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A short list from top of my head that have insane or good Brainstorm synergy, cards that Brainstorm makes better and that make Brainstorm better:

Insane synergy:
- Allied Fetches
- Terminus /...

No, tournament size and round numbers are completely irrelevant for that. There is just no correlation whatsoever between deck consistency and round numbers.

Yes,if your reason to keep BS around is that it is fun, or nostalgic, or iconic, or something around these lines then it would be a different thing. That is a completely logical reasoning and there...

But SnT and ANT are much more popular decks than Belcher and Dredge because - duh - Brainstorm and Ponder. And fair blue decks are more popular than fair nonblue decks because - ta dah - Brainstorm...

That was your initial post:
http://www.mtgthesource.com/forums/showthread.php?14662-All-B-R-update-speculation&p=861790&viewfull=1#post861790

Your conclusion was and I quote "I guess blue decks...

If by that you mean Terminus, that card wouldn't be half as good without - guess what - Brainstorm. And nonblue decks left that don't lose to Terminus (aka nonblue decks without at least 20 1-drop...

If you use your statistic as an example of how nonblue decks compete against blue decks, you have to include their matchups against all blue decks, obviously.

If you are as bad at sideboarding as you are when it comes to interpreting statistics then I would not be surprised if you do.



Lol yes, if you just don't count the bad blue matchups then the...

I guess you talk about this post? http://www.mtgthesource.com/forums/showthread.php?14662-All-B-R-update-speculation&p=861790&viewfull=1#post861790

I don't know what you see, but I see a variety...

Of course it i not. It is just a complete coincidence that the 5 Deck to Beats all run 4x Brainstorm and the deck people here claim beats all of them also runs 4x Brainstorm. But that has nothing to...

So consistency is NOT the only thing a deck wants. Good that we agree on that. And on top synergy and that good power / cost relation decks might also benefit from elements of Card Advantage,...

It is not "me" vs. "you". If for some reason I was forced to play this abysmal degenerated format at this point I would obviously play a Brainstorm deck, too. But not because Cantrips in general are...

What you don't get is that only win percentages matter when you compare decks, not consistency, not any other concept. And a deck with higher consistency through cantrips does not automatically have...

Cantrips are just a concept among many, you gain card quality for a mana investment. There is nothing inherently OP with that. If Hymn to Tourach would discard 4 cards, that would be OP, but it would...

In the long run the overall better deck will win more, not the more consistent one. Consistency is just one of many parts that makes a deck good. The tournament size is absolutely irrelevant, all...

Cantrips are just cantrips. There is nothing magical or special or complicated about them. If your blue deck wants additional consistency or digging for certain cards you should play them and most...

I have played Legacy since the beginning and I have been arguing for its banning for a couple of years now, I can't tell you exactly since when. But at some point it occurred to me that the problem...

Don't you think it is kind of funny that both absolutely agree with each other that Brainstorm is not the problem but that they have completely different opinions about what the problem is? The cause...

Yeah right...

If Ancestral Recall was red and legal we would see MD Blue Blasts because everyone would play red. But instead Brainstorm is legal and so we see MD Red Blasts because everyone plays blue.

Well yes, I have always agreed with the argument to protect iconic cards from Wizard's standpoint (if you want to search 100-300 pages back you will probably find me saying this, I also think IBA...

You say "he wants even Ponder banned" as if that was something unheard of. But it is already banned / restricted in Vintage and Modern. In fact it is a little curiosity that it isn't banned in Legacy...

I played the format from day 1 on. I really liked Legacy and it hurt when I made the decision to stop participating in it a few months ago because of Brainstorm completely stifling any form of...

I am done with arguing in this case. If people can read the stats and play games without coming to the conclusion that BS is OP I can't do anything.

For the other blue cards, I would just ban...

Haven't posted here or played in a couple of month because of Brainstorm being allowed and it seems like I will stay away longer. Just posting because I looked at a few Top8 lists and all I see is...