Before Rule 0 discussion begins, players name their commanders as well as the rough total cost of their decklist (including the commander). For the sake of organization, players might aim for their decks to cost roughly $100, $200, $400, $800, or $1600+.
Cards are priced by the cheapest available version of those cards. In other words, replacing a card with a foil or promo version of itself doesn’t increase your deck price.
Fetchlands are treated as if they cost $5. This is because of their ubiquity and because compared to their price tag, the in-game benefit they provide is relatively small.
For the same reason, nonbasic lands that have no activated abilities other than those that provide at most a single mana have a maximum cost of $1. In other words, if a land can tap for more than one mana and/or has an activated ability that doesn’t add mana, it doesn’t enjoy this benefit.
Basic lands, including snow-covered basics, are treated as if they cost $0.
It is understood by all players that simply comparing deck budgets is not sufficient for providing an ideal play experience. Questions such as “How long have you been playing Magic,” “What kind of game do we want to play,” and “What turn does your deck aim to execute its game plan by” are still instrumental in helping players find decks that are well suited for each other.
WHAT DOES THIS ACCOMPLISH?
The largest benefit of deck budget discussions is the establishment of tangible standards for power level. Asking players if they want to play a “power level 7” game means almost nothing. Asking players if they want to play a game with a $400 deck budget means something.
For each budget, there will emerge a tier list of optimized decks for that budget. These decks will provide the signposts for what the power level of that budget is, and help people get a gauge for how powerful their decks are by comparison. For example, a relatively untuned $400 deck with an average commander might end up being about as powerful as a $200 Tier 2 deck. The details aren’t critical; what matters is that by having unified points of comparison, people will eventually be able to accurately talk about the power levels of their decks.
The secondary benefit, of course, is not to be ignored: by having agreed-upon budget tiers, players will more easily be able to find games with appropriate power levels.
Third, budget tiers reduce price pressure on the format as a whole because now there is a drawback to playing the most expensive cards (outside of the $1600+ tier).
Lastly, explicitly setting budgetary expectations on the format should allow players with fewer financial resources to find games that will be entertaining.
OBJECTIONS:
This makes deckbuilding more annoying.
There is joy to be found in design constraints. Having to figure out how to best manage one’s deck budget adds another wrinkle to deckbuilding that a lot of people (myself included) would actually enjoy. It also lets players build “optimized” decklists without having to buy (or lament their lack of) a dozen Mana Crypts.
As for the annoyance of keeping track of your decks’ budgets, using a deckbuilding website will make the process relatively painless. A minor amount of math is necessary to account for fetches and mana-fixing lands, but it is very minor.
People will hide their deck’s power level behind their deck price.
People already can hide their deck’s power level behind their commander. Making people reveal both their commander and their deck price during Rule 0 makes it harder for such people to operate.
Some commanders can be overwhelmingly powerful, even on a budget.
That’s why I said price shouldn’t be the only factor when discussing decks. If players recognize that a commander is potentially Tier 1 for its budget, that can and should be part of the Rule 0 discussion. Aside: If a person wants to bring a tuned Selvala list to a $100 game (for example), they can experiment with cutting their deck budget to $35.
This just turns Commander into cEDH, but with multiple formats.
No it doesn’t; cEDH is a culture rather than a ruleset. People will always have the option to play more casually, and because competitive players will now be better able to find each other, there will be less mismatches.
This splits the format.
No it doesn’t, because the banlist remains the same. It splits the format as much as discussions of power level do; that is to say, only to the degree that players at the table actually want the format to be split.
As always, Rule 0 comes back into play here. Knowing that a Jorn deck’s budget is $100 instead of $1000 helps people get a feel for its power level. How they decide to act on that information is up to the group. The Jorn player might even have a “sideboard” that they use to adjust the deck’s budget/power level up or down.
This makes putting expensive cards in my deck a “feel-bad.” I want to put whatever I want into my deck and not have to worry about it.
It’s good for the ecosystem as a whole if there are reasons not to play the most expensive cards. Expensive staples are bad for the format, and the less they feel like an auto-include the better.
In addition, nobody is forcing you to build your deck a certain way. You can still play expensive cards if you want. Just expect your opponents’ decks to be similarly expensive.
