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The Future Of Commander: My Unfiltered Thoughts (also I open Duskmourn Collector Booster packs)

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@TolarianCommunityCollege Creator 2 years ago (edited) Pinned

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@TCC180 2 years ago

It began with the printing of the Great Rings. Three were given to the Elves, immortal, wisest and fairest of all beings. Seven to the Dwarf-Lords, great miners and craftsmen of the mountain halls. And twenty-five, twenty-five rings were gifted to the whatnot stream, who above all else desire power.

@ectro24 2 years ago

The commander discourse will continue until morale improves

@emmitgandlodder 2 years ago

“It’s a common, Michael. What could it cost, a dollar?”

@insainraven9875 2 years ago

Truly my favorite type of non-podcast podcast.

@michel0dy 2 years ago

All the serious conversation aside, it did give me a little laugh when Prof proudly declared "7 dollars!" on a 1 dollar card and then didn't bat an eye on the following 10 dollar card

@mr.unknown5353 2 years ago

"I'm not guessing prices on packs, I don't care." Seemingly neither does WOTC. Its criminal to charge $20-$30 for a pack with $8 worth of cards in it. The fact that these are supposed to be premium packs is amazing.

@releaseTheFiles0 2 years ago

Duskmourn truly feels like it's 50% amazing art and cool themes, and 50% reference slop. The duality of Magic.

@DerronOfCairon 2 years ago

"yes, they should have taken over. No, that is not a good thing."

this is literally been my take all week.
glad we aggre.

@rodgerlang884 1 year ago

Prof, I just want to let you know what a treasure you are to this game and this community. I've basically given up the game after 30 years of playing, but I still keep up with happenings in the slim hope that something might come along that draws me back in. I still watch your videos and listen to your takes because they are calm, measured and thought out. You've given me a lot of entertainment and a lot of information with a bunch of goodwill and I want to say thank you.

@Kaiasky 2 years ago

I'm CACKLING at the jeweled lotus thing 3:20. Imagining the alt world where the prof is giving out banned cards and saying "who knows! maybe they'll be back soon!!"

@Unknown-qj9sm 2 years ago

25:00 My thoughts here are that in my experience rule zero just has never happened at my lgs. I enjoy playing there, it’s just not something that comes up unless someone’s playing an uncard or whatever, so to me a banlist and a thorough one is very important. This same argument you made could be made against the banlist entirely, but I like and think it’s great for the format. The banlist doesn’t stop people from playing the power 9 in their friend group that always has rule 0 convos, it exists to stop a random guy at an lgs curb stomping a new player whose never heard of rule zero in her life.

@mistermaky01 2 years ago

To the editor, I like it when you add the celebration when proff guess the correct price🎉.

I also like the Lego Yoda death sound on SUAP when they drop their cards or knock their deck over. My pod keeps quoting it when it happens to us 😂

@ljaquos 2 years ago

I look forward to the printing of "Bling Lotus" which is a 0 mana artifact that taps and sacs to create 2 mana of any color that must be spent on a commander.

@jlcdavenport6268 2 years ago

Perhaps one of the most painful things about this, is that unless we just assume WotC will run Commander into the ground and kill all value, this outcome means the people who were going crazy and harassing the RC pretty much unquestionably won.

Wizards won't ban their cards, and Wizards will keep balancing the format in a way to ensure MTG cards have a lot of value in the trading market. That's their priorities, the health of the game is secondary. They're getting exactly what they want... unless Commander just falls over.

@oliviauzquiano7392 2 years ago

I think we as a community should explore talking about strategies while talking about specific cards when having rule 0 conversations. I think your strategy or style of deck is much more impactful than specific cards. A deck full of “bracket 4” cards but no strategy won’t do much, but a well built deck, even a budget deck, can run away with the game very quickly. Examples: landfall, storm/spellslinging, grave pact effects, wheels

@MTGUnpacked 2 years ago

I'd like to see more unfiltered Prof discussions like this while opening packs! Good point re the bracket system essentially resulting in soft bans. I wonder if a points system would be better, though getting agreement on quantifying the points would probably be like herding cats.

@austinwilburn1772 2 years ago

One thing I love about him playing the booster box game is no matter what he’s opening, his overall guess is 2x whatever the real price is. It happens almost every time.

@CarterCat60 2 years ago

The professor is so good at being genuine and it’s amazing to see nowadays

@goldenson4566 2 years ago

The bracket system should almost exclusively exist as a warning system to spark conversation on power outlier cards or cards that can generate more consistently strong games. Stuff that is really strong off the rip like Rhystic Study or Smothering Tithe, and also cheap tutor effects like Vampiric Tutor, which can make even a weak deck have an answer to any given situation based on deck building.