Jeffrey W Kramer

Last Tuesday's election results were a great victory. To see a bunch of Senate Dems tossing that away in exchange for nothing but empty promises is disgusting and disheartening, and it will cost the Democrats dearly moving forward. You stepping aside for more effective leadership might help.

This latest debacle, your failure to keep your fellow Dems in line, is the last straw. New leadership is needed. You should resign immediately as Senate minority leader. I will not give a cent to the DNC for as long as you remain in this position, and I urge others to make this same decision.

That's great, but this is happening on your watch. Again and again, Senate Dems have voted for unfit Trump nominees, failed to stand up for reproductive and trans rights and trusted Republicans who have proven absolutely untrustworthy.

A bunch of gutless, feckless losers, enabled by the disgracefully and shamefully ineffective leadership of Chuck Schumer.

I look forward to picking up copies of Vivi for inclusion in some of my commander decks.

And my stance continues to be that while I will contribute to individual campaigns, the DNC gets no donations until Schumer is replaced as Senate minority leader. I urge others to make that same choice.

So, who in the Senate are you holding responsible for this “mistake?” This is more failed leadership. Schumer and Durbin need to be replaced as minority leader and whip immediately. Like, today.

Every Dem traitor who voted for this must be primaried, as must the Dem leaders, especially Schumer. New leadership is desperately needed.

Loathsome. Disgusting. Treasonous.

Terrible idea on every level. Craven, feckless. Trusting Republicans is idiotic.

Ditto. And Schumer just plain needs to go.

Any Dem that yields on this is a feckless coward who should be primaried out of existence. Schumer needs to go.

Very solid card. I am always happy to draw it in my Dihada deck.

Yep. I still hate that you can’t edit posts on here.

Gutless, feckless.

Seems the powers that be would rather have more Luigis than deliver justice within the system.

It would be nice if the congressional Democratic leadership would pay attention to this. If they want voters - and especially younger ones - to care, it is time for the Schumers of the world to move in and make way for new leaders.

Perfectly stated, Shivam.

Joey definitely knocked out of the park, but I think you also did a really good job in the recent video you did about your dislike for this potential change.

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You asked for feedback. I concur with everything Joey says in this video about why the proposed hybrid rule change is not good for Commander and how the biased way WotC is presenting the issue really sucks.

Thank you for the link. We have actually heard most of this before. Repeatedly, in fact, over the years. Maro’s stance on this issue has been long-established.

Is that first one Sydri? If so, I would love to own that alter. Either way, it's beautiful.

YouTube video by Brian Kibler The Problems with Universes Beyond - Even if you're *NOT* a Hater

Again, I refer to his video. He’s smarter about the game than I am by far. youtu.be/CW7pXZfiw0o?...

I think the two issues overlap. Standard’s size is increasing because they are dumping more sets into it than used to be the case, especially all of the UB ones, and as Kibler pointed out, UB licensing issues create balancing and planning issues.

Commander players by and large are also complaining of too many releases. Blame Wizards/Hasbro. They want everything to appeal to commander players yet also be in standard in hopes that shoving it all together will maximize sales.

I don’t think, for example, mono-red needs access to Manamorphose or to mana dorks like the new Spider Manifestation or to hybrid fight or bite effects like Rhino’s Rampage or Stump Stomp (though presumably the latter would still be restricted, I expect we will see non-MDFC versions in the future.

Count me as a big no re: banning Rhystic Study and changing color identity rules regarding hybrid cards. Let Commander have some format-specific rules. The idea that mono-colored decks need access to hybrid cards is patently absurd.

Also, the whole “you can choose to bow out of games with those commanders” doesn’t apply to them in the 99, as they are less likely to come up in the pregame conversation. Those two are usually gonna be much more potent in the 99 than, say, Winota or Yuriko.

Glad Swat came off the list though.

As I have written elsewhere, I’m not sure taking Urza and Kinnan off the GC list makes a lot of sense so long as Seedborn is still a GC. All three do very similar things in different ways, and both of those can be super-busted in the 99 in decks that would run them in the first place.

The “too big” thing is definitely an issue. Brian Kibler put up a really good video recently about the negative impacts of UB on standard and how the number of sets and how UB impacts design makes it impossible to design/curate a balanced standard.