Hoping the next commander legends would had expand the partner into a new mechanic like
Comrade(You can have this card as an additional commander if your commander has no assigned partner)
I was hoping for another white angel planeswalker with partner maybe next time.
I hope shadow and infect would be revisted as commanders
Dude... this would be broken as hell.
If comrade existed, everyone would be able to slap a comrade on all of their preexisting (non-partner) decks for zero cost to get an extra card in the command zone. If you've forgotten, Lutri was banned the day it was revealed because every Izzet deck could add it as an extra card you start with... and you want to print a whole bunch of those cards.
Even if the only comrade was Prismatic Piper (so you could expand the color identity of your decks by one color), that would still be too powerful.
Apologies if I'm not reading sarcasm but dang.
That would be far different than Lutri. Lutri was a card that would only benefit ur and would go in every one of those decks, making it a very expensive and difficult to reprint card. the piper is on 1 in 6 commander legends packs and letting every deck graft it on wouldn't unbalance the format at all. It would optionally add a color to every deck but 5 color, solve the 4 color problem, let you graft in that hybrid card, put less pressure to add unnessary colors to commanders in the future, solve the wastes problem, and probably many others. It should totally be a thing. I mean yes, it is an extra card, but that extra card is suckier than Hill Giant and every deck could have it, not one combination.
Ok, so you've managed to create a much more expensive earthcraft/squirrel nest combo with more pieces. I guess that's cool, but I fail to see why this is a problem. We've had commanders that make tokens and go infinite easier than this before I even played my first commander game during Alara block. Plenty of combos even create a ton of tokens that already have haste so you can win on the spot. Sure this is a combo, but it's just a bad version of what other commanders can already do.
That thing is kinda of playable, not that good but if people wants to make a point and play one or more in legacy than this equipment could be the offender.
Its Legendary, so multiples are less good. Equip 4 is a little high, but Stoneforge does exist.
So, what does this have to do with Stoneforge Mystic? Yes, it gives you a tutor for it but we can already do that for cheaper. Yes, it'll let you put it onto the battlefield for 1W instead of 1B and gives you a creature you can equip with it, but you're talking 8 mana split over two turns for this. Batterskull was good with stoneforge because it gave you a creature the equipment was already equipped to. Now, Stonehewer Giant gets around those problems, but why wouldn't you want Colossus Hammer, Argentum Armor, even Batterskull over this? I mean it's a cute card I'd like to slide into a commander deck occasionally because I like the flavor, but I see no reason why it's powerful. Now, it is powerful enough for me to enjoy since it does something I'd like to do at a decent enough rate, but just like the other cards, I see absolutely nothing to be worried about. We're talking formats with every Magic card ever printed. Cards either have to cost less mana or do something you can't do with other cards to be competitive.
The Walking Dead cards are sold by themselves. (1)
That meant we wanted them to maximize their appeal as a box set. (2)
Putting extra names on them was aesthetically unattractive. (3)
That said, we did build in a way to do backwards version of the Godzilla skins. (4)
If needed, we can print a Magic IP version of these cards with a Magic name and creative concept/art. (5)
We wanted to make sure that these cards were reprintable if needed. (6)
statement 3 contradicts statements 4, 5, and 6.
If the goal is to be reprintable if needed with the Magic IP with a Magic name and art, and the technology with the Godzilla cards exists, citing that they are "unaesthetically attractive" as why they don't use the technology, that means: They created more work for themselves in the future as they will have to errata and reprint TWD cards with proper formatting using the Godzilla technology to retrofit it.
Even on damage control they can't get it right.
They're not going to errata anything. The triangle simply denotes that in gatherer, there might be another card that's the same, so you can only play one in commander or 4 in normal magic. I highly doubt that these walking dead cards will ever be reprinted as regular magic cards because they're simply not good enough to have a huge demand spike unless someone just buys them out randomly. It's a fail safe if we have a True Name Nemesis situation or maybe a better example would be Kaalia, Maelstrom Wanderer, Atraxa, etc. where the commander is so popular that it really spikes.
