From his FB page today "A Commander game trend I noticed both at #SCGCon and in the few times I've been to my new LGS is "descent to the infinite." I'm not talking about competitive decks that want to go infinite as quickly as possible, but even more casual builds--and most of them have an eventual infinite combo of some kind. It's not "go infinite," it's "do some stuff for a while, then go infinite."
This is not a healthy trend for the format. It's probably a natural progression of things, but it's still leading in a bad direction. In Commander, it's easy to fall into the trap of spiraling upward--going infinite is the easy way to win multiplayer games. It's the efficient way, even. The problem comes from the tendency to want to do it a little earlier next time because someone beat you to it. And then earlier after that. Arms races lead to bad places.
I'm not demonizing combos here. What's of concern is that when they're the primary win condition, the format devolves. Games need to end at some point, so having a Backup Plan isn't all that bad. When the nuclear option becomes the first choice, then we get into trouble."
This is not a healthy trend for the format. It's probably a natural progression of things, but it's still leading in a bad direction. In Commander, it's easy to fall into the trap of spiraling upward--going infinite is the easy way to win multiplayer games. It's the efficient way, even. The problem comes from the tendency to want to do it a little earlier next time because someone beat you to it. And then earlier after that. Arms races lead to bad places.
I'm not demonizing combos here. What's of concern is that when they're the primary win condition, the format devolves. Games need to end at some point, so having a Backup Plan isn't all that bad. When the nuclear option becomes the first choice, then we get into trouble."
One of the guys in my group has a von count deck..which made me run Giant Fan lol
My reaction on reading it was :whoa and that flavor text makes me think of Hamilton https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrMkdZtqiVI