papa_funk wrote:
I'm sure we will discuss it, but I'm not worried about potential for abuse. If people feel the need to abuse it, they probably ignore the rest of the social contract too.
This sums up my feelings about this. I fully support the change to the London mulligan as the new oficial mulligan for Commander. People who become genuinely screwed with their starting hands will have better chances to at least play the game if, for example, they dump two nonland cards to the bottom of the library while keeping a five-card hand with three lands in it. As for the potential to abuse, well, the format was not designed with that in mind, so abusers and trolls will just continue abusing and trolling, now a little better than before. The London mulligan will leave the crowd who endorse the social contract happier by having better chances to not get mana screwed, and the rest is history. As for the potential abuse with Grenzo, remember that you still need to keep some lands in order to cast it, he's still vulnerable to removal just like everyone else, and now you can't tutor if you wish to maintain the order of the bottom cards. Yes, he will become a little bit better with the London mulligan, but Grenzo was hardly a tier 1 commander, and manipulating an extra two or three cards to the bottom of the library will hardly change that.