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I think Wizards is starting to spread some of blue's pie out - Oath of Nissa - but the counter magic/stack interaction portion certainly is not moving at all. I feel like it's the most powerful...

Lately it seems the innovations in the format are really limited to Stompy decks, especially with Karn slotting into some of the Sol decks. The Chalice shell seems to be the only real area that is...

I feel banning DRS would splitGrixis Delver back to some amount of RUG (Goyf), BUG (Goyf/Abrupt Decay), and Grixis Delver (Therapy/Young Pyro) decks spawning. I imagine a mix of Mongoose, Goyf,...

Not sure if anyone cares, but WotC decided to pretty much immediately split Brawl B&R from Standard. Banned Baral and Smuggler's Copter, unbanned everything else.

Baral was taking about 75% of...

I think we would see Reanimator decks reclaim some territory with DRS gone. Lands may increase as well (barring pricing), but they prey on Delver decks anyway so mostly that matchup just gets worse...

I think the SCG Atlanta Classic 1st place Miracles list ran 19 lands. 20 if you count Search for Azcanta.

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Maverick had to resolve a Mother, a GSZ for Teeg (looking at turn 3 or 4), and then still resolve some way of ending the game outside of 2/2 beats against a deck with infinite countermagic...

Maverick can have some battle against SnT. Knight getting Karakas, black builds getting discard, various bears, it's not impossible.

Show and Tell (Griselbrand) killed any chance of Nic Fit...

The problem is that the format is the same 48-52 card shell, for over half of the matches you'll play. Interactive, yes. But you know how every single game is played out. And play it out the exact...

The question was if the top 1/3rd of decks would share the same 48-52 cards. Still, this isn't looking at individual deck lists, but just overall card usage from a given data set. If you drilled...

Apologies for the dog shit formatting, but...http://mtgtop8.com/topcards?f=LE&meta=39

Card Name Decks Avg

Brainstorm 57.7 % 4.0
Ponder 54.2 % 3.8
Force of Will 51.9 % 3.9
Polluted Delta 49.9...

8 Linear/non-interactive
5 Midrange

I'm counting Affinity as linear/non-interactive because it doesn't care what you do. Play dudes, play Plating, swing, put the playing on Blinkmoth, swing...

I wouldn't put it past Wizards to continue to let Legacy rot with further Brainstorm-DRS homogenization, or even get worse with more TNN type cards in Commander product, to push players into Modern. ...

The only thing I can see wizards doing to police Legacy is printing new commander cards they think would combat certain strategies. That way, players get new toys and wizards gets to sell product in...

Yep, not even an acknowledgement of the format. Or any format.

No money to be gained means no changes.

Or, in the case of Chalice, called absolutely unfair and needs to be banned then stricken from history.

Put Survival on the stack a few times, in response LED for GGG, grab VengeVines, use LED mana to discard VengeVines for Hollow Ones, play out the Hollows and Vines...seems decent. Certainly much...

Oh, yeah I'm talking just about the few announcements leading up to Top being banned. I don't think they acknowledged Legacy had a problem, they were looking at data, the state of the format, or...

I doubt Wizards even acknowledges Legacy exists on the announcement. I don't think they mention the format (other than standard) if nothing is changed. For counter cat I think they mentioned...

I'd rather see True Name banned with that scenario, but otherwise agree.

Survival actually would've been pretty good to have against Miracles with Terminus. Bottoming all your creatures doesn't really do too much when you can just tutor them back up compared to a Wrath,...

I think you just discard Vengevine after Vengine until you want to grab a Hollow One, then discard some other creature to get a Hollow One or X creature (Ballista), then play free Hollows and...

What level of construction sign spice is necessary to get a ban or unban though?

The fact that Portent came out of nowhere to be a Miracles staple (assuming, haven't checked the GP lists) means there's no way that Cantrip decks are going anywhere even if half the played cantrips...

I kind of wonder if the likes of Oath of Nissa, Mirri's Guile, and something like Grisly Salvage could be implemented to make a more consistent Green shell. Maybe not with those existing cards, but...