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Ponder and Preordain being sorceries are issues, yes, but I don't think they reduce the power of blue enough to break open the metagame. Daze and Force both allow tempo decks to operate at sorcery...

That's actually mostly it, yes.

Legacy is unique because it's the format where it's easiest to play Turbo Xerox decks. It's the only format where you can start a deck with 4 Brainstorm, 4 Ponder,...

Forsythe is actually right, though. Brainstorm makes Legacy unique and therefore gives it a draw:

Limited: I want to show up without any cards and build a deck on the spot.

Standard: I want to...

I actually think Grixis is a hard counter to RUG and will be the major post-DRS tempo deck for a few reasons:

1) More people own the cards for it, especially if they were on Czech Pile before.
2)...

BUG has been kind of a deck in Legacy for years, even prior to DRS. I think there was a version running around at one point called Team America or something that was basically a RUG deck but with...

This thread is generating eleventy billion reported posts per hour now, so I'm locking it temporarily. Take a deep breath, step away from your computer, maybe take a walk and get a beer with...

This thread is getting heated. Calm down and keep the discussion civil. That includes you too, nedleeds.

The "debate" about Brainstorm, cantrips, and blue in this format in general has been stagnant for years. There is literally nothing new one can say that has not already been said; the same arguments...

Friendly mod reminder: Contentious issues are not an invitation to be an asshole. Keep it civil or keep it to yourself.

Like everything else in the interminable debate surrounding blue and Brainstorm in Legacy, this narrative is literally years old. It just doesn't get trotted out all that often.

Lay off the haterade, folks. This thread is for discussion, not rants.

Melira Pod gets way worse and doesn't particularly benefit from BB. Jund may have to make adjustments to leverage BB since it's not a clean swap with DRS. BW tokens wasn't really a deck before but...

Maybe I'm just too cynical, but I anticipate SFM getting the axe before TNN. TNN was just printed in a product that lets them make cards specifically for Eternal formats, I doubt they'd want to ban...

The topic of a Brainstorm ban has been discussed to death and a consensus has never been reached. You're either with Brainstorm or you're against it at this point; WotC clearly feels that Brainstorm...

While it is sort of unfortunate that the Brainstorm deck is so dominant, it doesn't look like WotC wants to ban the most prevalent deck in the format. The Brainstorm Deck will just have to remain...

I guess it depends on what kind of decks you like playing. Considering how much people on these boards bitch about aggro being a noob deck, I would think many Sourcers would consider it a bad change.

Ghost Quarter is probably sufficiently powerful in such an environment. They could also make something like, "Destroy target nonbasic land, its control may gain 3 life" or something if they wanted a...

Wasteland would destroy a shocks-and-fetches environment. "Fetch, take three" and "Fetch, land comes in tapped" are both pretty silly when your opponent drops Wasteland and uses it.

I guess it's good that the DCI doesn't seem to care all that much about Eternal, then.

I'm vaguely interested in getting into Modern, but not until it feels like the DCI is done with the whole...

Inertia, probably. Yes, there are cards that probably aren't an issue if they come off, but the other side of that is that there isn't a particular need to take them off; things like that can be...

Uh...

Brainstorm and Ponder are huge crutches for people with low skill. If you fuck up with your blue deck, don't worry, Brainstorm's got your back: you can draw yourself into something that...

Slight derail here, but I really don't understand this sentiment. Have none of you ever tried to play an aggro deck against anything but Storm combo or something? A deck like Zoo is not just "herf...

I'm not sure what you're expecting, given the relative dearth of Tier One or Tier 1.5 decks without Brainstorm.

Discard is just plain worse than counters. Even if you printed BB, sorcery, target player discards three cards, counters would still be a better strategy simply because they require an opponent to...

A stable metagame is better for diversity because it gives defined targets to Tier Two strategies. This is especially important in Legacy because the Tier One decks also tend to be the most...