Now as for My Little Pony, my brother has one as a commander. We've been playing silver border cards since pre Unstable. I think some people have forgotten that commander is supposed to be FUN. You're supposed to sit around the table, eat fat kid food, joke around, and have a good time. This is a format people play tons of alters and I even have plenty of adult oriented ones that might not be so welcome in some LGS. Who cares if you can have an Optimus Prime or Scooby Doo commander? Some people play a flying purple hippo or a gang or beebles.
Part of me almost wishes the game would die as a result of making these cards, because if it doesn't it merely gives them more leeway to make even worse decisions.
The whole thing is depressing and confusing. It doesn't make sense apart from a cash grab point of view. These cards are mechanically unique and furthermore will not be printed again (barring a, God help us, TWD set). We haven't been able to determine their power level yet in terms of how necessary to a game-winning combo they are, but they have the potential to become key pieces. It's disgusting that Hasbro is just staring at us manically, shoving these in our face, and saying "Buy it. Or else."
These should never have been legal in the first place. They are monetizing legality and that sets a very dangerous precedent - there's nothing to stop them from printing a 1 generic mana card that says "When you cast this card, you win the game." and then charging whatever they want for it, all the while shamelessly urging people to buy with arbitrary purchasing times.
We can pretty well determine their power level based on very similar but stronger cards. These are legendary gold cards that are similar to cards you can play in a single color and aren't legendary. It's pretty safe to say these particular cards are unplayable bulk in legacy and vintage and main deck in commander, you can just play the other cards. There's a million Fleshbag Marauders and Cloudgoat Rangeresque creatures. These particular cards aren't problematic at all. They're just a fun little thing if you really enjoy offbeat stuff or the Walking Dead.
Every card is available for a limited time and in a limited quantity. This one is simply not sold in stores and is made in as large a quantitiy as desired unlike From the Vault or Commander Arsenal.
You --------------------------------------------------------------------------- the point of why this is controversial.
It's actually 2 cards total that really caused problems out of hundreds. True Name Nemesis did in legacy and Nexus of Fate did in standard. They obviously took a hint from Nexus and never released another exclusive BaB promo that caused problems.
If they took the hint, wouldn't we not have had a similar situation with this exact product?
People are blowing this way out of proportion and this is apparently 5 different unique cards and tokens for $50.
Didn't realize you were batting for WotC this hard. How much they paying you?
Its price per card isn't necessarily going to be any worse than lots of other exclusive product cards.
Bruh really? You for real? You going to clickity clack on your keyboard and tell me if some new exclusive card was like Uro or Oko or Lurrus (pre-nerf) levels in power but its from a Secret Lair, its just fine? Right?
They're also all legendary so far and probably not going to be played a ton other than as a commander.
So what your saying is they can print whatever dumb stuff for commander, because its commander, and nobody should really care about the format? And if causes harm to other formats, thats just collateral damage? Right?
So I've given it a couple of days of thought, and my conclusion is twofold:
There are three-and-a-half major arguments for banning these in EDH.
None of them hold up.
1. "These are a cash grab/intentionally limited, so we should ban them on principle."
2. "TWD doesn't belong in Magic, so we should ban it on principle."
3. "The RC should be the voice of the community, and the majority has spoken for a bam."
3.5. "I don't like TWD."
So I read your post, and my conclusion is twofold:
You ignored several of the major arguments while misrepresenting or oversimplifying the ones you did list.
Of course they won't hold up when selecting the weakest arguments and not removing bias.
Just off the top of my head, here are some of the points you ignored:
- Broken promise - WOTC went into this knowing exactly what kind of backlash they got the last time they did a mechanically unique promo only available to limited people for a limited time and not in an actual expansion. They also knowingly broke their promise, made after that incident, to not do this again. We should not encourage this behavior.
- Limited global accessibility - Only available to players of certain nationalities. Don't live in the right country? No cards for you. Commander is a world-wide format, but now, not all cards are.
- Dangerous precedent - Remember True-Name Nemesis? Nexus of Fate? What happens when they print a staple this way, but again, only people who were in the right country at the right time with the extra spending cash could get it because it wasn't in a product in stores?
