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Unban Library, clearly a win-more card, dies to Wasteland, 8 card combo.

Source: My extensive experience playing it in Cube decks on mulls to 5. Didn't do shit, so much for "most powerful land". ...

Non-blue fair decks always had the problem of bad combo matchups, but could make up for that with good rates against blue decks by being more aggressive or going bigger than them.

But 6+ years...

As someone who has played both sides of the Storm/Teeg matchup, I can't say I've ever had a good, interesting, SKILL INTENSIVE game when this happened. Can't blame people for not wanting to expand...

If we're gonna talk about unfairness and blue let's talk about how many shitty pet decks have been made even shittier as key cards from them get banned so that WotC and people who jerk off to/with...

C'mon Earthcraft!

Let's untap some Enchanted Forests.

Don't leave me hanging, WotC!

Earthcraft in Elves seems weak. Heritage Druid (and Birchlore Rangers) do a much better job of turning your elves into hasty mana dorks while being cheaper, GSZ targets, and not diluting the deck. ...

Looks like a pretty good top 16. Lots of nonblue lists, diversity among the cantrip piles, only two decks with Drizzleshit in them, and two people cashing in a Legacy event running shocklands in a...

I don't disagree with the rest of the stuff you're saying, but Mana Leak didn't do shit as far as U/W Delver was concerned. I'll quote a Sourcer Emeritus on this:

This is pretty much my thought on Legacy being the Turbo Xerox format; why pay $4K to copy your ass for days when you can pay $40 for the experience?

Plus, with the banning of Gitgud Probe, Pauper...

Brainstorm and DRS, yes, but the others not so much.

Even without an external shuffle source, Ponder is insane. It gives you so much card selection for so little investment. Certainly it gets...

You laugh now, but one day Valakut Storm will be as feared as Nourishing Lich.

Gotta love how decks that plan on regularly casting 3 and 4 drops in Legacy are running 19-20 lands and avoiding manascrew enough to regularly top 8. Feels great when you're playing...

Money.

They unbanned Bloodbraid? Alright, cool. Thirty to forty bucks gets you a playset at peak hype and you're good to go. Cascade into Ancestral Vision, lament that the Boom//Bust line...

It's concerning to see the ban list cynically managed to sell packs of a new product as opposed to make formats more interesting or healthy.

Sure, JTMS is very unlikely to destroy Modern. I...

Pfft...I guess a lot of people here don't remember the Mercadian Masques ALL STAR that was Spidersilk Armor. Reach, toughness, everything you need. That's a card that could gum up casual...

Is it all that unwarranted? Bear with me for a second.

Part of Legacy's appeal comes from the eternal and non-rotating nature. You can use cards from any time in the history of Magic and they...

I don't think his post was so much about fair vs combo matchups as much as how fair vs fair matchups have degenerated as a result of Dumb Blue Creatures™️ like True Ape.

Sure, when you sleeve up...

I dunno, I think it's just silly to insist on metagame representation as criteria for a ban except in the case of the cantrip cartel. Some subjective notion of fun or format "pillarness" saves...

If the most impactful, most broken, most represented, and most SKILL INTENSIVE cards to ban (Brainstorm/Ponder/GitGudProbe) are off the ban table for arbitrary reasons...why is banning Deathrite, a...