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Not only that, but the fact that the Commander tax is ‘half’? Crazy. Cause they search for a land, so just gotta make land drops to plop Golos our repeatedly.

6 mana to basically wheel yourself.

Also, I watched someone flip Sasaya once, it was glorious. Some scrub tried to Doom Blade her too!

the funniest print error in MTG was when they accidentally made the Portuguese version of Stoic Rebuttal do quite literally nothing

as an interesting footnote, there is exactly one real Magic card that does literally nothing when it resolves:

I've been brewing up a deck over the past couple of nights. The theme is farmer tribal. Building the deck with only flavor in mind, who would you have at the helm? My list has Kestia, the Cultivator as my current commander since we get 3 colors instead of 2 if we went with Karametra, God of Harvests.

Feel free to suggest any auto includes for a farmer themed deck. Here are some more obvious picks:

Plow Under; cards with the word ‘farm’, ‘harvest’, ‘season’; SCARECROWS; OXEN; Veil of Summer; Autumn Veil, lots of farming equipment from Innstrad blocks (human tribal?).

And while we’re at it, if Green’s going to draw cards based off of a creature’s power, sacrificing the creature should be an additional cost, too.

Green already needs two cards to do creature removal and card draw, both being negated by instant speed kill spells. Momentous Fall gets countered? OUCH.

It has ramp, removal, card draw, and so much value stapled to its big, beefy, trampling creatures that something has to go at this point.

I fully believe that sacrificing a hypothetical 7/7 to draw into three or four more hypothetical 7/7’s that it can easily play out next turn after ramping for most of the game isn’t going to set it back too far gameplay wise.

And going back to fighting forces Green to think to play around possible pump spells.

MaRo has said that no one color should be better than all the rest, and that if you want to do things that a single color can’t do, that’s what making a two- or three-colored deck is for.

But I do understand that when mana ramp is essential to winning, and one color is the best at it, then that skews in its favor.

The way I see it (without having thought into it for too long) green is advantageous at having 1-of threats, but not the most combotastic or synergistic strategies. Also, granted, I’m thinking from a more mono-green stance, and I understand that combined with other colors then it’s a powerhouse.

The point I’m trying to make is that I don’t think taking away Bite and/or non-sacrificing cars draw is the answer. I would think it’s being more devoted to green only mana ramp & probably taking away haste and/or resiliency from the creatures. Like, Nyxbloom Ancient, Birds of Paradise, etc only adding up green? Of course, Nissa is a powerhouse in standard mentioning forests, but I’m talking Wild Growth-like ramp.

Idk, this post is getting long and I feel I’m not the most articulate, but I love these kinds of conversation and I wish I could be more...positively contributive (?) to it.

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