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All 4 human beings on earth who played Doomsday in 2018 must have taken it pretty hard.

I care about legacy being an interesting and dynamic format more than I care about the legality of the card Thalia, Guardian of Thraben. I don't just 'not care' about Probe, I think the card led to...

I feel like you guys keep trying to bring up DnT examples as if I have some special irrational feelings reserved for the deck I play. But...I don't. If DnT were the best deck in legacy for an...

The point isn't that there are 15k legacy-worthy cards, the point is that as a % of magic cards printed, the number that have been deemed too powerful/disruptive/whatever for the legacy format is a...

TNN, Chalice and Griselbrand should all be banned and all conceivably could be one day. I think Griselbrand is probably the only one where the fanboys might kick up a stink. Most people would be...

"A free spell...might go well...in decks that want you to cast lots of spells" is not actually super interesting. If you really want to brew, you should pray to WotC for more bans, not fewer -...

I think you make some good points, in that Probe was probably the 3rd most powerful cantrip in legacy, and only currently abusable by a few shells. But you overreach when you say it's just 'because...

Chalice should obviously be banned. It's the most feel-bad card in legacy, leads to the most non-games of any card in legacy, and does not reward skill in any sense.

Thalia is less powerful and...

The 'criteria' for banning is more complex than just 'ban the most powerful cards'. Probe was a powerful card that irked people and decreased the amount of meaningful play to a game. Wizards' aim for...

Yeah, and if people were reliably casting planeswalkers on turn 1, there would be a problem.

A fine alternative to banning Chalice is to just ban the Sol lands. Chalice is a much more reasonable...

There's also a format where people can play even more cards and decks than they can play in legacy, and they can do all kinds of wild and crazy things with one-of copies of the cards they've been...

Chalice decks are terrible for magic and the card leads to more stupid games than any card in the format other than maybe SnT. The card is already restricted in Vintage, which sets a precedent its...

Yeah, there's never been a player-specific ban before, but I think banning Bob would ultimately be a good thing for the format. I am tired of malicious top 8s and it is time to put an end to the...

The article is just a small part of his campaign though - his refusal to stop top 8ing events with the deck is the real disgrace. I think Bob should be banned from playing DRS decks, since he's...

Yes, I think we all can agree that legacy will be better when they print Rest in Peace bear. Can we get a petition going?

I don't care about 'feel bad'. Non-games are a waste of time. They are not actually playing Magic. The two players did nothing of consequence. They sat there, their decks played some cards, and then...

It's extremely rude (and unbecoming of a mod - you should know better) to bring up the Pirate Stompy thread here. That's a completely different subject. The fact that someone who I considered a...

People adopted to Eldrazi by playing sideboard cards that let them beat Eldrazi. Maybe they threw in an additional flexible answer card to Chalice in their main. They didn't stop playing Brainstorms,...

They don't consistently win on turn 1, which is why they're poor choices for competitive play. But they do often enough to throw a wrench in a tournament. People like to refer to these Chalice decks...

It would look 100% the same, there would just be fewer games that were over on turn 1.

Nobody has ever argued that there aren't answers to Chalice. Sometimes people have them. Sometimes people have FoW. Sometimes Chalice players play against a match-up that doesn't care about Chalice. ...

You deal with hate cards because you play an abusive hyperlinear strategy that doesn't play anything close to normal Magic and wrecks decks that do. If strong hate cards didn't exist for Lands, it...

Playing with a tight curve isn't a linear strategy. It's a thing people do so that they can actually resolve their spells.



Blue decks aren't even the main thing squeezing curves in Legacy....

It's not a check on deck construction. Nobody is going to stop playing Brainstorm, Ponder and DRS strategies because they might face a Chalice. Nobody builds their deck considerably differently to...

Fair decks don't win on turn 2.



I think interesting games of Magic are highly interactive games of Magic. Legacy is great because it creates games with a wide variety of forms of interaction...