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Shivam Bhatt @shivambhatt.bsky.social · 3h

That said? I will never stop fighting to keep commander unique and different from the rest of magic. It was born as a casual refuge from competitive meta dependent play and is one of the few places your deck can tell a story, and truly represent your heart in the game.

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Shivam Bhatt @shivambhatt.bsky.social · 3h

I think the rules should stay as they are. I think they're easy to understand and keep the aesthetics and core idea of the game pretty. But I am not gonna do more than shrug if they change, because I put harsher build restrictions on myself than the rules ever will.

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Shivam Bhatt @shivambhatt.bsky.social · 3h

What the question of hybrid is really asking is not about color identity, it is about whose game we are playing. And real talk, wizards took commander in-house. The battle, as it were, is over. Does it even matter what we think? When a kid puts a rw hybrid soldier in a mono-w deck, who really cares?

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Shivam Bhatt @shivambhatt.bsky.social · 3h

And when the designers come and say, hey, you aren't using the pieces we made correctly, is that a genuinely valid concern? People are having a blast working within the rules they made with your toys. They are still buying Legos, just not building the picture on the box

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Shivam Bhatt @shivambhatt.bsky.social · 3h

It is like using the rules of a tabletop miniatures war game to tell lengthy, persistent, evolving stories that follow a single party of characters over time

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Shivam Bhatt @shivambhatt.bsky.social · 3h

Commander has more in common with dandan than it does with standard. It is a novel way to use gamepieces that were printed for a different game entirely.

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Shivam Bhatt @shivambhatt.bsky.social · 3h

And now that wizards has commander in house entirely, why bother with the artifice? Why even ask about rules you obviously want changed? The answer because wizards knows that the things that make commander special are incredibly important and require audience buy in before you knock the pillars down

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Shivam Bhatt @shivambhatt.bsky.social · 3h

Things like "allow companions", breaking the rule of no outside cards, or "partners", breaking the rule of one commander, or ships as commanders, breaking the rule of legendary creatures, or 'this can be your commander' breaking the rule that no, it can't.

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Shivam Bhatt @shivambhatt.bsky.social · 3h

When wizards started making cards specifically for commander, we got nonsense like dockside and arcane signet and so on, and more demands from corporate that the fan format start following the rules of Magic the Gathering as designed.

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Shivam Bhatt @shivambhatt.bsky.social · 3h

Because before, it didn't matter how hybrid worked or what tools white or red had. You took the game pieces they made and adapted them to your needs, often making wild workarounds to patch holes and challenges

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Shivam Bhatt @shivambhatt.bsky.social · 3h

For ages the balance was this- wizards makes cards for Magic the Gathering. Commander, a fan generated format, chooses how to use them and which cards to use. The problem started when wizards began making cards for *Commander* instead of for Magic the Gathering.

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ArtosKincaid @artoskincaid.bsky.social · 5h

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Shivam Bhatt @shivambhatt.bsky.social · 16h

here, read a bunch of screenshots

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ArtosKincaid @artoskincaid.bsky.social · 1d

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ArtosKincaid @artoskincaid.bsky.social · 2d

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ArtosKincaid @artoskincaid.bsky.social · 3d

Bam, 3 tries:

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ArtosKincaid @artoskincaid.bsky.social · 4d

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ArtosKincaid @artoskincaid.bsky.social · 4d

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ArtosKincaid @artoskincaid.bsky.social · 4d

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ArtosKincaid @artoskincaid.bsky.social · 6d

I got this one wrong twice because I thought the character was introduced in an earlier book...

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ArtosKincaid @artoskincaid.bsky.social · 7d

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ArtosKincaid @artoskincaid.bsky.social · 8d

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ArtosKincaid @artoskincaid.bsky.social · 8d

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ArtosKincaid @artoskincaid.bsky.social · 9d

As someone once said to me, "You can do naught but try".

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 10d

Honestly, it needs to go further than this.

We need to confront the fact that democracy and wealth hoarding cannot coexist. Allowing people to amass the resources of a small state/country allows them to act as such, which is inimical to a shared society of “one person, one vote.”

John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 10d

“No Kings” is great , but we really don't get a functioning democracy back until we internalize, bone deep, the instinctive response to this and every other statement like it: “I don’t care what that rich guy thinks.”

Make it your morning affirmation. Say it ten times at the top of every hour.

The Independent @the-independent.com · 10d

Elon Musk calls for US troops to be sent to San Francisco for war on drugs: ‘It’s the only solution’

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