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I thought this belongs in here. It's some great insight and one of the rare public statements WotC makes regarding their B&R policy in Eternal formats:

Regarding Workshop and Brainstorm:
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Same here. The period from 2009 to 2011 was by far the most enjoyable Legacy has ever felt to me. Then we started doing this whole Griselbrand, Delver thing and archetypes changed quite a lot and the...

RIP Elves :cry::cry::cry:

Probe has never been about powerlevel. It's about how it makes the format less exciting to play. If we could stop the "Probe too powerful" strawmens, that would be nice.

I think you're misunderstanding the call for a Probe ban when you think about it in terms of which decks it enables.

I'd love to see Fetchlands go. It's the single kind of card I want removed from competitive play the most. I couldn't care less about Brainstorm.

Fetchlands waste so much time, it's among the Top5...

I wouldn't put it past WotC's website to have access to articles based on your system's clock :laugh:

What's going on? Not seeing any B&R news on the mothership or social media.

I think Gitaxian Probe is the card players (at least on Twitter) are the most unhappy about. Talking to guys like Rodrigo, who even plays a deck that benefits from it, they also really want the card...

Looks like Tarmogoyf is next in line!:laugh:

From my observation, there's been a ton of complaining about Top on Twitter over the last years and it only ever increased over time. I remember after GP Lille even the commentators went on Twitter...

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Which is still much easier to do than to fight Miracles. The problem with Miracles is how it's too slippery and powerful to properly address. Unlike the decks you mention.

Lemnear and I are referring to GW Maverick, not Esper Stoneblade.

Yeah, I don't think Goblins will really come back no matter what. The deck was already down and out in early/mid 2011 when Maverick started dominating.

It's not like we've already waited over 3 years. The problem with Miracles is that it requires super specific hate to even fight. As per the nature of Legacy, the most +EV play it to instead just...

That's the part that always gets me. Such sense of entitlement. Classic Legacy has always been to interact with the Control player's wrath through attacking their manabase, their hand or to have...

I like Anders a lot, but when it comes to Miracles I think he's holding one of the least informed opinions with regards to the problems Miracles presents for the non-Miracles decks. Since I know not...

Maverick wasn't really a thing in North American when it started dominating Europe in early 2011. That's probably why Americans wouldn't say Maverick killed Zoo.

I played vs Naya Company Hatebear Zoo the other day with Elves. I first thought this would be a super easy win, but it was actually a super close game in the end. It's probably horrible vs Miracles...

Just remembered, there was also Post Eldrazi in the Top16. He lost to Jan Lenger on Elves.

@Lemnear: from the top of my head there's 3 reasons why Elves does quite well:

#1: Delver is playing...

You posted the Top16 after Swiss. We played Top16 playoffs, not Top8 playoffs.

Decks that lost in the Top16, that I remember:

Miracles (Johannes Gutbrod, lost to Burn with Firecraft)
BUG Delver (Claudio Morelli, lost to me on Elves)
ANT (Eduardo Shimizu, lost to Thomas...

I actually defeated Anders' Miracles in the Swiss, and came one turn following a topdecked Entreat close to taking game 3 in the quarters. The matchup is bad, but them playing 4 Predict and cutting...

I remember when the most quintessential thing you would ask about a deck was how it dealt with a turn1 Goblin Lackey. Those were the days man. It really feels like "old" Legacy was just a bunch of us...