I don't really think of feather as a potential storm commander- the fact is, she gives you a flat goose egg of value on your combo turn. Her ability helps *****ty effects go long, but the lack of tutors, real draw effects, and general speed she presents a storm deck does not make.
God damn. For once WOTC has a shadow of a plot, and they won't give us enough tasty detail to enjoy it. I'm bugged out by their attempts to drum up story hype without giving us much story at all.
I can't say for certain what card was meant by Sublime Exaltation, but as it turns out, every card released with Sublime or Exaltation in the name is white (at least for the moment).
My guess is it's Coastal Breach, the closest equivalent.
Haven't seen this possibility mentioned: Try gold-bordered cards. They're the closest to pro-wotc proxies you can get and they cost enough now that you display the sufficient fiscal commitment. I personally play a few and no one has ever balked at them.
You gotta get you some of my boi, boil and his slower, older brother Boiling Seas. Slap 'em in every non-blue red deck, watch people choke as they wonder how the hell to get more beachfront property.
I would focus on reserved list cards and on lands (shocks, allied fetches, checklands). Damnation and Toxic Deluge seem like good buys (price did not drop much with reprints). Cyclonic Rift and Paradox engine are great cards but since they are only played in Commander, and because they are part of banlist discussions, you should know that if either card were banned the price would plummet.
This is a fair point with bad examples. Rift and Paradox engine are on the banlist discussions HERE, but sheldon nor the RC hasn't made even the slightest intimation that either card has ever been even close to being banned. The odds that either become a bad buy because of an unprecedented, unpredicted, and uncharacteristic ban is about the same as dying to lightning today.
It was only 7 actually, the aforementioned 6 and time stretch. I underestimated how much recursion he was playing tbh. That's good news for shaving some interaction, as the recursion like regrowth, snappy boi and flippant jace gives redundancy to what counters and removal you do still have.
I personally would not advise cutting ramp. I've played many high cmc commanders, from Maelstrom Wanderer back in his partial paris heyday to Kozilek today, and getting stuck on insufficient funds is the literal worst nightmare.
Thus I try to abide by this rule to determine the value of opening hands:
If the first proactive, meaningful play for any given deck is its commander a la Selvala (and especially true for high cmc generals with CA stapled to them), good opening hands must show a tangible path towards reaching the mana necessary to cast it (or be otherwise godlike to subvert the rule).
Shaving ramp feels fine but actually it reduces the average viability of an opening hand and might force more aggressive mulligans (which Damia admittedly permits, but that depends entirely on whether you want to make that gameplay concession or not).
My guess is it's Coastal Breach, the closest equivalent.
Me too. The elderspell is a glorified removal spell, Deliver unto Evil is potentially gamebreaking.
Came out of the sea
He ate all the others
But he didn't eat me...
Greater good is something I play with almost every natively 7+ power commander. It's a smooth draw 9 with ya boi Sleepy Beachfront Real Estate.
http://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/mad-farm/
This is a fair point with bad examples. Rift and Paradox engine are on the banlist discussions HERE, but sheldon nor the RC hasn't made even the slightest intimation that either card has ever been even close to being banned. The odds that either become a bad buy because of an unprecedented, unpredicted, and uncharacteristic ban is about the same as dying to lightning today.
I personally would not advise cutting ramp. I've played many high cmc commanders, from Maelstrom Wanderer back in his partial paris heyday to Kozilek today, and getting stuck on insufficient funds is the literal worst nightmare.
Thus I try to abide by this rule to determine the value of opening hands:
Shaving ramp feels fine but actually it reduces the average viability of an opening hand and might force more aggressive mulligans (which Damia admittedly permits, but that depends entirely on whether you want to make that gameplay concession or not).
Edit: for cleanliness