In addition, is it a bigger feel-bad than playing games where decks have wildly different power levels? My answer is an emphatic no.
This is a huge indirect buff to nonbasic lands with passive abilities such as Urza’s Saga, Field of the Dead and Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth. It also indirectly nerfs lands with activated abilities.
I’m okay with that. Increasing and decreasing the in-game frequency of the aforementioned lands is unlikely to damage the Commander metagame in any disastrous way.
In addition, the ruleset that these buffs and nerfs originate from will greatly reduce both price spikes and the negative effect of price spikes on the format. This is because with budget tiers, expensive cards (excluding Urza’s saga et al.) are less effective overall. So on the whole, it’s a minor downside compared to a massive upside.
This is an indirect buff to 1 and 2-color decks because their manabases are less expensive.
This has been largely mitigated by the rules I proposed. But to the degree that it is a minor buff (if it is at all; remember that lands with activated abilities are now worse), I’m fine with it because those decks are weak in Commander regardless.
Small changes to formats are inevitable and the upside of giving players another way to talk about power level is worth some small buffs and debuffs to some decks.
Discussing price is awkward. Budget players will feel embarrassed at having to reveal the price of their decks. Rich players might feel embarrassed or nervous to name their deck budget.
It’s difficult for me to see this argument as valid. A deck’s price gets revealed as the game is played, so it’s not information that a person could easily hide.
The bottom line is that only the most unreasonable people are going to shame others for how much their deck is worth, especially if they are building with a specific budget in mind. And to the extent that these people exist, better to find out during Rule 0 so that you can choose not to play with them.
My feeling is that if I were a budget player, I would feel more comfortable with budget tiers than without them. If there are any players (budget or otherwise) who’d like to voice their opinions regarding this issue, I’d love to hear them.
People will still game the system by lying about their budget, playing an $1100 deck in an $800 tier, etc.
People acting in bad faith will always be an issue. But unlike in the current system, players will have some risk of being held accountable (especially if people play cards like Praetor’s Grasp). Budget discussion means there is a tangible standard that players can be expected to adhere to.
Price fluctuations will constantly drive decks in and out of tiers.
I would argue that this is relatively rare, since price spikes and reprints to some extent balance each other out. Even when it happens, making an adjustment isn’t much work, especially if you keep a “sideboard” as in the Jorn example above.
I expect most players will be forgiving if a person’s deck is $20–30 above their tier level due to recent fluctuations. I don’t see fluctuations preventing any games of Commander from firing.
This all sounds great but how do we convince people to get on board?
I see three main methods:
When your LGS starts doing Commander nights again, talk to the owner about posting this flyer somewhere in the store. If you can convince them to designate a table or run some mini-tournaments using these rules, even better!
Share this article with your friends, both IRL and online. Many people consider word of mouth the most effective form of marketing. And when you set up a game night with friends, mention budget right off the bat so people can adjust their deck budgets accordingly.
When you sit down with strangers to play Commander, mention your deck’s budget! If people respond with curiosity, tell them about this idea or tell them to visit tinyurl.com/StructuredCommander.
That’s my argument! I’ve done my best to address any arguments people might come up with; if you think of any new ones please let me know in the comments. And if you want to help spread the movement, start building budgeted decks! It will lead to a lot of interesting discussions at the very least.
Most players in my group don't track their decks on an app of any kind. More record keeping doesn't appeal to everyone and would be a major deterrent to more casual players.
This seems like an odd way to go about things and doesn't even seem to solve the problem you are trying to solve for. For example, my Karador list is currently at $5000+ so well above what the rest of your example tiers are at. But, if we break it down with the rules you have provided we get to ignore Bazaar of Baghdad and Diamond Valley because they don't produce mana so now we are down to $2000 (roughly) so not too bad in terms of your example. And, of course, we get to ignore the next $1300 since those are duals so they are also counted as $0.
Now, I went through and counted fetches as $5 and other lands as $0 based on your criteria. I did count Urborg as $0 because, technically, it falls into the same category as not having an activated ability that taps for mana; it eventually gives itself one but not during deckbuilding. A little bit of a cheat I am sure, but I went with it. I did leave Dryad Arbor at $3 because the spirit (if not the letter) of the rule says it shouldn't be $0.
