I actually think banning Brainstorm would hurt decks with control elements (and thereby making S&T and ToA decks better). Being able to leave mana open to cast Brainstorm at instant speed is valuable...
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Re: All B/R update speculation.
I actually think banning Brainstorm would hurt decks with control elements (and thereby making S&T and ToA decks better). Being able to leave mana open to cast Brainstorm at instant speed is valuable...
Re: All B/R update speculation.
I believe that's a generalization and not an apt comparison. The JP Survival of the Fittest released at PT Austin in Oct of 2009. Survival of the Fittest was banned in December of 2010 - due to the...
Re: All B/R update speculation.
Does anyone believe the printing of Show and Tell as a Judge Promo says anything about DCI's intentions regarding Show and Tell as a potential card to ban? The idea being that the DCI wouldn't print...
Re: All B/R update speculation.
Regarding the banning of Brainstorm, doesn't banning Brainstorm make combo that much more powerful in Legacy?
I'm not contending that Brainstorm isn't powerful in combo decks, but it would seem...
Re: All B/R update speculation.
The larger creatures and Chalice are usually what did it. Hell, even Stax isn't a terrible call against RUG decks (I am not suggesting Stax is good against the rest of the field). RUG has typically...
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The rest of analysis regarding RUG and Survival comparison:
"(Of course, Survival did this three times in a row and was awfully close a few more times, with its worst win percentage being 59.38%....
Re: All B/R update speculation.
Amen.
I'll go a step further and call out that the assumption most people make when calling for a banning is that a particular deck or decks "should" be viable. Magic is a game which rewards...
Re: All B/R update speculation.
The data we're both using describes two different things. In the post I quoted, you argued that RUG had no "bad match ups". The data I posted talked about direct match ups where RUG went against...
Re: All B/R update speculation.
What data are you basing your conclusions on? Recent analysis by the Hatfields suggest that RUG Tempo is rather poorly positioned right now with negative match-ups against Maverick and UW Stoneblade...
Re: June 20 2011 DCI Banned & Restricted List Announcement
Star City Games has already dropped their price by 25% from $80 to $60 as of this evening after the announcement.
Re: September B/R update speculation.
Cards that could come off of the list would be:
Land Tax (Always suggested, but never does)
Dream Halls (Don't see how this gets broken.... maybe with Painter's Servant)
Earthcraft (maybe)
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