You Are Breaking a Commander Taboo! | Unwritten Rules | Social Contract | EDH | MTG

[@Charley-ju6yg]

This is not a video about taboos, it is a list of card recommendations

[@bruhgh609]

Just play Timmy cards that don't trigger anyone emotionally... Actual Taboos: 1. Body Odor 2. B!tching 3. Not giving proper priority between actions. 4. Targeting a card just because you don't like it, not to progress the game or develop a board-state. 5. Body Odor 6. B!tching

[@wittmoneyman]

@@aklepatzky Oh no no no. Targeting a player for a whole game for destroying your mana dork turn 2 is acceptable.

[@icecubez29]

Acting out of revenge is fun though. "Counterspell". " I counterspell". " Archmages charm" . " OK negate" . " wtf, whirlwind denial". "Alright timestop". "Dude, why, i wasn't even targeting your card". "Do you remember? Pepperidge farm remembers". cost me the game but it was absolutely worth it.

[@privatepenguin2496]

​@@aklepatzkyif they destroy all my lands they gonna get killed 😂

[@icecubez29]

The point of this game is to have fun, winning is a side effect. I've let my friends planeswalker's ultimates go off when I could have stopped them, I've used prismatic strands to stop somebody from losing, I've even used congregate to heal somebody for 82, letting myself lose in the process (exsanguinate)Why? Because I wanted him to get revenge for something that another player did in an earlier match. "It's only fun if I win, otherwise it's a waste of time" seems to be your mentality and if you wanna be a try hard go for it, that's why I stopped playing with randoms. It's OK to lose sometimes, they got rid of ante.

[@ogre589]

@@privatepenguin2496 Then you would hate me. I'm in the process of making an Avacyn Tribal deck. So many board wipes. Creatures, Artifacts, Enchantments...Lands; Thing to note: I will not use this deck initially...but if you intend to pull out infinite damage decks or infinite draw decks at a casual game night, all bets are off. I will make it so you don't get to play the game.

[@donstrader]

Every deck I build, regardless of power level has suite of 10 to 18 cards that are removal /interaction/general answers to whatever type of troublesome permanent or spells my opponents are running. Many times these answers even synergize with my overall gameplan or are multi-purpose. I have noticed that a lot of so called “casual players” entirely ignore this category of spells in their deck building and only include things that are directly synergistic with their own plan. You can be a casual player and still pack answers to pushed cards

[@ipsyop]

PREACH IT

[@gosunoob1577]

I agree with this, players need to play utility or be subject to powerful artifact and enchantment effects.

[@ryantwomey3463]

Yeah I play a renaminator deck hey guess what in my blue deck I have a grafdiggers cage guess what graveyard decks are sooooo easy to shut down with rest in piece cage leyline etc so many hate cards but none of them run them so I make a big dude turn 3 sometimes and guess what they don't run much creature removal So it sticks around

[@elijahantonelli9626]

It’s a struggle because I had about that much generic interaction in my theme decks, and then felt like it detracted from the casual fantasy environment. Gotta find the balance for casual or else everyone will pick on you for filling your theme with “good stuff” cards.

[@adamxue6096]

I do wish people played more removal in general, but I don't think it's an ok justification of someone suddenly playing a rhystic study like turn 2 within a pod of upgraded precons, and runs off with the game because no one could deal with that potentially before turn 5, because you are playing with upgraded precons. Casual is such a broad term that could literally be anyone from literally not having played magic before touching their first precon to very experienced players with good deckbuilding etiquettes that has been playing for years on end and has maybe 10 decks ready to play with, you can't literally lump everyone together. It's also kinda like, yes, playing something like a Gaea's Cradle with say a silly insect tribal deck isn't gonna suddenly make it spike really hard in power level because you can't do it consistently, but it will absolutely make your deck feel very swingy. Your opponents happen to not have a land destruction for that Gaea's Cradle for like 4 turns? Well, you are going to get a massive boost for just this game, and probably run off with it because you have gained a huge advantage of it being able to do it's thing for 4 turns. You can make it an archenemy situation and that could be fun too, but it also could be not appreciated, feeling like you just curb stomped on others. Play according to the people not to some generic rule you hear on the internet, heck, play full stax if your friend group calls for it.

[@wittmoneyman]

This taboo situation is the worst part about commander. If you're trying to meet new people and play a commander pod with them, if they start naming taboo cards, its already putting a social barrier between me and the people I'm playing with.

