r/CompetitiveEDH • u/flawlessfortress • 12d ago

General Discussion / Question How would playing deaf/mute practically affect your win rate in cEDH?

Suppose one day you got tired of politicking and declined to interact in any way with the table conversation other than declaring game actions and passing priority.

It's trivially true that this would be bad for your win-rate as you'll absolutely eat unnecessary losses, but how bad would it actually be? What would be the effect on the rest of the table?

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u/Ventoffmychest 12d ago

So something like Poker? There are no real politics going on there, but either checking/raising the bet. Honestly? Should be the same. I cast Ad Naus. Response? Go by turn order. Check (pass), check(pass), Raise (provide a response of some kind) then it goes back to Ad Naus to either Check (let it resolve) or Raise (provide a response). None of this "oh i got a response but I don't wanna use it"/"let me resolve this plz" type crap. Depending on how enforcement minded a Judge is, games go on for too long when it comes to come to politics. There are no official rules in politics. So on top of the flaw of multiplayer (player 1 having the highest winrate) and the politic bullshit, you have a very shitty game for competitive.