One of my student hit me for 2 once. I swung for 27 the next turn lol

All hail our KZfaq overlord Heather!

@@ZephyrKelseyo/ o/ o/

Hope today was better

WIth - if you can afford it - Hazezon Tamar in the 99.

Yeag. The treasure everyone was hunting for at Thunder Junction was a mascot character called Loot that has a comprehensive, auto-updating map of the multiverse in his head. Jace and Vraska have adopted this child and are planning something pretty big for the multiverse.

As Maldhound put it, Jace busts raw.

@@johncameron1935 He does, but the child was still an adopted one.

More like Gen X magic.

I was surprised they used the Finkel art too. They don’t do that often.

Not everyone lost their spark

Just decided to keep the game simple. BUT we use the bounties on the upcoming EDSC (should be out Monday the 15th). Spoilers: they’re fun and don’t overly warp the game.

@@LRRMTG Understandble. Nice! Looking forward to see this game.

Commander has always been complex, that's inherent to the nature of the format where people can build up big boardstates and players have inflated life totals. Play Limited if you want simplicity.

First off, what about that is upsetting? Secondly, as you see the deck does more with Green than just let you cast Villainous Wealth. Stealing the opponents' cards is a major payoff, but the deck also has a major theme of saboteur effects which Green has a ton of, and Green provides the ramp in order to cast the spells that Gonti exiles from the opponents' libraries.

@@Mordalon Because I prefer the consistency of 2-color mana bases over the versatility of 3-color mana bases when it comes to commander. I like building within restrictions. Yeah, I _could_ build it as a Dimir deck, but the problem now arises that if I want to ever cast Gonti, I have to at the very least splash for green, which is something I don't want to do. Everything on the card are things that are mechanically within Dimir's part of the color pie, so it would still be mechanically sound without green. Also, while the deck has a saboteur subtheme, that doesn't necessitate the addition of green. It very well could play around with that mechanic without green. As for ramp, you don't need green to do that either. Mana rocks do more or less the same thing at a similar rate, and every color has access to those. If you specifically want to tutor lands to the battlefield, yeah you'll probably need to dip into green, but nothing about this strategy specifically needs land ramp. Finally, there's also the fact that Aetherborn, _especially_ Gonti, are philosophically Black, with the occasional dip into Blue. Nothing about his character is philosophically Green. The addition of Green was strictly mechanical, and makes the card less interesting as a result. In short, I don't like that they made Gonti have green for dubious at best reasons. I would have much more liked the card if it were just Dimir. If I want to play this deck the way I want, I guess I just need to keep Tasha in the command zone, despite being more attached to the character and aesthetic of Gonti.

@@ToxicAtom Your preferences aren't the only ones that matter. There's tons of Blue/Black Commanders that steal stuff and care about saboteur effects, while this Gonti and Felix Five-boots are the only Sultai commanders to care about building around this. It's a design space that Green has leaned into almost as much as Dimir, so it makes sense to have a commander that cares about that. It's not "dubious", it's just a way they design commanders that has been the case for a long, long time. And a character's colors don't have to be just about their personal philosopies. Many of Maro's answers about fictional character colors take into account both personalities as well as their physical attributes and abilities. For example, what made the Sultai on Tarkir Green in the first place?