[@CrotZari]

I started playing MTG in 1994 and played a lot and got cards into binders and so on. It was my main hobby for almost 8 years, then I got my first child and MTG was put on hold. During the pandemic we pulled out all the cards and started playing again in the family. I soon started buying some draft and setboxes from different sets, and I was amazed when I realised that MTG never "stopped". In 2022 I walked into a store and bought four boxes that seemed very different, thinking surely they were from different years. It turned out they all were released during 2022. Anyway, that year I discovered Commander and in 2023 I put together my first ever Commander deck. I REALLY tried to figure out as much wincons and buffs and carddraw etc as possible. A few months later when I went to play with a new playgroup I brought the deck and (Blue/White/black) really got to try it. I won every game, but I realised I sat there and exscused myself all evening. I did draw a ton of cards, I stole their commanders and cloned them, I drained their life, and so on. And I saw that they did not have fun, and nor did I. I felt really bad, and somewhat confused. This had seemed like such a good idea when I built the darn deck. When I played classic MTG back then, we made decks with 60 cards and played with 20 life total. I always was competitive and tried to cook up the best and strongest deck I could. I came to realise that so many modern cards are really overpowered now. Or at least. they are much stronger that those from the first 10 years of MTGs history. Back then I never heard anyone talk about how salty a deck was. But now I realise it´s a thing. Personally I don´t mind the cards you talk about here, my pet hate-objects are the poison-decks and cards like sheoldred the apocalypse, and Elesh Norn. Yikes! We started buying and playing precons to get a more level playing-filed. That works well for us int the playgroup but I miss the building-part of MTG. What is the accepted salt-score on a deck for a social playgroup? My first deck has 43,5 in salt score on archidekt.com, but that does not tell me anything... My favourite precon yet is the LOTR-deck, Food and Fellowship! So fun to play!

[@mitch7110]

Avg salt is 28 last time I checked but that number is pretty meaningless. In your anecdote it didn’t even sound like you had fun playing your cards so that’s naturally a really (unintentionally) toxic form of salt to play against. (I also bet your turns were on the longer side since you hadn’t played in a while which makes the experience multiplicatively more oppressive for your table). Precon nights are so fun; I’m glad you’re enjoying them. (My friend loves the LotR precon as well. He brings a bag of skittles to use as food tokens xD) My group’s meta is entirely based on deck swapping. Keep your builds fun because you’ll have to play against your shit as well. (I play against my Tergrid deck 2x as much as I play her 😅). My group can also afford a couple shitty games a week because we play often enough so salt isn’t a huge issue at my table

[@JohnTalbane87]

I know a similar feeling. I’ve been playing off and on since 96, sold a chunk of my collection (wish I hadn’t😅), and considered quitting after a truly awful FNM experience. Then a friend introduced me to commander around 2013. I was overjoyed, thought I was hot s*** because of how easy it was to win. Then one night a friend had enough, threw his deck across the room, and stormed out of the house (his house). Later a judge gave me some advice that really stuck with me, he said “build the kind of deck you’d enjoy sitting across from. The game ends when only one player is left standing but the goal is to have fun.”. I’ve since made up with that friend and while our games can drag on a bit longer than some people would like, I can tell you more about them than the more competitive players at my lgs can about their dozen 5/8 turn games they have. I asked one the other day, he was boasting about getting 10 games in one day, so I asked him to tell me about them and he could barely remember who won most of them much less what was played.

[@CrotZari]

@@mitch7110 It is true that I did not have as fun as I was expecting. I was surpised about how guilty I felt. I might add that I really didn´t have the patience for blue in my early years. I started seeing it in a new light after playing som precons. When people start sighing around you, it is time to read the room. :) My deck does not make for long turns though. At least that is a blessing. With Caves of Ixalan we bought all four decks and roll a die for which one to play with. Of the four decks I have only rolled for the Dino one and the Vampire one. I have yet to try the mermaid and pirate ones. But the LOTR decks are so flavourful, I recommend them to anyone. We have had Warhammer 40 K themed night as well. It really doesn´t matter which deck you get with your roll there, they all seem great!

[@rayjones201]

If 50% are doing it, is it even taboo at that point? Edit, i actually stopped playing commander with a buddy because he couldn’t play “casual”. If you can’t even “play” the game because you are locked out of casting anything (same goes for heavy removal) it is not fun.

[@teejaygibson4315]

Facts

[@dpriopelle]

I mean everyone used to cheat in proffessional magic calling ppl out on what should have been taboo fixed that. Whats the harm in calling it what it is?

[@teejaygibson4315]

@@dpriopelle cheating is one thing but using cards that are part of the game is a whole different situation. That's why I don't play at card shops. Too many house rules

[@dpriopelle]

Fair enough, as some who loves dimir decks i do get it. Everyone gets salty at the boardwipe and removal/counter spell player until they dont have an answer for someone else and they just stare at you.

