u/RealisticMolasses

My local commander meta plays almost no board wipes or ways to remove a lot of creatures at once. They play an okay amount of spot removal, but I've tried to convince them that at least some options for removing threats en masse are necessary. They argue that wipes, even one-sided ones, either ruin their tempo or get in the way of them playing more gas.

So, I built a bracket 3 [[Jetmir, Nexus of Revels]] tokens deck to visually illustrate the need for wide removal. Except, some players are now complaining the deck is oppressive because it's too overhwhelming rather than adjusting their decks at all.

Now, I don't really know how to proceed. Was I wrong to build the deck in the first place? Is it too strong for the power level of the meta just because the meta refuses to adapt how they play?

I just recently started played arena and have used Ajani, Nacatl Pariah a little, but think I might be missing something about his planeswalker side and token doublers in Arena.

In paper Magic, the official WOTC ruling is that if an effect causes Ajani, Nacatl Avenger's +0 to create 2 cat warrior tokens instead of one, then the reflexive deal damage trigger goes on the stack twice. So, you get to fling damage equal to your amount of creatures twice.

Unless, I am missing something, I am only getting one fling trigger, even with doublers out. Did they change how he worked for Arena? And are there other examples of this?

I just recently started played arena and have used Ajani a little, but think I might be missing something.

In paper Magic, the ruling is that if an effect causes Ajani's +0 to create 2 cat warrior tokens instead of one, then the reflexive deal damage trigger goes on the stack twice. So, you get to fling damage equal to your amount of creatures twice.

Unless, I am missing something, I am only getting one fling trigger, even with doublers out. Did they change how he worked for Arena?

I have been goldfishing an [[Anikthea, Hand of Erebos]] deck that I brewed, and this is one that I am unsure about.

If I have a [[legion loyalty]] on the battlefield and swing with a crew of enchantment creature tokens put onto the battlefield by Anikthea, do they retain their 3/3 power that she gives them, or their original printed values?

Similarly, if they do retain original printed values, what does that imply for enchantments that are not creatures at all that are animated by Anikthea? Do they just come in as tapped enchantments that are not attacking (because they are not creatures)?

This is not a post about an attempt to min-max bracket 1 lol, I am just legitimately curious about what is allowed in the lowest bracket.

My LGS recently announced a bracket 1 night event that is coming up, and I wasn't feeling particularly inspired, so I threw together an oops all keywords [[Odric, Lunarch Marshal]] deck that was 45 plains and then just 54 creatures with keywords. Literally no source of ramp, removal, stax, or interaction whatsoever, just sharing a bunch of combat keywords around.

This is kind of what my idea of bracket 1 was, just a kitchen table pile of cards.

But then I asked my buddy what deck he was bringing and he said that his deck was literally just every creature was wearing a hat with no mechanical syngery at all, and now I am wondering if the very bad Odric deck I built is still outside of the expectations for B1 lol.

I was playing a game with randoms recently where I cast a [[Sylvan Awakening]] on turn 8 to knock two players out, but a player responded with [[Evacuation]]. I had already lost three extra land enablers to removal earlier in the game and had no ramp in hand.

The problem was that I was still at 38 life at this point, and because everyone's creatures were bounced, nobody was in a position to actually complete the process of eliminating me soon. So, with no creatures or lands on the board, I scooped during my second main phase.

Two of the other players got annoyed and said it was lame to scoop before you had clearly lost. I said that when everybody else has full mana bases, including rocks, and all of my source is mana is gone going into turn 9, that I have clearly lost.

I'm not denying that I got punished for overextending, but does that automatically mean it is bad etiquette to scoop?

I had stepped away from the game when the bracket system was introduced, and only came back a couple of months ago.

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Since coming back, I have run several times into sitting a table and someone is playing a voltron or aggro deck and, despite that, one of the players is just sitting there playing no creatures, only value pieces.

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When I've asked the defenseless player about it, they say they aren't allowed to be killed until turn 6 (or 8 if we are playing B2).

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Is this normal? Because even a low-B2 voltron deck could probably table 21 commander damage by turn 5 or 6, so it feels like some type of social expectation is being exploited here.

[[Lord Windgrace]] was my first commander deck, and he is still my favorite, but I've been in a weird spot with him ever since the brackets were introduced.

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Windgrace, at its most powerful usually relies on MLD, which is obviously banned below bracket 4. However, within bracket 4, Windgrace MLD is usually too weak to compete. So, the strongest form of Windgrace exists in a no man's land within the bracket system.

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So, I've been considering rebuilding the deck around [[Hearthull, the WorldSeed]] as a B3 lands deck, but I've had some hesitation trying to decide which is a better pilot of a lands deck.

I have a [[Lathril, Blade of the Elves]] deck that my desired power level is bracket 3. When goldfishing, it pretty consistently presents a win through [[Staff of Domination]] shenanigans by turn 5, sometimes turn 4 if the hand is right. I do have tutors to find the necessary pieces.

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However, in practice, usually my board gets interrupted in real games and wins are not presented until 2 or 3 turns later, if I am allowed to rebuild at all by other players.

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So, is the deck bracket 4 because it can consistently present wins when uninterrupted earlier than the bracket anticipates, or is it bracket 3 because it is not resilient enough to win through interaction?

A lot of people scream the importance of supporting local businesses, but I am not in the business of paying several dollars extra per item just to say I didn’t buy from Walmart.

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If you're offering a product that is unique to your shop or comparably priced items like produce, I can get behind supporting that. But I'm not buying Fruit Loops for $8, when the massive companies sell them for $4.

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Yes, I know that a lot of times the corporations are either selling at a loss on some items or only able to sell so low because they get massive bulk discount rates. I find neither of those to be convincing justifications for choosing the higher priced location.

I played commander for a long time with a group of friends, never playing at an LGS, but that group has since stopped playing together due to all moving.

I decided recently I wanted to try to get back into commander at a LGS. I have two decks that are entirely real cards, and seven decks that are fully proxied (all 100 cards, including lands lol). The proxies are full-art proxies from MPC. Since the entire deck is proxied, there is no disparity in how the cards feel.

I didn't go crazy with building outrageously expensive proxied decks. Most would cost $300-400 if built with real cards, and usually slot in around bracket 3 or really low bracket 4.

I just don't know if I am expected to volunteer that my decks are proxied before playing with people.

I'm just now getting back into EDH after a few years of not playing, and I've admittedly never been the best deckbuilder.

I've tried to build decks like [[Atla Palani, Nest Tender]] and [[Helga, Skittish Seer]] with the main theme being cheating out big creatures. However, the issues I have run into are that the decks do very little if the commander is not on the board, and the commanders are a magnet for removal. So, I basically just usually get stuck with a hand full of high CMC creatures that I am turns away from playing.

Is it possible to lessen the glass cannon-element of decks like these without abandoning the theme of slapping down huge creatures?

I started a job in the last year that happens to include a section on the commute where these convoys frequently connect from one highway to another, so I see oversize load convoys probably once or twice a week.

There are two behaviors that I am really wondering about. The first is that their trail cars will often cut drivers off. Like I will watch their trail car wait until drivers are 2-3 car lengths behind and then quickly swerve over to block them from attempting to pass. They sometimes do this when the oversized load is not currently blocking both lanes.

The other one is that these convoys run red lights all the time. An example of this that I saw the other day was the lead car went through on a yellow, stopped in the middle of the intersection so that the truck could go through on red, and then two trailing cars also ran the red light behind the truck.

I understand these loads might need to get creative on how to navigate the roads, but I am just curious if behaviors like these are technically legal?