I am a player who always disliked that there were two rules enforcing weird interactions when staying in color: I disliked both that mana of the wrong color became colorless and that I couldn't play Unmake in my monowhite deck. But I was always fine with one of those rules being removed. Finally, Rule 4 is removed, so now I can live in peace with the fact that hybrid is handled wrong. as I simply wanted either of those things to be gone away with as a middle ground
I'll miss Prophet, but it was a well-deserved ban. The card was completely broken AND it could eat up a considerable amount of time. If you don't believe that last part, try her with Momir Vig and chain out as many UG creatures as you have the mana for in every player's turn, then noodle around with the UG guildmages, taps/untaps and/or flickering Zegana with Deadeye. That gets old very fast, I scrapped the deck because it was impossible to play it at a socially acceptable pace.
Also, the fact that I have done that with a 2/2 general says a lot about the "dies to bolt" argument above.
To be fair, she was almost a custom-made enabler for Momir Vig, Simic Visionary, and frankly,
my MV deck will be *extremely* sad to lose her.
My Sen Triplets deck, OTOH, may actually get the dust knocked off of it.
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She was a very useful tool for almost any deck that runs the correct colors. Many people will be very sad to lose that card. But, at least there are still multiple effects that could accomplish the same thing that she did.
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Sad to see Prophet go for sure (she was the queen of my Derevi deck and an awesome tool for my wife's Jenara list) but it's probably high time. Surprised that DEN didn't get the axe too.
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This is one banning I won't be following. My friends and I have never had that big of an issue with Prophet. Although my Vorosh beck is becoming increasingly harder to play with against randoms. (It has Prime Time in it too.)
the removal of rule 4 is s crapy idea so if i want to do a deck with the new kozilek and i have a gilded lotus then i have to tap it for color making it useless in the deck ill stay using duel commander tnx
Rule 4 was really derpy. It basically made a game of magic into not game of magic.
I ran Prophet in Animar (combo) and the card was just way over the top. Add in flash, Survival, and other instant speed tutors and it's ridiculous. Every untap step I had an answer...being in U after all. The dies to removal point becomes moot when you always have mana up. In creature heavy decks it effectively timewalked on each player's turn. Combo in EDH requires set-up and gets progressively worse with the number of players. Prophet got progressively better with more players and required no set-up other than having good creatures in your deck.
Saying that prophet gets better with more people is wrong. Prophet gets progressively worse with each player but it doesn't worse as fast as "normal" magic cards. In 1v1 prophet will give the same amount of advantage as in multiplayer but you don't have to worry about bolts from 2+ people. Syphon mind is a card that gets better with more players.
Requires no set up? Are you perhaps playing in meta that only plays craw wurms?
"Hmm tapping out for a 5 mana 2/3 creature that does nothing sounds like a game winning move"
-dead blue player
I'll miss Prophet, but it was a well-deserved ban. The card was completely broken AND it could eat up a considerable amount of time. If you don't believe that last part, try her with Momir Vig and chain out as many UG creatures as you have the mana for in every player's turn, then noodle around with the UG guildmages, taps/untaps and/or flickering Zegana with Deadeye. That gets old very fast, I scrapped the deck because it was impossible to play it at a socially acceptable pace.
Also, the fact that I have done that with a 2/2 general says a lot about the "dies to bolt" argument above.
To be fair, she was almost a custom-made enabler for Momir Vig, Simic Visionary, and frankly,
my MV deck will be *extremely* sad to lose her.
My Sen Triplets deck, OTOH, may actually get the dust knocked off of it.
This really sounds like Momir is the offending card and not prophet.
Degenerates ruin everything. I run Prophet because I'm not paying $15 for Seedborn muse.
Serious question, why would you pay $15 for an $6 card?
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Zacama, Primal Calamity - Calamity of Double Mana.
Edgar Markov - Vampires Don't Die.
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I'm fine with Prophet's banning; too annoying when they get to use your untap step to ensure they have answers on your turn. It takes away choice making for the Prophet player as you can tap out all you want and still have mana for counterspells. Good riddance, I say.