[@shawnpanzegraf5642]

I think there’s a difference between having answers to strategies you expect to see, and building a mass of nothing but counterspells/boardwipes/taxes/edicts, and some eventual win-con. If you can’t accept that a lot of people have no desire to play against the EDH equivalents of Icy + Winter Orb or Turbo Stasis, I have a theory for you. It’s not the rest of the EDH-playing community that’s too soft. It’s you wanting to play close-to-cEDH-level Control, when your 3 buddies are just looking to have a good time. I mean, do you truly, *honestly* think the other 3 players are really enjoying the Pillow Fort Esper Sentinel/Rhystic Study action? Honestly? Edit: I mean, if you’re just “Trying to answer the over-ramped, too much fast-mana Stompy Decks, why are all those 2-drop X-type-of-spells-cost-1 more Artifacts going unplayed? Why is it only the mass free-card draw and treasure token-generating resource denial cards getting all the play? Moreover, I personally think that these cards existing at such extremely low CMCs constitute failures on the part of the WotC design team members, trying to push stuff to the competitive playerbase.

[@OathOblivio]

I play smothering tithe in all my low power decks and you can't stop meeeeeeee!!!!

[@PaoloBonacina]

I played both Grand Arbiter Agustin IV and Zur the Enchanter decks. Both were unapologetically stax. I regret nothing.

[@patrickbryananonuevo8271]

Commander is a social game that comes with a level of etiquette thats expected of everyone to follow. Being annoyed by the the social aspect says more about you as a player.

[@rkinn1998]

What is considered etiquette is very different playgroup by playgroup though. Like in my playgroup, complaining about Armageddon is bigger breach of etiquette than casting it

[@circuitmouth]

Whenever EDH players call it a "social game" I just know they're going to have the "winning doesn't matter until I lose" attitude that plagues just about every casual table.

[@wittmoneyman]

Giving me a list of cards that's deemed "unfun" is bad and unwelcoming etiquette.

[@icecubez29]

I love Armageddon and catastrophe. I'm definitely not saying that because I use both in my a Avacyn deck.

[@zaniusmaximus2490]

Ristic study and smothering tithe are two perfect examples of cards I just throw into a deck when I'm at 97 out of 100. Because I know they will give me value no matter what type of deck it is. When I first got into magic my playgroup told me to just throw in these cards because you'd be stupid not to have them in a deck with those colors.

[@PivotBanq]

To say that any public edh game has these expectations is like going to a concert and expecting everyone to sit in their seats, then yelling at the person in front of you because they are standing up and enjoying the music. People should play cards they enjoy and not be painted as some bad person because you decided to jam another creature in your deck instead of a piece of interaction. If your play group that you consistently play with wants to make abstract rules I am totally for that, but to say any public casual game has these unspoken expectations and you shouldn’t play these cards is just as ludicrous as the person yelling at the other person standing at the concert.

[@lukabotica7984]

I see it like this: if you're planning to win on your turn or just progress your game plan, Rhystic Study ain't gonna stop you while real stax effects might.

[@discoveringreality4988]

Hot take: stop pushing for bans, and simply change rule 0 convo from power level to budget. We're playing a $100, $50, $200 etc game. Everyone can have decks at different levels...

[@seamusdaniels1185]

I agree with the rule 0 convo but budget does not really stop people from making competive decks

[@Wrynwynn]

Thanks for the great EDH recommendations!

[@iamwynn7058]

"Rhystic Study is a stax effect" K vid done now

[@ShanTianSean]

These aren’t stax. They aren’t denying resources. Also by this thinking, green players shouldn’t play broken elf cards, blue shouldn’t counter spell, players should never put infinite combos and tutors in their decks.

[@DrBronzeBeard]

These are in all of my decks in one form or another. Each gains advantage/value. Taboo should be taking 10-20 minute turns doing combos, counting or slowly reading/thinking.

[@zmanonthego]

Play removal?

[@invertedghostgames9899]

To save everyone some time, the cards discussed are: - Rhystic Study - Smothering Tithe - Esper Sentinel - Mystic Remora - Spelltithe Enforcer - Sphere of Resistance - Grand Arbiter Augustin IV - Aura of Silence - Æther Barrier - Thorn of Amethyst Or in other words: Your standard Grand Augustin Deck Tech. Just say Stax and Tax effects aren't fun to you, it's easier and fits in KZbin Shorts.

[@TheMorbidHobo]

Rhystic, ST, and ES aren't actually stax effects, but they are extremely strong effects for comparitively low mana and devotion, and are annoying to enforce. Cards have been banned for less.

[@ultimaterare3146]

Agreed 100!

[@TheMorbidHobo]

@@vittoriosavian9964 Yep.

[@jxhook]

This is why prefer cedh. At least I can play the cards I want without any complaints.

