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Given that most of the Enchantment Creatures either suck (Archetypes, Bestow critters, most Constellation dudes) or are anti-synergistic with the deck (Eidolon of Rhetoric, Spirit of the Labyrinth)...

Extremely solid analysis. From a perspective of format health, the Twin ban makes no sense. Contra Wizard's announcement, there aren't a ton of U/x/y decks in Modern that can fight against big-mana...

Ha ha, oh wow. Wizards really does not want a Modern Pro Tour nor players feeling comfortable buying into Modern decks.

Gotta keep 'em playing Standard.

Edit: Just read the rationale for the...

The DTT ban is nice, but I really don't think anything good will come of Black Vise entering the format. Just an utterly miserable card to play against; doesn't make sense to get rid of one (Dig)...

Consistency is a double-edged sword. While it does blunt the impact of "unfun" variance (mana screw, land-flooding, losing to bad topdecks), it also introduces a host of problems. For one thing, it...

Legacy and Vintage? The formats with the most powerful cards ever printed? Oh, whoops...you said "widely supported"...

Because that really doesn't accurately describe Standard or Modern. ...

I don't think this argument holds for a few reasons.

First, your conflating all combo with stack-based combo, the kind Blue decks traditionally police via countermagic, as most other decks have...

Lol, ten years I've had one in a binder and I've never RTFC properly. Still can live the dream untapping multi-sprawled Forests. Enchantress....now skyrocketing to Tier 3!

Yeah, no reason not to...

Squirrel Nest is kinda crappy; tapped 1/1s with summoning sickness are a lot worse than anything that runs Earthcraft can already do. The real danger of Earthcraft is how it turns every creature...

Let's hope my order of a few Earthcrafts doesn't get canceled...

Really don't want to be priced out of my pet deck if/when the unbanning causes them to spike like mad.

Let's tally out the winners. Decks using Brainstorm are in bold type because, hey, that's what this thread is all about, right?



Besides Junk and Reanimator, no non-DTB made more than one...

I think that was the gripe the post was about, how out of the BUG wedge, Blue got the best Delve cards by a long shot.

Green got Become Immense and Hooting Mandrills. Black got a bunch of...

Not to mention S&T decks being the marquee, Tier One combo archetype of Legacy is awful. Paying hundreds or thousands of dollars into a format to face herp-derp A+B combo that wins off of a bunch of...

It is still a problem, as the format isn't as diverse nor deep as it could be. It's like the Necropotence analogy others are bringing up; there's lots of different ways to build around The Skull,...

Still pulling for mass bannings, but with a slightly updated (and truncated) list:

-Delver of Secrets
-True Name Nemesis
-Treasure Cruise
-Brainstorm
-Progenitus
-Iona
-Emrakul
-Jin Gitaxis

The returns to skill on Brainstorm are vastly overstated by its proponents. While Brainstorm is an extremely versatile card, what to do with it is usually clear for the overwhelming majority of...

If we want to breathe life into the format, as opposed to powering-up/spawning a couple more (necessary) combo archetypes mass bans would be a much more viable option. I was thinking something along...

I'm pretty sure the thrust of the post by IBA wasn't to say that X/Y/Z are totally safe safe to unban as much as it was about stating the power-level considerations for the B&R list don't make a...

I'm not certain how that would pan out for Legacy.

On one hand, there would be a lot smaller of a disparity in the flexibility/consistency of manabases with duals and without them. It's the...

While you're right in saying that Red doesn't have a monopoly on the effect (Blue and Red both share the sphere of "metamagic", or interacting with Instants/Sorceries), it generally had greater...

I don't think so. Legacy has a lot of depth in card selection and tutoring that Modern lacks. Consider, all of the following are banned in Modern, but not Legacy:

-SDT
-Green Sun's Zenith...

Hope Show and Tell is gone when the next update comes around, and I wouldn't mind seeing TNN gone either. It would be nice to see Legacy go back to being a format in which half the games against...

Yeah, this was exactly my thought. Jam that card in a wishboard and nuke the field game if things go bad.

Balance is completely busted. I played a Restore Balance deck in old Extended and even...

Some of those Legacy suggestions are hilarious. I love how Imperial Seal is potentially okay because topdeck tutors have plenty of countermeasures, but then Earthcraft is suddenly broken because it...

Responding in this thread, since I saw another method of the "Chains-Bear" in one of the spoilers, and my post will veer heavily into the "Ban Brainstorm" territory. Might as well segregate that...