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AggroControl
Can Survival of the Fittest be unbanned now that Abrupt Decay sees so much play?
Yes. The format has gotten significantly stronger overall since it was banned, and there have also been printed a non-zero amount of cards that are good against it. I'm thinking Decay, Revoker and Extraction... more? DRS and Cage don't really count since those can be beaten by the Survival engine alone.
I doubt it's a card that Elves is really interested in, but it could give Maverick-esque decks a chance to compete again. Also, it's a card that you can't just easily jam into a shell with Brainstorm/FoW.
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TheInfamousBearAssassin
Full list of banned cards that are pretty clearly weaker than cards that are currently legal...
This is by no means advocating for all these cards to come unbanned, just that if any one of them was unbanned it would less relevant than cards like Brainstorm or Griselbrand.
If you make an assertion like that, you could, at least, give the example better card. That said, several of the cards on that list - like Wheel of Fortune and Timetwister - are easily as bad as Flash.
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What? Really? Your going to start with saying "These are the cards that can be unbanned, Vintage Dredge" and then expect anyone to think your not crazy? Man sometimes you come up with well thought out (and dickish, but at lest well thought out) posts. This, this is not one of those times.
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I'm pretty sure I could beat 95% of legacy decks that don't pack 6~ dedicated GY hate cards, with Bazaars and 4 LEDs. Easily.
Dedicated does not include DRS.
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I'm pretty sure the thrust of the post by IBA wasn't to say that X/Y/Z are totally safe safe to unban as much as it was about stating the power-level considerations for the B&R list don't make a whole lot of sense when cards like Griselbrand, Gaea's Cradle, Brainstorm, LED, and Ad Nauseum are running around free. Many of these cards easily eclipse banned cards in raw power level, yet will likely not be banned.
Makes sense to me.
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Dice_Box
What? Really? Your going to start with saying "These are the cards that can be unbanned, Vintage Dredge" and then expect anyone to think your not crazy? Man sometimes you come up with well thought out (and dickish, but at lest well thought out) posts. This, this is not one of those times.
I really get tired of people I don't fucking know on this site trash-talking me like we're old friends or rivals or I give a shit about them or something. I don't give a shit what your opinion of me is, stop trying to tell me about it.
Bazaar would be an awful card to unban... but people would just start maindecking better hate and run the sideboard cards that cripple Dredge, and the deck would languish in the maybe 10% of the metagame at most segment. Even assuming it weren't intrinsically crippled by availability issues.
The point isn't, "Bazaar wouldn't create an oppressive metagame," the point is, we already have an oppressive metagame.
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Jamaican Zombie Legend
I'm pretty sure the thrust of the post by IBA wasn't to say that X/Y/Z are totally safe safe to unban as much as it was about stating the power-level considerations for the B&R list don't make a whole lot of sense when cards like Griselbrand, Gaea's Cradle, Brainstorm, LED, and Ad Nauseum are running around free. Many of these cards easily eclipse banned cards in raw power level, yet will likely not be banned.
Makes sense to me.
Awesome, some people can read.
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rufus
If you make an assertion like that, you could, at least, give the example better card. That said, several of the cards on that list - like
Wheel of Fortune and
Timetwister - are easily as bad as
Flash.
I am not a storm expert admittedly but given that like 50% of the decks in the field, and 75% at the top tables, are running Force of Will, this seems pretty categorically not true.
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Welcome to the internet, where I am more than free to voice my views, just as you are. If you do not like it, you know where the real world is, go hang out there and be a dick to others there. You know, when they can tell you to stop being a dick to your face. Anyway, lets have a look at your list.
Bazaar is just fucked, I can honestly think of no good reason to make Vintage dredge a legal Modern deck. If in Vintage, unpowered Bazaar decks can beat powered decks with a large amount of hate packed, then thats not a Legacy safe card. "Run more hate" is not an answer to "Broken in half" because if it was, you would not want Brainstorm gone.
Channel... Really? Lets just not go there.
Fastbond with all the land decks running around? Sounds fair.
Recruiter is safe, will stay banned on time constants alone.
Memory Jar, Draw seven is not safe, not this easily. No.
