{"id":1130,"date":"2021-09-13T10:59:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-13T10:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mtgcommander.net\/?p=1130"},"modified":"2021-09-13T14:59:29","modified_gmt":"2021-09-13T14:59:29","slug":"september-2021-quarterly-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mtgcommander.net\/index.php\/2021\/09\/13\/september-2021-quarterly-update\/","title":{"rendered":"September 2021 Quarterly Update"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>RULES<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rule 10 is removed.&nbsp; Rule 11 is renumbered to Rule 10.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>CARDS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Worldfire is Unbanned<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Golos, Tireless Pilgrim is Banned<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rule 10, which stated that commanders were subject to the legend rule, was created in the days when the legend rule was less stable; the rule remained as an artifact of that time.&nbsp; It\u2019s not a Commander-specific rule, but simply existed as a clarification.&nbsp; Since it\u2019s redundant, we chose to eliminate it.&nbsp; This change is administrative only and will have no impact on how games are played.&nbsp; Rule 11 bumps up to Rule 10.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Worldfire was once banned due to the problematic interaction with floating mana and having access to your Commander. We want to foster a Commander environment where 8- and 9-mana spells are viable and likely to show up in a game, so we evaluate the expensive ones in that context. Unlike Coalition Victory and Biorhythm, which we continue to believe are problematic in that environment, the level of effort needed to make Worldfire effective is sufficient that we suspect it will not be as much of an issue. There are already cheaper ways to do similar things in the format.&nbsp; We believe the social contract and robust pregame discussions will keep Worldfire out of games in which it doesn\u2019t belong.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Golos, Tireless Pilgrim has been a much-discussed card that is both popular to play with and unpopular to play against. There are many problems with the card, but the greatest is that in the low-to-middle tiers where we focus the banlist, Golos is simply a better choice of leader for all but the most commander-centric decks.&nbsp; Its presence crushes the kind of diversity in commander choice which we want to promote.&nbsp; You can drop in Golos and a few 5-color lands into a random deck and get all the ramp and card advantage you would ever want from a commander, with no worries about your mana base.&nbsp; Golos\u2019 ability effectively reduces the commander tax to one and once you hit seven mana (with Golos assuring that you have WUBRG and helping you get there quickly), you don\u2019t need to do anything for the rest of the game except cast spells for free\u2014something we always want to be careful about.&nbsp; We\u2019ve talked to the folks in Studio X and they understand the problems created by generically-powerful five-color commanders that don\u2019t have WUBRG in their mana cost.&nbsp; We don\u2019t expect similar cards to come from them in the future, so a surgical strike now makes sense.&nbsp; We understand that many players love Golos, so we don\u2019t take this action lightly.&nbsp; In the end, the health of the format is our primary concern and we find Golos unhealthy.&nbsp; While Kenrith, the Returned King is a similarly flexible and popular commander for good stuff five color decks, we see it as a clear step down from Golos.&nbsp;&nbsp;<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RULES Rule 10 is removed.&nbsp; Rule 11 is renumbered to Rule 10. CARDS Worldfire is Unbanned Golos, Tireless Pilgrim is Banned Rule 10, which stated that commanders were subject to the legend rule, was created in the days when the legend rule was less stable; the rule remained as an artifact of that time.&nbsp; It\u2019s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mtgcommander.net\/index.php\/2021\/09\/13\/september-2021-quarterly-update\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">September 2021 Quarterly Update<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mtgcommander.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1130"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mtgcommander.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mtgcommander.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mtgcommander.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mtgcommander.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1130"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mtgcommander.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1134,"href":"https:\/\/mtgcommander.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1130\/revisions\/1134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mtgcommander.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mtgcommander.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mtgcommander.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}