- Speaking of stores - Selling mechanically unique cards from their website that cuts out the LGS distribution model, without functionally equivalent versions elsewhere. Previous Secret Lairs offered alternate art on cards already in the LGS. This does not.
- There are several other arguments (probably a good dozen floating around), but I feel these are some of the stronger ones that you ignored. This list is by no means exhaustive.
I don't work for Wizards of the Coast. I don't even live anywhere near Washington state. I just don't like people trying to unfairly bandwagon people with dishonest arguments. It's not fair and it isn't right. There are literally hundreds of funtionally unique cards that aren't in booster packs, but I'm pretty sure this is simply another attack on Wizards for producing a product line that doesn't really work well in stores.
I'm almost certain zero of these cards will ever be banned in commander so the whole thing about the rules committee is silly. They also voluntarily made silver border legal so people could sort out the mess that was Unhinged and Unglued for themselves. If it were just unstable, silver border would be perfectly legal in commander because they're reasonable sane cards that are fun and fair. Now as for mythic rares, they're being misrepresented here. What Mark said was that they wouldn't be staples like fetchlands or Lightning Bolts, not that they would be unplayable bulk. Mythics also wouldn't all be powerful cards pushed for standard. Seriously, how many sets have had more than a handful of tournament played mythics? Infact, I think there's only been like 2 lands at mythic. Eye of Ugin and Maze's End certainly aren't what you would call every deck staples. Now people did point at Lotus Cobra and claim it was a promise break because it "makes mana," but it isn't Llanowar Elves. It only makes mana if you put a land on the battlefield which means it's inconsistent unless you build around it. It's also clearly proven to be splashy. Maybe it's been a little too splashy this time, but that's beside the point. Buy a Box promo also had one mistake which was a 7 mana time walk. We had plenty of 6 and 7 mana time walks that no one played. True Name Nemesis came from a deliberate push to try and make things in the commander decks for Legacy and Vintage. They succeeded with Flusterstorm, Scavenging Ooze, etc. They just had one outlier that they pushed too far. This just looks like what they buy a box promos became after the time walk. They became niche commander legendaries.
I actually don't think the skulk commander is as good as Cold Eyed Selkie. Islands are very common in Magic, especially in vintage and legacy but skulk means you can't really raise the creature's power and keep your unblockability.
Sheldon and the RC committe Are listening to us, taking notes and weighing options Basicly they are discussing TWD cards
and they will have something to say and will definatly be before the secret lair drops
in other words This looks like a sign TWD cards will probably be considered silver bordered In commander format
Honestly? Good.
"Oh you want this new commander that has a playstyle you like? Well why didn't you buy it in this limited window for this price? Not in your country? OOooh don't worry, you can just buy it for this marked up price from someone on ebay. Thats fine right?"
Disgusting.
your clearing not seeing what they are talking about
the point is the RC of commander are looking into it for us
man did this secret lair left a taste so sour to you it like you didn't hear what they said at all
and plus if you read my comments in this thread i hate these and they outright lied to us about the promise they made back when Nalathni Dragon appeared which was "promise to never print functionally unique promos" they broke they promise and this really ticked me off
I'm pretty sure the Nalathni Dragon prescident has been pretty well annihilated hundreds of times over. I already listed a huge variety of products that have functionally unique cards that are quite possibly available in smaller quantities than a print to demand secret lair.
Sheldon and the RC committe Are listening to us, taking notes and weighing options Basicly they are discussing TWD cards
and they will have something to say and will definatly be before the secret lair drops
in other words This looks like a sign TWD cards will probably be considered silver bordered In commander format
Honestly? Good.
"Oh you want this new commander that has a playstyle you like? Well why didn't you buy it in this limited window for this price? Not in your country? OOooh don't worry, you can just buy it for this marked up price from someone on ebay. Thats fine right?"
Disgusting.
your clearing not seeing what they are talking about
the point is the RC of commander are looking into it for us
man did this secret lair left a taste so sour to you it like you didn't hear what they said at all
You mean besides the fact that they are "talking it over" and how they invited people over to their discord to weigh in. And yeah the discussion around the card was mostly negative towards wizards decision and wanted it considered banned to send a message to wizards that this practice is unacceptable. Literally the chat was flying with how fast it was going.