So, with all of that, my list comes down to $730. Obviously on the high side but since your idea is that this amount is far more indicative of power level than a number, I would be curious to know what you feel $700+ actually means? And whether the exclusion of Bazaar from the price but still being in the deck would change your opinion.
As another example, Ephara is $1700+. Taking out Tundra and the lands (perhaps fudging a bit again with Mystic Gate since it does technically produce 2 mana but only nets 1 since it costs mana) I get that down to just under $1100. So, a fair bit higher than Karador. I don't really know what your "tiers" are meant to be but a $400 difference, in your mind anyway, seems to suggest a pretty substantial difference in power level.
I would of course disagree with that solely because I build all my decks with a set power level in mind. They aren't going to be the same obviously but I don't mean for them to be drastically different. So, again, I would be curious as to what you feel is the main difference between these two decks in terms of power level based on the cost alone?
As a final note, just because I was curious more than anything, doing the same above got me at $547 with Varina and this was mostly due to Mana Crypt and Mana Drain which together are $170. But still, nearly $600. Would you consider Zombie tribal to be close to being on par with Karador? I would since I built them that way but there is a clear limitation of this sort of deck and I think most people wouldn't consider them to be the same. But the assessment puts them pretty close. So, I have a $550 deck, a $730 deck, and a $1100 deck that you know nothing about except for these dollar amounts. Perhaps for you this is plenty to gauge their power level but I don't think that would be good enough for me. Someone throwing in a Mana Drain or even a Mana Crypt into their deck doesn't automatically mean it is high powered. But because it is expensive, it is assumed to be. It makes the deck *more* powerful (to some degree) but doesn't automatically, and objectively, make it "powerful" in its own right.
There is also the issue that many red white and red+white decks have to deal with is that they rely heavily on artifacts to do things thier colours can't and since everyone can use those cards they tend to rise in price more than the millionth big green dude.
This doesn't seem to solve any sort of problem, and would go a long way towards stigmatizing players with expensive decks which is already an enormous problem in the EDH community. Sounds like a lose-lose proposition, not sure why anyone would pick up this proposed format other than to pull from thin air an argument to bully specific players out of the playgroup.
sure thats great and all, but when people can't even decide on what the power level of their deck actually is or the definition of competitive its not like any amount of talking is going to go anywhere. a lot of the time the night just doesn't have enough time for major meaningful discussion, at least, not outside of your friends kitchen table.
This would only make sense if there was an actual correspondence between deck cost and power level, and quite frankly there just isn't. You are much better served just discussing overall power level and/or playstyle than cost given that a) most people have no idea what the current value of their decks are, b) even a cheap deck can piss people off, and c) I've seen some pretty cool non-OP decks that run a ton of hard-to-get cards that are super expensive nowadays but aren't gamebreakingly good.
- You want to go by budget, except you then want to cheat the budget. Trust me, an expensive mana base does make a difference, particularly the more colors you run, but you want to pretend there's barely a difference.
- You require people to maintain a constant, weekly calculation of what their cards are worth. Cards fluctuate more than you claim, with the general trend being up over time and down only after a reprint. Sure, if you have one deck, this can be easy enough to track. But you think I want to keep track of 40+ decks at all times? I'd lose my time to actually play Magic.
- And in the end, it conflates similar budget with similar power levels. A well tuned budget deck can be far more oppressive than a durdley high budget deck. Likewise, a budget deck can simply be too slow to compete against expensive decks with access to better mana-fixing and faster mana. There is no correlation between similar budget and similar power, nor between similar budget and similar play pattern. Compare a $200 Suralf stax deck against a $200 Angel tribal deck - one deprives you of all your resources, the other tries to build up the mana to cast expensive creatures and swing for damage. Any guesses as to which will outperform the other?
WHAT DOES THIS ACCOMPLISH?
It muddies the water for a real discussion of relevant play issues. It confuses newer players while price shaming both those who cannot afford more expensive decks and those who can. It adds unnecessary homework to track the price of cards you may have acquired years ago when they were cheaper.
Now, I absolutely agree with one point you made:
Asking players if they want to play a “power level 7” game means almost nothing.
