Brainstorm
Force of Will
Lion's Eye Diamond
Counterbalance
Sensei's Divining Top
Tarmogoyf
Phyrexian Dreadnaught
Goblin Lackey
Standstill
Natural Order
I just wish I knew this last week before I bought some FNM probes. It's not much but c'mon!
Someone at Wizards really hates Doomsday
I'll say Goblin Lackey.
I'm pissed and super happy at the same time. What's this feeling called?
Both Shaman and Probe deserved this ban and the format has a chance to regrow. But now I don't get to play with them anymore.
Whack lists currently playing:
Rector Nic Fit
Bizarro Stormy
Rest In Pieces
No prisoner exchange though...
#freenedleeds
And yet again I have to ask, why in good gravy is frantic search still banned? Come on prisoner exchange, take some under powered cards off the list.
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Strawberry Shortcake
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What a brainstorm do? Draw card and activate on draw effects fix hand, removing woods
#FreeNedleeds
Without Probe you lose 4 out of 7 ways to take a look at your opponents hand prior to casting Therapy. Given the meta is going to be the Wild West in the next weeks, you won't get far with blindcalling Therapies, especially as people will try out all the graveyard shenanigans DRS oppressed for years like Reanimator, Dredge and more in addition to everything ranging from Miracles to SnT.
The value of Therapy is tied to your knowledge about the meta/field/decks/cards which one can't bank on in the next weeks. Thoughtseize is just removing all the guessing game and I think its absolutely worth the lifeloss right now.
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I still think Banning Delver would do more to open up the format than anything else they could do.
Nuking Leovold and TNN would also be great.
EDIT: although to be honest Leovold probably took a pretty big hit with the DRS ban.
I think it was a mistake not to preemptively ban Griselbrand. The fact that Reanimator was able to reinvent itself in BR to go under Deathrite and still remained one of the scariest decks to play against in the format is a testament to the strategy's power. Without Deathrite, Reanimator will be able to return to the traditional UB, and face very little opposition in preboard games. I think Show and Tell gets better as well. Midrange decks will be slower and less capable of doing something else while holding mana up. With tempo and midrange decks likely splitting off into 3 colors again, more of the format will be cut off from Pyroblast.
All that being said, I think the new metagame promises to be a good one. There will be many flavors of 3 color midrange/control, including Miracles, Sultai, Grixis, and Stoneforge variants with their own strengths and weaknesses. RUG Delver will potentially be a viable deck in the format again, although Gurmag Angler might still just be the better Tarmogoyf nowadays. Reanimator and Sneak and Show will be good moving forward. Lands will have less Delver to prey on but should remain viable against the extant tempo and midrange decks, and Turbo Depths will continue doing its thing. Storm variants will be quite a bit slower and more all-in without Gitaxian Probe (especially with Cabal Therapy being more difficult to use), but ANT in particular will appreciate having cards sticking around in the graveyard for Past in Flames and Cabal Ritual. Elves seems to suffer pretty hard from the change, losing Deathrite itself and many good matchups making way for much worse ones. The Stompy decks will have to face much more streamlined mana bases and could be in a worse position moving forward. The success of D+T and Maverick is hard to predict, because their success is so predicated on the amount of Tempo decks there are relative to combo decks.
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