u/KingsKnight24

Basically the title. I just started playing cEDH about 1-2 years ago and realized that I’m not much of a fan of the play style. I used to play modern way back when jund, affinity, tron, etc were popular.

I mainly played burn and control (specifically jeskai and UW) during my modern competitive career. I’ve went to many tournaments in my time ranging from SCG regionals to Grand Prix.

I definitely prefer midrange or control style play strategies. Oh the days of celestial
Colonnade punching someone’s face over and over was fantastic. Anyways, any decks that are doing well that align with my play style? I saw the meta and top 6 in the meta are Boros energy, affinity, jeskai blink, Eldrazi tron, amulet titan, and ruby storm. I think jeskai blink and Eldrazi tron are the ones that I’d like playing the most. I’d say affinity too but mox opals cost so much right now. Is jeskai control viable right now?

So as some background I’ve been playing magic for the past 15 years. Competitively; the past 8-10 years. Although mainly modern that whole time. I’ve played commander for the past 5 years I’d say and gave cEDH a go about 1-2 years ago. At first it was scratching that competitive itch but then I started to notice some things I dislike about the format cEDH in specific. Specifically tournament play or how they are structured. Here are some key points of what turns me off from it.

1.) One match per round is very rough. Given that if you get bad hand after bad hand. You’re pretty much already dug your own grave or at the least drastically lowered your odds of winning. The best of 3 in formats such as modern allow someone to make a come back after losing a game mainly due to bad luck. Obviously there’s always user error but I digress.

2.) commander or cEDH in itself wasn’t made to be a competitive setting. At least tournament level.

3.) players being purposefully deceitful in a game. Remakes such as “let me draw cards so I can stop X opponent from popping off” or a player next in priority asking another player that’s later in priority if they have a counter so they don’t need to use theirs. It just says bad sportsmanship to me.

4.) chance of winning a match goes from 50 percent in 60 card formats to 25 percent in cEDH. Especially since a lot of game can go from 1v1v1v1 to a 3v1 real fast. And being that one player against three almost guarantees you won’t win. At that point it’s best to hope for a draw.

5.) people making so much unnecessary talk. A pod can easily get distracted and waste 10min on the timer.

Those are the points from the top of my head. Please note that I’m in no way trying to whine or complain. Nor am I saying that cEDH is a bad format. This is just me coming to the possible realization that competitive EDH isn’t the competitiveness that I’m looking for and should possibly just go back to modern. Might sell the pieces of my cEDH deck and build a modern deck. Or get cards for other more casual EDH decks I’m wanting to build.