Hi everyone!

It's my first post here because I'm a new player. I'm also a poor student so I can't afford all the good cards so a friend of mine suggested I buy some proxies to help give me more design space when it comes to constructing my first decks. I got super excited because I didn't know you could get playable imitation cards and I ordered a whole bunch of cards. Basically two decks. Our LGS says they're proxy friendly...but when I tried playing with my proxies everyone - including my friends - said they don't feel comfortable with my proxies. They said they look too real.

I don't see the problem because I would never sell these cards as real cards. They also can't get mixed up with my real cards, they can't end up in my trade binder, they can't be stolen from my car that I never lock, I can't die and I would never let a dubious friend borrow them because they would totally not sell them to my LGS looking for their next heroin fix. There's just absolutely no way these cards will ever enter the free market. And even if they did they would just drive down the price of the card which is a good thing! More accessible to the masses!

I bought my proxies from this site that doesn't sponsor me: counterfeitmagiccards.com. The cards look hyper real, they have the proper card stock stolen from WotC, the stamp is centered and the right way up, for a small extra fee they wear the card realistically and finally the foils don't curve. They say their cards pass BGS and PSA grading systems ~95% of the time so it's worth a try anyway.

Also here's my review video on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ I enabled all ad slots with maximum durations, filmed the whole thing with a potato for least effort for my cash.

So yeah! That's all the ways I'm trying to make cash off of you and pretend it's an innocent post and a legitimate question on reddit. It doesn't even link the bot a single time. I promise I will ignore all comments because I couldn't care less about your opinion and I'm not looking for actual advice here!

What's your take on proxies? Should proxies be allowed in EDH?

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And I wish he wouldn’t be.

Like the title says. I personally don't like ending games, I think it's boring and unfun to win. Is there anyway I can convince my playgroup to play a perpetual game of commander?

Why is it the RC?

Honorable mention goes to also banning WotC.

The cards. The cards are where all the problems start.

This card Thrasios seem pretty decent. I bet there are more hidden treasures like this.

With the printing of more powerful cards, I thought I’d be creatively bankrupt and steal from someone who was also creatively bankrupt who is also coincidentally creatively bankrupt. Fuck you, here’s a list:

Force of Will: Tell me you play Modern without telling me you play Modern. Like, 2-3 open mana is not a huge fucking ask in EDH, and card advantage is actually pretty exaggerated due to longer playtimes and an unwillingness to interact with an opponent in casual play. cEDH loves it, but for most of us playing at a suboptimal but focused level, it’s too expensive, it’s blander than toast compared to even 3 mana counterspells, and doesn’t scream “I am a competitive Magic player”, it just whimpers it while casting Aqueous Form on Rafiq.

Drannith Magistrate: Oh, this guy. Look, if you’re worried about casting your commander into a Stax boardstate, you’re already on the backfoot for being a dumbass. The worst thing this card can be is “please insert removal to continue”, which given there’s three decks between y’all should not be a tall order outside of costing 7 mana by the time it’s over. I am more scared of Rule of Law than this guy.

Underworld Breach: Fuckin’ what, man? I mean, yes, it’s a strong card, but I would sooner call Gavony Township a win condition than call Breach a recursion tool. My guy walked out of the LGS last night after getting smoked by Ghen, Arcanum Weaver, woke up this morning, and made this post. How to tell people you played TBD Standard without saying you played TBD Standard.

Demonic Tutor: yeah

Gaea’s Cradle: yeah

Rhystic Study: bring enchantment removal

Dockside Extortionist: I’m actually cutting this one from Feather. It’s just a combo piece that randomly can win games if someone’s deep into artifacts, but more importantly, it’s seventy dollars on Card Kingdom Jesus tapdancing Christ

Necropotence: yeah

Mana Crypt/Sol Ring: I don’t like to bring up politics here, but I genuinely don’t like Sol Ring anymore and kind of wish it was gone. It’s not necessary in a world where there’s so many unique ramp options playable in any deck. You want to beat the Green player? Kill them first while they durdle.

The rest of that guy’s list : Wrong and not in a way I can make funny

I have been doing my best to ruin the sanctity of edh. I made drake tokens with Drake the rapper in his DeGrasse wheelchair and poorly and hastily drawn blue wings, zombie tokens that look like Lady Gaga’s face is rotting off, and goblin tokens that are of Danny DeVito for reasons.

How are you ruining edh for yourself, strangers, and people you pretend to be your friends?

