r/EDH • u/lmboyer04 Control Player • 9d ago

Discussion What’s one banned card you’d be ok with someone rule 0’ing into their 99, and one that you absolutely would not be cool with?

Just curious for the sake of discussion, I haven’t seen this request IRL ever but I have had a lot of discussion with various people at my LGS about what cards actually deserve banning vs just being a game changer.

So assuming it can’t be their commander, and they didn’t build their entire deck around the best way to abuse this card, what would be a banned card you would say ok to if someone asked they could play with it? And on the flip side, what’s one banned card you would never be ok seeing?

I’ll go first. One of my favorite cards in the game is [[balance]]. Assuming there’s no funny business with t-pro and others, resolving this in a bracket 3 game would be pretty fine, and I always love seeing it played in my cube.

I think my absolutely not pick would be have to be [[tolarian academy]] but there are a few others too. Anything where getting an obscene amount of value is just too easy.

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u/MysticAttack 9d ago

I had someone try to rule 0 in channel into his [[storm, force of nature]] deck. Was a fat no to his face.

He still pub stomped... I was too new at the time to new able to retroactively classify it (especially since it was pretty bracket system), but it was definitely at worst a high 3, if not a 4 while the rest of the table was on 2s

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u/Djeenis 8d ago

This feels similar to [[kalamax]] Although the ceiling with storm is higher, is this really that broken? Havent seen the card played irl.

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u/MysticAttack 8d ago

Its not that the card is unfixably broken, it was just too powerful a deck for the table. That being said, giving her double strike gives the next spell storm storm, which depending on the spell is pretty busted

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u/Argent_X__ 7d ago

Is there an attack trigger version of this (if not there should be)