MM... Please god no.
Minds Desire. Storm into Ominshows Win con with a single card... Yea. No.
Necropotence. I don't like it, but I can not just shoot it down. This one I would like to see tested.
Oath of Druids happens to be the best deck in Vintage. Lets not.
Shahrazad... Look I know your a SWELL GUY and like to SWELL GUY people, but honestly, no. Come on, even you can not truly be as much of a dick as it takes to play this fucking thing.
Survival of the Fittest. I do not think this is safe, but I am willing to see it tested and then have a second look.
Timetwister. Because playing "I do not care what you kept, now you have to Mull" is always fun. Add on High tide, storm, anyone playing blue... Draw 7 for 3 mana. No. Just not safe.
Academy... With Crop Rotation this thing would not be fun. Its like cradle, only a lot worse and it makes Blue. That's great. You don't have Jewellery but it is just as breakable in this format as it is in Vintage. If you want to add Timetwister to that too, well, fuck that.
Wheel. Timetwister but I get to Brainstorm cards back onto the top of my Library and draw them? Hell yes, totally safe.
Yawgmoth's Bargain. Yea, please let me play this over Ad Nauseam. Whatever could go wrong when I no longer have to limit the CMC of my cards?
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Dice_Box
Welcome to the internet, where I am more than free to voice my views, just as you are. If you do not like it, you know where the real world is, go hang out there and be a dick to others there. You know, when they can tell you to stop being a dick to your face. Anyway, lets have a look at your list.
So brave of you to become a martyr for free speech just because someone told you they didn't give a shit about your random unsolicited opinions.
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Bazaar is just fucked, I can honestly think of no good reason to make Vintage dredge a legal Modern deck. If in Vintage, unpowered Bazaar decks can beat powered decks with a large amount of hate packed, then thats not a Legacy safe card. "Run more hate" is not an answer to "Broken in half" because if it was, you would not want Brainstorm gone.
Channel... Really? Lets just not go there.
Fastbond with all the land decks running around? Sounds fair.
Recruiter is safe, will stay banned on time constants alone.
Memory Jar, Draw seven is not safe, not this easily. No.
MM... Please god no.
Minds Desire. Storm into Ominshows Win con with a single card... Yea. No.
Necropotence. I don't like it, but I can not just shoot it down. This one I would like to see tested.
Oath of Druids happens to be the best deck in Vintage. Lets not.
Shahrazad... Look I know your a troll and like to troll people, but honestly, no. Come on, even you can not truly be as much of a dick as it takes to play this fucking thing.
Survival of the Fittest. I do not think this is safe, but I am willing to see it tested and then have a second look.
Timetwister. Because playing "I do not care what you kept, now you have to Mull" is always fun. Add on High tide, storm, anyone playing blue... Draw 7 for 3 mana. No. Just not safe.
Academy... With Crop Rotation this thing would not be fun. Its like cradle, only a lot worse and it makes Blue. That's great. You don't have Jewellery but it is just as breakable in this format as it is in Vintage. If you want to add Timetwister to that too, well, fuck that.
Wheel. Timetwister but I get to Brainstorm cards back onto the top of my Library and draw them? Hell yes, totally safe.
Yawgmoth's Bargain. Yea, please let me play this over Ad Nauseam. Whatever could go wrong when I no longer have to limit the CMC of my cards?
Okay so these were all variants of "nuff said," did you have any actual arguments or what.
And no, this is discussion about individual cards, it's not about what the format would look like with half the list unbanned simultaneously; that's pretty unanswerable.
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If you can say what's on you mind, I have the same right. Anyway, I really don't want all my posts deleted, so I will drop this part of the conversation.
What I would like to know is how you feel cards like Bazaar, Timetwister, Academy and Wheel are safe. In the format, as it is right now, how would unbaning any of those four cards make the format better? Not even touching things like MM which would make the format even more blue. How would opening the option of playing those cards as a four of in Legacy help the format? Please, tell me, because I can not think of a single thing it would do other that fuck us all.
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Umm, ya I have to strongly disagree that these cards are weaker then currently legal cards.
