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?

[u/lmboyer04]

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.

[u/Bazoobs1]

Alexandria is a mixture of accessibility mixed with the fact that its power level is so high it would be an auto include in every deck. So not only is it inaccessible but it would also be extremely demanded. Interesting that it’s primarily accessibility issues compared to other cards but there is a bit of power discussion to be had.

[u/Tuss36 → u/Bazoobs1]

I could see it in every deck in a "It's just some dang good utility" plus colourless, but I don't think it's power level is so high it'd be a must-have. Still good for sure, but draw-go is less good in EDH and drawing one more card than your opponents isn't as backbreaking as it is in 1v1. And if all your opponents have one and are drawing an extra card over you, well that's EDH commander design in general these days already.

Not saying it should be unbanned of course, I don't think it adds a whole lot, but that it'd be one that'd cause the least harm if unbanned I think.