The big issue with that is NO ONE who plays cEDH wants to form their own Rules Committee because those players are complete elitists who do NOT get along well. There's a reason why you only see these types of players in pods of their own personal friends and Discord servers. Perhaps the cEDH community have already taken matters into their own hands except it isn't as mainstream as the Casual EDH / Commander community when it comes to Social Media presence. They seem more private rather than open.
There's also the possibility that the Rules Committee's favoritism toward Casual EDH players has pushed most cEDH players into Flesh and Blood TCG in order to get their "tournament grinding" fix that they're unable to get from cEDH and Wizards of the Coast / Hasbro's neglect of Standard, Modern, and other competitive formats In-Person in favor of selling products for Casual EDH / Commander and Arena. Then again that wasn't entirely Wizards of the Coast / Hasbro's fault since Local Game Store (LGS) Event Organizers were taking extra precautions to avoid the risk of infection due to the pandemic.
And perhaps there is a magical unicorn printing black lotuses and handing them to pauper player. Really your post quickly got for sensible to conspirationist bull*****.
We should manage EDH based on the supposition that maybe some competitive players have made their own RC and banlist and it works? Or the supposed fact that many players left mtg for Flesh and Blood because of the RC?
If the cEDH players have really made something, they should come out and submit it to the public.
If mtg is really losing so many competitive players, maybe it's because wotc is handling all the competitive formats terribly in the last years? The ban of Golos is nothing compared to all the bans that happened recently in standard, modern and other competitive formats. I don't get why the main source of "tournament grinding" should be commander while there at least other 5 competitive formats that exists only to be competitive.
The folks at WotC really do care, much more than the RC does at least
Ahahahahah. If playing too much Golos makes you believe things like that, we are lucky it was banned.
Wotc just sees EDH as a big cash cow, many lead designer didn't even ever bothered playing and understanding the format.
We've never witnessed a planeswalker getting their spark (you could argue Elspeth in Theros Beyond Death when she was close to drowning but that might be something else altogether)
Here's a question: if someone said that the Standard ban list, or the Modern one, or the Legacy one, was no longer going to be controlled by Wizards of the Coast (who have access to huge resources in terms of player feedback, data, etc.), but would instead be controlled by just four people who are all friends (and a few "advisors" who don't seem to have much sway), would anyone be surprised that the ban list was a mess? Would you be surprised that it reflected the strange whims of certain group rather than a measured and consistent approach? Would we be surprised that they get super defensive and take valid criticism personally? Nope. That would be completely inevitable.
People complain all the time about wotc banlist, so i don't think you have a very solid ground. You may look into wotc's banlist of 1v1 commander. I'll hardly call it a success.
Hear me out. The problem here isn't really the Golos ban per se. My personal opinion on that ban isn't relevant. The problem is that the RC is way too insular and way too small to be steering this ship on their own. The truth is, whatever you personally think about Golos, a huge portion of the community feels that this ban is completely crazy, like it's from upside-down world.
I mean really? Golos ban is crazy? upside-down world?
RC has stated its reasons. They are all valid. Maybe you think that the only criteria for a ban should be pure power level. Maybe you are salty because now you can't play your Golos deck anymore. But saying the ban is crazy, insular or has no reasons is just being intellectually dishonest. Golos is THE TOP goodstuff commander and it's not even close. EVERY DECK can be turned into a 5c golos deck and still be playable. Everyone can see that. not everyone want the future of commander meta be 5c golos decks.
Sometimes its worth reading the entire post, and not just the phrases you want to.
You say this while not reading my post and addressing 0 points that i made.
Who cares about your salty cards list? If i don't want to follow RC's list, why should i listen to what EDHREC has to say? Can't i just make my own list with my friends then? Your "salty list" card is just a banlist with another name.
If you really think that cEDH can't continue following the official banlist, make your own RC and make your own competitive banlist for competitive only. Stop trying to appropriate other people's work.
Any casual group should absolutely not give a damn about the Commander banned list, the suggestions from them reflect their idea, like a local playgroup of them, others might completely disagree.
Ironically the only place where the list is really relevant is in tournaments for cEDH that use the banned list as an actual banned list, and you cant play if your deck is illegal.
In any casual world, its irrelevant, so the entire point of the banned list is pretty damn pointless in the first place.
Commander was born as a casual format. The RC plays casual. They try to have the format appeal to everyone but they have no interest into turning the format competitive.
Why you want to take that from the casual player? Why you want to take the only format that is not 100% catered to competitive players into a format exactly like the other ones?
If competitive players are so needy, they can form their own RC and make their own banlist. 1vs1 commander players did that multiple time.
But cEDH don't want to do that. They want to take away other people's stuff. They want to dictate how RC should play.
claiming that their recent bans / unbans as of late proves that they're completely out of touch with the format.
They are the ones out of touch with the format. Golos should have been banned day 1. He is a complete perversion of what EDH should be. He is the ultimate goodstuff general, that completely destroy any niche deck or build-around-me general because you can just play your strategy in 5c Golos and be fine. People who don't understand this should really double check why they are playing this format.