If I understand the removal of rule 4 correctly, mana sources now can tap for any color they normally would, but we still can't run hybrid cards in decks that don't include all the hybrid card's colors? Why don't they just write a rule for hybrid cards that allows you to run hybrid cards the way they're meant to be?
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Every time I read a comment about "Well if this card had card draw/trample/haste/indestructible/hexproof/life gain...", I think "You're missing the point." They're armchair developer comments that fail to take into account the card's role in the greater Limited and Standard environment. No, it may not be as good as whatever card you're comparing it to. There's a reason for that. Not every burn spell is Lightning Bolt, nor does it need to be or should be.
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You're on a website dedicated to talking about MtG. You're only a few keystrokes away from finding out what cards are on the Reserved List. You're also only a few keystrokes away from finding out why some cards on the Reserved List got foil printings in FtV, as Judge promos, or whatnot, as well as why that won't happen again. Stop doing this.
The amount of people judging Prophet in a vacuum and comparing it to the likes of Seedborn Muse is astounding. It's not untap everything during each other player's untap phase or give everything flash that makes the card strong -- it is the combination of both in tandem. With both abilities combined, Prophet of Kruphix would amount to a "free" creature, depending on whether you could keep it alive until the next untap step (which is not too difficult in U, believe it or not), that then proceeded to Timewalk on each other player's turn. Given the fact that U has the best draw and G the best creature tutoring, it wasn't hard to have an answer for every situation or to be able to set up a combo before your next upkeep. On top of that, G gives you the best ramp, thus powering into a turn 3 (or 2 with mana-rocks) was not very difficult. It you weren't able to win a game after sticking a Prophet, it either meant that A: your deck was not very good or B: your opponents had god draws OR cloned your Prophet. If you killed Prophet after 2 cycles around the table, it has usually done too much damage by that point already. Consecrated Sphinx is degenerate too, but players have the upkeep step to deal with it, can clone it, or just kill it when the player has to tap out. Consecrated Sphinx also plays a balancing role on the format by punishing other powerful draw engines.
Because they don't want to. The Rules Committee want hybrid cards being treated just like gold cards, regardless of WotC's intention with them.
Which is totally stupid because most hybrid cards would be fine in decks of either color; Boros Reckoner in a monored commander wouldn't be doing anything monored can't already do. I can see a case for color pie bleeders like Augury Adept, but even in a WU deck the Adept occasionally lets you get life gain for 1UU or repeat card draw for 1WW.
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Every time I read a comment about "Well if this card had card draw/trample/haste/indestructible/hexproof/life gain...", I think "You're missing the point." They're armchair developer comments that fail to take into account the card's role in the greater Limited and Standard environment. No, it may not be as good as whatever card you're comparing it to. There's a reason for that. Not every burn spell is Lightning Bolt, nor does it need to be or should be.
PSA to everyone who keeps forgetting about the Reserved List:
You're on a website dedicated to talking about MtG. You're only a few keystrokes away from finding out what cards are on the Reserved List. You're also only a few keystrokes away from finding out why some cards on the Reserved List got foil printings in FtV, as Judge promos, or whatnot, as well as why that won't happen again. Stop doing this.
This is one banning I won't be following. My friends and I have never had that big of an issue with Prophet. Although my Vorosh beck is becoming increasingly harder to play with against randoms. (It has Prime Time in it too.)
If I understand the removal of rule 4 correctly, mana sources now can tap for any color they normally would, but we still can't run hybrid cards in decks that don't include all the hybrid card's colors? Why don't they just write a rule for hybrid cards that allows you to run hybrid cards the way they're meant to be?
Because it already works as "meant to be". A hybrid card is a multicolored card that is of all colors of it. The color identity rule (903.4) also states it.
The objective of hybrid mana is not to be able to use a card in a deck without one of its color but to make easier to cast multicolored spells, just that it ends being a loop hole that can make color pie violations (a reason for most hybrid have abilities shared by both colors) and be abused in deck building
I somehow find it tragic when an attacking Traveling Philosopher gets blocked by another Traveling Philosopher, which normally results in two dead philosophers. Shouldn't they just sit aside and start discussing?
