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I would add old but gold Wing Shards good mostly uncounterable.

Don't forget that Mana Drain would give you mana even if spell is casted with alternative cost, today Legacy still running (and will be) FoW, Delve cards, Phyrexian mana etc..

Agreed with Tescrin,

Top is probably only playable CQ off-color.

Anyway I found solution to meta -> Better Nic Fit which crush Miracles :-)

Ban Pyroblast !

/Sarcasm

I wrote first good Primer on TheSource about Maverick, and I strongly disagree it's brainless, as Julian23 said deck was mostly reactive (it's power was toolbox which could resolve and stop most...

Difference S&T - Oath of Druids:

1) CMC - 2U to 1G - this mean OoD is faster, but.. you must pass the turn so let say it's tide.

2) Both permanents doesn't have haste - tide, but while Oath...

I was thinking about Sensei's Divning Top vs Brainstorm, which ban would open meta.

Let's see which decks runs both cards:

SDT:
Miracles
Nic Fit
Imperial Painter
Doomsday
(some builds of...

@Gheizen64
Agreed, it isn't balanced, each of this deck running same core.

Name, number of decks, % of day 2 meta
Miracles 28 17.2
Omni-Tell 16 9.8
Grixis Delver 12 7.4
Sultai Delver 11 6.7...

and welcome back to stone age with Channel-Emrakul/Bonefire rampaging each turn 1.
- No, thanks !

Agreed with Julian



Brainstorm just power up Terminus when you start game with Terminus on hand, or draw it when not needed. Which can be connected with any card brainstorm is just:
- Enabler...

Dear @Lemnear

- I don't reverting the format back. I don't negate Deathrite Shaman or Abrupt Decay they are great, Red Hatebear - check, Black useful Sweeper - check, red "tarmogoyf" - check and...

I can see one important point why blue cantrip shell is so powerful - thanks to DTT most of those deck get CA, which wasn't before (Treasure Cruise was obv more broken), but that's not the point.
...

Balance, Flash, Oath of Druids ? Are you guys kidding ? Did you ever played against those cards, getting balanced from Burning Long was enough frustrating. Playing 4 x Balance in white Stax - is much...

yeap - fixed thx for pointing.

35 decks non blue decks from 120 presented (85 are blue'ish) SCG mostly:
- D&T
- Lands
- MUD
- Dredge
- Burn
- Maverick
- Junk

If WotC ignores chances maybe some shops would be more interesting on playable cards with real data - software like:
1 server imap + logical data update each day from mails with proper name/tags
1...

Good point about input data - we live in digital world, from my experience of been TO for 4 years (not too big community - about 20+ ppl on each tournament) I waste a lot of time rewriting decklists...

yeap and with looking on top16: those 3 decks which are in top4 are only decks which doesn't run brainstorms ;).

We have on top16:

2 U/R Delver (4 Brainstorm, 4 Ponder, 4 Probe, 4 Treasure...

Its false diffrence is that most counter posted here are conditional which is Huge difference, without brainstorm you can't shuffle them back to deck when you don't need them.

Brainstorm + FoW +...

Some ppl doesn't realize huge gap between blue cantrips:

Brainstorm - it change quality of 3 cards from hand, digging for 3, connected with fetchland you can get quality of 3 cards without any...

For sure 1 of U/R goes 5-0 piloted by Sam Back which has really a lot of luck, fightning vs storm (Game 3 - Storm player has kill in hand even over FoW on play - and... he didnt draw initial mana...

From SCG - Getting On The Banwagon http://www.starcitygames.com/article/29653_Getting-On-The-Banwagon.html
agree mostly with everything what is written.

already unlocked achivement - counter opponent TC / with Dig on top :)

I think Green Sun's Zenith and Cahlice is a problem - look two other decks !

/sarcasm

Anyway I wouldn't mind to bring new tools but they should consider them also in other colors... sad but...

Celestian < Wing Shards IMO still cluncky but works vs counters and can be and edge vs elves - if he overcome before NO its gamebreaking.