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Yeah I think cEDH folks have a lot of slogans they like to toss out without really questioning whether they're true or not.
Another one is that cEDH is like casual commander without all of the social contract and hidden social expectations.
Oh, see I'd draw a distinction between what the cEDH community wants and what the bracket system needs to provide.
cEDH already has a lot of good recordkeeping and data analysis to draw those distinctions. They don't need the bracket system to help seat them at the right tables.
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Took some of your collective advice and I'm feeling strong about this one. Beginning of act 2 and I think it might go the distance.
Yeah, I strongly agree. When I was involved (very VERY early on) it was really important to me that the categories be descriptive and non-hierarchical.
I don't see a need for it. What kind of functional value do you think that would add?
This is one of the reasons why I don't like classifying weak, former, or fringe cEDH decks as B4. I get the desire for increased granularity in the cEDH, but I think it does a disservice to the system overall by lumping short skyscrapers in with tall dirt piles.
...you can continue making a deck more powerful by playing more powerful cards, and your limiting factor is how powerful the cards are.
That is to say that if a cEDH deck is a skyscraper, a B4 deck is more like a pile of dirt. There are specific strategies and considerations you need to employ to build a skyscraper. In theory you can ignore those and just keep piling dirt up as long as you have enough dirt. In the same way...
B4 as a dumping ground for fringe and former meta decks, but I don't really think that's the intent of B4 at all.
In my mind, B4 is where decks live when they are powerful strategies that play powerful cards but are not designed to interact with the top-end meta.
I think it's interesting that cEDH tends to deal with this by doing the opposite -- it seems like they want to NARROW the definition of B5 and use the cutoff between B4 and B5 as that increased resolution. Rather than splitting B5 between meta and fringe decks, they've kinda annexed...
...comes from the fact that people (selfishly) want the scale to have more resolution at the spot they live on it. If there's a large range of decks that fit the description for B3, the folks who primarily play B3 experience situations where the top end and the bottom end are too far apart.
I think one of the tough nuts to crack with brackets is that there's an asymmetry when it comes to how people perceive the format. Some of this is just delusion (like when cEDH players assume they're a much larger percentage of the population than they actually are) but some of it...
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