"This is really exciting, so much to find out about, so much to look forward to, I'm quite dizzy with anticipation . . . Or is it the wind? There really is a lot of that now, isn't there? And wow! Hey! What's this thing suddenly coming toward me very fast? Very, very fast. So big and flat and round, it needs a big wide-sounding name like . . . ow . . . ound . . . round . . . ground! That's it! That's a good name- ground! I wonder if it will be friends with me? Hello Ground!"
Curiously enough, the only thing that went through the mind of the Sprouting Phytohydra as it fell was Oh no, not again.
Not really though. Like can Primeval Titan do busted things? Of course. I once used Dead-Eye Navigator to blink the titan until I had all of my lands then used them to blink an Acidic Slime and wipe out all of my opponents land. Can Prophet enable busted things? Of course. It's about your play group. My friends don't mind either of them and the times where I do nasty things like sliming my opponents mana to death are pretty rare.
After all the banned list is a recommendation more than it is a hard and fast rule.
If I understand the removal of rule 4 correctly, mana sources now can tap for any color they normally would, but we still can't run hybrid cards in decks that don't include all the hybrid card's colors? Why don't they just write a rule for hybrid cards that allows you to run hybrid cards the way they're meant to be?
Because it already works as "meant to be". A hybrid card is a multicolored card that is of all colors of it. The color identity rule (903.4) also states it.
The objective of hybrid mana is not to be able to use a card in a deck without one of its color but to make easier to cast multicolored spells, just that it ends being a loop hole that can make color pie violations (a reason for most hybrid have abilities shared by both colors) and be abused in deck building
No, hybrid mana was designed from the start to allow decks that run one of the necessary colors to play the card while providing a bonus to decks that run both. Boros Reckoner is supposed to be playable in WU and UR as well as RW.
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Every time I read a comment about "Well if this card had card draw/trample/haste/indestructible/hexproof/life gain...", I think "You're missing the point." They're armchair developer comments that fail to take into account the card's role in the greater Limited and Standard environment. No, it may not be as good as whatever card you're comparing it to. There's a reason for that. Not every burn spell is Lightning Bolt, nor does it need to be or should be.
PSA to everyone who keeps forgetting about the Reserved List:
You're on a website dedicated to talking about MtG. You're only a few keystrokes away from finding out what cards are on the Reserved List. You're also only a few keystrokes away from finding out why some cards on the Reserved List got foil printings in FtV, as Judge promos, or whatnot, as well as why that won't happen again. Stop doing this.
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I've been running Bolt, Flame Slash, Pongify, Rapid Hybridization for over a year against Prophet. For what it's worth I also run Electrolyze, lol obviously not against prophet. It all seems like marginal damage on the front end, but in my metagame where 1 on 1 American EDH is common and most game reach four players at most, yeah that bolt was so very often worth a Prophet, Oracle, Animar, so many tiny creatures that Bolt deals with better than any other card. Great for mitigating tempo gains, especially.
So yeah, even with prophet gone, I dont think Ill be cutting any of those cards. My deck performs very well where I am: as another poster mentioned, its not the kind of metagame where someone can be expected to stick a bunch of large creatures and get away with it, I have to be able to kill creatures very early in the game. Bolt is also a capable planeswalker killer.
So I'll double down: it's weird to say someone is bad for playing Lightning Bolt in EDH, for so many reasons. It's such a spikey thing to say about EDH. You have to weirdly assume that your EDH meta game is representative of a broader, global EDH metagame or equally weirdly assume that the broader EDH metagame is reprasentative of a slice of life LGS. Idk its just a *****ty way to express that you think youre better than someone.
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As for Prophet, well, it was a fun card, but it did steal games too often. It was basically a card that demanded an immediate answer, or it would immediately become unanswerable.
Dies to removal doesn't apply when "Wins immediately if they are tapped out" usually applies too, though. I am basically the removal guy in our meta, and I still understand that certain threats just outpace the removal.
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I had a run of great success using Lightning Bolt in an Eye of the Storm storm combo deck in my own local meta, which my group reacted to by increasing the amount of instant speed enchantment removal in their decks, meaning that I had to change up.
