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Bring Back the Gathering: How to Save Competitive Magic
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While I loved (I say past tense because when I closed my shop I gave up Magic) commander, I miss 60 card.
The Commander Parties were fun to run, but I would have a group of players who would come In and wanted to play plain commander. They would end up in a pod with someone wanting to do the party and then refuse to acknowledge the night's rules. This ended up souring people to the commander parties. Since my shop was in a small town, a lot of times I would only get enough for a single pod, maybe 2, and 3 on a really good night.
Yeah and sorry in no way did I mean to say Commander is "lesser than" or anything like that if I came across that way. I just meant that it's completely different from the 1v1 competitive stuff/experience that LGSs I grew up with were all about. It's definitely fun, I just think it's rise in popularity came at the cost of competitive 1v1 magic and I kind of lament that.
No, i did not think you meant Commander is lesser. It is very different, and I wish WoTC push 1v1 Commander more, and multiplayer 60 card.
Brawl was a great format, i wish it had done better.