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From like a general kind of game-design point of view this is a fair observation but in legacy if these types of creatures cost a lot of mana they were already effectively shut out by bolt and swords...

Unfortunately it's very hard to form a coherent argument against this practice from wotc because all you're basically saying "pwease wotc can you take a hit to your bottom line for me, I want to be...

The problem is that if you want to play a nonbasic Wastes that transforms into Sol Ring you can instead just put Tomb/City in your deck and skip the delay
Don't get me wrong I think the card is good...

Zero mana look at opponent's hand for no card disadvantage is a miserable option to have in a card game, which are supposed (obviously subjective opinion but I think it's fairly important to most...

Decks like Belcher are only interesting insofar as they create games where something atypical happens. I agree that this represents a minor nonzero positive contribution to the format but only...

I only cited chalice as a clear example of a card which I believe has a detrimental effect on gameplay.
I agree that the recent proliferation of chalice answers (specifically FON and Oko and to a...

You don't need to put "have fun" in scare quotes if we can arrive at an agreed definition of what that means. Repeating myself: "Games are more enjoyable when players have more opportunity to make...

No, there can't. You can set a specific quantifiable threshold of how many copies of the card are allowed to be in the winners metagame, or the winrate of the decks using the card, and ban the card...

This is ALWAYS true

Even if you look at the data and to see "this deck is winning over X percent of its matches or is over Y percent of the metagame, something needs to be adjusted", the assumed...

The problem with these ideas is that it makes no attempt to analyse what "adapting" to veil leads to.

If trying to interact with the opponent (via counters/discard) gets punished too heavily then...

Early contender for worst post of 2020

Wrenn was banned because the best wrenn deck was too good. The fact it happened to be a delver deck is immaterial.
BUG Delver may or may not be the best Oko deck without astrolabe; even if it does...

This might make sense 'in theory', 'in principle', or 'in a vacuum' but seems to be either unnecessarily thinking in absolute terms, or just theorycrafting way too hard and ignoring reality.
For...

Ok, but there wasn't a proactive threat that beat Wrenn either (except arguably Tendrils). Why is having wrenn be good better than having CB/Hymn be good?
No fetchland strategy was previously...

a) Not banning brainstorm (edit: I misread 'Diversity' for 'Quality', it's hard (but possible) to argue that having brainstorm leads to more diversity so a better example of this could have been when...

Lol are you really trying to justify this sequence on the basis that it makes RUG worse? All this unban would do is shift the tier zero status from RUG to a similar UBgr deck that somehow has even...

Not only is Oath of Nissa just better in a vacuum than all the cards you listed (planeswalker/any creature is clearly better than 'Dinosaur', let's be real), it has a lot of weird incidental upsides...

If I heard correctly the GP richmond legacy still had higher participation than GP richmond standard

From this it sounds like you have the general view of "Legacy should exhibit the most powerful strategies available to MTGs entire card pool" which implies a sort of "don't ban anything" philosophy....

Modern blowouts = boring gameplay? QED


The point is that it happens far less frequently (and reliably) when your deck has access to FoW, Brainstorm, Daze, etc, not that it never happens at all
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LOL do you even watch his videos? So often he just scoops on turn 2-3 because he encounters some impossible matchup or sb card


You can argue about the extent to which this statement is true...

Your problem is that you simply state that ubiquity is bad, you don't explain why and you assume everybody who disagrees with you is trolling:

The NUMBERS are not subjective but what those numbers...

Playing 1 Breeding Pool in my deck with 2 other tropical islands has cost me games before
Making fetches cost 2 life would have a pretty big impact on the metagame I think (but I agree that 2-life...

Aluren only plays 1 White or Red dual land for the Recruiters, the rest of the deck is BUG (sometimes there are 1 or 2 white hatebears in the SB)

The most obvious example is that all the 4 colour...

And now a critical fixing tool that provided such access to colors was banned, so is it really necessary that on week 1 of the format we have to go nuts and resume the campaign for banning fetches?
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