[@aus1e390]

This is gonna be a ride if the first "taboo" card they talk about is Rhystic Study Edit: I like how during the discussion about Rhystic Study, they specifically said that if you were to split it into two cards reading "spells cost an additional one mana" and "whenever an opponent casts a spell, draw a card" they said that no cards like the first one exists and cards like the second one would be banned, but further down the list you have a card that literally says "all spells cost an additional 1 to play"

[@mrspicy3708]

It's commander quarters. What do you expect? He literally hates cards that are more than a dollar lol

[@Theanthill216]

I have always said if you cannot play a precon at a random edh day, in any of the pods whatsoever, then the edh format is no longer casual (which is a huge issue being its the only casual mtg format) Players use the term “staple” as a cop out for broken cards that are too strong for casual or are straight cedh main stays. Staples are basic lands, creatures, and ramp….everything else is not. Every other format in mtg is 1v1 and sweaty; go play those formats to be a degenerate and focus on winning. If you dont have your own playgroup, and go to the lgs for casual edh with a high power and cedh option only, then you are a D*** and don’t respect others time. Winter orb and dockside need a banning or make cedh seperate from edh; add bans to edh and leave the format be for cedh players.

[@pascalraskal9347]

I love how these cards are making the rest of the table Politikle work together the best part about commander

[@anttiarokoski6255]

Thx! There is a line of what to play and what not but it has to be discussed before playing.

[@zachblackwell7810]

I don’t even know where to start lol. I watched the whole video and it’s good to see Mitch be honest and say “you’re not a terrible person for playing these cards” but the repeated take on this channel and in the community is just crazy sometimes. People almost expect you to play a Precon or purposely put shit cards in your deck in order to follow their social delusions otherwise you’re a dirty “Stax” player. Idk maybe play more removal? bounce the card, everyone plays fucking rift or swords etc. just stop acting like every good card is a taboo lmao. Not everyone wants to play a big creature swing deck. You can’t gate keep cards and playstyles. My main point…stop complaining and play better cards, otherwise you might as well socially ban every card in the game and we can all just sit at the table while somebody value vomits their deck with no clap back. You’re not the main character lol Hot take: Commander players are getting soft

[@Zee-jp9vn]

I would disagree that Rhystic Study is a stax affect

[@jt-noobex]

It is if the other players play against it the way it should played against. "Spells your opponents cast cost 1 more to cast"

[@hunterransom2594]

No - it is a tax effect. It does not force you to do anything. It does not stop you from doing you doing something. If you choose to pay the tax that is optional that on on you

[@Chef-Dev]

@@hunterransom2594 Its technically not stax actually.. because its not forcing you to pay anything. You can read it like 'Draw a card whenever anyone casts a spell.' or 'Pay (1) whenever anyone player casts a spell.'.. People who whine about Rhystic study or smothering tithe are so annoying its crazy..

[@angryface5293]

they're just good cards, idk why people get mad for playing against it. In my opinion if its not banned it can be played, just don't have weak mental

[@HynesConor]

Love your videos but this one is just a reach. If the card is legal play it. Enough said. I’m not going to cater my game for the “social benefit” of others.

[@inkarozu2309]

Tithe and Rhystic go in all my decks with access to those colors, Sentinel and Remora go in about half if the build is low on card draw. They all have the same thing in common, they die to targeted removal. Play more removal people!

[@seamusdaniels1185]

What a nothing burger of a argument lol

[@seamusdaniels1185]

@@vittoriosavian9964 because its such a easy go to for a argument heres a counter why play these strong cards if you know there just gonna die to removle

[@itanocircus2077]

​@@seamusdaniels1185You play strong cards because they win you the game unless your opponent has removal. You play removal because you otherwise lose the game against strong cards.

[@Antif4mous]

I'll break taboos all day. Ramp out, play Tiamat, tutor your dragons. Would be a shame if something happened to your lands. Whoops.

[@tam-ka-blam9736]

Only card I play on this list is Esper Sentinel, but that is only in modern format.

[@RaphaelDDL]

I guess you could also add Wandering Archaic ? 5 colorless 4/4, with : "Whenever an opponent casts an instant or sorcery spell, they may pay (2). If they don't, you may copy that spell. You may choose new targets for the copy." Also, I have all white ones suggested in my monowhite deck. I don't have Thorn of Amethist but I have Thalia instead to annoy too. I only didn't have the Spelltithe Enforcer since is a bit high on mana for soldier deck but I might add to my future stax+voltron Balan deck. Anyway, taboo would be Armageddon rofl

[@GallantLee]

Rhystic is definitely NOT stax. If you’re not ok with rhystic, then you’re not ok with hatebears. In which case youre playing low power solitaire

[@Donkeyfly169]

Thank you for all the new suggestions of cards

[@ultimaterare3146]

I play Counterspells to stop game ending combos before turn 6.

[@Mischievous_Moth]

I only throw cards like Rhystic study and Smothering Tithe into my decks if they synergize with the deck itself. For example I recently made a deck with treasures as a subtheme, so I put Smothering Tithe into it for more treasure generation.

[@JohnTalbane87]

Same. I have a u/g deck themed after the simic guild itself (graft was an amazing mechanic!), lots of +1/+1 counters and oddball creature types. So I put mystic remora in there as a nod to how this fish is “not a fish” because science. My play group was surprisingly cool with it after that.

