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It's nice to see the crusade against a 3/1 continues. I wouldn't personally have printed True-Name, but it exists and it's not even close to banworthy in Legacy. Also, you can kill it using colorless...

I ran the numbers from tcdecks data back when people called for Miracles to get nerfed, and on average Miracles put around 1 pilot in top 8 per event listed in tcdecks.

The multicolor Deathrite...

So do your part and shut down this site, then!

You know what? I lived in freakin' nowhere in the late 90s. But as soon as I got over the initial "OMG CRAW WURM", my first tournament deck was...

You think there's a qualitative difference between then and now.

You are wrong. You are as wrong as Wizards is whenever they take another step to try to hide data from the players. If it seems...

I have some issues with your assertion that the internet "wasn't as popular in Magic" seven years ago. Heck, I can vanity-search myself in the Dojo archives and find tournament reports from events I...

I'm sure you believe that.

But, y'know, I was also around and seeing a lot of this stuff, as a player and as a judge. I can even pinpoint exactly when I realized Legacy had changed: it was the SCG...

OK, so, serious time here. I've thrown some deliberately crazy ideas into this thread, but this one is something I actually genuinely believe:

The Mystical Tutor ban was, despite all the crap...

My point is that if you read basically any forum that deals with Legacy, you'll see arguments made that a GP can't be representative because it's full of pros who don't care about the format and who...

Except, according to this site and basically every other Legacy forum, a GP is "not representative" of the Legacy metagame.

Neither is an SCG Open. Nor an MKM Series event. Nor a local event. Nor...

Forsythe on Twitter tonight: https://twitter.com/mtgaaron/status/985674571188588544

Replying to someone saying Workshop needs a restriction in Vintage, he says:



Is this as close as we've...

I do find it somewhat amusing that you complain about a 3/1 with protection from the opponent while your main game plan is an indestructible flyer that kills in one hit and is often found in decks...

I think its effect of suppressing graveyards is often overstated.

I've brought this up before, but: if Deathrite Shaman is such a great anti-graveyard card, why does Elves still roll over and die...

I doubt they're ever going to explicitly make a statement "Brainstorm will always be legal in Legacy no matter what".

But their actions make clear that they're not ever going to ban it. Vintage is...

Legacy is a format where a turn-one kill is possible. Just play Belcher, or Oops All Spells, or Spanish Inquisition, or Tin Fins, or whatever other glass-cannon combo deck you like. But don't use the...

Here's a way-out-there idea:

1. Ban Deathrite Shaman. Sure, decks play mana dorks for resilience to mana denial strategies (as has been stated in this thread). But that's supposed to require you...

Broken record here, but: traditionally when incredibly greedy mana bases have become popular, the format has self-policed by playing more Wastelands and Blood Moons. What we're seeing now is a...

Staying on-theme with my previous comments: this misunderstands what happened to Goblins. Goblins is not bothered by Terminus at all, and back when people still played it, Goblins was seen as a...

Your option is, as I've suggested previously, to play Modern. Brainstorm has never been legal there and never will be, and the rest of the "cantrip cartel" is on the banned list. I wish you luck in...

I think the issue we're seeing right now with Deathrite is the mana-producing ability, honestly. It's not just that it smooths out a normal game for a three- or four-color deck, it's that it's a...

Basically: we know WotC's never going to ban Brainstorm. You don't have to like it, but you probably do have to live with it. If that leads you to the conclusion that no other ban can ever be...

The probability of Brainstorm being banned in Legacy is zero. And it has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with the card's power level; like Workshop in Vintage, Wizards seems to've decided never...

There is a non-rotating format where part of the philosophy is to keep banning blue cantrips until Opt looks like a good card. Of course, Deathrite got banned there already on power level, which...

I made the argument, back before the Top ban, that it would be a dangerous precedent because Miracles averaged a little over one pilot making top 8 per event in the TC Decks database. People will of...

Anybody else noticed that Deathrite/Young Pyro multicolor piles are putting up more, and more consistent, results than utterly unbeatably crushingly format-stranglingly ban-worthy Miracles ever did?...

Strongly suspect that:


By end of 2017: Deathrite Shaman will not be legal in Legacy.
By end of 2018: Something from the Delver shell and something from at-the-time-most-popular combo deck...