So. Much. Win.
Thank you good sir. As someone who has abandoned BUG for Junk, I agree 100%.
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So. Much. Win.
Thank you good sir. As someone who has abandoned BUG for Junk, I agree 100%.
Because you don't just play with a single playset, you play with any number of different cards that total up to at least 60 per deck. Also, the fact that the more cards that two lists have in common...
I'm on your side: I agree that a Delver ban would be the best way to go about banning or unbanning anything.
Also, it would be 60*231 actually: 60 cards (at least) per list times 231 decks that...
I've already thought about this, thank you very much, and it's easily defensible. Brainstorm and Force of Will are only 2 playsets (8 cards) out of 60 in each deck, which means in truth they as a...
Might be good for a distraction: we could push Legacy while SCG amd WotC are laughing!
Regardless of bans or unbans, Ill still play this format because I love playing it.
My point exactly: just trying to put some numbers behind it. While Brainstorm is very popular and rightly so, one must also look at the percentage of cores within the meta and how much space that...
From the now closed poll.
Basically, this is why Delver should be banned. Decks based around the flying bugman have a core that takes up most of the deck and since the deck takes up a good chunk...
From the Color Pie and Disruption thread:
In response to this, I can't say much: I started playing MtG during Lorwyn and got competitive around the time that Halimar Depths was a thing in...
If it is/was considered a mistake by WotC, then I doubt WotC actually knows what they're doing when it comes to banning/unbanning cards.
A card itself cannot be oppressive unless there are...
so much wrong with this post I dont even know where to begin.
A card being present in 14 out of 16 decks isnt warping the format. 14 out of 16 decks being the same or similar is. Take a look at...
Stop citing the penetration of Mental Misstep and Brainstorm as a reason to ban Brainstorm. Mental Misstep wasnt banned because it was in every deck regardless of color; it was banned because of how...
Its not potency thats the problem though. Its consistency. And the cards banned for consistency typically produce too much consistency, more so than Brainstorm (the tutors, possibly Bargain since we...
Might as well answer this while I'm at it:
I'm not saying the GP isn't a good place to start analyzing the result, but to be honest, it seems a lot of arguments on both sides are just looking at...
Fair enough: I just know Brainstorm has been around since Ice Age and it really hasn't been this ubiquitous until recently. I know how you feel about seeing the same decks over and over again: I am...
Are you saying the game is entirely skill-based? That it isn't important to know which matchups are favorable and which ones are not?
I see your point about matchups not being the be all end all...
The next weapon is either phantasmal bear or nimble mongoose if they run green, and neither have the evasion that Delver has.
Also, I could argue that the majority of top decks at Round 14 were...
It's not the shell: the shell itself has existed for quite some time and hasn't been truly oppressive (perhaps not the right word: ubiquitous?) until the release of Delver. Also, it's not...
This is the way to go about it. Delver should have never existed and is indeed terrible for the format. If the color with the next best card quality engines (in this format, Green) can't answer a...
Ever heard of Maverick? Nic Fit? Survival (pre ban of course)? All of them used to be good picks to combat the blue decks until WotC decided that giving a flipped Delver flying was a good idea (in...
And yet WotC has made mistakes as well (Storm, Dredge, Affinity), so although they have a much greater impact than we as players do concerning bans etc, they also are not necessarily right when they...
By that logic, Nimble Mongoose should have been banned a long time ago.
Sure Delver dies to most things, but it is never a favorable tempo advantage for the one removing the delver. Combine this...
Honestly? Delver should have never had flying as efficient as it is. Color really doesnt matter except in terms of the card pool available to supplement it, but an evasive 3 power 1 drop in any color...
Only thing now is that, with Containment Priest as the premier hatebear with the most applications game two (Sneak and Show, Reanimator, Vial and GSZ, Dredge's recurring creatures), which means any...
And where did Wild Nacatl fall when it was first banned?
Although I definitely disagree with ya regarding True-Name Nemesis, I agree with ya here. +1