New Commander Bans :(

Commander (EDH) forum

Posted on Sept. 23, 2024, 4:04 p.m. by Mortlocke

No Mana Crypts or Jeweled Lotuses for anyone! oh, and no Dockside Extortionists as well. I'm an enfranchised player, so I don't like this announcement. I just lost hundreds of dollars in value for each of my decks. Also, it slows down games considerably. When I sit down at a table, I communicate - I tell everyone what i'm running so we can have a collective experience we all want. But when a rules committee comes down from on high and decides to restrict strong and viable pieces that is very worrying. What next? Fetchlands? Original dual lands? Sol Ring? I just want to know when will all of their meddling end? I can understand banning something that is outright format warping like Paradox Engine - but Mana Crypt? It's as though the committee expects the other 3 players at the table are only playing battle cruiser decks with 0 interaction. What's worst though is Jeweled Lotus. Banning the card that was made specifically for Commander and is only a blank card in other formats. That's a very short sighted ban that I don't understand. I have rarely seen Jeweled Lotus in the wild but when I do I don't see it getting used more than once a game. I think the rules committee is blinded by their short sighted vision for commander in that it should be reduced to players stuck in forever long games using decks that have 0 interaction waiting for their battlecruiser to finally be online.

Caerwyn says... #2

There is already a thread on this topic, which is located here. Please use that thread to discuss the announcement.

To prevent duplicative threads on the same subject, I am locking this one.

September 23, 2024 4:10 p.m.