Why not just ban Tendrils itself?
Originally Posted by majikal
Because I'll cry? Knock this banning combo pieces crap off, wizards might listen to you.
Maybe, but what would be the big problem with that? A lot of other decks could be viable if storm combo would be non-excistend.
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They don't need to ban Storm to make those decks viable, they just need to have some very hostile to Storm decks emerge as leading contenders.
The reason combo hasn't taken over the format completely is because there are matchups out there against which it is largely DOA. Storm-based combo is more resilient against some of those decks given that counters mean little against it once the effect is in play.
I have to admit that I never thought I'd see the day when it was more important to counter the dark ritual than the thing it produced.
The thing about also giving combo something back is so there is combo outside of Solidarity and Belcher. I know it sounds weird to ban something to weaken a deck and then unban something to make said deck stronger, but LED is just too broken in TES and Belcher with Infernal and Wish. I don't want to totally wipe combo off the map either so giving them something back would help. I am just talking about slowing the format down.
UU - Counterstorm - Instant
Counter target spell that has a Storm effect. If you do so then remove all spells from the stack.
You mean something like Hindering Touch? Combo runs disruption to get rid of things like the already useful Stifle or Orim's Chant.
Hindering Touch is a bit expensive to be effective against the kind of combo I'm seeing at the moment. In truth UU is also a bit expensive for that. Stifle works wonders. 3 Stifle in the maindeck and 2 or 3 Counterstorm in the sideboard would make Storm-based combo very vulnerable to blue control. I think having that effect in the meta would pretty much guarantee that Storm wasn't going to take us all by storm in the near future.
We don't need to unban something to make Combo viable, as this was already done in the last bannings rounds. I already know of 3 strong hyper-fast combo decks that don't run Lion's Eye Diamond/Empty the warrens.
In fact, I think it would be wise to ban more combo cards.
Name them. I don't know of 1 besides Breakfast.We don't need to unban something to make Combo viable, as this was already done in the last bannings rounds. I already know of 3 strong hyper-fast combo decks that don't run Lion's Eye Diamond/Empty the warrens.
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Other decks that does not run LED and ETW are slow and more oriented to the Combo/Control. The fastest those decks get is turn 3, which is a full turn slower than LED/ETW storm combo.
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I can't think of a worse idea for legacy than to ban combo cards. Althrough combo is the most talked about and worked on archetype, it is quite weak in legacy, and does not post nearly enough results to warrant banning.
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