u/Longjumping-Size7181

Slight rant because I've been pretty bothered about this.

This post is also not about myself, but rather about an experience I had at my LGS a few weeks back, where a new player pitched up for his first EDH night with his Captain America precon. I got to the LGS early and started chatting to him. He bought some Marvel boosters and I helped him upgrade the deck with some new heroes and played some 1v1 games with him.

Then a bit later, more players start showing up, and we sit down together to play in a pod. When the other players see that he's playing Captain America, they immediately start with snide remarks, which continue throughout the game. They make comments along the lines of "ugh, UB slop deck" and "players like this are why UB is everywhere now". I try counteracting it by being positive about his plays and deck, but it's clear that their comments are getting to him.

After the first game, the new player is looking pretty dejected. There aren't any other open pods, so one of the opponents asks for a rematch, and to my surprise, new player says yes. In the second game, there's much less berating, but still the occasional jab at UB and Marvel.

After that game, he said he needed to get home. I say that he should join the LGS's WhatsApp group and he kinda smiles but doesn't say anything. He never joined the group and he hasn't been back since. I'm not sure he will.

I just think about my first time playing Magic, where I was also a new player that pitched up with the Upgrades Unleashed precon from Kamigawa. Everyone was really kind and supportive, and it made it so easy to get into the game. I can't help but feel like that experience was robbed from this player.

I get that UB is incredibly frustrating. I get really annoyed too, but all of my energy gets directed at WotC for breaking so many promises they had made about UB, and not the players that do enjoy it. I also get that most players are not like this, so I'm probably preaching to the choir. We should just all try to keep that in mind when interacting with the community.

At my LGS people almost exclusively play Brackets 2 and 3. Often when it's getting close to 10pm and we finish a game, we'll say "one more?" and we'll start our final game for the night.

When it's Bracket 3, it's not a problem, since Bracket 3 games tend to end pretty quickly.

But Bracket 2 games often go on for close to 2 hours, with multiple board wipes slowing things down. This means that we either have to end the game early, which we find unsatisfying, or we go home later than we'd like.

So I want to find a commander that's Bracket 2 appropriate, but who can speed up games a little bit. This doesn't just have to be the turn they end the game on, it could also be commanders that hurry up the game in other ways and don't take long turns.

IMPORTANTLY - I'm not asking for a commander to pubstomp Bracket 2 games. I still want it to be appropriately matched, I just want a commander that puts a timer on the match somehow.

So this might be a weird request, but I come from a fighting game background and have been playing EDH for about 2 years.

One thing I've always wanted to do is replicate the feeling of mixing someone up in fighting games, but in a commander game.

The basic concept is to put your opponents in a situation, when you're attacking them, where you force them to guess between 2 or 3 options (sometimes more), and if the guess wrong, they take a lot of damage or you get some other kind of benefit.

The closest thing I can think of is to make a combat tricks commander, but I have yet to find a commander/deck that can consistently find enough combat tricks to make it viable.

So I've come here to see if anyone, potentially other fighting game players, have any ideas for replicating that same fighting game mix-up "vibe".

TIA and have a good day

I'm huge into TCG's. I mainly play Magic and Yugioh, but I dabble in a bunch of other ones.

Even though I still like modern Yugioh, I do yearn for the days when normal summon a 1800 atk guy and set a trap card was enough for a turn.

I've also tried a few Bandai card games before, but they never quite stuck. I think the very restricted interaction on the opponent's turn was a big part of that.

But Naruto seems to solve all of that. It plays a lot like old school Yugioh, but with an actual hard resource system to prevent anything too crazy. And it also solves some of the problems I have with other TCG's, like prize cards instead of life points.

I'm really looking forward to playing the game, and I hope it won't end up going the same route as Yugioh as power creep happens.

I'm a huge fan of spellslinger/storm decks, and [[Ral, Monsoon Mage]] is an absolute menace in cEDH. So I was surprised to see that he's seemingly nowhere to be seen in the Duel Commander meta. (At least according to MTGGoldfish)

Is he somehow too slow for the format? Too easy to interrupt? Just not as good as other options?

Would love to know because I was pretty shocked at his absence.

Dudes, I have no idea what to do against this character.

I feel like I can't press buttons in neutral because of her armor. I feel like I can't challenge her in the air because of her insane air buttons. I feel like I can't zone against her because of her anti-zoning tools.

And every mistake I make gets punished with a 40% combo minimum.

So how do you even go about dealing with this match up? Because whenever I go up against her, I just eat shit. Are there any weaknesses of hers to exploit?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

(I'm flip-flopping between Azula and Korra right now)

DC has been getting more popular near me recently, so I decided to get into it.

I don't have the budget for an expensive landbase, so I'm only looking at 1 and 2 colour commanders.

One option I was looking at is [[Ojer Axonil, Deepest Might]] to lead a mono red burn deck.

Thing is, I'm still very unfamiliar with the format. So I'm not sure if a 4 mana commander with no protection would be too slow, or if it would work. What do you guys think?

Another option I was looking at is a mono green [[Fynn, the Fangbearer]] infect deck.

Any feedback or suggestions welcome!