Its not about power. Its about limited availability for a FOMO effect as Wizards has actually stepped into the ring of selling singles of brand new cards that are not reprints.
And yea I see your edit, about how they broke their promise with selling functionally unique promos. To use the fallout meme to represent the playerbase: "Nobody liked that".
How is this any different than, say, the holiday gift box with 5 unique foils?
Sheldon and the RC committe Are listening to us, taking notes and weighing options Basicly they are discussing TWD cards
and they will have something to say and will definatly be before the secret lair drops
in other words This looks like a sign TWD cards will probably be considered silver bordered In commander format
Honestly? Good.
"Oh you want this new commander that has a playstyle you like? Well why didn't you buy it in this limited window for this price? Not in your country? OOooh don't worry, you can just buy it for this marked up price from someone on ebay. Thats fine right?"
Disgusting.
I'm 100% with you on this. My first take was that "Hey these look fun" but the more I thought about it the more this conclusion seemed to be obvious. Vanity cards are one thing but selling unique cards at a premium price for a limited time is just gross. The EDH/Commander community needs to voice their disapproval of this tactic to WotC now or it's just going to get worse, I'm already kind of sick of the secret lairs and if this is the direction they want to take it, we should all be standing against it on principle alone.
Every card is available for a limited time and in a limited quantity. This one is simply not sold in stores and is made in as large a quantitiy as desired unlike From the Vault or Commander Arsenal.
It isn't a slippery slope. Wizards only makes money the very first time a card is sold. They have no real incentive to make prohibitively expensive cards they won't be able to reprint at any time they want because the reprint will make them money. The few exclusive cards they have reprinted are the cards that tend to command high prices because they're so unique or powerful. In order to buy into this argument, we have to assume that Wizards' goal isn't to make money, but simply to piss in your Cheerios because they hate their players. If they wanted to make a super powerful or unique card that commands a high price tag, why not simply print it at mythic in a higher priced supplemental set? Also, despite the ramp up of exclusive cards, why hasn't there been another problem since the time walk? The mistakes tend to be cards from very early in the process of figuring out how to make exclusive cards.
There is no slippery slope fear here. There is only the lack of confidence that Wizards can balance cards such that they don't accidentally print a card far stronger than intended and a lack of confidence in their willingness to reprint indemand cards at a reasonable pace. Both of which are supported by history.
As for their track record. Unique Buy a box promos were pitched as fun cards that wouldn't be constructed playable. They made 10 before abandoning it due to player feedback. Two were standard power houses one of which went on to warp larger formats. If you expect the same failure rate then 20% of the cards they make in these lairs will be format staples which is a huge problem. They do listen so we need to be very loud immediately to stop this before they print a broken card in an exclusive product.
So, we've had exclusive cards in a bunch of preconstructed products over the years. We've had commander decks, planechase decks, planeswalker decks,theme boosters,global series gift box,
But that's not, IMO, a good comparison to this at all.
Those were far, far more available, among other differences.
Also, is it just me, or does WotC seem to be suffering from a form of corporate-level amnesia? The BaB issue w/ Nexus of Fate being something that they should have taken a hint from.
It's actually 2 cards total that really caused problems out of hundreds. True Name Nemesis did in legacy and Nexus of Fate did in standard. They obviously took a hint from Nexus and never released another exclusive BaB promo that caused problems. People are blowing this way out of proportion and this is apparently 5 different unique cards and tokens for $50. Its price per card isn't necessarily going to be any worse than lots of other exclusive product cards. They're also all legendary so far and probably not going to be played a ton other than as a commander. So, how many gold cards are played in legacy/vintage? Infact, how many cards over 2 mana are? They tend to be really absurd on the power level.
