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Legendary Creature - Orc Advisor

Whenever one or more creatures attack one of your opponents or a planeswalker they control, those creatures gain menace until end of turn.

Whenever one of your opponents attacks the opponent with the most cards in hand, you and that player each draw a card.

Whenever a player attacks one of your opponents, if that opponent has more land than another of your opponents, you and that attacking player create a tapped treasure token.

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This was made with inspiration from one of the recent Planeswalker's Guide to Tarkir articles, "Due to their centrally located territory, the Mardu establish treaties with other clans to protect trading caravans from dragons or other clans, taking a portion of the traded goods as payment."

Create a Sultai farmer as inspired from the article, or wild.

Idk what MtG content you consume, but I'd suggest checking out the EDHRecast episode where they talk to Gavin Verhey about the Bracket system, and some of the current shortcomings of the system. A general TL;DW, since the video is 1.5 hours (you can start around the 10 min mark tbh):

• They are very aware about Bad Actors who may misrepresent their deck, which will always be an issue regardless of these types of systems and their intentions. Some people just suck.

• The Bracket system is intended more so as a "common language" for matchmaking with people that are outside of our typical play groups and LGSs. Players with consistent play groups tend to have a sense of who & what they'll commonly play against, & (hopefully) assess threats accordingly.

• The Game Changer list is subject to change, and will hopefully be evaluated and updated every 3-6 months. The list could shrink if feedback from players is strong enough that certain cards aren't as impactful, or to your point, that players have a collective threat assessment to deal with cards on the list.

I think that Brackets are a decent starting point, and we are still only 3 weeks into collectively thinking about and implementing this beta version of this tool. I think that the differentiation between Brackets 3 & 4 need a bit more work, and will hopefully be addressed in the update/launch at the end of April. Generally speaking, I think this is less vague and subjective than the "Power level 1-10" scale which was commonly thrown around.

Tarkir is definitely up there for my favorite planes. I think it's a toss up between Tarkir and Theros for me, mostly because those were the two newest planes when I first started playing around 2013.

I'll give the edge to Tarkir, mostly because at the time I was bummed out that I missed out on Kamigawa, and Shards of Alara seemed really cool as a three color set, so Tarkir was like a combination of aesthetics and concepts that I missed out on.

One of my key MtG related memories from that time was the day that Tarkir was spoiled by WotC. My best friend and I were still in college. We bought and devoured an entire Costco pizza between the two of us as we watched the Tarkir reveal. Mardu's key art from Mardu Ascendancy stood out to me most from the reveal, and I knew that was the faction that I wanted to play most.

Alesha, Who Smiles at Death was one of my favorite characters from Khan block, and would go on to be one of my first favorite commanders a few years later. Her story is one of my favorites from MtG, so I was glad when she returned in Foundations.

Overall, I'm pretty excited for Dragonstorm on the horizon.

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Given that Edge of Eternities draws heavy inspiration from the Space Opera genre of sci-fi, I don't think it is out of the realm of possibility for it to be Magic, instead of of Space: the Convergence.

Two of the most famous Space Operas are the Star Wars and Dune, both of which blend various elements of high fantasy and sci-fi. It's not out of the realm of imagination for Jedi to read as "Space Wizards", or the Houses of Dune to read like royal courts from a setting with knights and magic.

The Destiny franchise, which is also listed as a Space Opera features technology which is incredibly advanced, centered on weapons and armor treated with mythical reverence. Compared to Star Wars and Dune, its advanced technology reads the most like magic, and often borders on magic, depending on the factions in the franchise. I call out Destiny and Dune specifically, because the armors present in the EoE teaser article bear similarities to the armor aesthetics of both franchises.

I think that the blend of Sci-fi and fantasy is ultimately tied together by Clarke's third law that "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

Although Kenrith, the Returned King isn't queer, would you count him since Kieran Yanner based the art on his husband?

I'm excited to see where you go with this, especially as you flesh out your primer some more. Just a few ideas off the top:

• Vault of the Archangel - Helpful in a pinch if you have the mana for it, but I think has some extra value in this deck as a quick life gain anthem for your board.

• Serra Ascendant would be a great aggro threat for this deck, if not too on the nose lol.

• Lunar Convocation - Seems like it could be a decent value fit with everything your deck wants to do.

• The Gaffer could be a consistent draw piece

• Celestine, the Living Saint - More Betor redundancy.

