Ban everything until Survival is good again, then never ban Survival.
^heavenly format IMO
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Ban everything until Survival is good again, then never ban Survival.
^heavenly format IMO
Uh...no?
Good heavens, people might have to play more than one color of removal, or some different graveyard hate. However will we deal with this?!?
In addition to Pact, combo like Reanimator can also just run things like Dispel, Duress, Thoughtseize, maybe even Spell Pierce. The list of ways to force through your combo is long and varied.
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No, it is NOT like morph, at least not anymore. You cannot just flip it over for :0: whenever you want.
Also, apparently I agree with Forbiddian, and will be riding my aerial suidae home from work.
You can't actually flip it whenever you want (anymore).
http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=201199
Prices were not cited as SOLE REASONS, but they were absolutely one factor. Wizards never bans a card solely on price, but one of their concerns when debuting Legacy was that the format would shake...
Actually, you're supposed to keep track with morph, too: you're supposed to put counters on the morphs to indicate the order in which they entered play.
It doesn't come up much, but technically...