Consider the Simian

saw blink yesterday, was blown away by how much I liked it!

ride on time is an all time classic

peak

guess what bitch is frying me

no but and I've been checking all of the replies to this thread, I still have yet to see an actual answer?? can you please provide an example of a thing an agent has written and how it was useful??

psychic attack

bosh pack eclipse them if you lorwyn

Swarmlord Eats His Babies - Commander (The Swarmlord) A deck created using Moxfield.

Slow day so I brewed it:
moxfield.com/decks/lXeYue...

I wonder if like, Temur Aristocrats is anything? effects that make creatures enter with counters, free sac outlets like greater good, goblin bombardment, thermopod? doesn't say non token creature, and can use the green life's legacy effect to take advantage of swarmlord getting bigger and bigger

I listened to wallsocket when you posted about it once and it became my album of the year

these cook supremely

that there's something else now, the misery he inflicted on himself and others didn't completely ruin his life, and moving on from his dream isn't the death that he was running from? it's not inspiring, just acknowledgement that he's not going to be the best and that's not going to kill him

I don't know, I think safdie's pretty on point here. Marty isn't a good person and it's not meant to be uplifting, but I don't think the breakdown is entirely despair or selfishness. I think he's finally stopped the breakneck sprint of his obsession and his child does represent

hey man fuck you

Seconding the questions regarding Tamiyo and the One Ring!

genuinely even if it was just that all the non special cube packs were standard legal packs at least that meaningfully grows your collection but at present it's like yay amonkhet draft rares I will proceed to do nothing with these

yeah it's crazy how it's priced like a standard draft format when
1. it's phantom
2. it's got power 9 variance
3. you don't even get the "special packs" until like 4 wins
4. the other packs are just like, random packs on arena???

genuinely arena cube was fun because it was low stakes and cheap

the drew gooden i sure hope it does

uh yeah, I sure hope it was

it's been a month

yeah it probably won't be that consequential either way so I won't be that bothered if they do it either and deep down I'm ready to admit that I too would like to put ognis in more decks

cool! ultimately I still would probably not put the hybrid cards in if it were my choice, but thanks for sharing your opinion because I feel like i know a lot more about the argument for it!

interesting! that's compelling with the original expansion to include card text. do you think there's a value in keeping the color pie restrictive? would commander be better if it was like the arena format gladiator, where there wasn't a deckbuilding restriction on color?

oh whoops you did sorry phone moment

yeah that's fair and consistent with the earlier points! any thoughts on the other q? sorry if it's not clear I've been having a tough time understanding the other side of this one so I'm genuinely interested in the rationale which has been good so far!

so why change the rules? if you can already rule zero hybrid cards, what's the need to make it official?

I mean, I think the whole point of having the rules at all is creating a common play experience so it doesn't really matter if I don't use them, it will change that landscape in ways I am arguing against

I'd be interested in your opinion on non-monocolored decks, like running jinnie fay in simic, or ognis the dragon's lash in izzet. Is that an overall positive? and I'd also be interested in your thoughts on what you think the point of color identity in commander is abstractly too

I mean i don't think if they did this it would be the end of the format right, I just don't think it would be positive. Do you think adding these cards to the format like this would be greatly positive? have an outsized good impact on brewing?

a thing I think (?) we do agree on is that there would be a point of color pie breakdown that would be bad, like a green counterspell or black artifact removal, and I guess the tension here is you place more value on the expanded options than I place against the increased color pie breaks

I mean it's going to be tough getting anywhere if we don't agree on color pie integrity but my argument remains that the tradeoff is having more deckbuilding options in exchange for every color having an increased amount of breaks and that that tradeoff makes the game less fun