UnNamed1 wrote: ↑4 years agoInteresting that you say cEDH needs more bans. As a thought exercise, a large discord group created a new banlist strictly for cEDH, and removed over half of the current bans as they were "too slow" to be impactful. IMO casual needs the bans more than cEDH, as cEDH actively tries to be the best of the best. Players can try to stop others but there will always be pubstompers. Maybe your personal group has a powerlevel set between you but when you play with 10-15 different people depending on the night, its much harder to have a universal power level.SP1R1TDRAGON wrote: ↑4 years agoFirst I think that Cedh requires more bans than casual edh since Cedh players actively try to break the format. (imo there isn't really a need for bans in casual formats at all since people regulate their on powerlevel: it's not the banlist that prevents people from bringing T2 combo decks to a casual table it's the players themselves)
Secondly I believe none of these 3 cards see any play in casual edh so people shouldn't really get upset over a ban
I certainly agree that having different powerlevels between players is a problem in casual playgroups, I just don't think banning cards that are considered too strong (like for example Paradox Engine) does anything to solve this because there are still more than enough similar or even more powerfull cards and combos out there and unless they were all to get banned (wich is neither wanted nor really possible) there will always be someone with a stronger deck in a casual table. So imo banning cards to reduce the powerlevel of decks only works when you're looking at the top tier Decks