Brainstorm
Force of Will
Lion's Eye Diamond
Counterbalance
Sensei's Divining Top
Tarmogoyf
Phyrexian Dreadnaught
Goblin Lackey
Standstill
Natural Order
I'm not sure what your definition of 'Casual.dec' is. But there are plenty of established and developing decks in that list which don't run Brainstorm.
Also, I'm not sure what your point is. 35% of the top decks didn't run Brainstorm, but That doesn't really count somehow because 12.5% of the top decks happened to be Lands? Maybe you could give us a list of decks which you approve of and which you acknowledge would contribute to the meta?
With over 13 000 cards in the Legacy pool, pretty much anything that sees any play at all is going to be over-represented.
There will always be a card (or cards) played more than the others (aka, over-represented); and this is true of every format.
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Sure, there will always be a card played more than the others, because some card has to be #1. But the #1 card in Modern is Lightning Bolt at 45%, and the #1 card in Standard is Courser of Kruphix at 39% (Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth at 43% if you want to count nonbasic lands). Brainstorm is at significantly higher percentages than either of those.
Yeah, I get that. But calling BS over-represented in inane. There will always be over-represented cards. The question is :
Is BS over-represented more-so than is acceptable for the #1 played card in the format?
Reading through this thread, there are plenty of opinions stated about this very matter.
Personally, I will never judge Legacy by comparing it to Modern or Standard! Those formats could disappear altogether without affecting my assessment of Legacy.
But since you mention it...
Those formats might have a better balance when it comes to variety of cards, but Legacy has them beat hands down when it comes to variety of play-styles (aka, aggro, tempo, prison, control, combo, midrange). So I don't think Legacy need envy Standard or Modern!
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If you take out Brainstorm the next most played card will likely be Force. At that point the "Because it's the most played card" arguments die. Because no one that has played this format for any amount of time is going to be asking for a Force ban.
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I will grant you that and leave my views at the door, I just wished to point out that the idea that "Well there will always be a most played card and it will be the peoples target" is a false dichotomy because no one is ever going to really entertain the thought of banning Force. Not if they have a reasonable understanding of what the card does in Legacy and ifs secondary effects.
I think by now we've informally established that vintage is the (uber)broken-cards format and legacy is the brainstorm format. Killing brainstorm (regardless of whether it deserves it) means killing the identity of the format.
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So saying that "there will always be cards played more than others, and this is true in all formats" isn't a particularly compelling argument for defending Brainstorm's 70+% metagame share, when those other formats don't have cards being played that much more. I mean, heck, if Brainstorm was in 100% of decks, you could use that argument.
...except one of the archetypes you listed, aggro, has been unviable for quite some time in Legacy. On the other hand, it's quite alive in Modern and Standard.
I'd classify Infect as an aggro deck.
Let people call it a combo deck because it needs a certain combination of cards to win quickly, but I feel that's true for every deck... It wins by attacking quickly with creatures it hard-casts and goes all-in on, I don't know what else you'd want.
I find interesting that there isn't a main deck white card until 21st place Miracles list.
Not sure what to make of that, just an observation
I'm not saying people will always go after the most played card. I'm saying being the most played card is no criteria for banning!
I agree that infect is not aggro - it plays like tempo. Burn on the other hand is the definition of aggro (unless you think aggro needs an arbitrary percent of its threats to be creatures).
Point is Legacy could have zero aggro and still feature a better mix of styles than Modern or Standard - which have little (or nothing) in the way of viable combo, tempo, control or prison! Yes, the decks might run more different cards, but they mostly attack the game from the very same angle.
Way to dismiss one third to one fifth of the meta! How can you expect anyone to take you seriously (except those who already hate the meta)?
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Burn is really more of a combo deck that wins the game by casting a spell 7 times, sort of like a Storm deck but over multiple turns. But even if you consider it to be aggro, Burn really doesn't put up many results.
Modern absolutely has combo and tempo, but maybe you're referring to Standard with that (though Standard sort of has some tempo). But it's odd you complain about lack of control or prison in Modern when there were more prison decks and more control decks in the Top 32 of the last Modern Open than there were aggro decks in the top 32 of the last Legacy Open (unless one wants to count Infect as aggro, which I don't, and which you seem to agree on).Point is Legacy could have zero aggro and still feature a better mix of styles than Modern or Standard - which have little (or nothing) in the way of viable combo, tempo, control or prison!
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