![]() ![]() The problem is that it has become playable over a small threshold, though still not totally mandatory in some performing decks. It even finally found a home commander with Rielle The Everwise, only to mention one.īazaar of Baghdad also showed to be slightly more played online (when players didn't physically need the card) than on paper and not necessarily for testing concerns. ![]() It crosses a lot of attention boundaries: being ultra-iconic, being almost 30-years old, being on the Wizards Of The Coast Reprint Policy list, being almost impossible to find or have it lent, fixing hands, filling graveyards, being a land that can't be responded to. It's not busted per se in Duel Commander, as over 15 years of existence, it rarely shined and failed to obliterate the format, despite its very unique and powerful ability. We chose to have Shorikai, Genesis Engine now banned as a commander.īazaar of Baghdad is one of those problematic cards that share a lot of head-scratching when it comes to legality. Those reasons won't be fixed unless a lot of metagame changes are made to a vast majority of decks, which might not even be enough. The advantages such a card provides quickly proved right the reasons mentioned herebefore for Shorikai, Genesis Engine to rise very high among final rankings widely more than an healthy format can contain. Though, being an artifact and thus being hard to remove allowed the deck to rely near-exclusively on the commander: not having to play a lot of card advantage engines allowed the maindeck to be a lot more powerful without ever lacking resources. Having most of the fundamental tools needed to any control deck always available in the command zone is already a powerful advantage. What’s more, Shorikai is a very versatile tool: it gives board control, creates pure card advantage, and finally, can close games once they're under control. They're supposed to remain acceptable considering that structural advantage. Dodging removals that are universally played is a big advantage. Commanders that are not creatures are borderline cards by nature.
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