[@victorperezurbano9504]

What doesn't aynergize with drawing cards and making mana? Those are 2 basic actions in the game that are 99% of the time what you want to be doing

[@charmishing]

Nobody actually pays for rhystic study in my group so it’s never even a stax effect

[@mcarmine2]

gotta be honest, all these cards are the base of my decks before i start building

[@gravitysloths5127]

At this point I don't run counterspells cause no one else does and I don't want to be the only one policing the game. I also don't really pay for rhystic/remora/tithe cause no one else does. There's no point in paying if 2 out of 3 aren't.

[@pascalraskal9347]

I played a game 2 month ago where nobody payed for a rhystic study never saw a table lose so fast in commander it was like sobody was aware how to play magic guys learned from it hope the same for your dudes greatings from Germany 🎉

[@dcnole]

I find all of these conversations about taboo cards tough because they can never fully account for the "I don't spend a lot on MTG but I cracked this sweet EDH power-house card and I am excited to play it" factor. Between the WOE and LCI prereleases, my 11 y.o. son opened Doubling Season, Smothering Tithe, and the white token-tripling God. These were three of the most valuable cards he had ever opened. So, he decided to build a selesnya tokens EDH deck for his first EDH deck. He spent about $25 total of his birthday money on the other 97 cards. This seems like exactly how kids should engage with EDH. I don't think it's fair to fault him (or many other newer players of all ages) for breaking a taboo by playing their coolest cards. These conversations feel like they are reserved to established, adult players with lots of decks and options.

[@singimnotafraid1346]

Might I suggest stickers as the way to get around the legend rule? They can't be as mad when it's the Hotdog God-Pharoah's Statue and the God-Pharoah's Sassy Statue taxing them out.

[@dubiousbrick4483]

I don’t always put Rhystic Study in my my decks because I often have other forms of card draw, but when I have a deck that doesn’t, and often will get caught spinning it’s wheels just going off whatever I top deck, I’ll need a rhystic study or mystic remora to give it a little extra push to keep up with the other players. It can get people advantage and win games but more often than not it can just even the playing field when you are behind and getting swarmed with Agro/combo decks.

[@utopiaoflove]

This is the first commanders quarters video I’ve ever downvoted. I can’t stand hearing people whine about stax/poison/ mill during rule 0. If that’s how you want to play there is nothing wrong with that as long as you have a plan to end the game somehow and not just duffle around and draw the game out forever with no plan. Thats it that’s how the discussion should go.

[@joshrivet4011]

Considering how strong Green is in commander, Insight is basically the "if your opponents' cast a spell, draw a card" that is percieved to be ao busted. It's situational, but that situation is pretty easy to find yourself in.

[@jmarsh411]

What makes this stuff hard is the play style discussion. When My Fun is Orzhov tempo my options in commander are........ basically hatebears with stax pieces. Without stax pieces, I'm consistently several turns behind the rest of the table in mana production. I wish is wasn't this way, but that's how the color pie's design has treated my colors. Even so, I don't build stax decks. I just accepted being the slowest deck. I'd love see a day where Wizards improves mana production for white.

[@acadiangeek8483]

I have 1 copy of Rhystic study, it's in my Morska undersea sleuth deck. I limit myself to two cards per opponents turn to trigger my commander.

[@RoachDoggggJR]

My group of friends all play stax decks, but cry when I bring up that I want to play my Soul of Windgrace land destruction deck

[@raymakerscalisthenics660]

24:19 I could throw this in Orvar today and have a blast, as you can just have mirror box out and copy it over and over.

[@adamholcomb1906]

I am a Stacks player, so I respect all these choices. And yes, I have them in all my decks that run those colors😈💯

[@Jerry1991388]

We make stax and mld taboo but let green players just land ramp into oblivion, make it make sense.

[@OdinMagnus]

When Rhystic study came out it was very bad. I collected them because my wizard deck was all about pay 1 more. Disruptive Students and Patron Wizard. People just gave me all of their RS. No one played with them. Even when commander started (before official) no one used it. Mystic Remora was used more often because it could be dropped during the "building" turns. Turn 3 you need mana open for counters.

[@omarmuniz1497]

Rystic study and smothering tides i pulled from my wilds of eldraine set box an put them in my 5 colored Enchantress deck. Turns out, it's not AS annoying when more colors are involved seeing it as a fixer card like Chromatic latern. I even asked an apparently more colors is a lit less scary when it's seen like it. What does everyone think based on my description of my deck 5 colors Enchantress?