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Dice_Box
If you can say what's on you mind, I have the same right.
Well there's a hell of an irrelevancy.
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What I would like to know is how you feel cards like Bazaar, Timetwister, Academy and Wheel are safe. In the format, as it is right now, how would unbaning any of those four cards make the format better?
I have highlighted the words that illustrate that you are not grasping the premise of the conversation.
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I am not a storm expert admittedly but given that like 50% of the decks in the field, and 75% at the top tables, are running Force of Will, this seems pretty categorically not true.
Flash/Hulk is beatable too, but it polarized the format into flash and anti-flash decks. FWIW, those draw-7s don't have to be in a combo deck to do stupid things. Wheel readily slots into Dragon Stompy or dredge strategies too.
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Shahrazad... Look I know your a troll and like to troll people, but honestly, no. Come on, even you can not truly be as much of a dick as it takes to play this fucking thing.
In IBA's defense, Shrahrazad is banned for reasons other than its power level.
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No, I understand. You are claiming that there are cards that equal or do more harm than the ones listed. I am saying that, if this was the case, if there are really cards that equal or exceed the power level of the listed cards, than they must be capable of being unbanned. So if your point is, the format already deals with worse (a false statement) then these you are by extension claiming that the format can handle these cards too.
Thus is not a point I agree with and I do not think that a card like Brand can be put next to a card like Wheel just because they both say "Draw 7". I also disagree that this logic can be equally compared to Cradle or Ad Nauseam.
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Yea, I know it's banned for other reasons. I hope it stays that way. But I must ask, what card in Legacy does something comparable to it that it should find its place on a list such as this?
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Dice_Box
Thus is not a point I agree with and I do not think that a card like Brand can be put next to a card like Wheel just because they both say "Draw 7". I also disagree that this logic can be equally compared to Cradle or Ad Nauseam.
I'm not so sure that Draw 7 lists would be better than Reanimator. Definitely not in a head to head at least. Maybe not even better than Sneak Show lists. Does any of the Draw 7s make storm lists better than what we have already? Maybe the draw 7s make High Tide better.
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Dice_Box
Yea, I know it's banned for other reasons. I hope it stays that way. But I must ask, what card in Legacy does something comparable to it that it should find its place on a list such as this?
Cbalance + Top :laugh:
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Haha. Ok. Ok. It's not quite the same, but yea, it can feel like it. You sir, get a gold star for making me laugh.
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Diminishing Returns is used in some storm builds with quite an effect. If you give us Wheel, yes, I would see play in TES and it would hurt the format.
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menace13
I'm not so sure that Draw 7 lists would be better than Reanimator. Definitely not in a head to head at least. Maybe not even better than Sneak Show lists. Does any of the Draw 7s make storm lists better than what we have already? Maybe the draw 7s make High Tide better
All in belcher-style storm (though vulnerable to counters) is absurd with the addition of Wheel of Fortune. Things get a bit more involved when you start looking at aggro/combo/control approaches.
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Wheel was funny in the old RG Beats. Once you ran out of creatures and burn, you made a new hand and kicked the opponent out of game before he untapped. It was also pretty sick with Storm Seeker, although one needed Sol Ring or Tinder Wall to make things happen fast enough.
Alas, the time of my high school are long gone. I don't expect to see the Wheel anytime soon.
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rufus
All in belcher-style storm (though vulnerable to counters) is absurd with the addition of
Wheel of Fortune. Things get a bit more involved when you start looking at aggro/combo/control approaches.
There's already several very consistent turn 1/2 combo decks that are only kept in check by the existence of Force of Will, "though vulnerable to counters" is a pretty big hand-waive.
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TheInfamousBearAssassin
There's already several very consistent turn 1/2 combo decks that are only kept in check by the existence of Force of Will, "though vulnerable to counters" is a pretty big hand-waive.
What do you mean by "hand-waive"?
I do think that Wheel would be the best Draw-7 if all of them were unbanned because of stocking your graveyard with cards is good as well as red rituals being a thing. I think its more than a little amusing that it's probably much better than any blue variants.
