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BUG will remain on top, I think, because it can play the tempo role just as well as the midrange role. Lurrus enables that further, and in running a build with 4x Goyf that eschews Bauble and instead...

In some ways, yes. I think this current streamlining of Legacy can be largely traced back to the banning of Sensei's Divining Top and the loss of UWr Miracles as a Tier 1 strategy.

There's plenty...

^^ are you trying to say that the crucifix in that Waterhouse painting is "BDSM gadget"?

Also, I think Edmund Dulac is a far more obvious influence on Guay's style:
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MtG's mana system can be frustrating at times, but it's a major part of the game's design, if not perhaps the *primary* design aspect. The idea behind the mechanic is fairly genius: you use...

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Eh, I'd argue that Birds of Paradise (and to some extent, Deathrite Shaman) are closer to being Lotus-esque in terms of providing mana.

But then there's also Aether Vial, that is...

Okay, fair enough. There *is* still the problem of cheating related to deck manipulation in general, especially when it involves stacking multiple cards and shuffling the remainder. People still...

Yep. I've lost on turn 2 to an Elves opponent whose Turn 1 on the play was Forest -> Llanowar Elves, Pass. Leading with Llanowar Elves seemed so incredibly innocuous that I didn't bother Bolting it;...

Wall of Pedantic Text explaining why cards won't be unbanned, part 2 of 2:

Memory Jar, Wheel of Fortune, Timetwister - We should always be wary of any card that says 'Draw 7', and unless said...

Regarding why these cards won't be unbanned: (warning, wall of pedantic text incoming) part 1 of 2


Mental Misstep - Legacy is largely centered around 1-drops, especially in the early turns. If...

Just being pedantic here, but Gaddock Teeg and Meddling Mage (naming Terminus) prevent it from being cast. But of course then the miracles player just handles them via StP/Karakas etc.

There's...

Survival of the Fittest doesn't really belong on the banned list in my opinion. There are several factors to consider:

1. Playing powerful cards is a major part of the appeal of playing the...

Earthcraft is not even all that busted anymore. What does it combo with, just Squirrel Nest? Both are answered by Abrupt Decay, can be pre-emptively discarded or countered, every deck has access to...

Blame it on Heisenbergian Uncertainty or postmodern relativism or Image Over Substance or the ubiquity of advertising and P.R. or the rise of Identity Politics or whatever you will — we live in an...

We call such people sadists.

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The first step to recovery is admitting that we are powerless over Brainstorm -- that our decks have become unmanageable.

Everybody is identical in their...

Agreed, but it's not often because of DTT that I lose to SnT. Since without Omniscience, they aren't casting it on turn 3. Ugh. I just needed to vent a bit.

I'd like to whine about Show and Tell for a few minutes. :)

This card is just... dumb. It's a 3-mana Sorcery that essentially says something like, "Add infinite mana to your mana pool. This mana...

Given that the ban cycle revolves around new set releases, they could EASILY test out a banning for a short period of time and then unban it if doesn't work out or is unpopular. I see no harm in...

How long do people suppose that Treasure Cruise will last? Next ban cycle? Indefinitely?

I personally don't think it's long for this format. This is a card that provides Blue with an unfair...

It took awhile for Maverick to be accepted as a "real" deck in the SCG Open circuit. I think with D&T winning a GP, more people will be willing to sleeve up their Aether Vials because it has truly...

Anyone else think that GP Strausburg should quiet people down about Griselbrand?

A non-blue deck fought through both a Griselbrand and Emrakul attack. And that same archetype (D&T) beat the...

That sounds like a fun format.

The connection between price and hype/perceived competitive value is obvious, I think. Temporal Mastery was pre-selling for $40 and can now be easily found for far less than that now that it's failed...

I think it's amusing to go back and look at certain poster's responses to various SCD threads when then-new cards were spoiled. Obviously the Temporal Mastery SCD is a recent thread full of...

Psychatog? Quirion Dryad? I would just jam Gush into RUG and call it a day. Something like the following:

19 Lands (with probably one being a basic Island)
4 Goyf (or -1, +1 Scavenging Ooze)
4...