But you have proposed replacing one useless, poorly defined system with a different useless, poorly conceived system.
Tracking the price of your deck is not easy. And you've set up a system where fetches and duals get a free pass when mana crypt does not? Just ask players if they want to play budget with you, and don't worry about exceptions for lands, just play worse lands, it's fine. Budget honestly or don't budget at all. The ingame benefit of fetchlands is actually quite huge, in my opinion, because of how many strong cards they enable, but there are slower budget alternatives.
Gotta agree with fetxhlands being very good. Anything that looks at the top of the deck and reorders it (top, sylvan library, brainstorm, etc) makes it better, and it’s def something that should be consideeed.
I understand the idea though; the last time I sat down with some random people to play, I actually brought up that my edh deck is probably worth more money-wise than my legacy decks, but the actual power level is probably lower than the budget.
I think as long as you’re as honest as you can be, and you can trust to at the others are doing the same, I’m pretty sure the rule 0 talk will be fine. I’m def gonna add this to my general talk pre-game though.
As someone who is new to the game (but my husband has been playing for many, many years) I kind of hate this idea. I honestly don't care about the "value" of my deck, as the cards are only worth what other people are willing to pay, and that can absolutely wax and wane. If someone wants to spend $1,500 on a deck, that's their business, and it's no indication of the strength of the deck, how it'll roll out, and the skills and abilities of the player themself. It just tells us what they believe their cards are worth and the popularity of that card amongst other players.
Hmm.. what would be the easiest way/clearest way to indicate to you what power level a deck is? Theme, or a number (which I’ve found hard to gauge), or a combination of everything?
it’s funny, but my rakdos deck has all the expensive fast mana, wheel of fortune, and a bunch of money cards, but it’s not a very good deck. It can be scary though, just looking at the decklist, but for the most part, it just kills itself (it’s literally a suicide aggro deck). I’ve had a hard time trying to figure out how to describe it to people.
I kinda have to echo everyone else. Deck price is completely irrelevant. Talking about it is neither necessary nor sufficient when trying to establish a good, fun game of Commander. At best, it's somewhat correlated with power level, but a more expensive deck is not always more powerful, nor more anything-else-that-matters. It's about as useless as asking for "power level 7".
Also, I play online, on Cockatrice. Sometimes people complain about me playing "expensive" cards, when I've spent a grand total of $0. (Side note: $100 for a deck is crazy-talk! I could buy entire games for that, not just one person's pieces!)
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WHAT DOES THIS ACCOMPLISH?
The largest benefit of deck budget discussions is the establishment of tangible standards for power level. Asking players if they want to play a “power level 7” game means almost nothing. Asking players if they want to play a game with a $400 deck budget means something.
For each budget, there will emerge a tier list of optimized decks for that budget. These decks will provide the signposts for what the power level of that budget is, and help people get a gauge for how powerful their decks are by comparison. For example, a relatively untuned $400 deck with an average commander might end up being about as powerful as a $200 Tier 2 deck. The details aren’t critical; what matters is that by having unified points of comparison, people will eventually be able to accurately talk about the power levels of their decks.
The secondary benefit, of course, is not to be ignored: by having agreed-upon budget tiers, players will more easily be able to find games with appropriate power levels.
Third, budget tiers reduce price pressure on the format as a whole because now there is a drawback to playing the most expensive cards (outside of the $1600+ tier).
Lastly, explicitly setting budgetary expectations on the format should allow players with fewer financial resources to find games that will be entertaining.
OBJECTIONS:
This makes deckbuilding more annoying.
There is joy to be found in design constraints. Having to figure out how to best manage one’s deck budget adds another wrinkle to deckbuilding that a lot of people (myself included) would actually enjoy. It also lets players build “optimized” decklists without having to buy (or lament their lack of) a dozen Mana Crypts.
As for the annoyance of keeping track of your decks’ budgets, using a deckbuilding website will make the process relatively painless. A minor amount of math is necessary to account for fetches and mana-fixing lands, but it is very minor.
People will hide their deck’s power level behind their deck price.
People already can hide their deck’s power level behind their commander. Making people reveal both their commander and their deck price during Rule 0 makes it harder for such people to operate.