It isn't a slippery slope. Wizards only makes money the very first time a card is sold. They have no real incentive to make prohibitively expensive cards they won't be able to reprint at any time they want because the reprint will make them money. The few exclusive cards they have reprinted are the cards that tend to command high prices because they're so unique or powerful. In order to buy into this argument, we have to assume that Wizards' goal isn't to make money, but simply to piss in your Cheerios because they hate their players. If they wanted to make a super powerful or unique card that commands a high price tag, why not simply print it at mythic in a higher priced supplemental set? Also, despite the ramp up of exclusive cards, why hasn't there been another problem since the time walk? The mistakes tend to be cards from very early in the process of figuring out how to make exclusive cards. Now, Atraxa was a weird spot but that was really the first pro planeswalker commander AND the first ever crop of 4 colored commanders.
We've had commander decks, planechase decks, planeswalker decks,theme boosters,global series gift box, Game Night, buy a box promos, and now this.
Every exclusive card in commander decks, planechase decks, planeswalker decks, theme boosters and whatever can be reprinted. These ones can't.
Do you understand now?
While that's true, how many exclusive cards have ever been reprinted? Obviously, this is a bad place for aggressively costed cards or ones with new super splashy abilities, but one of these is Fleshbag Marauder and the other is Cloudgoat Ranger. We've seen plenty of cards like them and plenty of nickel bin uncommons. Making them into a mid range mana cost multicolored legendary doesn't exactly inspire me to see this as a problem. It actually sounds more like fear mongering from people that just hate secret lair on principle.
Ok, lets take a step back everybody, sure this is new and scary, but rather than freak out and cause a panic like every other new, scary thing, we should try and put it into perspective. So, we've had exclusive cards in a bunch of preconstructed products over the years. We've had commander decks, planechase decks, planeswalker decks,theme boosters,global series gift box, Game Night, buy a box promos, and now this. So, out of all those cards, how many have actually become a problem? Nexus of Fate and True Name Nemesis. That's 2 cards out of hundreds so over 99% of the cards have been fine. Most of those cards were standard legal including the Nexus problem. So, assuming they continue making merely interesting legendary cards like they've been doing and not take risks with combo potential or print something crazy like 3 mana Progenitus, why is this anything more than an entertaining side novelty that you can choose to buy/play if you're a big fan of the niche product? The cards aren't terrible, but they aren't even close to legacy/vintage playable other than technically you could put them into a deck and it would be a legal deck. I mean really, we're going to get 20+ commander legends in precon products every year anyway and have gotten a bunch every single year from 2013 on and we did in 2011. 2012 had the planechase decks which also had exclusive commanders and the buy a box promos were almost all legendary multicolor cards. Ponies the Galloping was limited edition and you can still get it for under $100 and the 3 cards can be had for far less than tons of commander staples. I think the constructive thing, rather than whine about it is to insist that Wizards not push the cards super hard. I don't think they are likely to, though.
I'm pretty sure people are being excessively harsh on party. Yes, a full party is optimal, but the cards are also costed so they're bat ***** insane with a full party. They're so over the top stupid then that there's no comparison unless you count Ancestral Recall that's so broken it hasn't been seen since Unlimited. I think people are forgetting that party creatures already count as party of 1 alone. Party of 2 is quite effective.
I actually suspect an errata that lets you choose new targets for the permanent spell will be coming and it was simply an oversight like the moonfolk card in Kamigawa or the artifact creature in Worldwake. I looked up the rules and it turns out you're actually right, though. I don't think the rules need much of an update other than creating a token copy of the permanent spell when the permanent spell copy resolves.
oh, and for those claiming this'll eat the ban hammer in edh... yeah no it won't.
we already see the first two copy effects on multiple things within the format, and that's not game breaking. copying permanents is also nothing new and there are far more combos that exploit that more easily without breaking the format...
that you have to pay mana and tap it down really limits it. honestly, i don't think it even makes the cut in a lot of decks. it'll be that hot new artifact everyone jams into all their edh decks for a few weeks after release, then promptly cuts because its just not doing enough. like they did with strionic resonator.
Well, I'll agree that it won't be banned, ever. It has nothing in common other than card type with the absurd time waster. I'll disagree that it'll get cut, though. Strionic Resonator and similar cards need a critical mass of stuff to copy where this needs nonland cards. That makes it much easier to jam into decks and get value. The question is more whether you can afford to activate after the thing goes onto the stack.
