The job of the CAG is to give the RC insights on the reactions out in the field. The RC don’t need the CAG to teach them rules, they are all deep-rules-knowledged people. What they were lacking was wider spread connections to the community, and that’s what that specific CAG member provided: most of the community probably didn’t know it either.

The more irritating thing is that the rules got more complicated by the change. I would have preferred to take a “the rules stay, we clarify” stance instead. The new wording just treats the “if it changes zones, decide to move it to the command zone instead” beauty in a two paragraph monster, that treats target zones differently. Not a fain.

I understand WHY they made the change, but to me personally those few commanders just aren’t worth the clunky rules change. But then, I am not playing any of those commanders …

One thing to do with Emry is to go for the obvious synergies (eggs and baubles) to have a solid draw engine and replay artifacts over and over again – and then go for token producers on artifact cast ([[efficient construction]], [[sai, master thopterist]], [[mirrodin besieged]]) and combine that with [[intruder alarm]] and [[steel overseer]]. You still get to go infinite from time to time, because Emry untaps, too, but if you skip the cost reducers and focus on cmc 1+ baubles and eggs, you only get value that way – casting a [[chromatic sphere]] 5 times a turn with emry and intruder alarm and a token producer out is just value, and it’s a bit janky, so people shouldn’t get too upset. And with overseer out your thoper and myr get big quite fast. Throw in [[dragon throne of tarkier]] and [[master of etherium]] as another way to pump up your token creatures and you can go hame quite reliably.

The nice thing: your deck can rebuild quite easily, because you have tons of cheap artifacts to play and use to replay Emry should she be killed. And you can go crazy quickly if you have haste enablers like equipments or [[thousand year elixier]] available. Your turns won’t be directly turned into infinite “draw your whole deck and win with Thassa” but instead you will draw big chunks over and over again, replay eggs and pump your board and kill with damage.

You will horribly lose your presence to any broad artifact board wipe ([[vandalblast]]), but you will rebuild over and over again. And you still can throw in value pieces alike [[Mystic Forge]] or [[Future Sight]] to raise chances you can really go off in your value turns.

And well, if you notice you need more focus, you can go quite reliably into tutoring, as most of your stuff is artifacts and the non-artifacts can be tutored with transmute cards.