[@dragonreaper9288]

Not gonna disagree that these cards are stax adjacent. Def Not stac but close. However I think you guys are off base with the tone. You make it sound like any casual player who plays these cards are scum and you should always focus on them. You are indeed shaming the community. Casual format is about a variety on the power level. You can play fun durdling decks or kill yourself with broken combos or have infinite combos. So long as you communicate during rule 0 what players can expect from your deck. Otherwise if we shame 'play styles' then the durdlers would shame the aggro decks because they die before they can durdle or the discard decks shame the draw cards decks and on and on. Point is: be fair to your fellow players as they may not play the same style as you but they love the same game as you.

[@kylemattox2080]

Nah

[@unicorescannacorner6999]

It’s fun… in cedh there is no such thing as turn zero. I thought turn zero where gemstone caverns or leyline effects… then they wanted me to explain my Deck to them? Am I st Peter? Can we now even ask our enemy to show us their hand in turn 3? And how they want to progress. I need an exact Explanation!! 😂😂😂 But for real: when I game back I was like. Okay, casual sounds like whiny Kids trying magic. And until this day it is exactly that. Whiny People who try to shun you not using card X, bit will stomp you with their Jank… 😂 how about we all play the strongest stuff we OWN. And f turn 0. who wants to use it, can do it of course. But I won’t do it. And when you want pre game info on me. one answer. Find it out yourself.

[@dalol90]

We just have a few rules in my tables: 1) No land destruction exclusive cards (so cards like generous gift are ok and can target lands ONLY if doing so prevents a crucial play, not just for the sake of it) 2) No "win the game" exclusive cards. (Revel in riches is ok. Approach of the second sun, no) 3) No decks that aim to only assemble an infinite combo (we can have infinites, but the gameplan cant be all about it) If a player wants to play stax, we let it. That player has to be ok with being targeted by the whole table tho.

[@AlbertPatterson-f3w]

Lets drop! Staples lmao! Love the channel. Dont agree with the worry on great cards lol.

[@goddessbraxia]

I use Rhystic study in a current deck I have been designing, I only learned last week what "Stacks" means. but I did already now about the "do you pay the one?" meme. so I have a proxy of that funny picture of spongebob in the chicken wing like pose with "Do yOu pAY THe OnE?" It also has a matching smothering tithe with Patrick on it "Do yOu pAY THe TwO?" I am a rather secluded player, so I am out of the loop on a lot of things, I am also not super good, so once I can make this deck actually viable, I'll look to remove these cards. as right now, they're more serving to keep me afloat in games, rather than giving me an advantage. (this deck has won once out of about 2 dozen games)

[@smallerfrog5637]

This is amazing, literally just traded in smothering tithe, esper sentinel, and drannith magistrate, so I think I agree

[@Theanthill216]

Ppl in the comments just booty hurt that they overpowered cards that aren’t “staples” but called “staples” to make excuses to run in casual, being called out for being obnoxious to play against and also being the opposite of what casual edh was intended for.

[@Llithiss]

Funnily enough, I'm making an oloro life gain deck with ghostly prison, propaganda, smothering tithe, rhystic study, and esper sentinel in the deck. Lol

[@seanbaxter3388]

Idk about others, but I only put these style cards in my high end casual or CEDH decks. Mono blue Urza stacks with Rhystic Study and Mystic Rhemora is awesome card draw

[@nickzeiders5952]

I have one Rhystic Study between all my decks, and its it's original common printing I have from when I was a kid, I will feel no shame in playing it

[@Schulazo]

im gonna go put all these on a deck

[@icecubez29]

You should try placing them IN the deck instead.

[@jimrustle3321]

Stasis is one of my favorite cards. I will use it. I will return it to my hand before it affects me. You will never untap. Cope. Seethe.

[@shadowagents]

Tax is tax and stax is stax

[@adams.176]

First? I play a land and a sol ring

[@teejaygibson4315]

Yeah. When I play a sol ring first turn and my opponent doesn't even get get command sphere or arcane signet by turn 3.🤌

[@Ijustwannapump]

A whole lot of commander decks need stax effects in there just to exist long enough in the game to work out their win condition, especially if they are swinging for damage, without some combo, and some combos are so much faster than others. There is no reason why every player in this game playing with friends cant just proxy the best decks they can come up with, and that's the beauty that most every single player im talked to in this game all have in common, they love the creativity to making there deck unqiue to them, and working things out. Staxs doesnt take this away it adds to it, because its problem that you should and will face and you have to plan ahead of time to over come it.

[@Rizso1]

Stacks effects in decks makes games much more balanced.

[@charlesearle2055]

okay so... build a deck with all of these in it - got it.

[@wafflehaxxx]

Stax is great. Stax is wonderful. Stax is the saviour. It's the straight up best way to answer degenerate combo or solitaire "ramp until 40 mana" decks. Want to play a low to the ground beatdown deck with 2-3 mana creatures? Not going to happen without Stax. You need to slow down your opponents so your low impact cards can pull through. Thalia, Mindcensor, Opposition Agent, wonderful cards stopping the disgusting green ramp decks from getting a free win every game. Edit: Oh, and Rhystic is ALSO an amazing stax piece. Good bye degenerate storm. Can't just storm off without a second thought, now there are actual consequences. Pay the 1 or lose.

