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A first-striking red Delver (b/c of pie, dontchaknow) + Young Pyromancer would be a deck core I could get excited about.

I'd actually be interested in seeing how much of a boost Thoughtseize and Co. would get w/o Brainstorm around. I'm pretty sure that mana-free counterspells are just better than targeted discard, but...

I've often wondered if MM would have worked as intended (ie, Force of Will for ERRYBODY) if it had read "counter target noncreature spell".

Of course, that's still a lot of pseudo-shroud for...

Apologies if I'm jumping the gun in responding, nedleeds -- your post looks cut off.

But I'm not convinced that ubiquity and card-enabling are, alone, worthy of banning; part of the problem is...

Re: Brainstorm skillz – For the most part, I find Brainstorm decision trees lack branches. Maybe I'm overthinking, but when you have land + fetch, tap for BStorm, the question of "fetch away trash"...

I'm of two minds about it, myself. It adds a ton of consistency to the format – and that's a huge amount of pressure to keep decks trim and cards efficient. I mean, its mere existence chokes out more...

Most bannable from the lolzy list? Lion's Eye Diamond, imo. It only powers decks that like to play Solitaire.
(I've actually started to come around to Storm; a buddy of mine exclusively plays it,...

I think it's fair to point out that Balance and Balancing Act are totally different animals. A properly played Balance -always- zeroes out the vector you want to attack, whether that's lands or...

There's also a lot of techy little answers to Jace; I really like the card existing in the format, and I feel like it adds more than it forces out. As far as I'm concerned, he only feels overpowered...

That brings up an interesting idea, though – a FoW reprint for Modern is probably straight-up off the table since it's so clumsy by modern design, but what could they reprint that would fly?

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