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Speaking from the Storm experience, I'd say it's a very skill-indexed matchup. Bad RUG players are bad against combo, bad combo players are bad against RUG. I'd think BUG Delver would generally be...

Considering how many archetypes Innistrad left an impact on, it would be pretty interesting to see a "Legacy minus Innistrad block" type of event. Maybe just as a thought experiment or something.

To weigh in on the "all Brainstorm decks are equal" thing:

I'm a long-time Storm player, and I've been reading and gold-fishing Omni-Tell to try and get a feel for it. The goal was to try and...

This. Especially given that the ability to aggregate and disseminate decklists will only increase, most of the "home-brew" aspect of this format will slowly go away regardless of whether Brainstorm...

http://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/feature/march-23-2015-banned-and-restricted-announcement-2015-03-23

Hate to break it to you, but it's announced this Monday

More floated with the Top, amirite?

"Absurd unbannings are ok as long as it damages the blue shell" is an ok argument but "why don't you just play Modern" isn't? This thread makes my head spin some days. Legit question, if you would...

That is a false equivalence. The white package is one of the most efficient ways to have a board presence, but there are combo and some control decks that don't bother to show up to the board. The...

#WhyYouDoThisSCG?

Unrealistic hyperbole? Brainstorm!


Ok, so you're tying up your clearly limited mana on a cantrip which likely doesn't lead to a followup because, again, your mana is constrained. Even if you hit...

Just to be clear, no one is truly, unironically and unsarcastically, trying to argue that combo, tempo, and control are just "re-skins" or "pallette swaps" or whatever of the blue shell in the...

How about we ban false equivalencies, since we have the under-reach and the over-reach here. back-to-back, even

Binning creatures for GY combos and guranteeing your search is way different than seeing a few extra cards. What, i suppose, "anti-brainstorm" people tend to forget is that brainstorm just lets you...

What's your point? Brainstorm facilitates plays, facilitates actually playing Magic or keeping a deck together, Misstep does the opposite. That's about as much a false equivalency as all the decks...

There's also the fact that in a meta of strong control/combo, cantrips of any variety make a lot of sense. The Grixis Delver and RW Death and Taxes builds are examples of innovation to the...

Sure, why shouldn't they be? Combo decks that actually have consistency and resiliency to be good tend to need a very particular nut-draw of cards to go turn off turn 1, whereas "ramp + mind twist"...

Do you know how much worse the blue vs. non-blue state of the game would be with Twist? Twist blow-outs driving people towards more FoW and even misdirection just means more blue, so you just go from...

So, before, the high amount of blue in top 8s was the barometer for how messed up the format is, and now that there's a heavily nonblue top 8, we've now subtly switched to the top 32 being the...

lolol, ofc not, dont you know every time nonblue tops its because they got lucky, until GWx midrange is 70% of the meta legacy is ruined

Brainstorm doesn't generate actual card advantage.
Brainstorm doesn't do anything outside of blue's color identity.
"Brainstorm decks" don't actually exist, it's a workhorse in many separate,...

You're completely ignoring matchup differences by calling them all "brainstorm decks" and then talk about cherry picking? elves is gonna have a bad matchup against storm regardless of brainstorm just...

I'm not "spinning" anything, if X% of entrants run blue and X% of the top 8/16/etc is blue, what is unfair about blue? Also, we AREN'T talking about Ancestral Recall, we're talking about a t3-5 play...

It's not a matter of rationalization, its now a matter of statistics. if there isn't a statistically significant difference between usage and performance, then there's nothing wrong with the flavors...

I have secret insider knowledge but I cannot take a right and proper screencap.
Credible/10

I'm surprised there isn't a fake out there with SotF unbanned to grind out even more cash.

Lol, I keep running into TA when I stream MTGO, and it's always a struggle but its in the tournament practice room, i ended up feeling something like "good thing no one plays this for some reason"