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The opening of boxes is mainly to fuel the Standard and Draft formats with the occasional new eternal staple thrown in. I'm just remembering the $20 Grave Titans at one point in the 2011 Standard...

WotC makes money because they get people to buy crappy cards over and over again. The rarity of many good cards drives the secondary market and keeps people opening boxes at a regular pace. Draft...

I agree on all points. However this is a North American perspective. There are a lot of people who play Magic who don't have access to the cards and even in North America I've heard of shops...

The lack of counterfeits so far is kind of amazing if you think about it.

WotC will never declare Legacy dead. What will happen is that both Vintage and Legacy will become proxy formats at some point and WotC will not sanction those events, effectively leading to a lack...

Painter dies to a bolt or StP in reaction to the activation. I won a game recently playing Jund in which the Painter player went first and dropped LED, artifact land, Mox Opal and 2 Grindstones on...

Storm Combo can't win on turn 1 without some form of zero casting cost artifact dropping. TES has 8-11 zero cc artifacts in the list. ANT has 8-9. Dredge's best starts come off of LED on turn 1. ...

Non-blue colors do have very effective ways to fight combo on the play. On the draw it really comes down to whether the opponent had the nuts or not in their opening 7.

Chalice of the Void (set...

It's watching people activate top at the end of every turn, sometimes in conjunction with a fetch and another activation. It's really rare for somebody to actually take more than 10 seconds or so to...

I think it's a foregone conclusion at this point that something blue is going to get banned. The question is whether WotC bans the right card or bans several cards that are probably not severely...

Delver made RUG Tempo more proactive on turn 1, particularly on the play. Dropping a Delver turn 1 is something most players will do when playing in the blind on their opponent. There was no play...

You can make a pretty good argument that four permanents broke blue over a period of time. Those would be Tarmogoyf, which gave blue an early wall against aggro who was also a big beater that could...

I was thinking blue-based linear combo and while you are correct that High Tide is exactly that it hasn't been a good list for a long time. It's the kind of list that if you are bad against combo...

This is accurate. The problem with Legacy at the moment is that blue sits perfectly across the meta with strong aggro, aggro-control and control options all available.

RUG Delver is as aggro as...

Can Survival of the Fittest be unbanned now that Abrupt Decay sees so much play?

The problem that WotC saw with SoTF when they banned it was that it created too much consistency for the lists that...