Thread by @ghirapurigears

i genuinely don't know what i want or expect to hear from wotc about these walking dead cards.

four days later i'm just not sure what i feel about this. i value their ability to experiment and test new things and do wildly unexpected things, but i also am incredibly frustrated that they'd just unilaterally decide the legality of cards that are not universally available

i also just super hate the notion of mechanically unique cards with limited availability

the walking dead is *not* magic adjacent. it has fucking guns.

the one argument i've heard so far that i'm sympathetic to is that by focusing these cards at casual commander play, they're hitting an audience that doesn't need card availability parity, because there's no meta or need to play any given card.

i hate walking dead, and have no desire to ever get these cards or use them, and there's no competitive pressure for me to bother getting them. but the flip side is that by making them mechanically unique, now if i DO like what the card does, i am stuck

is this banworthy in edh? I don't know. EDH is not in the business of banning cards that are hard to get. Banning punishes the folks who do buy the cards and do want to play with them, but it also sends a message saying yo, we don't want this in our game and don't like it

i think my bottom line comes back to this- i'm just really mad that wizards put this on us to deal with rather than stopping to think it through themselves first.