A constantly evolving meta is both healthy and fun, and frankly one of the only ways the game stays fresh.
To be fair, she was almost a custom-made enabler for Momir Vig, Simic Visionary, and frankly,
my MV deck will be *extremely* sad to lose her.
My Sen Triplets deck, OTOH, may actually get the dust knocked off of it.
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Rule 4 was really derpy. It basically made a game of magic into not game of magic.
They don't.
Saying that prophet gets better with more people is wrong. Prophet gets progressively worse with each player but it doesn't worse as fast as "normal" magic cards. In 1v1 prophet will give the same amount of advantage as in multiplayer but you don't have to worry about bolts from 2+ people. Syphon mind is a card that gets better with more players.
Requires no set up? Are you perhaps playing in meta that only plays craw wurms?
"Hmm tapping out for a 5 mana 2/3 creature that does nothing sounds like a game winning move"
-dead blue player
This really sounds like Momir is the offending card and not prophet.
Serious question, why would you pay $15 for an $6 card?
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If I understand the removal of rule 4 correctly, mana sources now can tap for any color they normally would, but we still can't run hybrid cards in decks that don't include all the hybrid card's colors? Why don't they just write a rule for hybrid cards that allows you to run hybrid cards the way they're meant to be?
Every time I read a comment about "Well if this card had card draw/trample/haste/indestructible/hexproof/life gain...", I think "You're missing the point." They're armchair developer comments that fail to take into account the card's role in the greater Limited and Standard environment. No, it may not be as good as whatever card you're comparing it to. There's a reason for that. Not every burn spell is Lightning Bolt, nor does it need to be or should be.
Yes. Mana production during a Commander game now works exactly like in a regular Magic game.
Yes, that's a entirely separated issue handled by a different rule, one that hasn't changed one bit.
Because they don't want to. The Rules Committee want hybrid cards being treated just like gold cards, regardless of WotC's intention with them.
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Which is totally stupid because most hybrid cards would be fine in decks of either color; Boros Reckoner in a monored commander wouldn't be doing anything monored can't already do. I can see a case for color pie bleeders like Augury Adept, but even in a WU deck the Adept occasionally lets you get life gain for 1UU or repeat card draw for 1WW.
Every time I read a comment about "Well if this card had card draw/trample/haste/indestructible/hexproof/life gain...", I think "You're missing the point." They're armchair developer comments that fail to take into account the card's role in the greater Limited and Standard environment. No, it may not be as good as whatever card you're comparing it to. There's a reason for that. Not every burn spell is Lightning Bolt, nor does it need to be or should be.
It doesn't, really. All it does is reduce it from draw 2 to draw 1 card per opponent's turn.
That's because Manite misspelled Notion Thief.
The Prime Time is the real problem, I'd say.
Because it already works as "meant to be". A hybrid card is a multicolored card that is of all colors of it. The color identity rule (903.4) also states it.
The objective of hybrid mana is not to be able to use a card in a deck without one of its color but to make easier to cast multicolored spells, just that it ends being a loop hole that can make color pie violations (a reason for most hybrid have abilities shared by both colors) and be abused in deck building
Not really though. Like can Primeval Titan do busted things? Of course. I once used Dead-Eye Navigator to blink the titan until I had all of my lands then used them to blink an Acidic Slime and wipe out all of my opponents land. Can Prophet enable busted things? Of course. It's about your play group. My friends don't mind either of them and the times where I do nasty things like sliming my opponents mana to death are pretty rare.
After all the banned list is a recommendation more than it is a hard and fast rule.
No, hybrid mana was designed from the start to allow decks that run one of the necessary colors to play the card while providing a bonus to decks that run both. Boros Reckoner is supposed to be playable in WU and UR as well as RW.
Every time I read a comment about "Well if this card had card draw/trample/haste/indestructible/hexproof/life gain...", I think "You're missing the point." They're armchair developer comments that fail to take into account the card's role in the greater Limited and Standard environment. No, it may not be as good as whatever card you're comparing it to. There's a reason for that. Not every burn spell is Lightning Bolt, nor does it need to be or should be.