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Today's ban update didn't change anything in Legacy (just a Violent Outburst ban in Modern and a Ponder unrestriction in Vintage), but they did still make a comment on it, if anyone is interested:
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So Wizards of the Coast released their new ban announcement:
https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/announcements/december-4-2023-banned-and-restricted-announcement

Although there were changes in...

Well, after two and a half months of legality, it looks like Mind's Desire... is pretty meh in Legacy. It's become a staple in High Tide to basically serve as extra copies of Time Spiral, but High...

How? Splinter Twin's banning occurred because they wanted to shake things up for the Modern Pro Tour. That was pretty blatantly why it was banned. It was a good deck, but it wasn't close to...

They also declined to unban Splinter Twin, despite the fact the deck would be little threat in today's metagame, and probably shouldn't have been banned to begin with.

The reason Splinter Twin was...

I never made any statement about drawing seven versus casting seven off Mind's Desire; I rather compared drawing seven off of Time Spiral versus getting 3-5 off of a Mind's Desire, because that's the...

I think you'd want a Storm count of 8 to be comfortable casting it without too much fear of whiffing. Sure, you can draw some great stuff at a lower rate, but it's much more chancy.

That said, the...

In what way is Mind's Desire insanely flexible? Mind's Desire can work only in a deck that can (1) produce the mana to play it, and (2) create the Storm count necessary for it to be decent. There's...

Looking at the numbers, he seems to be in about 25% of decks in both formats.

To be honest I'm kind of surprised they didn't have Cascade only cast the side with the lower mana cost to begin with. They changed the way the split cards worked so you couldn't pull off that...

I can't say that getting 2nd place in a 23-person tournament 6 years ago really proves much in regards to Brainstorm.

Or was that supposed to be a joke?

Companion cards are in the sideboard, which often aren't counted towards "most played cards" stats on websites.

Apologies for the late response, but...
The deck was perfectly capable of locking the board down with Ensnaring Bridge and then killing the opponent later on before Oko.


No, Oko is the value...

If they're going to nerf the Urza deck, and I am not sure they will, they will hit Urza or maybe Mox Opal. Oko isn't the problem, he's just a good card in the deck.


Burn is one of the most...

The oddest thing is that it seems like they realized this after they had to go through all those bannings, and they did start including safety valves and answers. Problem is, they didn't replace...

I agree that lack of answers is a problem, and Blood Sun would be good, but it would be limited to only Red decks... who are already one of the better decks to go up against Field of the Dead anyway....

I think you're underestimating how powerful Hogaak is without Faithless Looting; Looting wasn't even responsible for the most absurd starts in the deck. But let's suppose that it's possible Faithless...

Absolutely no way. Hogaak was perfectly capable of crazy powerful starts without Faithless Looting. Yeah, the loss of Faithless Looting hurts the deck, but banning just Faithless Looting also means...

That's true.

However, Sensei's Divining Top makes it a whole lot more likely and makes it so that the matches that do go to time last longer.

The last ban there was in Modern was nearly 2 years ago. How long does a format have to go between bans to no longer qualify as "ban[ning] the good stuff all the time"? Heck, Legacy's had more bans...

What I find obnoxious about Lavinia is that it only affects opponents. I think a hate card like that should be symmetrical, as Gaddock Teeg was.

It'd take more than a Brainstorm ban for Treasure Cruise to be of reasonable power level. That thing ran roughshod over Modern, which didn't even have Ponder or Preordain. You'd need to at least also...

The primary reason Tarmogoyf has left the format isn't True-Name Nemesis; it's Fatal Push. Before the only playable removal that could take it out for less than it costs was Dismember and Swords to...

Delver hurt Zoo, but I feel was the "end" of it was the double punch of Terminus and Griselbrand, which together pushed out all non-disruptive aggro decks.

Field of Ruin, Damping Sphere, Alpine Moon, Assassin's Trophy, and now this. If Wizards is this intent on hurting Tron (even though it's never actually been the best deck in Modern), it'd be nice if...