Post #2749575

2026-05-20 01:00 UTC

cEDH has, as an outgrowth of the culture of commander in general, an issue with dealmaking and honor. the lack of competitive support from wotc has led to this weird competitive culture where players at the top of the tournament will make insane deals, spend multiple minutes talking about those deals, or kingmake other players in order to force draws. a competitive, &quot;anything goes&quot; format should not reproduce the negative play patterns that make pick up games at stores miserable. but people will see two players giving another one two free turn cycles and crow about &quot;honor&quot;

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@CyclopsCaveman@glaceon.social 2026-05-20 01:06

cEDH players will tell you that if you don't uphold your deals, then you'll get shamed out of the format as someone that doesn't keep their word. it's ridiculous. any sensible player will know that if a deal is offered to them, it's solely to the benefit of the person offering the deal. any sensible player would turn down a deal or lie into one in order to maintain their postion and hopefully gain an advantage. keeping your word is for beer and pretzels matches, not a tournament where money is on the line, and certainly not in a game as complex as magic. in fact, any deal making leads to a worse experience for the other two players, as colluding right in front of them shows blatant disrespect for the game and the sportsmanship involved in four players each attempting to reach a win

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@QuakerWanker@laserdisc.party 2026-05-20 01:48

@CyclopsCaveman@glaceon.social as a Yu-Gi-Oh player cEDH is completely inscrutable to me. Yu-Gi-Oh players are so distrustful of each other and so convinced that everyone is doing everything possible to win for themselves that it is REQUIRED to cut the opponents deck after a shuffle and some people will reshuffle the whole deck just to be extra sure. The idea of tolerating open king making is unfathomable to me. A judge would on the spot DQ you for match fixing.

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