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Lightning Bolt and Inquisitions are huge reasons why. Also modern is significantly faster than pioneer. Most modern decks don't care about Oko. The only deck that plays it is Urza and that deck doesn't even need to.
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Certain decks do have an easy answer but others, like ur emerge, mono white aggro, etc. Don't have the urgency to race it or have any good removal against it. This would just polarize the format.
Thank you for the responses. I am just starting to try and slowly work my back into playing on a regular basis--taking a 33% pay cut because your employer decides to downsize *sucks*. I almost had a complete play set of Standard back when I had to stop just before RNA got released, and I had almost complete sets going back to M2015, so I have just about everything I would need for Pioneer. In the last month or so I have managed to get a box of RNA, WAR, M20, and ELD--hooray for the part-time job--so now I just need to fill some missing card slots and I will have the tools for Standard again, as well as Pioneer. After that, I would need to polish off the rust and see how it goes.
re: new Emrakul and Aetherworks Marvel...one presumes that Repudiate // Replicate, Tale's End, Disallow, or possibly Summary Dismissal would be useful. If you were weird you could even use Ceremonious Rejection but that build would proably fail miserably against some sort of mono-red aggro deck. *sigh* I forgot how complex trying to prepare can be.
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White. Blue. Black. Red. Green.
Long ago, the five colors lived together in harmony. Then, everything changed when the Lhurgoyf attacked.
Only the Planeswalker, master of all five colors, could stop it. But when the world needed him most… he vanished.
A hundred years passed, and my brother and I discovered the new Planeswalker: a Mind Sculptor named Jace. And although his mindbending skills are great, he has a lot to learn before he's ready to save anyone.
But I believe… Jace can save the world!
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But I honestly think that "vote with your wallet" and "if you don't want to buy it, just don't ******* buy it" are applicable for things like alternate arts that by definition aren't necessary for tournament play
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*Tarmogoyf teasing tribal and planeswalkers cries in the corner*
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And yet, here you are, still as sexist as ever. They're clearly not doing a very good job.
Feminists "overshoot" equality because truly pushing for mere equality has never been enough. If they shoot for femme superiority to counter backlash from people like you, maybe we'll end up in the middle. Men have been saying for thousands of years that they're superior. Maybe if women win the right to start saying that they're superior too, we'll all really be equal in our claim to superiority.
Right, because when someone calls you sexist, they're oppressing you, but when you call a woman a *****, you're just expressing your feelings.
Unlike You Women, I'm Not Overly Emotional and Don't Care About the Drama of Identity Politics: a novella by Manite
Really seems like this thread about Mystical Dispute has turned into… quite the dispute.
Upset about the art in Magic? Aren't willing to play as Jaina in Hearthstone because you can't see her cleavage? Just go play Shadowverse! Plenty of cleavage there. For every piece of media that doesn't cater to your demographic specifically, there are 10 more that do. How's that for equality?
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I understand that many Planeswalkers would be broken in repeatable form, but even if almost half of them had to be banned, I think that going forward, allowing all Planeswalkers to be allowed as Commander as a default, and banned if they become problematic, would be spectacular for the depth of fun and capacity for innovation within this format.
When I saw the preview of the new Domri today, my excitement was matched only by my disappointment that I would not be able to run him as a Commander.
If, beyond a simple ban list, more global methods of reducing the toxicity of their recursion proved necessary, you could even alter the rules so that they, say, enter the battlefield with fewer loyalty counters each time. Or maybe the Commander tax could be increased from 2. There are ways around this. I believe the idea of playing as a Planeswalker is simply too amazing, and too intrinsically tied to what this game is all about, to reject the idea out-of-hand.
Commander 2014 was proof-of-concept. I understand that many Planeswalkers—JtMS and Elspeth come to mind immediately—would have to be banned. But I think that cultivating a ban list that expands the format in this fashion without breaking the game is well within this community's purview, and that it would be a shame if such a culmination of everything Magic was envisioned as were never even explored.
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