It is my right as an American to copy Shahrazad 17 times

The main issue with Recurring Nightmare is the fact that, because of the way it was worded, it's nearly impossible to interact with outside of countering it outright. The return to hand text is part of the activation cost, so upon resolution, you hold priority and activate it, and it's back in your hand before anyone else gets priority to remove it.

One of the most reasonable one of these videos I've seen. Panoptic mirror is too cool to stay banned. Golos is defo super unbannable imo. There are plenty of generically powerful commanders, its kinda shocking they banned a commander for being boring. He would definitely be a strong commander, casual and cedh, although I'm really not convinced he'd be the strongest, but I didn't play cEDH when he was legal so idk how he was. I also wanted to add that I really like building a deck with a companion. I play with friends online so we build a lot of decks and usually bring new ones every week, and its kinda a joy to be experimenting with different restrictions that allows you to build around another creature. I made a WUBRG jegantha deck and an artifacts zirda deck and they are both a blast. Neither need the companion but breweing around them and using them to get value feels great. It's my hot take that companion is awesome for commander and limited but absolutely horrendous for 60 card constructed, and they should have figure out some way to exclude it from the 1v1. I am almost entirely a limited player so maybe my MOM draft shaped rose tinted glasses make me like companion more than it deserves.

Agree with most of your list but no one playing Emrakul ever plans on getting 15 mana lol. Decks that build around it plan on cheating it out early as 3 mana with Show and Tell. Those decks aren't that good but i think the ban is justified as you either get the big bungus creature and win, or you brick 8 turns on a row and lose. Not much inbetween.

First time I ever heard of Emrakul costing 15 mana lol

My playgroup had a proxy no ban list commander game where my buddy did end up copying shahrazad like 20 times

Back when I was in high school, I used Flash in my (very bad) Riku deck. Flashing in Primordial and copying it with Riku was so fun. Banning those two was probably the right decision.

@18:28 The big problem with Limited Resources is the low cost and the second clause. In a four player game, the hard board limit of 10 lands total stops all land plays until Limited Resources is removed, since there will be at most ~20 lands (5*4) which can be back breaking for color fixing, since you generally don't remove your own lands.

Limited resources is a problem if it comes out too early, like turn 1 or 2. 10 lands split into 4 players pretty unfairly, two players get 3 lands and two players get 2 lands.

Shaman of Forgotten Ways is basically Biorhythm on a creature for a few more mana and an extra condition. Still no hard to hit, though. Emrakul, yeah, I don't see why she is banned. Maybe back when she was printed she was harder to deal with, but we have so many board wipes, sacrifice effects, hell, even Shriekmaw can take her down.

NOOOO, don't remove companions, I think the deckbuilding restriction is really fun to build around, especially in commander where everything is available. I think a better solution is just to either ban lutri as a companion or print another lutri that doesn't have companion.

The proublem with aeons torn is it is almost imposable to ineteact with and since it is collorless it can go in any cheat/fast mana shell and would function as a better blightsteel

I feel like paradox engine would be fine and nice in cEDH but it would just make some artifact decks absolutely explode LGS tables on commander tuesdays. Like, my Myr deck could just play Cryptolith Rite turn 1 or 2, Urtet and some manarocks, play the Paradox Engine and tap infinitely, make Urtet and all Myr infinitely big and since it's an artifact it's decently easy to tutor in WUBRG. Would I put it in and make it so consistent? Probably not, since it'd make it too competetive... But maybe that's good? I feel there are too few "power level 8" decks. Strong enough to be frowned upon in rando pods, but too weak for cEDH. Idk. Or maybe people just rarely make those (to me) sweetspot decks.

Great video! Well thought out. I disagree on Fastbond, Gifts Ungiven, and Hullbreacher. I played in a rule 0 group with Fastbond, and all of the decks that weren't lands decks cut it. Gifts Ungiven I think is Intuition but you get 2 cards. 2 kinda Demonic Tutors at instant speed is scary to me. Hullbreacher 2 card combos with wheels in your deck, and also 1 card instant speed combos with your opponents' wheels. Not even Thoracle typically does this. I also think Balance is kinda too good, after testing, but would be willing to budge. Golos was the most egregious ban in rules committee history. Golos was banned for being too popular. At the time, a very powerful Kenrith list was popular in cEDH. I think the mark of a good design is a card that is really popular without being too strong. They literally banned a card BECAUSE it was a good, healthy design, which is absurd. I think if I woke up as the rules committee tomorrow, I would ban Thoracle, Breach, and Dockside, and unban Fastbond, Sylvan Primordial, Braids, Golos, Recurring Nightmare, Paradox Engine, and obviously all of the cards in the bottom tier which I think you're completely spot on about

With fast mana we either need to get rid of the rest of it or just allow the ones banned. I can't take people seriously who say sol ring is fine but a mox isn't all the while they are proxying gaea's craddle.

These takes are based, Id put balance higher up personally since if you play only artifacts/enchantments its just 2 mana boardwipe and get past indestructible, and beyond that use it is somewhat versatile. Its just 2 mana too cheap for my taste. Although I'm definitely more of a casual player to cedh

Magda would love Paradox Engine.

I think Primeval Titan should at least be in "Strong but fine", but probably in "Maybe". I see why it's banned, but it might not need to be. One thing about Dockside is it requires opponents to have artifacts and enchantments, which they usually do, but not always. With prime time you always have lands in your deck, and it just fetches out Gaia's Cradle or other powerful lands. As far as paradox engine, I think it absolutely should stay banned. It can be abused so easily. Saying, "It doesn't go in EVERY deck" is a moot point. It could be built around so easily that it would warp the format immediately.

I cried the day paradox engine was banned, and will continue to bitch about it until the end of time.

I miss paradox engine too!

I find it really interesting that you put sundering titan in a different spot than primoridial

17:52 think of braids this way. The braids player goes first and manages to put her into play on turn 2 after a lucky turn 1 sol ring play. You have until your upkeep to remove her before you have to sacrifice your only permanent; a simply forest. Oh and you have to do this at instant speed with only 1 mana available. And this is not counting all of the crazy shit CEDH players can do to put her down on turn 1. In the 99, I guess she’s fine, it’s annoying but whatever. But as a commander, it’s absolutely backbreaking for most decks.

As someone who is just now getting into CEDH and built Blue Farm, any talk of bans makes me extremely nervous. I quit constructed formats like standard, modern and Legacy because I was sick of bans happening constantly.

Unban black lotus coward

I want Tinker so baaaaddd lmaooooo. It’s too op, an auto include as you’d say but FUCK it’s a hysterical card

I believe the reason Sundering Titan is banned is because it really hard stomps mono-colored decks, which are already relatively underpowered. I do agree it probably shouldn't be banned but that is probably why.

my deck has 3 was to cast emrakul for free so i guess i get it but i want it in my deck anyway lol

#UnbanEmrakul #FreeEmrakul

LET THE OTTER SWIM FREE

I think emrakul is fine in the command zone, because it is harder to cheat her out. But when it is in the 99 there are just so many ways to cheat her out that i get why she is banned. As a colorless eldrazi player, i still want her to be released.

YES! UNBAN EMMY

This video sounded mostly like "I opened these cards that are on the banlist, please let me play them. These other cards I don't have can stay banned."

You put, like, nothing in Not Healthy, when a lot of those things deserved “Not healthy”

Dockside is inherently fair