Only "saturation" metrics, if I recall ArFo's comments.
Arguments based on play-styles diversity (a foreign concept to you, apparently), are at the forefront. You consistently ignore this PoV,...
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Only "saturation" metrics, if I recall ArFo's comments.
Arguments based on play-styles diversity (a foreign concept to you, apparently), are at the forefront. You consistently ignore this PoV,...
Yes I have. With answers, which are what you use to the interact. The other engine itself is not an interactive tool - it sets interactions.
If the DRS/Cantrip fair decks take a hit,...
But there is no evidence that decks of all those styles would actually be competitive. Your just pulling that conjecture out of your ass.
So, if you stall your opponents with Wasteland, Daze, Spell Peirce, Cabal Therapy, you can be a fair deck, but if you stall them with Wasteland, Thalia, and other hate bears you're not a fair deck? ...
I understand that.
Personally I'm less concerned with diversity in engines because they are not the most interactive parts of the deck. I want decks to play differently against each other. I...
I am not talking about the recent decision to allow none.
I'm talking about ~2004 when they said we couldn't have BoP & Llanowar standard legal at the same time because two dorks were too many.
A...
Here's the real rub.
When SDT was legal, I argued that Miracles was unique in being "hard control". The ban-bs-camp argued tooth and nail that, eg, the BUG midrange/control decks were...
For that matter, Serum Visions is also not strictly worse than Recall. Obviously broken!
Only if you don't understand the arguments in the first place.
"Skill-testing" is bull crap, totally...
Not complaining about Elves. Also not about Miracles, Storm, or S&T.
What worries me is too many creature based decks made of a balanced mix of threats and answered played on a fair mana curve...
1 - this is a strictly theoretic discussion. We have no power or influence.
2 - What WotC says one day doesn't always hold the next. Remember when they said 2 1cc dorks was too much for Standard? ...
There will always be tier-2 decks kept down by the tier-1 decks. That was as true during "Maverick Summer" as it is today. We can't ban cards because the top decks are holding back the fringe...
As a Lands player (mostly RGu - the "toolbox" version), these are different.
For one, their Wasteland encourages making a token on my turn, but the other deck's Jace encourages EOT Marit Lage.
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It's okay if the best deck is good-stuff with Brainstorm. It's not okay if too many decks are playing similar strategies.
Dark Maverick is quite the fringe deck, and doesn't belong in the...
This might be a big force behind the meta - too many players wanting to play "normal Magic".
We've had a lot of growth in the last ten years. Anybody who's been playing MTG for less than a...
What I'm saying is it is wrong to assume an argument which app!is to BS applies equally to other powerful blue draw spells. I provided 2 counterexamples to make short work of that assertion.
I...
This surprises me.
I've never sleeved up D&T, but from what I hear Sneaky Show or UB Reanimator are almost a cinch, UR Delver is very hard to beat, and Miracles is a close to even grind.
I...
You could use the Brainstorm arguments for other "broken blue effects", but you might very well be wrong.
Case in point - DTT. Sure, it found a home in all sorts of archetypes, but it pushed...
D&T is DTB, and Lands is still a force in the meta (although it's a bit scarce in the field sometimes because of reasons).
For anybody still wondering why people want a DRS ban when BS is played...
Ribbing withdrawn.
But in seriousness, you did know the answer to your question (whether you agree or not), and were just trying to stir up shit? Am I wrong?
I count 75.
But S&T is not connected to the flood of good-stuff decks which are (potentially) problematic.
Elves doesn't run that many lands, but they run as many as they do because Cradle and Dryad Arbor are non-starts.
The other decks are kind of fringy, but Nic-Fit is a ramp deck, and KotR deck...
I know darn well he's not new. Which is exactly why he should have been able to answer his own question.
I answered it for him regardless, but not without a (well earned) passive-aggressive dig.
Interestingly, in this last GP's top-8, every BS deck also ran DRS. Obviously that's not representative of the meta, but a fun fact nonetheless.
To answer your question, (and I assume you are new...
Elf deck in top-8, DRS gotta go!
Golem Spirit Guide would be fine if it added :1: instead of :2:. Not very thematic though - Golem Spirit? Eldrazi Spirit Guide would be make more sense.