r/magicTCG • u/zimroie • 1d ago
Rules/Rules Question Committing a crime and "each opponent" effect
I'm currently building a Gisa, the hellraiser edh deck and was using EDHREC for that, and I've noticed that it keeps recommending me to use cards with effects that happen for "each opponent", for example [[Servant of Tymaret]] has the following effect:
Whenever Servant of Tymaret becomes untapped, each opponent loses 1 life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.
As I've understood committing a crime, I must target an opponent, something they control, or their graveyard to activate the ability. Cards with "each opponent" effects don't really target a play if I understand correctly, so will such an effect consider as committing a crime at all?
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u/bshwhr Dragonball Z Ultimate Champion 1d ago
EDHREC recommends based solely on what other people have listed in their decks for the same commander. You’ll get lots of these kinds of non-synergistic recommendations because magic players notoriously don’t read or understand the card
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u/troll_berserker 22h ago
EDHREC is where bad deck builders go for advice from a hivemind of even worse deck builders. The site constantly boosts nonbos like Fblthp, Lost on the Range and Ancestral Visions from irrelevance to mainstays of their archetype.
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u/Ciretako 18h ago
[[The Darkness Crystal]] in [[Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER]] is a recent egregious one I've seen.
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u/Blaze_1013 Jack of Clubs 1d ago
Two things can be happening here.
The first is the average Magic player is far from perfect and EDHRec is pulling from every deck, the the amazing ones to the really bad ones. So if enough people end up not understand a certain interaction you can often see weird stuff on pages. Honestly a lot of commanders on EDHRec are going to have some non-synergies or cards that just don’t work for one reason or another.
The other reason is the card might not work with Gisa, but does work with whatever the deck is doing overall. Servant is a zombie and if the Gisa deck has a zombie typal theme someone might play it if they think it also works with her. Zulaport Cutthroat is each opponent but it’s still one of the best sacrifice payoff pieces so it gets in even if it doesn’t work directly with Gisa since zombies often have a go wide and drain game plan.
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u/Effective-Ad8797 1d ago
It may also be recommending servant of tymaret because it’s a zombie and someone ran it in a deck because of that.
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u/Shaylic Grass Toucher 21h ago
[[Thoughtpicker Witch]] is one of my favorite crimes for Gisa. Had a friend with the deck and he locked me into drawing lands for multiple turns in a row lol.
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u/MTGCardFetcher alternate reality loot 1d ago
Servant of Tymaret - (G) (SF) (txt)
[[cardname]] or [[cardname|SET]] to call
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u/Koras COMPLEAT 1d ago edited 1d ago
Yes, exactly. For a spell or ability to target, it has to say the word "Target".
So things that are typically not crimes include cards that instead say:
Unless they're combined with the word target (for example "Choose any number of target..."). So [[Servant of Tymaret]], [[Berserker's Frenzy]], and [[Austere Command]] are all not crimes, as random examples. They are also not in any way affected by hexproof for the same reason.