I wonder how this interacts with Auras or the Mutate mechanic - if you copy an Aura or mutating creature spell, would both have to go on the same target? The final mode says nothing about 'pick new targets'.
I wonder how this interacts with Auras or the Mutate mechanic - if you copy an Aura or mutating creature spell, would both have to go on the same target? The final mode says nothing about 'pick new targets'.
yeah, seems like you'd have to make both auras target the same permanent.
I have good news. Auras that aren't cast entering the battlefield simply attach themselves so you can actually even put it onto a shroud creature. Just don't go for protection because that will still remove it.
This card gives me hope that we’ll one day see my custom Clone that can be an Instant or Sorcery as well as any permanent.
That's going to have to be worded as a modal instant spell. Choose one - Copy up to one target instant or sorcery spell. You may choose new targets for the copy.
Create a token that's a copy of target creature.
If you don't want to make a token, you can't really put them both onto the same card because one is an ability that creates a copy on the stack and one is a replacement effect that modifies how a creature enters the battlefield. Yeah, the rules are mean. I guess you could literally turn a creature into "up to one target instant/sorcery on the stack" and have the creature resolve as a clone if you don't, but that would be very wordy and confusing.
I'd probably look toward the instant/sorcery set for eternal playable MDFC. That will probably have an unusually high amount of instant/sorcery cards where older formats often have a mana cap of 2 or something with a few exceptions for really absurd cards. That's where I'd expect to see the Shatters, weird narrow counterspells, and generally low powered stuff that's pointed toward some eternal niche. The land set is really a bad place for such things since older decks really skimp on land, especially vintage, and adding extra land stapled to a main deckable spell could severely warp the format. Just imagine if we, say, staple something like Manamorphose to a land even without the cantrip. It would be steaming garbage in standard, but I could see it getting the ban hammer in legacy or modern. I'm not sure Lotus Petal would even be that hot in standard. Yeah, it's gotten banned numerous times, but the card disadvantage just isn't worth it unless you're going to gain such an absurd advantage it doesn't matter. The decks that generally use it aim to win right now and I don't see any card in standard being castable with one extra mana just utterly breaking the game open consistenly like storm or Tolarian Academy decks. Sure it would have been broken in affinity standard, but then it effectively functioned as a Mox that could sac for an extra mana.
I think this is really missing the major selling point of MDFC. They aren't to be the most flashy or exciting cards ever. They're the glue that makes things possible that never were before. They let you hide complexity from newbies by making nice, clean, simple cards that fill multiple roles in multiple decks. It also lets you do things like instants and sorceries the set that because you can put a creature on one side and an instant/sorcery on the other. It will help massively with as fan issues in addition to complexity and they have all the versatility of a charm/split card. People were already jamming extra lands into their landfall limited decks. This lets you jam a whole hell of a lot of extra lands into your deck. It lets you jam a whole ton of artifacts/ enchantments into decks without worrying about disenchant being a million times more powerful than it normally is. You could even print one that's a vanilla creature on both sides with different creature types for tribal. This is a mechanic for the people that are excited for the nuts and bolts of Magic to celebrate, not that flashy thing that's going to wow. It probably is the reason core sets have died, though. It presents the expert player a difficult choice while giving the newbie a highly grokkable card that isn't littered with text they won't understand. Sure, I don't see them often being powerful enough for competitive eternal formats, but that's the case with most cards ever printed. When you see them, just ignore them just like you ignore Grizzly Bears or the 9000th 3/3 for 4 with marginal ability.
So let's just put them in every set and be happy with it? There won't be a set where they won't help, mechanically.
Zendikar? Half spell, half land
Theros? Half creature, half enchantment
Strixhaven? Half instant, half creature
Ixalan? Half dinosaur, half pirate
Why bother having normal card at this point? You can put a land behind every card in existance and be happy with that. No more mana screw!
And no more flavor.
What will Kaldheim catch? Half creature half equipment? Half snow half nonsnow? No one of those will actually make sense.
