Tuesday, July 30, 2019

Goldfishing With E

It's been so long since I gave Estrid a shot that some goldfishing seemed like a good idea.

I know I've sounded a little dour about the Commander 2019 decks, but holy crow has that opinion been reinforced at nearly every turn. Opening hand after hand I would have Auras for creatures, and zero creatures.

Because only a quarter of the deck is creatures.

Why the heck IS that? WotC has to know, right? The ratios for getting a deck to do what you want it to do? They are usually spectacular at getting the mana correct.  The percentage of mana to everything else; typically 37%, so players can reliably cast their cards.

So why is this deck so bad?

Seriously! Since we know that Auras need permanents to enchant, why are players not given enough of those permanents?

Also, why, exactly, is Sol Ring in this deck? It is the only artifact and nowhere on it does it use the word 'enchantment'. There are zero interactions between Sol Ring and enchantments. There aren't even interactions between Sol Ring and Tuvasa or Kestia, the other two possible commanders for this deck.

If that isn't a signal that Commander set design is stale, I don't know what is.

Finally, the mana ratios are way off here. Plugging this deck into Deckstats.net, the green is over represented and while one can argue that this is helpful for mana fixing, since the land Auras need green to work, they only need one green mana. That's the whole point, right? That green can fix your mana easily, without over-representing the color?

I wouldn't even be asking these questions, if the rest of the deck seemed balanced. Things are just so skewed, I don't know why I should trust anything in this deck.

So if the goldfishing is troublesome, are the actual games even worse?

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