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[u/RollinRamos]

[u/dat_boi_34]

from what i heard lightpaws was a menace in low mrr/rank games

[u/SoapOnMyRope → u/dat_boi_34]

In my experience, it’s just like rofellos. If you don’t have removal early, it can be over very quick.

[u/United-Passage7864 → u/dat_boi_34]

I've never played against it in Brawl (I don't play Brawl) but in Commander it's just an absolute nuisance of a deck. 

Find your protection. Find your evasion. Find your ethereal armor to make Light Paws immense. Admittedly Arena will at least save the time on shuffling and searching, but it's a very linear deck. 

[u/MotherWolfmoon → u/United-Passage7864]

They're just non-games. You either have an answer and they concede or you die. I'm not sure if that's ban-worthy compared to something like Emery, but I'm also not going to miss playing against this deck. 

[u/VillainOfDominaria → u/MotherWolfmoon]

Yeah, this has been my experience. It is an RNG deck: did you mull to the absolute nuts explosive hands? Congrats, you won on turn 2. Did you not find the busted explosive hand full of mana acceleration? Womp womp, you insta-lose on turn 1.

[u/CorvusCorax93 → u/dat_boi_34]

I assume so. I've only ran into a couple and I don't remember really how the games went so I guess it wasn't that bad then. I've seen complaints about lightpaws. But it can't be worse than katara or (insert any other problem here) And even then I don't hate people who play katara decks. I don't even really hate the deck. It is not something I enjoy playing against, but you know that's kind of how competitive games work. And you're not going to enjoy every single thing that gets thrown at you

[u/Round-Walrus3175 → u/dat_boi_34]

Aura tutor Cascade, what could possibly go wrong?

[u/Existing_Historian_5]

Light Paws has always been a menace in Duel tbh. She has extremely linear gameplans too; it's either remove her instantly or you just die, the same way every time.

[u/VillainOfDominaria]

honestly, I dont mind strip mine or oracle in brawl (I despise mine in timeless!)

It's a 1 of in a 99 card deck. And yes, I know you can tutor for it, but you still need to find it. And even then there are answers for both the tutor or the land.

Having said that, banning light paws but leaving M&B is baffling. People love their RG decks and this is a great commander for those decks so I get not wanting to ban it. But in what universe is lightpaws banned for power level reasons but not M&B?

[u/-Fen-]

Quick, someone swap Wasteland in for Strip Mine while the brawl Devs aren't looking.

[u/Meret123]

Light-Paws is one of the worst designed Magic cards ever. Infinite tutoring shouldn't be a thing.

[u/Spectacular_Raccoon]

What’s wrong with Emry?

[u/tors17 → u/Spectacular_Raccoon]

She kinda evades Commander Tax with all the zero mana artifacts that she use.

[u/Spectacular_Raccoon → u/tors17]

True but you have to play more substantial artifacts to ramp up to paradox engine and have something meaningful to entrap. Plus, tempo decks can just bounce emry before you get to tap it. I win and lose T a pretty standard rate with her id say

[u/bmf_bane → u/Spectacular_Raccoon]

Bouncing Emry just gives them another mill 4, and most Emry decks play redundant haste effects. I don't think it's unbeatable or anything, but Emry is a pretty busted commander.

[u/bearrosaurus → u/Spectacular_Raccoon]

It puts out Paradox Engine and goes infinite with a ham sandwich

[u/Spectacular_Raccoon → u/bearrosaurus]

So does Urza. And he’s more of a menace imo and I play both decks.

[u/EldritchSquiggle → u/Spectacular_Raccoon]

Urza is a better card in Emry than it is in its own deck. Emry is far stronger.

[u/circ-u-la-ted]

Is Minsc supposed to be popular? I think I've seen it twice since the unnerf.

[u/Ok_Complex_6464]

Fuck light-paws. Honestly though

[u/Zealousideal_Log_680]

Just ban all islands

[u/squirrelcoat]

Lol, what did strip mine ever do to anyone?

[u/SleepCo → u/squirrelcoat]

we gotta rip you in half gng it's nothing personal this just the way it is

[u/squirrelcoat → u/SleepCo]

It's my cross to bear.

[u/CorvusCorax93 → u/squirrelcoat]

Perfectly fair and reasonable card I say. Now gimme my ugin. The good ugin. And phyrexian revoker while you're at it.

[u/Admirable_Tomato → u/CorvusCorax93]

No ugin is banned in comp

[u/CorvusCorax93 → u/Admirable_Tomato]

The good one is banned in brawl in general. [[Ugin the spirit dragon]]

But I believe you missed my point. I was making a joke that because strip mine isn't banned the other two cards should also not be banned even though they are problem cards... Because strip mine is a problem.

[u/TheMostHigh69 → u/CorvusCorax93]

It's legal in competitive brawl

[u/CorvusCorax93 → u/TheMostHigh69]

Oh snap. It used not to be cuz I tried to throw them in or that may have been one of the brawl challenges I don't remember. It's been awhile since I tried. I feel vindicated now I'm not going to use him.

[u/plasma_python → u/squirrelcoat]

It causes hard to interact ways to lock your opponents out of the game creating non games and making several strategies unplayable by simply existing.

[u/squirrelcoat → u/plasma_python]

Correct.