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Goblin E. made Storm and Seething Song in particular insanely good and we all know Wizards doesn't like to ban new cards.

By "fun" and "challenging" you mean Shoal Infect and Ponder Twin? :eyebrow:

Storm is still playable and Combo-Twin has been on the fence since Tempo-/Control-Twin took over a long time ago. Where...

Quoted, as you asked for.

Now spare us the double standards. And let the shitty Miracle players (let's be honest, there are far too little good and fast players - go watch Einherjer) waste...

Pre-DRS Ban it was a good deck, but it lost a good MU with the fall of Jund and the rising popularity of Twin and Scapeshift doesn't help either.

Pod is kept in check by Anger of the Gods and...

I've continued to play UR Storm on MODO after the ban and DRS wasn't a problem most of the time (not saying it wasn't a problem in general). Now that DRS is gone, the pre-board MUs are slightly...

Enough with all (I know "all" is unfair) your half-baked rambling about which format is superior. Bottom line is, and I think we can all agree on this (at least if you actually use your brain), that...

These decks are completely different. Merfolk builds tend to be aggressive, while Faeries are also more permission-based and much more flexible. I wouldn't say Merfolk is tempo oriented. This may be...

Mistbind Clique would like to have a word with you.

@fogxanic
There is no Faerie.dec without Spellstutter Sprite.

I guess everyone wins: http://wizards.com/magic/magazine/article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/feature/285

There are certain cards which are good against Twin, but Counterflux is not one which would be an argument for giving an already Tier 1 deck the best cantrip in the format (Ponder would still be...

Some of you clearly lack reading comprehension...

Read. I've already posted about this.


I still don't get your argument for unbanning Preordain. Unban Preordain because of Counterflux? What has this mediocre card to do with Preordain?...

What? Counterflux is reason enough to make Twin even stronger? Huh?

Reason is in the same link I just posted.

Again, everything which kills Turn 4 is fine, according to Wizard.

Don't even try to use logic or common sense. ;)

@Turn 4
Wizards doesn't want "top-tier" decks to consistently go off turn 3 or earlier (first paragraph,...

Those elements aren't exclusive to midrange, since aggro-control is still out there. UR Delver is not midrange. You don't have or need acceleration, you don't try to control the early game and finish...

Honestly, in my opinion, the article isn't very well thought through. It seems more like a he was writing down his observations from one tournament (GP Prague) and generalizing this for the whole...

Don't forget Twin, which won the PT which led to this ban.

This was in the context of Lord Seth's and my discussion. I don't see any point to continue talking about this. If others feel differently, why shouldn't they be allowed to do otherwise? Why...

I don't know about you, but I think one well-rounded strategy like BGx.dec is enough for the format to handle.


The card pool and format changes and decks possibly get new tools to fight...

"By this argument we should never unban anything ever" - No, because not every card/deck is the bane of several others and the format is constantly growing, with every new set (read: a time may come,...

*5 months
The unbanning of cards *could* shake up the metagame and no one can say when it's going to settle down - most likely it takes month to figure out new decks, integration and adjustments....

It's not about getting netdeckers to think about their own decks, you cannot do that by just changing the banlist slightly. It's about having a stable format for MTG's premier events.

I know PTQ Season is starting Mid-2014, but if they change the banlist now, the metagame is most likely still not settled with the start of the season. That's why I think they will wait for the new...

Unless they feel like stirring up the metagame before a PTQ-season I don't think they will touch the list this time.