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Banned: Primeval Titan, Worldfire

Unbanned as a card in the deck: Kokusho, the Evening Star

Banned as a Commander: Kokusho, the Evening Star

Full ban list here: mtgcommander.net/rules.php

My thoughts: 
Worldfire, much like Sway of the Stars, was headed straight for the chopping block in Commander as part of an abusive combo that is easy to put together.  Perhaps in future sets, there may be new cards to interact with the combo, but for the present, it's banned.

Primeval Titan, on the other hand, was always going to hit the chopping block but took his time getting there. I'm a bit surprised it took this long. He's the one titan everyone loves playing, and if you were playing green in Commander, you played Primeval Titan (and ways to put him in play). If he searched for basic lands instead of non-basic lands, I think he stays legal. However, the ability to search for Maze of Ith and Strip Mine meant that he was always going to be an abusive, one-sided creature whose sole purpose is to let a player win with lands. Since rare lands are often the most expensive cards around, this often produced a monetary gap between players. I have seen this misattributed as a skill gap. Money is not skill. 

Kokusho was always a card that I felt had a place in Commander. He works well with Living Death themed decks and Rite of Replication. At this point, neither strategy should surprise anyone. Being banned as a commander means that decks with Cabal Coffers can't just cast him and sacrifice him every turn for as long as they want. Gotta be a little more creative than that. Creativity is good for every format.

Sep 18, 2012 -- 4:56PM, RxPhantom wrote:

Are you effing kidding me?!  Primeval Titan ?!  How effing stupid!  And Kokusho is unbanned?!  This blows, and I don't think my playgroup will honor it.

As someone who has played EDH for years now, I can definitely see where they are coming from with the Titan. Not sure about Kokusho. They unbanned Worldgorger Dragon a little bit ago, but I haven't seen it make a significant impact in the metagames I'm in.

BS

Primeval titan only highlighted decks that weren't up to snuff.

This is a ban I will not be honoring.

I have only been playing commander for about 7 months now and in most of the games I have played, primeval titan was a game changer.

Its true. There have been times when Primeval Titan has hit the field, but he never broke the game. He either got stolen, cloned, or revived from the grave by someone else. 

But I don't think his ban will stick. Far too many people love the card to follow the ban.