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I feel like your second paragraph kind of answers your questions. BR is powerful, fast, and redundant. One of my guesses is it has taken advantage of the meta. If people start packing more Leylines...

While I haven't been playing the deck for a very long time so I don't have a great deal of experience with it, I do run a 3-1 split of decay and echoing truth for reasons like you mentioned.