UselessParrot580

I was playing a game with some friends over the weekend and we got into this debate about Mox artifacts I think they're fine, but one of my friends swears they're too powerful and are making the format too stagnant. I dunno, I've seen some pretty sweet decks that don't even run them. What's your take on it? Are Mox artifacts ruining modern or are people just salty about their own deck choices?

Look, I'm rolling a Commander deck with the companion "Zirda, the Dawn Mage" (your deck can't have cards with mana value 5 or more). I figured, why not slap a Prismatic Bridge on the battlefield, then let it reveal a 7‑cmc card from the top of my library? That card ends up on the battlefield without ever being in your opening deck.

Officially, the rule says the deck as it started the game must obey the companion's restriction. But Bridge literally takes a card from anywhere and puts it onto the board. Is that a loophole? Or is there some hidden clause that still counts the card as part of the deck for the purpose of the restriction? I've read a few rulings, but they're vague.

What do you think—are we cheating here, or is this legit? Looking for the precise rule citation if anyone's got it.

(Also, does this change if Bridge is animated by some effect that makes it a creature? Not that it matters, just curious.)

I've noticed a wild inconsistency in the ban decisions. Look at cards like Eldrazi Temple and Tarmogoyf — sure, they're older but still see heavy play while being treated as some sort of sacred cow of legacy deck building. In Theros Beyond Death and more newly in Horizons, cards like [Tirel the Bold | Venerable Ape | God-Pharah's Legacy | ??? I can never remember specific new ones off hand?] keep getting reprints but somehow are treated as 'okay until you realize their effect makes every other creature useless'. Wait, what. So if Eldrazi is too busted for the current Standard then gets quietly pushed aside, but the new cards only face the same issue in 2-3 prints? What’s that say about the consistency here?

Also I’m just here raging that my Standard playgroup can't go more than an evening before someone pulls the same card. If you want my opinion, it’s the game’s inconsistency that keeps new players at bay far longer than actual complexity ever could. And sure there's always the fun with Eldrazi, the real pain starts when some of these new mechanics have so many inter dependencies with old effects or specific triggers you basically just have to read them as 5-word poems.