Today's ban update didn't change anything in Legacy (just a Violent Outburst ban in Modern and a Ponder unrestriction in Vintage), but they did still make a comment on it, if anyone is interested:
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Today's ban update didn't change anything in Legacy (just a Violent Outburst ban in Modern and a Ponder unrestriction in Vintage), but they did still make a comment on it, if anyone is interested:
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So Wizards of the Coast released their new ban announcement:
https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/announcements/december-4-2023-banned-and-restricted-announcement
Although there were changes in...
Well, after two and a half months of legality, it looks like Mind's Desire... is pretty meh in Legacy. It's become a staple in High Tide to basically serve as extra copies of Time Spiral, but High...
How? Splinter Twin's banning occurred because they wanted to shake things up for the Modern Pro Tour. That was pretty blatantly why it was banned. It was a good deck, but it wasn't close to...
They also declined to unban Splinter Twin, despite the fact the deck would be little threat in today's metagame, and probably shouldn't have been banned to begin with.
The reason Splinter Twin was...
I never made any statement about drawing seven versus casting seven off Mind's Desire; I rather compared drawing seven off of Time Spiral versus getting 3-5 off of a Mind's Desire, because that's the...
I think you'd want a Storm count of 8 to be comfortable casting it without too much fear of whiffing. Sure, you can draw some great stuff at a lower rate, but it's much more chancy.
That said, the...
In what way is Mind's Desire insanely flexible? Mind's Desire can work only in a deck that can (1) produce the mana to play it, and (2) create the Storm count necessary for it to be decent. There's...
Looking at the numbers, he seems to be in about 25% of decks in both formats.
To be honest I'm kind of surprised they didn't have Cascade only cast the side with the lower mana cost to begin with. They changed the way the split cards worked so you couldn't pull off that...
https://www.mtggoldfish.com/metagame/modern#paper
As a side note: Wow did Steelshaper's Gift shoot up thanks to the Hammer Time deck (Colossus Hammer+Puresteel Paladin combo; Lurrus turned it from...
You know, looking back and thinking further on it, I don't think it's wrong to pinpoint 2019 as a shift.
Sure, prior to that, cards were being banned at Standard at a very surprising rate. But...
That picture is really useful for putting things into perspective, but I disagree with the claim that we can blame anything that started with War of the Spark. War of the Spark was released in 2019,...
I can't say that getting 2nd place in a 23-person tournament 6 years ago really proves much in regards to Brainstorm.
Or was that supposed to be a joke?
Standard getting overrun by cards isn't as big of a deal as they eventually leave the format. Then again, they've been banning stuff much more regularly in Standard over the last several years. I've...
Companion cards are in the sideboard, which often aren't counted towards "most played cards" stats on websites.
To be fair, that testing is for Standard. From my understanding (I could be totally wrong, I don't pay that much attention to Standard), Standard hasn't been as problematically affected by...
Apologies for the late response, but...
The deck was perfectly capable of locking the board down with Ensnaring Bridge and then killing the opponent later on before Oko.
No, Oko is the value...
If they're going to nerf the Urza deck, and I am not sure they will, they will hit Urza or maybe Mox Opal. Oko isn't the problem, he's just a good card in the deck.
Burn is one of the most...
"Any format"? Treasure Cruise didn't even see much play in Standard. Dig Through Time was a big deal, but not really any more of a big deal than Sphinx's Revelation was from what I remember. And they...
The oddest thing is that it seems like they realized this after they had to go through all those bannings, and they did start including safety valves and answers. Problem is, they didn't replace...
I agree that lack of answers is a problem, and Blood Sun would be good, but it would be limited to only Red decks... who are already one of the better decks to go up against Field of the Dead anyway....
I wouldn't mind a Stoneforge Mystic reprint in Standard. It'd help the price, plus unless they go and print stuff as powerful as the Swords again it should be fine.
The last equipment to see real...
Stoneforge Mystic doesn't seem like a good fit in Bant Spirits. Bant Spirits is an aggro deck, and Stoneforge is absolutely not an aggro card. Maybe if it were a Spirit it could work, but even that...
I think you're underestimating how powerful Hogaak is without Faithless Looting; Looting wasn't even responsible for the most absurd starts in the deck. But let's suppose that it's possible Faithless...