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I mean saying a deck would win consistently turn 1/2 but be vulnerable to counters is pretty irrelevant since that already describes a bunch of legal decks.
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Think about Burn with Wheel, think about a deck like Beltcher being able to just instantly reload and have a second go after the first attempt meets resistance. Think about being able to force a mull against Combo and control and totally ruining their hand. Think about filling your grave while refilling your hand with a deck like Reanimator or Young Frankenstein. There is much more than just Beltcher getting a boost here to think about, much much more.
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Think about Burn with Wheel, think about a deck like Beltcher being able to just instantly reload and have a second go after the first attempt meets resistance.
So... Belcher pilot shot their load but you had FoW or whatever to keep from dying. Let's say Belcher already used their Land Grant to find the singleton Taiga. They top-deck Wheel of Fortune. How exactly do they play it?
Banned card should stay banned, but not because of Belcher. :wink:
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No, I understand. You are claiming that there are cards that equal or do more harm than the ones listed. I am saying that, if this was the case, if there are really cards that equal or exceed the power level of the listed cards, than they must be capable of being unbanned. So if your point is, the format already deals with worse (a false statement) then these you are by extension claiming that the format can handle these cards too.
That's not his point at all, which he made pretty clear in the last sentence in the post to which you're responding.
His point isn't that those cards are less powerful than legal ones so they should be unbanned. His point is that those cards are less powerful than legal ones so those legal ones should probably also be banned.
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But I disagree with the premise, what legal card is more powerful than wheel, Bazaar or oath?
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Ad Nauseam, Brainstorm, Show and Tell.
Bazaar is probably more "powerful" than those actually, but Bazaar decks are fragile and it's basically impossible for them to dominate a metagame over time. Graveyard hate is too cheap/good.
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Bazaar can make it quite easy to fire off a deck faster than RIP can hit the table. You need to have 0 cost hate, or be faster. I do not agree that the hate out there for the Grave is honestly fast enough without other solid disruption. Bazaar would kill decks that don't have that completely. There is no way it is safe. It is also not comparable to something like Brainstorm, because it can be used as Engine to just do busted things as well as dig you out of punishing situations. Brainstorm is also not repeatable, is easier to interact with and can punish you badly for playing it wrong. There is not often times where you get punished for playing Bazaar wrong. It's kind of hard to fuck it up.
Oath is not at all comparable with Ad Nauseam. The building restrictions are very different, oath let's you do more broken things than any other deck I have ever played against. I honestly think this is the best deck on Vintage. Not playing with a large amount of creatures is hardly a draw back and having a fist full of control to back yourself up alongside things like E tutor is crazy.
SnT, well, we agree on something, that card is busted as shit. You will get no argument from me here.
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Hello,
I see it like dicebox Brainstorm is a really strong card but it is the only exception of a playable card which is
stronger then the cards on the banned list excluding power twister and Libary and all other thing that generate more
Mana then you need to play them.
But for all other cards i hav to ask which exsisting card boosts dregde more then Bazzar?
Which counterspell iks strictly better then Mana dRain which enables an huge Entreat or other stupid ramrant stuff.
How can Ad Nauseum be better then Bargain or Will because here you pay only 1 life but not 1-4.
Is there any better stalling card as Sherazad?
Any better Brainstorm and Sword Counter then MM which only costs 2 life and is playable in all decks?
Is there any better Combo piece then Mind desire?
The question on this answer is clear no. All cards are the most powerfull in the resprected fields they would cover
if unbanned and tend to be broken in this fields and the reason why they were banned is because they would
create oppressive decks or siuations like Sherazad stalling the whole second game preventing you opponenent from
even having the chance to win (I personaly like this card but I see why it is better to leave it on the banned list).
So Brainstorm is a more powerfull card then most of them but is not creating such an oppresive siuation or deck like
Vintage Dregde that you have to ban it for this. Yes it makes decks strictly better which play it but since it costs
only 1 blue you can splash it or play Sensei´s to compensate it to a certain degreee.
The conclusion is that the power of the card is not avaluated from her own design but how it works togetehr with
other cards and which drawbacks and advantages it creates whilce concider recources like, life, handcards, mana etc.