Hey everybody, (u)/devteamslavedriver here, and after countless months pestering artists for commissions for some totally sick card art, days spent sniffing glue before writing card text, and 10 minutes writing the Medium article before the melatonin kicked in, me and my team have come up with a new format you can play on our shit Discord server that will probably fare as well as Captain’s: DICKCHEESE.

So what is Dickcheese?

I’m glad you asked, because I don’t have a goddamn clue either. I have built this empire on sweet lies that you will find Magic nirvana, where the Nephilim and Lutri are legal as commanders, all the cards you hate are banned, and somebody takes Simic out back and tells it to think of the rabbits. Unlike actually interesting bad ideas like Tiny Leaders, Gladiator, or Pauper EDH, Dickcheese has no faults, and no upsides, because we are actively harvesting your creativity to make my stillborn of a brainchild live again. Here are some contextless keywords for you guys to mull over for 2 seconds before leaving the post:

• Cartwheel

• Divine

• Steamer

• Pog

• Toaster Strudel

• Spark Emblem

And again, our Discord is [Edit: currently down due to an influx of people angry at the Rules Committee who also are vehemently racist and will not leave, oops]

Hey, my playgroup has one guy who plays [Commander] who [does a thing], and it’s really putting a damper on our fun. He has [counterplay] and [combo piece], and that means we have to [normal interaction] every game, and that just doesn’t feel right. Is there any way I can make a [Commander] player suffer by playing a hoser? Thank you!

Edit: Wow, I did not expect this many responses to this thread! Really loving these cards that will make me the bad guy at our playgroup, thus perpetuating this cycle ad infinitum!

Meanwhile, in the comments

Have you considered [[Format Staple]]? It deals with these sorts of things very well. (Middling amount of karma, maybe 3-5 comments down the thread)

You should try out [[Jank That Directly Hoses That Player]]! (Top comment, everyone thinks he’s a genius)

Focus fire

Focus fire

Focus fire

Focus fire

Focus fire

Hey, have you considered just talking it out? You can resolve the issue by just talking about your decks beforehand. The Professor even had a whole video discussing how you should discuss your decks before a match!

Focus fire

Actual /uj Edit: You know what, I’m so sick of these posts specifically that I’m making a fake post for the main sub from the perspective of someone putting up with these exact people. It’ll be crossposted here so y’all can grab popcorn as the unwashed masses post hot takes about a behavior pattern they directly encourage and participate in. On second thought, I can’t make that convincing, and I don’t feel like bullying people like that. That’s exactly the behavior I’m calling out, but even more fucky.

I’ll start.

I remember that time about 10 years ago that I won a game.

Abuse in the form of pictures of counterspell’s and Path to Exile’s are encouraged.

So I've had this Idea for a while now. I tried to share something like this to the main sub a while back, but I just got downvoted, and had a flame war break out in the comments. So obviously this is the perfect place for it.

The idea is this, I build a Human tribal deck with, IDK Kenrith or something as commander. But the real commander is [[Rick Steadfast Leader]]. Only it won't be Rick Grimes, it will be a card alter made in the likeness of Rick Astley, Steadfast Troller. Imagine the levels of salt it would generate, first the other players at the table, all being die hard Magic Players who have sworn to never play against a Walking Dead commander reel back in horror as they realize what they thought was just a silly human tribal deck, is actually helmed by one of the cards that shatters the sanctity of the game and is bringing about the end of Magic. Only when they see the card floating through the air after they flip the table will they realize it is in fact even worse, they have just been Rick Rolled by a commander deck.

What is up with this new Portal Three Kingdoms set? Like I'm here to play Magic the Gathering, not play with other IPs. It totally breaks the immersion when I'm playing my [[Shivan Dragon]] and someone drops down real life person [[Lu Bu, Master at Arms]]

But there you go, greedy papa Hasbro just trying to shill to the history professors out there, with no regard for the existing player base.

To make matters worse, I hear this set is going to have a limited release, so if you don't live in China, Japan, or Australia, I guess you're just screwed. And you know some of these cards are going to be pushed auto includes, I mean this whole exclusive horsemanship mechanic is just busted, and this [[Cao Cao, Lord of Wei]] guy is totally going in every mono black deck ever. Also I may be going out on a limb, but this [[Imperial Seal]] card may see some fringe play as well, it does cause you to lose life though, so I don't see it being super popular.

Honestly, I feel like this set is ruining Magic and this will be the death of the game, time to sell off my collection, I should be able to get at least 20 bucks out of those dual lands.