Long answer: Instead of going over all those card draws, here's a few in particular I like/have an opinion stronger than "meh" about. Incendiary Command is a cheap sandwich from a shop on the way home. It's never as good as you want it to be but it's still food that's hard to really complain about. Shattered Perception is pretty bad. Even in a comparatively mana-flooded deck that's willing to pitch cards the odds that you'll have a hand that's both sizable enough to be worth replacing and bad enough to be worth ditching is pretty low. Looters do this card's job much better. Browbeat will never get you what you want in a multiplayer game. A one shot for five damage is pretty soft considering how willing most players are to take that instead of giving someone else cards. Reforge the Soul is the bee's knees even when hardcast. Mindmoil is a funny card but typically stronger when you have specific cards you're digging for as you tuck your hand a few times a turn. If you want repeatable hand replacing Teferi's Puzzle Box is a strong option as it can disrupt other players as well. Or help them find their combo pieces. You know, either or.
Also, Aftershock is loved because it provides versatility that very few other cards in red can match. Three damage is nothing given the format. Always remember that life is merely a resource; winning at one life is just as much a victory as winning at forty.
This card is so outclassed by so many cards it might as well be Wood Elemental.
Hey now, you can win in casual 60 card with Wood Elemental combos. It has its supremely narrow niche. Likewise Vengeance is functional removal in draft. You know, when you and your friends get bored and suicide draft and someone finds an old pack of 9th to throw into the mix.
except its not just casual - We are playing for prizes. people should be allowed to play decks they like to play that also can win. not either or. I personally am a very johnny player. I hate winning through attacking. its very boring. If you like creature based decks, and you have one that wins, then great! but I like to play combo's, and alternate win conditions. I personally hate turning creatures sideways every turn in EDH. the format has so much more potential than that.
Then at this point, if the store owner is going to keep the rules listed, you probably need to find another group to play with.
Passive aggressively making rules to restrict gameplay in a prize winning tournament should be met with nothing other than passive aggressive mocking.
As was said earlier, people who ban tactic "x" will ban tactic "y" if they don't like it as well. That isn't "trying to produce an environment". It's undermining the nature of a competition. If they want to make silly rules then they shouldn't pretend to have a competition.
So it's just a misery loves company thing? Or just based on principal? Rules restrict gameplay in general. This store added three rules, I think. Ones that happen to be pretty popular house rules. I've been to plenty of tournaments (non Magic) that use various rule sets. If I think the rules aren't good, I'll contact the organizer and suggest something different. If they are still rules I don't agree with, I won't attend*. It's very simple. The only outcome I see from continuing to aggravate the other players is that nobody will want to play anymore, then there won't be any tournament at all, or the person who is doing the aggravating being banned from attending. I don't see any winning situation there.
*Unless people are using that stupid Free Parking rule in Monopoly. I'll just freak out about that and rant for 20 minutes but still play.
It's not so much that misery loves company as it is that rules like that are nothing more than ham-handed excuses to arbitrarily exclude certain win conditions. They do nothing to prevent someone from winning with ugly and/or sudden combos and non-interactive grinds. All they achieve is giving off the impression that people who play there aren't good enough to handle certain kinds of decks. Whether that's true or not is another thing but if there weren't people complaining about it it's unlikely those win cons would have been banned.
I can't believe no none said Azusa, Lost but Seeking. When I was researching who I wanted to build next I always read that she was the most target Commander at the table. I know ramping is good but Mono G has heavy limitations, but I guess ramping into Eldrazi is lame after all.
I don't personally see enough Azusa decks to be annoyed with them. Mono-green is certainly a thing where I play but most people seem to have moved to other generals even if a lot of the basics are the same.
Long answer: Instead of going over all those card draws, here's a few in particular I like/have an opinion stronger than "meh" about.
Incendiary Command is a cheap sandwich from a shop on the way home. It's never as good as you want it to be but it's still food that's hard to really complain about.
Shattered Perception is pretty bad. Even in a comparatively mana-flooded deck that's willing to pitch cards the odds that you'll have a hand that's both sizable enough to be worth replacing and bad enough to be worth ditching is pretty low. Looters do this card's job much better.
Browbeat will never get you what you want in a multiplayer game. A one shot for five damage is pretty soft considering how willing most players are to take that instead of giving someone else cards.
Reforge the Soul is the bee's knees even when hardcast.
Mindmoil is a funny card but typically stronger when you have specific cards you're digging for as you tuck your hand a few times a turn. If you want repeatable hand replacing Teferi's Puzzle Box is a strong option as it can disrupt other players as well. Or help them find their combo pieces. You know, either or.
Also, Aftershock is loved because it provides versatility that very few other cards in red can match. Three damage is nothing given the format. Always remember that life is merely a resource; winning at one life is just as much a victory as winning at forty.
Hey now, you can win in casual 60 card with Wood Elemental combos. It has its supremely narrow niche. Likewise Vengeance is functional removal in draft. You know, when you and your friends get bored and suicide draft and someone finds an old pack of 9th to throw into the mix.
Then at this point, if the store owner is going to keep the rules listed, you probably need to find another group to play with.
It's not so much that misery loves company as it is that rules like that are nothing more than ham-handed excuses to arbitrarily exclude certain win conditions. They do nothing to prevent someone from winning with ugly and/or sudden combos and non-interactive grinds. All they achieve is giving off the impression that people who play there aren't good enough to handle certain kinds of decks. Whether that's true or not is another thing but if there weren't people complaining about it it's unlikely those win cons would have been banned.
Ramp: Farseek
Card Draw: Wheel of Fortune
Tutor: Summoner's Pact
Beatstick: Maelstrom Djinn
Defensive/Pillowfort card: Bubble Matrix
Artifact and/or Enchantment removal: Seeds of Innocence
Creature removal: Shauku, Endbringer
Sweeper: Black Sun's Zenith
Counterspell: Forbid
Griefing card: Teferi's Puzzle Box
Utility card: Goblin Welder
Win-Con: Divine Intervention
Land: River of Tears
I don't personally see enough Azusa decks to be annoyed with them. Mono-green is certainly a thing where I play but most people seem to have moved to other generals even if a lot of the basics are the same.