Oh wow that is crazy as shit. Especially if you have those weird boardstates where you had just creatures destroyed and all this equipment laying around but its all too expensive to equip in time.Colossus hammer is perfect!, I am definetly putting that in the deck. magnetic theft reminds me of inventory management
Those are some of the better lands that enter the battlefield tapped to be honest, especially in EDH where the gameplay is usually a slower pace. They've only been just recently powercrept by the Murder at Karlov Manor lands that are fetchable (they have the land typings like Forest, Island, etc.) and instead of scry 1 they have surveil 1. They're good enough that they see a few copies in most Modern decks even since you can fetch it at the end of your opponent's turn and filter your top card afterwards.
If you mean creating a bunch of tokens there's never really been a solid archetype nickname for that. There's the colloquial "going wide" (where the voltron thing with BoS we talked about is sometimes called "going tall") and usually people just call it a token based strategy or just say token aggro I guess? Though to me, aggro is usually low mana costs with fast damage and has little gas left in the tank by late game which is *usually* bad in EDH because you have more opponents to clobber through. Things like Assemble the Legion not being answered will sometimes make up for the lack of late game momentum though, that card has been a great non-competitive EDH card since it first came out in my opinion. Yes, there's a competitive EDH scene and it looks almost like an entirely different format and they almost never want to play against non-competitive decks. So at least they aren't just pubstombers lol.
It is funny though now that you mention how the Legion gets a whole deck despite being in one game and all the other things now seem a bit less emphasized, especially Brotherhood.
Yeah that is very true. I just have been playing this game for like 17 years now. And after my first 4 years, I got into EDH and played almost only that for about 10. So I'm a bit sick of EDH especially as I saw how much Wizards was influencing the format with direct-to-EDH cards compared to how the format felt prior. I got really into other 1v1 formats and started competing. I did okay for someone who never tried to learn how to play better and suddenly shifted gears but I burned out on it and just haven't played in like 2 years now.
But that doesn't take away from your sentiment. I just am not thrilled to deal with some of the things they're doing even if it doesn't actually affect how the game plays much. I got into the game when it was shifting its identity in a huge way for the first time and its had minor changes since then and now with the crossovers, it feels like the game's identity has been abandoned all together. I remember when "New Phyrexia is the most sci-fi we ever plan on getting" and look at it now. I don't absolutely hate it, but I dislike that I am not thrilled either. It's a very solid card game and is pretty much every other TCG's grandpappy for a reason.
