Brainstorm
Force of Will
Lion's Eye Diamond
Counterbalance
Sensei's Divining Top
Tarmogoyf
Phyrexian Dreadnaught
Goblin Lackey
Standstill
Natural Order
Kewl.
DRS & Probe gone. The end of Cabal Therapy & Pyromancer. The real winner: Hoarders of Thoughtseizes. Heared it here first. ;)
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To be perfectly honest, I'm not too happy about probe going away, because it's yet more locking abilities into blue. But... I guess I see why.
It is funny, however, that you could easily replace the word "deathrite shaman" with "brainstorm" and their rationale for banning would be even stronger...
Hehehe, Goblins is now actually playable. Prep for them lackeys!
Where' are my god damn Grave-Trolls at?!?!??!
Switching back to Manaless immediately.
Oh yea, let's ban all cards but the one that is truly dominating and warping the format.. Brainstorm...
oh, Sir, wait, can you provide that percentage for Brainstorm across multiple GPs, T8/16? DCI... what a joke.At Grand Prix Birmingham, eleven of the top sixteen decks used four copies of Deathrite Shaman, including five of the Top 8
Thank god, at least the prices are good atm to sell out of legacy.. and Magic in general. Bunch of brain deads running the show and I've got too much money tied into this game for these monkeys to nuke it.
Sweet Jesus finally freedom. Of course I leave my lovely Legacy scene and move somewhere with no Legacy, but glad to see the format can change.
lol I think miracles might be the best deck in legacy again
Now the graveyard is a playable place back again
Wow, they actually unloosed the Goose and Loam. Well fair decks, have fun fighting for your mana...oh and btw you need to run 4x Decay, 'cause there ain't no way miracles isn't going to 3-4 CB builds for those things.
The DRS ban was long overdue and it should have been hit at the same time as Top got axed. Probe was a good ban as well, considering how universally hated this card was and how it reduced the skill of the format.
My prediction what might happen now: We're going to see a resurgence of strategies with a greater GY focus, both blue and non-blue.
What's actually going to happen: LOL SNAPCASTER
I guess you're joking, considering Brainstorm still exists.
reanimator will go rampant with no maindeck grave hate and only counterspells to fight through which is not that hard, so.. on the plus side we might see Griselbrand banned.. but don't worry it will again take them at least two years to do anything.
This is truly shocking. I would have never expected them to ban both cards at the same time. Although I unconditionally support the Probe ban I'm not sure what to think of the DRS ban yet because after all it used to be a card which gave nonblue decks an opportunity to fight back in equal terms (although I'm aware it was mostly used in blue decks at this point). On the other hand, if we were honest, DRS is an inherently broken card which shouldn't exist in this way anyhow so why bother...
I'm a bit concerned that legacy might become a bit like Modern in terms of the frequency of bannings and r&d interventions because 3 bannings in 2 years is really unusual for legacy standards. i appreciate legacy for it's stability and long-term value of its card pool (among other things) and more and more bannings isn'T necessarily something I want for the future...
If anything, they take way too long to tackle obvious problems. Don't mistake WotC's lazyness and lack of giving fucks for good format management. Legacy is probably the worst managed format out of the main four (Standard, Modern, Legacy, Vintage) when it comes to B&R announcements.
Maybe White Eldrazi gets playable again. It eats Griselbrands for breakfast.
So which cards to we immediately switch to complaining about?
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