Add Young Pyromancer near the top of the list - for obvious reasons - and Deathrite Shaman somewhere in the middle. I don't even think Brainstorm ought to be banned, but this list gives me a pause.
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Add Young Pyromancer near the top of the list - for obvious reasons - and Deathrite Shaman somewhere in the middle. I don't even think Brainstorm ought to be banned, but this list gives me a pause.
Maverick had 2 or 3 toolboxes, depending on how you built it, and without discard and counters its plan against combo and control was very reactive. You had to anticipate your opponent's plays in...
Modern: Dig Through Time, Treasure Cruise, and Bir[thing Pod] are banned.
Meh, I feel that's simply another somewhat arbitrary idea on how Legacy should work. Like you said, Ancestral Vision also lets you draw 3 without spending mana on the turn that you draw them....
At the risk of stating the obvious: many Legacy staples (Dark Confidant, Sylvan Library, Shardless Agent into Ancestral Vision, several others we could mention) used to do just that for years, and...
What I expect will happen is that TC will be banned both in Legacy and in Modern, and there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth and feigned shock. Then for years to come we will hear about how WotC...
The section 'The Legacy Problems' begins with Brian basically saying just that. I mean, on the whole, the reasoning behind his recommendation to ban TC is not very deep, but he does give a...
This is true, of course - but there's also less need to cast TC in response to something (I mean, if it were possible) than Brainstorm. Brainstorm mostly gives you card selection, so it's...
Yes, but of these 7, 2 are tempo, 2 are control, 1 is combo and 2 are dissimilar midrange decks. Playing in such a metagame would reward experience, knowledge of the format, and good play, rather...
I was about to explain how the format was reasonably diverse and balanced before Treasure Cruise was printed and became dominated by Miracles and Delver - mainly U/R - after that, which does suggest...
The occasional 1 Karakas is just a minor concession to the existence of S&T and Reanimator. I really wouldn't say that these decks are currently shaping the format to any great extent, their metagame...
Looking at the current metagame (http://tcdecks.net/metagame.php?format=Legacy), I would say that Terminus and Treasure Cruise are the constraining cards in the format. Delver (the card) is widely...
This is the worst-case scenario that doesn't come up very often. It's pretty easy to dodge Daze and even Spell Pierce when you're casting TC for 1 blue. And extra TCs can be pitched or filtered away....
As has been pointed out all over the Internet already, blanket graveyard hate is inefficient against many of the lists that are now playing Cruise. It's always been good against BUG Delver with 4...
Yeah, by the criteria that they set for Modern, Jund probably was due for a ban. My point is, these criteria are so low that as new sets and new powerful cards are added to Modern, they will push...
The bannings were even huger for Modern. I think it's pretty safe to say now that in Modern, the winningest decks and the fastest decks are going to be regularly targeted by bans. They set the bar...
To be fair, Bonfire is frustrating, but the creatures you get in Standard all seem to have undying, regeneration, hexproof and/or flash. A red sweeper worse than Bonfire would be a bad joke.
Yeah, that should get us rid of all those worthless aggro players. Since all they ever do is whine about cards/decks they think they can't beat, and they're too obstinate to adapt to the evolving...