If you do this you cn come to the conclusion that most of the cards a more powerfull then cards which are legal
excluded examples like jitte, top, or Skullclamp.
Best Regards Teveshszat
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Bazaar can make it quite easy to fire off a deck faster than RIP can hit the table. You need to have 0 cost hate, or be faster. I do not agree that the hate out there for the Grave is honestly fast enough without other solid disruption. Bazaar would kill decks that don't have that completely. There is no way it is safe. It is also not comparable to something like Brainstorm, because it can be used as Engine to just do busted things as well as dig you out of punishing situations. Brainstorm is also not repeatable, is easier to interact with and can punish you badly for playing it wrong. There is not often times where you get punished for playing Bazaar wrong. It's kind of hard to fuck it up.
RIP isn't really the big issue with Dredge, it's not common enough. Dredge already tends to overwhelmingly win g1. Even through Deathrite.
The problem is the existence of these nuclear bombs that are free and wipe it out. Crypt, Leyline, Extraction, Ravenous Trap.
In this sense Bazaar Dredge is roughly comparable to something like Oops All Spells, or for that matter Elves, which are dreadfully consistent and fast, but not really strong at resisting silver bullets.
Trust me when I say that having played 1.5 when Bazaar was legal, I am not at all dismissing its power as an engine.
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Oath is not at all comparable with Ad Nauseam. The building restrictions are very different, oath let's you do more broken things than any other deck I have ever played against. I honestly think this is the best deck on Vintage. Not playing with a large amount of creatures is hardly a draw back and having a fist full of control to back yourself up alongside things like E tutor is crazy.
SnT, well, we agree on something, that card is busted as shit. You will get no argument from me here.
Oath is more comparable to Show and Tell. But I think it tends to lose that comparison.
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Teveshszat
Hello,
I see it like dicebox Brainstorm is a really strong card but it is the only exception of a playable card which is
stronger then the cards on the banned list excluding power twister and Libary and all other thing that generate more
Mana then you need to play them.
But for all other cards i hav to ask which exsisting card boosts dregde more then Bazzar?
Which counterspell iks strictly better then Mana dRain which enables an huge Entreat or other stupid ramrant stuff.
How can Ad Nauseum be better then Bargain or Will because here you pay only 1 life but not 1-4.
Is there any better stalling card as Sherazad?
Any better Brainstorm and Sword Counter then MM which only costs 2 life and is playable in all decks?
Is there any better Combo piece then Mind desire?
The question on this answer is clear no. All cards are the most powerfull in the resprected fields they would cover
if unbanned and tend to be broken in this fields and the reason why they were banned is because they would
create oppressive decks or siuations like Sherazad stalling the whole second game preventing you opponenent from
even having the chance to win (I personaly like this card but I see why it is better to leave it on the banned list).
So Brainstorm is a more powerfull card then most of them but is not creating such an oppresive siuation or deck like
Vintage Dregde that you have to ban it for this. Yes it makes decks strictly better which play it but since it costs
only 1 blue you can splash it or play Sensei´s to compensate it to a certain degreee.
The conclusion is that the power of the card is not avaluated from her own design but how it works togetehr with
other cards and which drawbacks and advantages it creates whilce concider recources like, life, handcards, mana etc.
If you do this you cn come to the conclusion that most of the cards a more powerfull then cards which are legal
excluded examples like jitte, top, or Skullclamp.
Best Regards Teveshszat
I don't want to be a dick here, and I know English is your second language, but your posts here are pretty close to unreadable. I'm not trying to nitpick syntax or grammar or whatever, it's just actually really difficult to figure out what you are trying to say. If you could get a friend to proof read this stuff it'd make things easier, especially longer posts like this.
I am aware that cards are powerful based on how they interact with resources that's, really not even an insight. Being aware of this, no, I did not come to that conclusion. I'm not sure why you're lumping Jitte and Top, which are not banned, with Skullclamp, which is. The answer is not a "clear" no, not even only because I'm not entirely sure what your questions are. There's not a counterspell that's strictly better than Mana Drain, but the same could be said about Circular Logic or Cryptic Command, neither of which is in any danger of being banned as far as I know. Force of Will is clearly more powerful than Mana Drain though.
