Broken cards

Started by Oldmanomis, December 04, 2014, 11:35:26 PM

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Oldmanomis

Hey guys, I want to know your opinions on the most broken cards for the commander format. They can be banned or unbanned doesn't matter! Which cards are the most OP or broken in EDH?

JordanCirk

Hmm for creatures I'd say  {Prophet of Kruphix}. Whenever I play it, the card basically reads: take 3 extra turns. For 5 mana, that's insane.

Prplprince

^^ that

And in that vain  {Kaalia of the Vast}

And we can't forget  {Sol Ring}

DylanW18

{Bribery} is quite insane

Yawgmoth85

{mind over matter}, I love a first turn {serra ascendent}. {Isochron sceptre} are the first 3 I can think of

Agrus Kos, Enforcer of Truth

{Cyclonic Rify} completely uproots a game when it is cast, and {Deadeye Navigator} is too often abused.

Kaalia with haste

Prbably gonna go with the following in order
from most to least:
Creatures:
1. Deadeye (can easily go infinite and doesn't die without a wrath or edict)
2. Prophet (Sure, it dies, but so did sylvan primordial and primeval Titan, they were super busted and it's hard to argue that)
3. Derevi (Sorry Chris, she just is too easily abusable, and being pseudo unkillable makes her scarier)

Artifacts:
1. Sol ring/Mana crypt for obvious reasons

2. Skull clamp

Enchantments:
1. Doubling season, that damn thing makes crazy amounts of advantage plus it just has super synergy with planes walkers.

Spikepit

I have found {Storm Herd} to be pretty insane in the right deck.

Dudecore

The only truly broken cards in EDH I feel are the cards that break color pie. {Chaos Warp}, {Song of the Dryads}, {Riftsweeper}, {Pull from Eternity} and more Eternal cards like {Red Elemental Blast} and {Sword to Plowshares}. Not because they're advertly powerful, but because they remove color restrictions and allow colors to do things they don't normally do, or outright cannot do unless splashing another color.

Magic is a better game if the color pie is full of checks and balances, and no one color can do everything. It doesn't seem like it, especially when building a powerful deck, but having 'the best' deck makes everything worse.

AdamS

Quote from: Spikepit on December 06, 2014, 06:50:33 PM
I have found {Storm Herd} to be pretty insane in the right deck.
i used that in my {vish kal blood arbitor} deck and frequently got 80+ tokens which i then would sac to vish kal and combo him up to 500+/500+ in most games

LinkCelestrial

{Omniscience}: When's the last time that hit the table without somebody complaining?

Oldmanomis

Quote from: LinkCelestrial on December 08, 2014, 01:53:08 PM
{Omniscience}: When's the last time that hit the table without somebody complaining?

But it's hard to hit that much mana unless you cheat it in...

Also curious what deck runs this?!

Munchlax



Spikepit

Quote from: Oldmanomis on December 08, 2014, 02:00:54 PM
But it's hard to hit that much mana unless you cheat it in...
Not in EDH it's not.