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Keeping an eye on the only playable card that can challenge Beanstalk effectively...despite knowing that Beanstalk is an absolute diversity killer (see also its modern ban)...

They missed Echo...again.

Leagues provide useless data, contaminated by financial incentives tied primarily to clear speed (i.e. boosted combo presence).

About the only useful thing you can get from a league is an...

Thawing Glaciers

Oh I'll spot you Lurrus and DHA as being reasonable bans despite being absolute meme against what I play...but a 2 mana Diviniation that requires sorcery speed and a 3rd land drop open? Cmon now.
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At the same time, if you play Dreadnought you know how crappy EI is in Delver. The card is beyond pathetic if you challenge their mana. The ones complaining most about Iteration refuse to adapt and...

To be fair, we're giving green pilots of legacy an opposing Delver deck that is going to be running nearly 100% keyword flying (Delver, DRC, MurkGoyf, and Brazen) - do you really think they're going...

Jan. 25th is officially Banana smoothie day.

Now why exactly this card wasn't banned the day it was spoiled or every day since is a real legacy mystery.

Like you do understand that Oops has actual deckbuilding restrictions right? They don't get to also play conventional/fair magic [meaning hate-immune]...and it's not just conventional/fair magic,...

Ragavan is a mana advantage exploit as well as a first player advantage exploit, same as DRS. Meaningful counterplay is minimal; it's not just the inability to profitably respond to turn 1 threat...

Dude, take your beating. You played Ark4n and my deck, and put it up as your only legacy finish during the time of Murktide being legal to come here and tell me I don't know anything about card...

https://www.mtgthesource.com/forums/showthread.php?8964-Deck-Dreadstill-Enter-the-Fist/page233 5/29 is when the list was completed. DRC was spoiled on 5/28 and recognized instantly. Read into page...

@Ronald Deuce a lot of the problems with creature design can be boiled down to a chess example: when you remove any downside from dudes and print CA on them (particularly at sub-Pyknite costs), it's...

So this is the thing about your netdecking, it just means you can pilot well - you understand tactics. When it comes to building decks and format balance, you're missing the big picture [strategy]....

They didn't get a 1-card combo without any downside. This is consistent with why a 2 mana, over-stat'd, non-trample, summoning sick is a format-wide problem. It is design space that should have been...

You're letting subjective emotion in again. Back to the basics: 2 mana, over-stat'd, non-trampling, summoning sick. A Goyf is a Goyf.

Once you've got that down we can move on to another objective...

Daze will eventually get the axe for being an untenable first-player advantage exploit in an environment of this level of power creep. Wasteland however is a good actor in the format, adding...

Whoopsie doodle you've skipped over the real killer of Nacatl. In your haste to blame Brainstorm and pitch spells you forgot it's actually Goyf and the cards it generated. Thou shalt never play...

There is nothing healthy about anti-Goyf design (again it's Strix, Ice-Fang, Snapcaster, Uro, etc). Cards like these have lead to generation of bland value decks which all do the same thing [kill...

Power creep happens over time, but Goyf is still Goyf. Gotta get off the text box and keep driving the point home: 2 mana, over-stat'd, non-trampling, summoning sick. The same card is still the same...

You do realize Murktide is literally Goyf: 2 mana, over-stat'd, non-trample, summoning sick.

This has never stopped being a massive problem to format balance. Alas card design has dropped into...

On power creep, it's generally fine. Going back to MH1 you really only are dealing with Wrenn, Oko, Zirda, Echo [common endpoint for two bad actors: LED and Tomb], Breach, and Ragavan as cards that...

You cannot ban power creep, nor can you ban a design space. Once the pattern is there, the pattern will repeat over and over. We have seen this with SDT into Astrolabe, Wrenn into Oko, DRS into...

@Noctalor this is a well-established problem with Daze; undercosted cards can only be allowed a certain power level beyond which Daze becomes bullcrap. The power creep going on is only going to...

Mmmm no. You're skipping ahead here; if Daze is banned, Wasteland has a much higher cost to activate. The safer you make duals, the faster the format devolves into 4c soup.