Some commanders can be overwhelmingly powerful, even on a budget.
That’s why I said price shouldn’t be the only factor when discussing decks. If players recognize that a commander is potentially Tier 1 for its budget, that can and should be part of the Rule 0 discussion. Aside: If a person wants to bring a tuned Selvala list to a $100 game (for example), they can experiment with cutting their deck budget to $35.
This just turns Commander into cEDH, but with multiple formats.
No it doesn’t; cEDH is a culture rather than a ruleset. People will always have the option to play more casually, and because competitive players will now be better able to find each other, there will be less mismatches.
This splits the format.
No it doesn’t, because the banlist remains the same. It splits the format as much as discussions of power level do; that is to say, only to the degree that players at the table actually want the format to be split.
As always, Rule 0 comes back into play here. Knowing that a Jorn deck’s budget is $100 instead of $1000 helps people get a feel for its power level. How they decide to act on that information is up to the group. The Jorn player might even have a “sideboard” that they use to adjust the deck’s budget/power level up or down.
This makes putting expensive cards in my deck a “feel-bad.” I want to put whatever I want into my deck and not have to worry about it.
It’s good for the ecosystem as a whole if there are reasons not to play the most expensive cards. Expensive staples are bad for the format, and the less they feel like an auto-include the better.
In addition, nobody is forcing you to build your deck a certain way. You can still play expensive cards if you want. Just expect your opponents’ decks to be similarly expensive.
In addition, is it a bigger feel-bad than playing games where decks have wildly different power levels? My answer is an emphatic no.
This is a huge indirect buff to nonbasic lands with passive abilities such as Urza’s Saga, Field of the Dead and Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth. It also indirectly nerfs lands with activated abilities.
I’m okay with that. Increasing and decreasing the in-game frequency of the aforementioned lands is unlikely to damage the Commander metagame in any disastrous way.
In addition, the ruleset that these buffs and nerfs originate from will greatly reduce both price spikes and the negative effect of price spikes on the format. This is because with budget tiers, expensive cards (excluding Urza’s saga et al.) are less effective overall. So on the whole, it’s a minor downside compared to a massive upside.
This is an indirect buff to 1 and 2-color decks because their manabases are less expensive.
This has been largely mitigated by the rules I proposed. But to the degree that it is a minor buff (if it is at all; remember that lands with activated abilities are now worse), I’m fine with it because those decks are weak in Commander regardless.
Small changes to formats are inevitable and the upside of giving players another way to talk about power level is worth some small buffs and debuffs to some decks.
Discussing price is awkward. Budget players will feel embarrassed at having to reveal the price of their decks. Rich players might feel embarrassed or nervous to name their deck budget.
It’s difficult for me to see this argument as valid. A deck’s price gets revealed as the game is played, so it’s not information that a person could easily hide.
The bottom line is that only the most unreasonable people are going to shame others for how much their deck is worth, especially if they are building with a specific budget in mind. And to the extent that these people exist, better to find out during Rule 0 so that you can choose not to play with them.
My feeling is that if I were a budget player, I would feel more comfortable with budget tiers than without them. If there are any players (budget or otherwise) who’d like to voice their opinions regarding this issue, I’d love to hear them.
People will still game the system by lying about their budget, playing an $1100 deck in an $800 tier, etc.
People acting in bad faith will always be an issue. But unlike in the current system, players will have some risk of being held accountable (especially if people play cards like Praetor’s Grasp). Budget discussion means there is a tangible standard that players can be expected to adhere to.
Price fluctuations will constantly drive decks in and out of tiers.
I would argue that this is relatively rare, since price spikes and reprints to some extent balance each other out. Even when it happens, making an adjustment isn’t much work, especially if you keep a “sideboard” as in the Jorn example above.
I expect most players will be forgiving if a person’s deck is $20–30 above their tier level due to recent fluctuations. I don’t see fluctuations preventing any games of Commander from firing.
This all sounds great but how do we convince people to get on board?
