i dont' think it is. i think there are a lot of great resources out there to help with deck building that didn't exist 10 years ago.
i think a bigger problem is that card design has become heavily skewed to create cards that edh players will want. this increases ubiquity between decks. we get less creative as the volume of good cards/staples increases, especially with easier access to them than ever before. you're less likely to dig through your box of crap in the closet to find obscure synergies to fill out a deck, and more likely to say well i need a cyclonic rift here. back in the day, there wasn't really stuff specifically being designed for the format. you had to make due with whatever was laying around. it lead to some pretty creative deck building and even more creative board states.
i also don't necessarily see any problem with net decking. not every pilot is also a good builder. even then, someone can netdeck and because the format is so diverse and wild given the nature of multiplayer, they can drive that deck into a brick wall and lose horribly pretty easily.
i think if you really want to see what the average edh group/environment is like its worth it to join some gaming communities on social media. we forget that in coming here we're taking our game a step further, we're diving deeper than most believe it or not. for example; i recently joined a facebook community oriented around magic and the edh decks being posted... well, its far different from here. most don't know how to build or even want to put in the effort to research what works. most don't analyze their build after they slap it together. they don't hone it after they lose. most won't add more removal, or more answers, instead sticking to a singular insular gameplan. most will just gripe over counterspells, or label something like iroas as a cedh deck because it can poop out a gisela on turn 5 and they just have no way to deal with it. almost every day i'm seeing these things pop up in my news feed. i try to educate, explain why their deck isn't working, or what they can do instead of just *****ing... but that's still a fight. god forbid we run interaction while complaining that combo decks just masturbate.
so, i suppose all of these things come together to make the person who does take those extra steps - analyzes their builds, researches better cards and synergies, thinks about strategy, gets better cards even - all of these things come together to make the disparity between an edh player here vastly different from the average player.
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i think a bigger problem is that card design has become heavily skewed to create cards that edh players will want. this increases ubiquity between decks. we get less creative as the volume of good cards/staples increases, especially with easier access to them than ever before. you're less likely to dig through your box of crap in the closet to find obscure synergies to fill out a deck, and more likely to say well i need a cyclonic rift here. back in the day, there wasn't really stuff specifically being designed for the format. you had to make due with whatever was laying around. it lead to some pretty creative deck building and even more creative board states.
i also don't necessarily see any problem with net decking. not every pilot is also a good builder. even then, someone can netdeck and because the format is so diverse and wild given the nature of multiplayer, they can drive that deck into a brick wall and lose horribly pretty easily.
i think if you really want to see what the average edh group/environment is like its worth it to join some gaming communities on social media. we forget that in coming here we're taking our game a step further, we're diving deeper than most believe it or not. for example; i recently joined a facebook community oriented around magic and the edh decks being posted... well, its far different from here. most don't know how to build or even want to put in the effort to research what works. most don't analyze their build after they slap it together. they don't hone it after they lose. most won't add more removal, or more answers, instead sticking to a singular insular gameplan. most will just gripe over counterspells, or label something like iroas as a cedh deck because it can poop out a gisela on turn 5 and they just have no way to deal with it. almost every day i'm seeing these things pop up in my news feed. i try to educate, explain why their deck isn't working, or what they can do instead of just *****ing... but that's still a fight. god forbid we run interaction while complaining that combo decks just masturbate.
so, i suppose all of these things come together to make the person who does take those extra steps - analyzes their builds, researches better cards and synergies, thinks about strategy, gets better cards even - all of these things come together to make the disparity between an edh player here vastly different from the average player.