In an update from the Commander Rules Committee today, they looked to update the community on things. While there are no changes to the Banned and Restricted list for the format, they did address a few other things.
The Community’s Concern
With the community showing multiple concerns around various cards like
Dockside Extortionist
Dockside Extortionist
When this creature enters, create X Treasure tokens, where X is the number of artifacts and enchantments your opponents control. (Treasure tokens are artifacts with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")
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Tergrid, God of Fright
Tergrid, God of Fright
Menace
Whenever an opponent sacrifices a nontoken permanent or discards a permanent card, you may put that card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.
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Thassa’s Oracle
Thassa’s Oracle
When this creature enters, look at the top X cards of your library, where X is your devotion to blue. Put up to one of them on top of your library and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. If X is greater than or equal to the number of cards in your library, you win the game. (Each {U} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to blue.)
being a few, it’d make sense for these cards to be talked about by the Rules Committee. Well, they did, and their thoughts might not be what the community wants to hear.
The Rules Committee has a very fine line of when cards warrant bannings. This line involves whether or not a card can be dealt with before the game ever gets going, through pre-game player discussion and social contract. Essentially, the RC don’t view these cards a ban worthy.
Social Contract?
What does Social Contract really mean? Well as defined by the FAQ Section, Social Contract basically means, Don’t play in games you don’t want to. Before games begin, players should discuss what kinds of experience that they want to have in the game, whether it be more casual, or highly competitive, and come to a group consensus around that. This can eliminate some cards from the game, such as those mentioned above, if they don’t fit into the social contract of the game.
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What do you think about this? Do you think that the RC should take more action about these cards, or do you think that their approach is the way to go? Let us know in the comments!