I see three main methods:
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Now, I went through and counted fetches as $5 and other lands as $0 based on your criteria. I did count Urborg as $0 because, technically, it falls into the same category as not having an activated ability that taps for mana; it eventually gives itself one but not during deckbuilding. A little bit of a cheat I am sure, but I went with it. I did leave Dryad Arbor at $3 because the spirit (if not the letter) of the rule says it shouldn't be $0.
So, with all of that, my list comes down to $730. Obviously on the high side but since your idea is that this amount is far more indicative of power level than a number, I would be curious to know what you feel $700+ actually means? And whether the exclusion of Bazaar from the price but still being in the deck would change your opinion.
As another example, Ephara is $1700+. Taking out Tundra and the lands (perhaps fudging a bit again with Mystic Gate since it does technically produce 2 mana but only nets 1 since it costs mana) I get that down to just under $1100. So, a fair bit higher than Karador. I don't really know what your "tiers" are meant to be but a $400 difference, in your mind anyway, seems to suggest a pretty substantial difference in power level.
I would of course disagree with that solely because I build all my decks with a set power level in mind. They aren't going to be the same obviously but I don't mean for them to be drastically different. So, again, I would be curious as to what you feel is the main difference between these two decks in terms of power level based on the cost alone?
As a final note, just because I was curious more than anything, doing the same above got me at $547 with Varina and this was mostly due to Mana Crypt and Mana Drain which together are $170. But still, nearly $600. Would you consider Zombie tribal to be close to being on par with Karador? I would since I built them that way but there is a clear limitation of this sort of deck and I think most people wouldn't consider them to be the same. But the assessment puts them pretty close. So, I have a $550 deck, a $730 deck, and a $1100 deck that you know nothing about except for these dollar amounts. Perhaps for you this is plenty to gauge their power level but I don't think that would be good enough for me. Someone throwing in a Mana Drain or even a Mana Crypt into their deck doesn't automatically mean it is high powered. But because it is expensive, it is assumed to be. It makes the deck *more* powerful (to some degree) but doesn't automatically, and objectively, make it "powerful" in its own right.
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- You want to go by budget, except you then want to cheat the budget. Trust me, an expensive mana base does make a difference, particularly the more colors you run, but you want to pretend there's barely a difference.
- You require people to maintain a constant, weekly calculation of what their cards are worth. Cards fluctuate more than you claim, with the general trend being up over time and down only after a reprint. Sure, if you have one deck, this can be easy enough to track. But you think I want to keep track of 40+ decks at all times? I'd lose my time to actually play Magic.
- And in the end, it conflates similar budget with similar power levels. A well tuned budget deck can be far more oppressive than a durdley high budget deck. Likewise, a budget deck can simply be too slow to compete against expensive decks with access to better mana-fixing and faster mana. There is no correlation between similar budget and similar power, nor between similar budget and similar play pattern. Compare a $200 Suralf stax deck against a $200 Angel tribal deck - one deprives you of all your resources, the other tries to build up the mana to cast expensive creatures and swing for damage. Any guesses as to which will outperform the other?
WHAT DOES THIS ACCOMPLISH?
It muddies the water for a real discussion of relevant play issues. It confuses newer players while price shaming both those who cannot afford more expensive decks and those who can. It adds unnecessary homework to track the price of cards you may have acquired years ago when they were cheaper.
Now, I absolutely agree with one point you made: But you have proposed replacing one useless, poorly defined system with a different useless, poorly conceived system.
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I understand the idea though; the last time I sat down with some random people to play, I actually brought up that my edh deck is probably worth more money-wise than my legacy decks, but the actual power level is probably lower than the budget.
I think as long as you’re as honest as you can be, and you can trust to at the others are doing the same, I’m pretty sure the rule 0 talk will be fine. I’m def gonna add this to my general talk pre-game though.
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it’s funny, but my rakdos deck has all the expensive fast mana, wheel of fortune, and a bunch of money cards, but it’s not a very good deck. It can be scary though, just looking at the decklist, but for the most part, it just kills itself (it’s literally a suicide aggro deck). I’ve had a hard time trying to figure out how to describe it to people.
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Also, I play online, on Cockatrice. Sometimes people complain about me playing "expensive" cards, when I've spent a grand total of $0. (Side note: $100 for a deck is crazy-talk! I could buy entire games for that, not just one person's pieces!)