Stickers and Attractions BANNED

If the worst possible scenario for a design of a card is that it sees play, that card should not be designed.

6:50 what makes rosewaters statement funny is that no group i ever played with had issues with silver-bordered cards in EDH. What people DO have issues with is a larger number of black-bordered cards. People will let you play "the cheese stands alone". People will stab you behind the store for casting scrambleverse.

An occasional check-in of "Hey this is the current nonsense going on in standard" might be a fun video to watch IMO.

The Unfinity experiment has finally come to its inevitable conclusion. I love legacy and I love Un-sets. Putting them together pushed me away from both. I am now looking at getting back to legacy and possibly completing my Un-set collection with this ban.

The reason stickers were a bad idea: Marked cards are banned.

"You can make a card bad but it won't be bad forever" "And I took that personally" ~ All With Nothing, probably

Goodbye, Mind Goblin. You will not be missed

The only un-card that actually functions as a real card that i can see is saw in half. Most of the time i forget its even an uncard

I will say, while I'm happy stickers and attractions aren't legal in competitive formats anymore, I do feel like just using the Rule 0 discussion as a way to play silver boarder stuff in commander isn't really ideal. I've got several rule 0 Un-Decks myself, but the thing is, if the commander or a significant portion of the deck WASN'T devoted to being a goofy silver border thing... I wouldn't really bother. There's no reason Krark's Other Thumb can't be legal now given that there are plenty of black border dice rolling cards and similar re-roll effects... but I'm not about to put it in a dice-rolling deck if its the only card thats gonna be in there, on the off chance that someone in the rule 0 conversation has a hard 'no silver border' stance and suddenly I gotta play a different deck. If the decks entire premise isn't dedicated to an Un-Mechanic, I'd rather the whole deck be black border, just to be safe. But theres plenty of silver boarder cards that are frankly not that egregious and may as well be playable. Plus, making the cards black border also helps people who wanna play those goofier decks because it ensures those cards have actual rulings on them. There's no ambiguity with how they function that could cause friction at a commander table. I have a friend who doesn't like playing against my Discord, Lord of Disharmony deck because of the ambiguity with how you should choose a card with him, if stuff like planes/conspiracies are possible to hit, and even ambiguity with when the ability triggers a second time. But she's fine playing against my Magar of the Magic Strings deck, because how his effect works is clearly defined by the rules. I don't think designing un-cards to be playable in commander is inherently bad. I just do agree it can be a problem when it crosses over into competitive formats.

And then there's me off to the side, low-key happy that Attractions are ok in Commander because it means my Mr House deck still rolls a lot of dice to roll. Still confuses me that Wizards made a Mardu dice-roller guy and then barely printed cards that roll dice in those colours.

2:12 What WotC didnt want to say is that there were players not playing clone effects or sticker cards rhat would bring sticker decks to pump fake opponents.

This is honestly my main issue with some of the Un-set cards; When the card itself either becomes unplayable because there isn't a non-player around (certain joke cards call for it), or when they make the game a logistical goddamn nightmare... it just ends up not fun to play with. Meanwhile the "Half-x" "...half-x" cards are fun, goofy, and completely self-contained, so it's clear that un-sets can have fun and playable cards in them. Wizards just have to figure out a way for the un-sets to have decent value in them. Like, add slots into the boosters that are guaranteed reprints but with special funny art perhaps? I'd love an un-flavored art version of stuff like Smothering Tithe and Anointed Procession.

I've got a friend who was broken hearted when Illusionary Mask had it's text changed so we let him play the Un land that says all cards in play function as written regardless of rule changes so that he can get attacked for lethal and say things like "a mysterious force is keeping me alive" because there's a platinum angle face down.

I think ultimately the problem with Unfinity wasn't that the cards were black-border, it was that that decision was made well after all the cards were designed, seemingly straight up last minute. If it were designed from the beginning as a black-border un-set, side-deck (which both attractions and stickers are) or physical prop mechanics (which, yes, stickers are) would have never made it into the game. It would have been a set full of the fine mechanics that are still legal from Unfinity. Dice rolling, Saw in Half, etc. It also would have avoided the stamp problems from the very beginning, because you wouldn't make the set some ridiculous insane mixture of legal and non-legal cards. It would just all be black-border cards, albeit with a sillier tone and with some weird mechanics.

what was the point in even making these legal when they just get banned anyway? literally no one asked for legal un-cards. and the "I don't make the rules, ma'am, i just think them up and write them down." justification for why they couldn't make these are legal in commander and nowhere else is just priceless.

Back in the day I would just gather the Lion's Eye Diamonds people would leave behind on the tables at various LGSs, because no one wanted them. I wonder what happened to those?

One of my favorite decks to play is my commander legal Mira The Magnificent attractions deck. It’s fun, quirky, and mechanically unique. I highly recommend building it!

turns out, they did mind goblin on those nuts

Most people dont want silver border card in their commander deck or in decks at the table so that doesnt work. Un sets didnt sell well, so they tried to make un have some appeal outside of un by making a portion of the cards commander legal by the actual rules not by rule 0.

The Barely 1 shockland per box was the real crime of the un set. Like the rest becomes worthless the second the draft is over.