[@cappiman2pointoh]

Rhystic Study a taboo? Lol. That's hilarious. Rhystic Study and Smothering tithe are hardly toxic, annoying? Yes, not toxic though. Like half of these cards are hardly "Toxic". Most of these cards are not problematic or toxic in general. This sounds more like I hate these cards and you should too. I would even say that mass land destruction is very toxic especially when people are not prepped for it.

[@christophsauer4584]

Haha yeah it is more a card recommendation video, which enchantments and creatures are good :D The biggest TABOO for me is proxying everything, for example 10 Duallands of Fetchlands in a 5 colour Commander of a Gaeas Cradle and don‘t say it at the beginning

[@Coxsterify]

I think these cards would be less salt inducing to play against if they didn't cost so much. As a casual player, I thought about picking them up, but I can pick up an entire precon deck for the same price or nearly so as Rhystic Study or Smothering Tithe and so 100 fun cards beats just so I can make a joke in every deck playing blue or white. If they were like $5 a piece, they would be played more, and hated less. It might be why Mystic Remora isn't as hated as well. Sure it goes away but you can't avoid it even if you wanted to. But if you want to play it in blue, it is $5 not $40

[@theDemolisher13]

5:30 I played against someone today who had rhystic study in play and I played dovescape which hard counter him to the point he couldn't play at all. Then everyone on the board 3v1 me. I didn't care but I never paid my taxes for the rhystic study and they were sitting at about 30 cards in hand. I told the other two players you got 2 options A you kill me and that player wins the game or B you let me kill the rhystic study player then I'll let whoever wants off me and one of you two remaining can win. They chose A much to my disappointment.

[@paladinmetalus6612]

This videos only confirms my suspicions that the biggest problem are the Azorious players. Still running Rystic in my Izzet Theft deck though.

[@gosunoob1577]

In my personal opinion, players do not put thought into handling these types of cards on the board with utility spells, my group plays pretty high power cards like this or even stax type effects from time to time. It needs to be there to stop players from ramping into combos and who knows what else. People are so worried about taboos they can't even play their cards anymore. If you are playing with a group that can't stand what you are doing maybe you are in the wrong group. People in my pod get salty, but they wont hate on your cards or your strategy, there is room for all strategies and friends will often help each other build these "taboo" decks.

[@harrisonbrooks5829]

Yeah it really just depends on the decks in the playgroup, stax can be annoying sure if no one has decks that can play around it. Though I think there is no big deal about the rhystic study or the remora. Sure in cedh the players who get those heavy draw cards early can outright win the game a good amount of times but in more casual groups they aren't as strong. Have i seen some people get huge advantage from those cards yes but never anything game ending most of the time. Even then, if the draw/treasure tokens were unenjoyable for me, same thing with my buddy's stax deck, I would just build a more control style deck. I just love combo decks too much to build control tho lol.

[@ViniciusNarita]

Ristic Study and Smothering Tithe problem would easily be solved if they were: Whenever an opponent does ... , you may pay (1)... It would be enough nerf that people would start considering them bad

[@idlerwheel]

3 Enchantment - Aura Enchant a non-land, non-creature permanent. Enchanted permanent has cumulative upkeep 2. Jump-Start

[@Nehezir]

I'm actually okay with Smothering Tithe on the board in casual commander. but I understand if others aren't.

[@bradbeeler5022]

I used to like this channel, but his complaining and his toxic attitude makes it so hard to watch a video. Mitch used to be this positive KZbinr, but now all he does is complain about cardboard. Nothing wrong with the cards he is talking about. Its his mindset towards them that is. Playing against strong cards and players will do 1 of 2 things. You will either become better or bitter.

[@ZenTeT]

smothering Tithe, Rystic Study, and Mystic remora is allowed in all the groups i play with. even the Random people i meet at the store its all fine. i do not play these in all my decks.

[@cablefeed3738]

It's not breaking a taboo If the community says you can do it, it's only a taboo of the community says you can't do it.

[@XBravo1CharlieX]

That's why I use proxies

[@Cloud9likeaboss]

Stax is not Tax...but they do often end up together

[@hypermax1978]

I have a dino deck that I run Smothering Tithe in because I need to fix my mana because of high cost creatures. It does not stop others from playing. They don't have to pay the 2. Any deck that has white in it with fairly costly creatures and spells should run Smothering Tithe to fix their mana.