The comparison really doesn't explain it. Even if opponent float extra mana before doing Sway of the Stars (which is exactly the same thing you can do with Worldfire and your general), the draw is still symmetrical and opponents still got a chance to interact with free spells. Also, game doesn't end immediately, 7 life x 3 opponents still means 21 lifes to take down, which is still a lot.
So really, there's absolutely no logical and coherent explanation of why Worldfire was unbanned while Sway must be on the banlist.
Worldfire just end games, exactly like a Coalition Victory and those cards were banned exactly for this reason, because ending the game out of nowhere is not on the social philosophy of this format.
I think that what they are trying to say is that World of Fire end games, Sway of Star doesn't. With Worldfire everyone has 1 life, the game will end soon. With Sway of Stars everyone has 7 life, the game will drag on way longer.
I’ve been thinking some more golos might be the greatest ban in the history of commander
Because for once the RC banned a card that’s a money maker card for the company’s and now they lost it. In other words this will truely give a indication to WOTC to not make cards 5-color commanders as bonkers as golos
this is why I fully believe in kamigawa neon dynasty if we get a 5-color spirit tribal legend it won’t be a “good stuff” commander.
RC bans and wotc printings are not correlated in any way. Unless it's a specific commander set where they ask for RC's help, they are not involved. And if they are involved, it's about designing cards and not "print this so we can ban that".
The ban is too close to Kamigawa release date to influence their design. If they made a 5c goodstuff legedn, it's too late for them to change it.
Ohohohoh Golos is banned maaaaaaaaan
RC has balls
Not happy with worldfire unban however. I get the argument "winning with worldfire is not easy", the problem that trolling and making the game irrelevant with worldfire is super easy, even if at the end you don't win.
And perhaps there is a magical unicorn printing black lotuses and handing them to pauper player. Really your post quickly got for sensible to conspirationist bull*****.
We should manage EDH based on the supposition that maybe some competitive players have made their own RC and banlist and it works? Or the supposed fact that many players left mtg for Flesh and Blood because of the RC?
If the cEDH players have really made something, they should come out and submit it to the public.
If mtg is really losing so many competitive players, maybe it's because wotc is handling all the competitive formats terribly in the last years? The ban of Golos is nothing compared to all the bans that happened recently in standard, modern and other competitive formats. I don't get why the main source of "tournament grinding" should be commander while there at least other 5 competitive formats that exists only to be competitive.
I like the animations but i really don't get why the trailers must always be so disconnected with the "real" story.
Ahahahahah. If playing too much Golos makes you believe things like that, we are lucky it was banned.
Wotc just sees EDH as a big cash cow, many lead designer didn't even ever bothered playing and understanding the format.
They showed Elspeth's first planeswalk in a comic
People complain all the time about wotc banlist, so i don't think you have a very solid ground. You may look into wotc's banlist of 1v1 commander. I'll hardly call it a success.
I mean really? Golos ban is crazy? upside-down world?
RC has stated its reasons. They are all valid. Maybe you think that the only criteria for a ban should be pure power level. Maybe you are salty because now you can't play your Golos deck anymore. But saying the ban is crazy, insular or has no reasons is just being intellectually dishonest. Golos is THE TOP goodstuff commander and it's not even close. EVERY DECK can be turned into a 5c golos deck and still be playable. Everyone can see that. not everyone want the future of commander meta be 5c golos decks.
You say this while not reading my post and addressing 0 points that i made.
Who cares about your salty cards list? If i don't want to follow RC's list, why should i listen to what EDHREC has to say? Can't i just make my own list with my friends then? Your "salty list" card is just a banlist with another name.
If you really think that cEDH can't continue following the official banlist, make your own RC and make your own competitive banlist for competitive only. Stop trying to appropriate other people's work.
Commander was born as a casual format. The RC plays casual. They try to have the format appeal to everyone but they have no interest into turning the format competitive.
Why you want to take that from the casual player? Why you want to take the only format that is not 100% catered to competitive players into a format exactly like the other ones?
If competitive players are so needy, they can form their own RC and make their own banlist. 1vs1 commander players did that multiple time.
But cEDH don't want to do that. They want to take away other people's stuff. They want to dictate how RC should play.
They are the ones out of touch with the format. Golos should have been banned day 1. He is a complete perversion of what EDH should be. He is the ultimate goodstuff general, that completely destroy any niche deck or build-around-me general because you can just play your strategy in 5c Golos and be fine. People who don't understand this should really double check why they are playing this format.
I think that what they are trying to say is that World of Fire end games, Sway of Star doesn't. With Worldfire everyone has 1 life, the game will end soon. With Sway of Stars everyone has 7 life, the game will drag on way longer.
RC bans and wotc printings are not correlated in any way. Unless it's a specific commander set where they ask for RC's help, they are not involved. And if they are involved, it's about designing cards and not "print this so we can ban that".
The ban is too close to Kamigawa release date to influence their design. If they made a 5c goodstuff legedn, it's too late for them to change it.
RC has balls
Not happy with worldfire unban however. I get the argument "winning with worldfire is not easy", the problem that trolling and making the game irrelevant with worldfire is super easy, even if at the end you don't win.