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Reddit thinks goblin recruiter is less safe than frantic search? Please...

Also saw a post saying a survival deck would play 8 cantrips. Not remotely, brainstorm isn't even that good in survival...

They knew they couldn't ban felidar in standard before release a la mind's desire, so they made that banlist announcement change where it happens prior to a set release to a both prior to set and 5...

Did someone actually say that yawgmoth's will would be safer than survival of the fittest a page or two back? In a format with 4 burning wish, 4 demonic tutor, 4 lotus, 4 dark ritual, and 4 lotus...

Against a competent player if countertop is never assembled in a game it is incredibly hard for to miracles to win. It is based on the counterbalance top combo to win games, which is why null rod...

You're really trying to justify a hand of 5 lands, ponder, and brainstorm? I don't know what format you're playing where doing absolutely nothing but casting cantrips is fine, but the hand folds to...

Like, what do they have to print hypothetically to get something banned out of DnT for making DnT oppressive? 1 mana original or new thalia? It's far easier to get things banned from the blue...

Second nedleeds on the 4 misstep and stuff against workshops in vintage. In such a meta where everyone is maindecking 4 misstep, multiple flusterstorms and pyroblasts the best metagame call is shops...

Reanimator and mystical ANT had a smaller percentage of penetration than miracles does and they got mystical tutor axed for it. Sure WotC hates combo, but sensei's top is virtually a 1 card combo...

People always act as though counterspell is a fair and reasonable magic card when it doesn't give you mana. It really isn't. Being able to stop almost any spell in the game for UU is one of the...

Twin banned in modern? Color me not shocked. Here's banning criteria for modern. If it does good enough for a long enough time, wins a couple PTs and has some 'unreasonable' top 8 percentage at...

No, brainstorm does not just 'get better over time.' What cards have been introduced to make brainstorm better? You could argue miracles sure but what else. Thalia made brainstorm worse. Notion...

Deathrite isn't close to a survival answer. Try it. Just try using deathrite shaman to win the game versus survival decks I dare you. Survival only gets better over time, which is partially why it...

Sounds like you've never played spanish inquisition or belcher. If by outplay you mean cantrip sure they can't cantrip like most decks do via ponder/brainstorm/SDT but the notion that they can't...

Yeah I agree if top was banned in legacy I would just rage as doomsday is unplayable without the card barring potentially crazy innovation that might be possible but is still very unlikely.

If I...

Miracles dies instantly with brainstorm banned. Doomsday does as well. Canadian thresh wouldn't survive. The only decks that could really survive are blue midrange strategies and even those are...

Complaining about the blue shell in legacy is akin to complaining about the power shell in vintage. Vintage has a great many auto includes in each color yeah sure they can't ban cards completely...

Only card they could possibly ban out of miracles is brainstorm and that isn't happening. Not to mention miracles gets beaten up by some strategies like shardless BUG for example. Miracles is not...

There's a deck with tons of gas. It's called belcher. Ban force of will and see where belcher goes with that. Ban force and this format's banlist is like modern's where you actually have to ban a...

Fetchlands grant way more consistency than not running fetchlands. Fetchlands are the best colorfixing lands in magic hands down as a single fetchland in a properly designed deck can get any color...

The amount of product that would move if ABUR dual lands were reprinted in, say, a fall block would be enormous. For you to lose money as a store when you're selling every pack you get in insanely...

I would gladly trade brainstorm for mystical tutor in storm, reanimator, and show and tell. Sure brainstorm is great but mystical tutor is vampiric tutor/completely broken. You weren't getting turn...

Bargain is vastly inferior to necropotence. Necropotence is a draw 14 for BBB whereas bargain costs infinite especially off of infernal tutor.

If you ban brainstorm cruise is still a gigantic...

Counterbalance is not banworthy by nature. If you ban top it essentially makes CB completely unplayable.

Yeah probably nothing banned or unbanned. WotC is lazy with the banlist for legacy.

Frantic search is best utilized in high tide based decks by far. Any other decks that use it are being far too fair with the card. Reanimator would not run a 3 drop like frantic search over show...

Shows how narrow minded you are. Winning on turn 1 without a zero drop? Here's a hand that does so:

4 dark ritual
1 Gitaxian Probe
1 Infernal Tutor
1 black producing land

Probe into 3...