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The discount effect is better in an Affinity style deck with lots of one and two mana creatures/artifacts, such as Vault Skirge, Cranial Plating, most of the cast found in the Vintage Shops deck,...

Agreed. Mishra's Workshop would be more oppressive for Legacy than most of the other cards on the banned list.

At which point, you are no longer playing stompy. Big mana + bombs is a different strategy, and one that can and does do well in Legacy.

There was an article that Megadeus posted today in the Vintage subforum that you should read.

Basically, the reason why Shops is so good in Vintage is because the blue decks have to dedicate too...