• Witch of the Moors offers some removal and redundancy to Betor.

That makes sense. The only other thing I could think of would be adding some more utility lands like Command Beacon and Plaza of Heroes as additional means to protect Skittles or dodge commander tax. I've been including them in my decks that rely on the commander wading into and surviving combat.

I think it's too surprising Goldberserkerdragon lol. Skittles has been around like 15 years at this point, so it's not super surprising to have some homogeneity across decks, especially being limited to one color.

I know this isn't an aristocrats deck, but would you consider Braids, Arisen Nightmare as a draw/removal piece? You have plenty of non-creature permanents to feed her.

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Lol I'll get back to you on the bachelor stuff. Wishing your friend the best on their special day!

Oh dang that's been a while then lol. Warleader's Call is definitely a great one. In terms of stuff that's dropped since 2023 that I think is worth taking a look at:

• Fear of Missing Out - For a low end extra combat effect.

• Generous Plunderer is cool. I've liked it when it's stuck around.

• Enduring Innocence

• General Kreat, the Boltbringer - Token generation and Impact Tremors all in one body.

• Kambal, Profiteering Mayor - Fun way to leech off other token strats.

• Enduring Courage - Just Ogre Battledriver with additional resiliency.

• Giggling Skitterspike

• Rev, Tithe Extractor - Def one of the more pricey options, mostly due to limited print in Jumpstart & Waifu Tax.

• Warren Warleader - If you'd like another Hero of Bladehold-esque effect. Could replace Leonin Warleader.

Congratulations on your big day! I'm glad that everything went well and was a great time for you and your family. I'm going to a couple of weddings in May, and will be part of one of my friend's bachelor festivities at the end of March (not looking forward to it lol).

Lmk if you'd like some suggestions for Isshin updates. I have a few creatures I can think of off the top. Not sure how far back you're thinking with "the last few sets", but thankfully the last couple haven't had too many options to sift through. I'm a bit relieved I can focus more on brewing new stuff and upgrading others.

Congrats on the over 9k views! Also big congrats on tying the knot recently, if I'm remembering correctly.

Extinct, Necramus (pensive sad emoji)

My friends and I did an EDH "tournament" for someone's birthday about 3-4 years ago. I'll have to ask if any of them still have the scoring rubric around, but I vaguely remember that infinites weren't outright banned or limited, but were slightly discouraged by giving players a -1 to their overall score if they won a game via an infinite combo. We've all changed our views since and welcome just about anything now.

I agree with wallisface regarding threat assessment and not discouraging a major archetype of the game. Not all combos are created equally, but most "casual" (not-cEDH) level ones are fairly telegraphed in advance. Once you know what common combo pieces are, it can shortcut what to save your removal and instant speed interaction on.

Instead of outright banning, or at least limiting the number of triggers, I'd encourage you and your friends to still include combos. As a step further, if you all haven't already, I'd recommend sharing your deck lists with each other for full transparency of what combos could be present. I check out my friends' deck lists that they publish before we get together for sessions to get a sense of updates and other pre-game threat assessments.

I was talking last night with a couple of friends regarding how we list our Brackets for our decks. Although the majority of our decks are B3 due to Game Changer inclusion and other criteria, we feel that a growing sentiment for our decks is "B3 is the floor based on the baseline criteria being met, but B4 is a more accurate ceiling based on optimization in the deck that the Beta doesn't take into account yet".

We also speculated a bit on cards that aren't on Game Changers list, but could feasibly end up on there: Teferi's Protection, probably Deflecting Swat, free counterspells, mass edict effects like Dictate of Erebos, and stax like others have mentioned.

All that being said, I'm going to start retroactively adding a "Bracket Intentions" section to the primers of decks I currently have in irl rotation & outline my view on the floor vs ceiling.

Lol I've got my one copy of Dockside tucked away in my binder. I last had it in my Satya, Aetherflux Genius deck, it was about as filthy as you could imagine. I think if Dockside were unbanned I'd probably put it back in Satya or one of my reanimator decks.

Judith seems like a lot of fun! Definitely something new for Rakdos. Spellslinger is one of those archetypes that never feels quite right for me the times I've had one in rotation. Maybe I just haven't played the right one for me.

Lol yeah Goldberserkerdragon, Glaring Spotlight, Shadowspear, & Arcane Lighthouse are that trifecta.

I haven't looked at this deck in forever, as if Dockside not being swapped out didn't make it obvious enough lol.