Stony Silence

Treasure Hate in Commander

New 27 Jul 2022 Asked by alargenerd-blog 62 Comments

Hey Mark,

Been playing for almost 30 years, love the care, thought and work you and your team put into the game. Always super cool to hear your thoughts on design - thanks for being such a fixture in the community and making the game great.

Regarding treasure in Commander - I feel (in my own personal experience as a player) that treasure has gotten really ubiquitous and sort of warped the flow of the format. The best part of the magic experience is having such a diverse pool of tools / cards to draw from to solve specific challenges and problems, but I've found that as a player looking to start actively punishing treasure in my metagame (I play with close friends at our respective houses regularly), the tools don't really seem to be there yet to fully do this.

Any word on whether their may be a bit more effort towards providing better treasure-hate tools in EDH on the horizon? I'd love to see a couple commanders and other cards that indirectly (or even directly) punish this strategy.

I'm at a point where I'd run Mayhem Devil as a commander if I could and Magnetic Mine is starting too look a little juicier every day, but I don't want to resort to running full on turbo stax cards like Stony Silence or that-one-Karn just yet as these are my friends and I still want everyone to play the game and interact.

*End polite request for more medium-power, not-too-staxy treasure hate*


I hear your request for more Treasure hate cards and will communicate that desire to the rest of R&D.

Color Shift Vs Reserved List

New 30 Dec 2017 Asked by gophilipbowles 30 Comments

If snow/artifact/etc duals violate the spirit of the reserved list, why are colour shifts like Stony Silence and Porphyry Nodes allowed?


Color shifts are a functional difference that doesn’t supplant the need of the original.


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