Assuming I were designing Kaldheim and snow were in, I would probably use MDFC to do half snow land, half snow permanent. The snow lands in limited lead to feel bad picks where you have to waste a relatively early draft pick on a basic land if you're going to go snow. I'd do snow basic in addition to it so you can pick them higher if you opt into going hard into snow, but you can use it even if you aren't. It's a great way to up the as fan just like if I were designing a set for host/augment, I'd probably do half host, half augment and have dedicated slots for them like the contraptions got. It's the most significant tool ever in the history of Magic for any A+B mechanic. I'm quite aware some people have a bitter hatred of dfc in general, but mechanically, they're a huge boon and the rest of us adore them. I'm actually not sure why MDFC are anti flavor, though. Two different tribes on each side could be flavored like companions. Half equipments could have an opposite side that cares about equipment. You could do constellation or metalcraft on cards with an enchantment or artifact back respectively. You could do riders and their mounts as MDFC. Vehicles could have their driver. Obviously, characters that are partners but aren't using the partner mechanic make sense as MDFC. This is actually one of the most kick ass mechanics for vorthos just like dfc werewolves. No more will you be forced to jam two characters onto the same card due to space issues in a set. They each get their own unique card complete with a full art box and maybe even their own flavor text. Hell, you could have done all 15 theros gods with their weapons since they could all be weapon on the other side. This is clearly a win for timmy since you can print a colossaly expensive card on one side and a card you can normally cast on the other. It's a win for johnny because it lets you do a+b on the same card. It's a win for spike because it ups consisitency. It's a win for vorthos big time because it lets you cram way more legends into a set and not care about duplicates. The only people this is bad for are the minority that hate DFC. You can't please everyone all the time. I adore Colossification but plenty of people think it's flaming garbage, which, from pure power level is true, but it's so cool.
Now as for My Little Pony, my brother has one as a commander. We've been playing silver border cards since pre Unstable. I think some people have forgotten that commander is supposed to be FUN. You're supposed to sit around the table, eat fat kid food, joke around, and have a good time. This is a format people play tons of alters and I even have plenty of adult oriented ones that might not be so welcome in some LGS.
I'm almost certain zero of these cards will ever be banned in commander so the whole thing about the rules committee is silly. They also voluntarily made silver border legal so people could sort out the mess that was Unhinged and Unglued for themselves. If it were just unstable, silver border would be perfectly legal in commander because they're reasonable sane cards that are fun and fair. Now as for mythic rares, they're being misrepresented here. What Mark said was that they wouldn't be staples like fetchlands or Lightning Bolts, not that they would be unplayable bulk. Mythics also wouldn't all be powerful cards pushed for standard. Seriously, how many sets have had more than a handful of tournament played mythics? Infact, I think there's only been like 2 lands at mythic. Eye of Ugin and Maze's End certainly aren't what you would call every deck staples. Now people did point at Lotus Cobra and claim it was a promise break because it "makes mana," but it isn't Llanowar Elves. It only makes mana if you put a land on the battlefield which means it's inconsistent unless you build around it. It's also clearly proven to be splashy. Maybe it's been a little too splashy this time, but that's beside the point. Buy a Box promo also had one mistake which was a 7 mana time walk. We had plenty of 6 and 7 mana time walks that no one played. True Name Nemesis came from a deliberate push to try and make things in the commander decks for Legacy and Vintage. They succeeded with Flusterstorm, Scavenging Ooze, etc. They just had one outlier that they pushed too far. This just looks like what they buy a box promos became after the time walk. They became niche commander legendaries.
That's going to have to be worded as a modal instant spell. Choose one - Copy up to one target instant or sorcery spell. You may choose new targets for the copy.
Create a token that's a copy of target creature.
If you don't want to make a token, you can't really put them both onto the same card because one is an ability that creates a copy on the stack and one is a replacement effect that modifies how a creature enters the battlefield. Yeah, the rules are mean. I guess you could literally turn a creature into "up to one target instant/sorcery on the stack" and have the creature resolve as a clone if you don't, but that would be very wordy and confusing.