[@NTJ1984]

So, personally, I really don't see a problem with complete board wipes that includes getting rid of lands. I started playing back with Onslaught Legion and Scourge. I had inherited some older cards like Throne of Bone, Hand of Death, Dark Ritual and Black Vise to give a few examples. I played against people who could destroy most of my lands a few at a time. To me, this is a standard accepted tactic. I used to have to play against mono Blue control decks that were more than capable of preventing you from doing anything by turn 3 consistently. I really don't get the issues being brought up in this video...

[@andrewyarker7678]

Don't have an issue with most of these cards. I don't own a RS, but in WU decks MR, ES and ST help keep up with G deck card draw and ramp.

[@chrisgough5289]

I'm so getting this card😁

[@The1nvisibleJeevas]

If it was up to me, RS and Tithe would be banned. But I can see why very high level players would enjoy it. The problem is that there’s no way to limit the level of someone’s deck. I am not fortunate enough to have a consistent pod to play with and often end up playing randos who may have decks my level and may play a deck full of $20+ high powered cards. Something I wish magic had is something Pokémon (the video game community) already has: concrete tiers for each card (for the Pokémon example, think Smogon). The “power level scale” is more of a guess at best. For a deck to be in a specific tier, it would have to have about X% of that tier’s cards. That way people can come to the table saying “my deck is this tier.” And preferably if you’re not playing with a group of well-known friends, bring several decks with different power levels for different people you might encounter. Some people just can’t pay to play and don’t feel comfortable proxying.

[@troy_ag6305]

This video could have been called “Everyone hates Rhystic Study!”

[@MrRomanrin]

i would LOVE to make a deck WITH ALL OF THOSE lol just to be like: "OKAY, NOW YOU DONT HAVE FUN, I DONT EITHER..."

[@nickg6312]

nice grand arbiter deck you guys are talking about

[@wildfire8074]

There is nothing worse than people taking turns that are longer than 3 minutes. You can destroy all my lands, you can play a $2000 deck if you want, you can play stax so nobody can play much, as long as the turns keep moving. At my LGS a few weeks ago we picked up a random fourth playing mono green that took 4 straight 6-8 minute turns, and I have never had less fun playing MTG in my entire life.

[@TehRuffles]

My playgroup is too wild. I need Rhystic Study to find answers. 😅

[@auraprime_]

Huh ... I didn't know of all these cards 🎉

[@Jayrrific]

now I want to build a blue white deck thanks 😂

[@Mr.Smile-.T_T.-]

ok, I understand - all powerful blue and white cards are taboo ㄟ( ▔, ▔ )ㄏ There are a lot of annoying cards in other colors which should be in that category, but ok... blue and white...

[@chasepeeler9188]

Ok. What’s a green, red, or black card you think should be on the list?

[@Mr.Smile-.T_T.-]

@@chasepeeler9188 blood moon + magus, aura shards, vorinclex (both), sheoldread (both), consultation, Orcish Bowmasters, Smoke, Contamination, Ad Nauseam, Price of Glory, Desolation, Leyline of the Void, Choke and a lot of other cards

[@icecubez29]

Can't remember the name but there is a green enchantment that doubles all of your creatures attack and toughness at the beginning of each players combat until end of turn. That said I'm against the idea of "that card is too good you shouldn't use it" so I wouldn't put any on that list

[@Mr.Smile-.T_T.-]

@@chasepeeler9188 I have answered you 2 times, and messages are gone o_O just loot at edhrec top 100 saltiest cards

[@Tyler-bw3fd]

What does lodestone golem do?

[@sirswag4931]

Players should feel free to play whatever they want regardless of what the deck is. Stax, land destruction, or whatever and not have to feel bad about it. As a playgroup, we can all be mature and not get angry like children at someone playing with the cards the game allows. And if it becomes too big of a problem, we can discuss playing other decks for now but never perma banning it. That idea is toxic and not good for the format

[@Trefalgr]

Just because you play one card that has a taxing effect does not mean you are playing a stax deck. If I have one card in my deck that counters a spell I'm not playing a control deck. I wouldn't even call a single stax card in your deck a stax sub theme. I also think you can let people draw off it. Knowing how to play against cards is part of the skill portion of the game. Yes, letting your opponent draw a bunch of cards can result in an insurmountable advantage, but so can letting people resove any spell they want or keep any permanent on the board without fear of removal. I think it is a more useful to come prepared to combat cards like this rather than shame people for playing a card or even a specific strategy. Play removal, punish card draw, destroy it. There are many ways to play against it. A powerful card won't single handedly win the game. Come prepared to interact instead of just building your engine. I also think stax can be a perfectly acceptable way to play. It is the way people play stax that is annoying. Playing stax as a draw-go deck designed to annoy people is problematic. But if i play a bunch of hate bears to slow down everyone's decks fishing for their infinite combos or value engines and then i pump up the team and smash how is that different than removing everything that hits the board or powering out that infinite combo? There are plenty of strategies that aren't the most fun to play against. I guess if you only play with people that run annoying decks, meta game a little.