The fact that you're going out of your way to defend the power level of Shahrazad, which by Wizards' own admissions is strictly a logistical ban, suggests that you are operating mainly out of a prejudice towards the status quo I think.
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Ad Nauseam, Brainstorm, Show and Tell.
Bazaar is probably more "powerful" than those actually, but Bazaar decks are fragile and it's basically impossible for them to dominate a metagame over time. Graveyard hate is too cheap/good.
Not sure why bazaar is in quotes. Its flat out one of the most powerful lands in the game. The speed at which bazaar allows you to function is faster than legacy decks really have time to combat it effectivly. Itsca land drop and cant be countered.
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Oath is not at all comparable with Ad Nauseam. The building restrictions are very different, oath let's you do more broken things than any other deck I have ever played against. I honestly think this is the best deck on Vintage. Not
SnT, well, we agree on something, that card is busted as shit. You will get no argument from me here.
Oath is unhealthy because its creates little interaction and is mainly just 1 sided. Its also for the most part a 1 card combo.
Show and tell will probably never be banned because it allows for interaction with your opponent.
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Oath and its variants would break the format, and I love Oath. Oath Storm with 4 Brainstorm, 4 Lotus Petal, and 4 Ponder would be overly destructive.
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Not sure why bazaar is in quotes. Its flat out one of the most powerful lands in the game. The speed at which bazaar allows you to function is faster than legacy decks really have time to combat it effectivly. Itsca land drop and cant be countered.
I assume you mean powerful. It was distinguishing quotes. Bazaar is powerful but not resilient.
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Oath is unhealthy because its creates little interaction and is mainly just 1 sided. Its also for the most part a 1 card combo.
Show and tell will probably never be banned because it allows for interaction with your opponent.
I can't possibly put enough quote marks here but let me try.
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I guess. I just don't think that you can place something like Bazaar next to anything legal and state "Here is any kind of sane argument for anything really." The power of that card is head and shoulders above anything in Legacy today. Now if you wanted to place a card like Brainstorm next to a card like Recall, then we can have a discussion. While it takes some work to do, I am more than happy to draw parallels between the two and that is a more realistic point to make.
As for Oath being like SnT. I guess, to a point, but acting as a tutor and as a SnT is something else entirely. SnT is busted, Oath is busted, the two can be put near one another on a scale, but I still think that Oath is a poor argument when pointing at SnT. If you want to make an argument about SnT, just point at SnT. Nothing else required.
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Although any extended convo about SNT vs Oath is going to basically be about how absurd Griselbrand's existence is.
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I guess. I just don't think that you can place something like Bazaar next to anything legal and state "Here is any kind of sane argument for anything really." The power of that card is head and shoulders above anything in Legacy today. Now if you wanted to place a card like Brainstorm next to a card like Recall, then we can have a discussion. While it takes some work to do, I am more than happy to draw parallels between the two and that is a more realistic point to make.
As for Oath being like SnT. I guess, to a point, but acting as a tutor and as a SnT is something else entirely. SnT is busted, Oath is busted, the two can be put near one another on a scale, but I still think that Oath is a poor argument when pointing at SnT. If you want to make an argument about SnT, just point at SnT. Nothing else required.
Dude, Ancestral Recall is like way more powerful than Bazaar and Brainstorm put together. There's not really room for argument here, if AR was legal it would be a 4 of in every competitive deck.
I mean in the Bazaar deck vs the Recall deck, the former might get game 1, but game 2 is going to be like, "Extraction, Recall myself, untap cast Snapcaster targeting Extraction get fucked."
As for the latter point I think it's pretty relevant that a card that's banned that basically no one wants unbanned is comparable in all ways to a card that's legal that people are really struggling to defend not banning.
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I know it is more powerful, but more than one person is willing to concede that with a fetch, Brainstorm is as close to Recall as you can get without actually playing the card. Hell, even SCG streams they sometimes make that distinction. Granted that's far from the best place to get your legacy knowledge, but it shows how prevalent the view is.
