r/EDH

Hello everybody,

I'm thinking about making new commander deck in esper colors that is based on enchantments.
My picks so far:
[[aminatou, veil piercer]]
[[The Master of Keys]]
[[Alela, Artful Provacateur]]

My main goal is to make it as fun as possible and 2-3 bracket kind of deck.

Would be great to hear your experiance with those commanders. Maybe you have better idea regarding commander that is also esper enchantment based - I would also like to hear those as well.

Like legit I am not having a dig at you or anything. And I get "nice tits" as a braindead horny ape but for real though why? You can't use them at LGS's. You can't use them at most discord things. Even if you are doing literally kitchen table most people generally don't like the gooner sex pest (But if you got that friend group and they are cool with that. Thats awesome more power to you!). But I seriously do not think the VAST majority of people buying them have that that opportunity for the kitchen table environment where they are suitable. Its also not like they will be visually recognizable across the table. So people are gonna be like "where the fuck is the elesh norn" only for you to flash them with a card? Do you guys swap them out of your decks before you go to the LGS just to put them back in when you get back home? Do you collect gooner proxies? I genuinely do not understand how this market is so large.

Bit of a rant incoming. TLDR, if you're playing EDH at an LGS on a weekly basis, don't take it for granted.

I've only been in the game for a couple years, but what really hooked me was the Friday night Commander scene at my LGS. They had a thing going where there were certain achievements you could get during a game, with a few random new ones swapped in each week. The player(s) with the most points after the first game got a promo pack, and you could stay and jam for hours and hours. It officially started at 5:00pm, but you had to be there by 4:30 or you probably weren't going to get a seat in a pod, that's how popular it was. Participation was free, but I assume the shop made a killing through people buying pre-cons, packs, sleeves, drinks, you name it.

Fast forward about 6 months. The guy who printed the achievement sheet finds a new job, and no one steps in to take up the torch. The rest of the staff collectively decides that the format (Commander) is dead, and moves on to more interesting things like Modern, Vintage, and so on. Eventually, Commander events are demoted from Friday nights to Saturday afternoons, ending precisely at 5:00 to allow for the next event to start. More recently, with the rapid release of new sets, they've been cutting back on Commander time to make room for more pre-releases, making it an every-other-week thing now, at best. Attendance for Commander has accordingly all but dried up, with maybe two three-pods on a good day.

I guess I'm just frustrated. I read posts here about people playing EDH every week, and I'll be honest, I'm jealous. It's kind of a spread out community here, and Commander night was a great way to be all in the same place and catch up with friends. It was consistent, it was fun, and it's what got me into the game. These days, I might play a game or two in a month. If you have a popping EDH scene at your LGS, don't take it for granted, folks. It could disappear just like that.

As someone who started off playing 60 card formats and as time went on migrated to commander a while back I have a question for those of you in this community who seem frustrated about consistency and the increasing redundancy we are seeing in Commander. Why?

From what I can tell there seems to be a couple different sections this community seems to dislike:

• Staples
• Popular strategies that synergize well with a specific commander, ie Elfball commanders doing Elfball things, etc.
• Functional multiples of stronger cards

This is by no means a conclusive list, but I am just generally curious as to what the frustration is or the seeming imperative you are operating under. I could make some educated guesses, but I would prefer an open dialogue than some assumed appropriation of your interests and objectives.

P.S. This isn't a post about burnout or social interactions that happen at a table. This is strictly talking about the card design "slope" we seem to find ourselves on and general deckbuilding principles. Individual people are going to handle different situations differently and I don't think there's productive conversation to have about anecdotal scenarios is necessary.

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