Brainstorm
Force of Will
Lion's Eye Diamond
Counterbalance
Sensei's Divining Top
Tarmogoyf
Phyrexian Dreadnaught
Goblin Lackey
Standstill
Natural Order
It has potential synergies, but the likelihood any deck of that sort would run it over Careful Study/Faithless Looting is rather low. As for sol land decks, they dump their hand so quickly the card disadvantage here would often be a burden. But hey perhaps Faerie Stompy can be a deck again.
Academy Unban seems uterly rediciously to me. It might be the most busted land in mtg history (depending on the context). Would make storm much better and would probably enable a Belcher style T1 deck. It just won't ever happen...
Y.Will has lost some power, it was considered one if not the most powerful card when I played Vintage back in the early 2000s. Stillunsafe becaus I would argue, it would make storm faster more then a turn. Land LED rit Will is allready storm count 5 with 5 Mana floating, throw in busted things you can do with petal probe, etc. I don't think people get how much better than PiF it would be.
Sort of. While you can average the manacost of Storm and get something like .75 life per card; YawgBarg gives you the ability to unrestrict the mana cost of cards again. You can just run 3 and not be punished on a life-point basis for it. Storm is normally super careful about incorporating high CMC cards because Ad Naus creates tensions around it; YawgBarg is relatively uninteresting for those tensions.
I actually think Grisel is fine when you use Reanimate because the tension between paying 8 life and then paying another 7 is pretty dangerous; and if the opp has already punched you with a dude a couple times, you can't even pay it. It's the time he's Exhumed, S&T'd, or similar that make him a straight bargain.
Getting back to AN; it also makes you do it all at once. You can't pay a life, ponder, get the best card, shuffle, pay a life, etc.
One card unbanned, and so far, WotC is listening to the people, at least in order if not quantity.
My poll two years ago
I guess it'll go Mind Twist -> Earthcraft maybe-> Survival of the Fittest
I've tested hermit druid somewhat extensively. It pose too much of a strain on the format in the sense that it's another coinflip deck. Think of it as a much more consistent belcher. It ask you "do you have an answer T1 for it? else you lose". And can easily run some protection, unlike belcher. It's an uninteresting card that ask all of the wrong questions to the format in my opinion, making it even more luck dependent.
Search and Survival are way , way safer than hermit druid.
Even Bargain which i consider at the extreme fringe of unbannable, is worse than hermit druid. It would definitely, however, push Show and Tell over the edge. 8 Griselbrands of which 4 hardcastable in a SnT deck is zzz. If petal or brainstorm were to be banned, Bargain could definitely come off. But since WotC banned top and essentially surgically banned just one deck without depowering derpstrategies significantly, bargain is safer banned.
I already wrote a list somewhere iirc, but reiterating:
Black Vise tier, aka some poster say they're absolutely broken and call me mentally handicapped then they never see play:
Earthcraft
Fringe playables sometimes:
Mind Twist
Recruiter
Frantic Search
Probably playable to moderately playable:
Survival of the Fittest (way worse in current format than the old miracle one, so much tempo and combo make it unplayable)
Unbannable cards if they banned lotus petal or brainstorm:
Yawgmoth's Bargain
Windfall
Unbannable if they banned brainstorm:
Sensei's Divining Top (yes i liked miracles as a deck concept, it needed nerfing not nuking)
I have honestly never played with imperial seal. I'm pretty sure vampiric is busted, but i'm not sure how much worse would seal be. To me, it seems still absolutely stupid in decks like BR reanimator. Maybe if they banned petal it wouldn't make combo too degenerate.
All this talk of the most broken lands and not a single mention of Library of Alexandria? I've seen this card singlehandedly win games. I've personally had it draw me as many as 5 cards in a game before...
Also, I'd put Gush in the Top 10 most broken list. Draw 2 for 0 mana is absurd and would push Mentor to Tier 1 in Legacy.
Honestly I've never seen the alleged broken potential of Library of Alexendria, in fact I'd rather classify it as jank by today's standards and doubt it would see much play if it was legal....
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In Legacy, or in general? I'm sure Gush would be crazy in Legacy but I don't think it was an issue in Standard and wasn't that popular in Pauper. You really need the fetchland+dual land combo (to consistently be able to have Islands to return, otherwise your dual lands can't bounce and it's restricted to mono-Blue) plus Wasteland running rampant (turning the alternate cost into an outright benefit) for it to become broken, I feel.
Its power seems to circumstance-based for me to consider it in the top 10 most broken list. Don't get me wrong, it's absurd when those circumstances are met, but to get into a "top 10 most broken list" I think you need to be broken in just about any context.
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Have ever seen his card in action? It annihilates any control or grindy midrange mirror-style MU. Especially as CA is harder to come by in Legacy compared to Vintage.
Also I would like to see the spike that an unbanning would cause It's allready a 450€ Card... Should exceed Tabernacle very easily then.
Same problem I see for Mana Drain, the judge reprint is fine but before an unbanning they'd need to put it in Eternal Masters or something, it would easily be 300-400+ if unbanned now I guess.
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It's funny how Brainstorm-Haters think Library is a fine card, probably because it isn't blue.
(at least that's how I remember Erdvermampfa, maybe my memory serves me wrong though and I apologize in that case)
Yeah, cause if LED was banned, then Will would be fine! Pay no attention to the DRits, CabalRits, Petals, the ability to replay a Fetch, and any number of Cantrips that you used to get to that Will in the first place. I'd happily argue that DRit is more busto than stupid LED under a theoretical Legacy Will turn, since LED makes you RFG the stuff in your hand when you dump it. LED != Black Lotus, no matter how much it may look like it sometimes. Ask someone who plays Bomberman in Legacy and Vintage what the difference is. Sheesh.
You're doing the Lord's work saving us from a theoretical waste of time. What does it even look like - Hyper Dredge?
Vampiric is busted because you can EoT it, so your opponent never gets the opportunity to interact at sorcery speed. Imperial requires spending a second effort to get the card immediately into hand. Of course, I am biased, because I think the format could use some more non-creature-based toolbox stuff.
If you're only drawing 5 cards with library, you're doing it wrong... :) The difference is that Library increases your odds of winning the game every turn that it's in play and active. Academy often just wins the game for you when it shows up.
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Most of the 'Ban brainstorm!' arguments are based on the logic that 'more different cards should get played in Legacy', as though the success or health of the format can be measured by the portion of cards that are available and see play. This is an idiotic metric.
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