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Delver isn't good anymore. The "Delver shell" now plays 0 Delver. They've pivoted to Nethergoyf, Tamiyo, and Dragon's Rage Channeler. So if you want...

It went well in spite of my mana screw mulligans. This was the blue side I was curious about. Delver shell is already good and I felt the black...

How did it go? UB Frog is already a Tier 1 deck. You could just play that. Standstill is risky when you lose the die roll, since so many decks are...

I like the idea. Tamiyo, Inquisitive Student is the strongest 1cmc Wizard and could be 3-4 copies. Doubling Clues forces opponent to remove...

BUG Dreadnought tech: https://www.mtgtop8.com/event?e=59246&d=643828&f=LE Back on Uro and no Thrulls, so there are no threats that can be...

I would have played black lotus this round, too, if it had been available. It's incredibly difficult to resolve a 4cmc coloured spell early enough to...

Yeah, they probably don't need to be banned. I just kept them that way since we hadn't discussed them and I didn't want to make an impulsive decision...

Many thanks to the 16 of you who attended. This is the who got what post with meta and decklists to follow at the bottom. (Appologies in advance...

Well I played this list to test the waters FrogNought 4 delver of secrets 4 psychic frog 2 brazen borrower 1 true-name nemesis 1 murktide...

Totally would have: 2 black lotus (beats blackmail), coalition victory (random card), 3cc win card (I can say after the round. I didn'tmanage to...

I don't believe you would, but you did play Flailing Soldier in the normal round, so who knows.

They historically have gone for enables rather then pushed creatures precisely because they know they want to keep pushing things. It's more about...

If black lotus was legal this round I would have played it. But as WoP mentioned it is banned in legacy. That's why I wrote 6/7 too, strip mine...

Lotus Bloom does exist. (Also I thought we were playing Legacy, so it's not legal because of that.)

You make a totally fair point. The counter point is, if they actually did what you suggest and start banning the truly problematic cards (e.g. FoW,...

Black Lotus is the main one that might be viable at enabling some high cmc terrible cards. But that isn't necessarily banworthy.

Do we really need to ban the powerful 7 (or 6)? It does not look like they would have made that big of a splash in any of the round.

That’s already what I said though The issue is just that it’s much easier to ban the really obviously broken enablers of the unfair strategy than...

I think Reanimator only becomes a "problem" worthy of a ban if it can simultaneously play an unfair and fair strategy, which is what it has recently...

I'd like it if they explored the 4-6 mana creature Goldilocks zone more. I guess in the context of Legacy it's the inverse Goldilocks zone. If it...

That Goldfish article was a frustrating read for sure. Opened with a big stink about how we're living in the worst case reality with UB Tempo and...

It doesn't help that they seem to have straight up stopped putting anti-reanimation text on fatties entirely, though.

The problem is the cheap easy enablers of the reanimator strategy, which is to say, Entomb and Reanimate. That's it. That and the overall power...

Agreed, Reanimator still seems the best deck. Most people blame Frog. Focusing on Maxtortion winning 1 Challenge with UB Froginator. But Rood got...

Is mono B stompy a thing and does it need a pretty fast and recurring clock?

Yeah. I mainly play old school and commander these days.

Ah, ok. Makes sense. I should have remembered you had Unlimited ones, I think you've posted some Old School decks before, right?

It looks like reeplcheep wins this round by a single point over Tirrit and me. On we go to a backbuild round, with the powerful seven banned, as well...