Field of the Dead is the tip of the iceberg, because while it's obnoxious as hell at least 2/2 Zombies take some time before they win the game. The World Tree was the real last straw. That stupid card plus Golos says "do whatever the hell you want once you hit 5 mana". You can literally play Ultimatum Tribal with Golos consistently and there's nothing anyone can do about it unless the rest of the table happens to have some land hate before you start vomiting Commander's strongest spells at them. And God help you if the Golos player happens to run Petrified Field. To this announcement I say "good riddance" and let the Golos players either cry or learn how to build decks for once.
The constant stream of zombies is what gives you a completely free bonus that happens to keep you alive and wins the game at some point.
If someone goes the for the tree, thats totally cool, a 5-color deck that wants to play all kinds of wacky mana cost cards is janky enough that this is as casual friendly as possible.
Golos is a artifact for gods sake, how is a table not able to simply kill it over and over again forever ?
(and while you dont need mass land destruction, its really just some very specific lands that you "always" tutor first as they are so much more busted than anything else, and that is the worst sin of EDH , repetitive gameplay if a player does the exact same steps every time).
The problem with the Tree is less "zany build-around for big costs" and more "perfect consistency, every game, by adding 1 card to your 99". I do agree Field's inevitability is a pain in the ass too, but the 5C deck having a better manabase than every other non-mono deck in the table is where I draw the line.
Either way, the real good news out of the announcement that I haven't noticed before:
We’ve talked to the folks in Studio X and they understand the problems created by generically-powerful five-color commanders that don’t have WUBRG in their mana cost. We don’t expect similar cards to come from them in the future, so a surgical strike now makes sense.
Genuinely great news. Less Golos, Kenriths and Esikas and more Codies and Tiamats please.
Thank the Heavens. While Golos is a cool card, it's just too good for multiple reasons, and it feels bad to play against.
The biggest offender is the first target is always Field of the Dead and then its a game of getting zombies for free.
Field of the Dead is the tip of the iceberg, because while it's obnoxious as hell at least 2/2 Zombies take some time before they win the game. The World Tree was the real last straw. That stupid card plus Golos says "do whatever the hell you want once you hit 5 mana". You can literally play Ultimatum Tribal with Golos consistently and there's nothing anyone can do about it unless the rest of the table happens to have some land hate before you start vomiting Commander's strongest spells at them. And God help you if the Golos player happens to run Petrified Field. To this announcement I say "good riddance" and let the Golos players either cry or learn how to build decks for once.
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Either way, the real good news out of the announcement that I haven't noticed before:
Genuinely great news. Less Golos, Kenriths and Esikas and more Codies and Tiamats please.
The World Tree was the real last straw. That stupid card plus Golos says "do whatever the hell you want once you hit 5 mana". You can literally play Ultimatum Tribal with Golos consistently and there's nothing anyone can do about it unless the rest of the table happens to have some land hate before you start vomiting Commander's strongest spells at them. And God help you if the Golos player happens to run Petrified Field. To this announcement I say "good riddance" and let the Golos players either cry or learn how to build decks for once.