The second clause of "enabler" makes your definition awful. Under this defintion, Ad Nauseam should have been banned. Honestly, Griselbrand is just as much a means as it is an ends. It's not like...
Type: Posts; User: Greenpoe
The second clause of "enabler" makes your definition awful. Under this defintion, Ad Nauseam should have been banned. Honestly, Griselbrand is just as much a means as it is an ends. It's not like...
Mind Twist is Entreat the Angels in black.
Brainstorm isn't really a skill crutch. Sure, it can cover bad players' mistakes, but the complexity of the card also opens up Pandora's box of potential for misplays. So, yes, it can help a bad...
I think giving Survival to Maverick would be fine. It's bad with Thalia anyway. I'm not sure they would even want it since it overlaps with GSZ anyway.
Banning Brainstorm would be stupid. Instead, they should just print more fetchland hate! Pre-Zen, Wasteland was significantly stronger. Pre-fetches, Brainstorm was significantly weaker. People...
I could see Mind Twist being played in BUG control. Drop a Deed, they don't want to over extend. If they don't overextend, you Mind Twist them. Maybe Black Vise in Turbofog.
Playing against TES or ANT is a lot more fun than S&T->you lose. At least with real combo, you can choose your favorite hate and it's an actual battle, because cards you'd be playing anyway have...
Wizards should just print fixed versions of banned cards, such as Survival of the Fittest where you exile a card from your hand instead of discarding it (which kills Ooze combo, Retainers combo,...