#golos

[spaceshipsandpurpledrank]

[anonymous-hypno-blog]

The Dark Side of Reading

This is Codie, a 3 (colorless) mana guy who claims to be a fun randomness spellcasting commander. He will tell you that the spells he casts are just random chaos. He will claim he only gets that one spell every turn. he will tell you he even restricts himself to not play any nonland permanents!

But I have seen through his lies! He does not fool me with his disguise!

You thought you could hide! that we wouldn't recognize you! but we are no fools!

a 5 color commander, who costs colorless mana so you don't have to mana fix for him! who perfectly fixes your mana when you play him! who casts random spells from the top of the library FOR FREE!

GOLOS!!! I SEE THROUGH YOUR DISGUISE!

YOU HAVE BEEN BANISHED FROM THIS REALM! BANNED FROM EDH! DO YOU TAKE US FOR FOOLS!?

BUT KNOW THIS! FOR AS LONG AS WE HOLD BREATH, YOUR DARK FORCES SHALL NOT RETURN!

[magicjudge]

I still dont really understand why Golos was banned, do you as a CAG member have any additional insights/desire to explain that choice?

I'm happy to share my thoughts on the subject, sure.

Golos was banned because it was format warping. It wasn't warping gameplay around itself like other cards did (e.g. Primeval Titan, Prophet of Kruphix) but rather warping deck construction and diversity around itself.

Golos was a colorless commander with a powerful ETB tutor ability that also gave you access to all five colours and and a way to spend late-game mana. It was just too generically good and was becoming the default commander for a lot of the format. Basically any deck that wasn't focused on its commander was likely to be better off running Golos in the command zone without any other changes. Additionally, giving a deck access to all five colors without require any of those colors to cast is also not healthy for the format.

In light of this, Golos was banned in order to encourage deck and deckbuilding diversity.

Here's the announcement of the banning where you can see exactly what the Rules Committee had to say about it.

[demondramonx]

Full art of my Golos, Tireless Pilgrim alter sleeve!

[madcat-world]

Golos, Tireless Pilgrim - Joseph Meehan

[oldtumblhurgoyf]

It Was the Best of Plays, It Was the Worst of Plays

So it’s Brawl, and I’m rocking Ilharg, the Raze-Boar, while my opponent has Golos, Tireless Pilgrim.

Most of the game is spent with me putting threats on the board only to have them pacified by seemingly every pacifism-like effect in the format, while my opponent kept playing Golos only for me to remove it before its activated ability could be used.

We’re ticking away at each other here and there, both with big board states that are more or less neutralized by each other. It’s very much up in the air but my opponent seems to be on the verge of pulling out the win.

Then I top deck Act of Treason with a Chromatic Lantern on the board and oodles of mana.

I steal Golos and get to use the activated ability for the first and only time it got used that game. And my draws from it are pure gas. Chandra, Awakened Inferno, Scorchmark, and I think it was Glint-Horn Buccaneer or some creature. I drop Chandra and -3, wiping out all of my opponent’s potential blockers. Then I drop the creature.

I swing in with all I’ve got, knocking my opponent down to just 2 life. Lastly, I cast Scorchmark targeting Golos (which I still control and which still has 3 damage from Chandra), which means I get one more turn where my opponent couldn’t use that activated ability. And if they chose to cast Golos again at this point it would mean they couldn’t do anything else. In all likelihood I had just won the game with these awesome top decks and that line of play.

Insteeeeeead...

Arena just bugs out and I can’t do anything to advance the game past the combat damage cleanup step. I think it very briefly offered me the prompt to decide if Golos should go to exile or the command zone (like so briefly I may have imagined it). Golos sat on the battlefield with 5 damage marked on it, 0 toughness showing in its stat box, mocking me with this last act of defiance.

Three timers came. Three timers went. I was warned I had been inactive and would lose if I didn’t do anything soon. I clicked every card I could. I opened the settings. I said “Hello!” and “Good game” to my opponent.

The timer ran out and I loss.

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