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I used to run it in early 2014 when Jund was a lot more popular to divert punishing fires mainly.

That's fair but maybe I just value the added utility more than you and am willing to pay the price. I guess the main reason I'm willing to pay more for that effect is that I'm not really interested...

You're right that they can't really be compared because they serve different functions. Staff of Nin, at least in my experience, is there primarily for grindy matchups where the extra cards on a hard...

Ya, at the very least you can wasteland targeting itself to save 2 damage. When Playing against Burn Wasteland has always been the second most important land that doesn't just produce mana,...

Green Sun's Zenith is a great example but even then there are a lot of problems with it. Green Sun has a very specific deckbuilding cost of playing with a lot of Green Creatures. Green decks like...

Esper Stoneblade runs 2-3 artifacts at most in the main deck with not much, if any, in the sideboard. The Esper shard was based completely around artifacts, not playing it incidentally for value. The...

Well in fairness they did need names for the sake of the story line. Referring to the Clans as BUG and RUG in the story would just sound stupid.

I thought you meant after Khans released they have switched the names, and I was responding that in the coverage by wizards I have seen, they have been sticking with the clan names. In the last...

We still use the names from a block from 2008, even new players use those.



Then continue ignoring them, that's fine, but the difference is that I never heard any complaints like "those names...

The only name of those that people ever used for those is Dega, so considering that absolutely no one ever used the (hyperbole, but not far from the truth) I think its safe to say they are...

This isn't an argument about renaming because Wizards never gave them any real names. The only names they had were things made by the communitee like abbreviations of colors, or just naming the 3...

The thing is though is that why should they be called different things for different formats? The names are naturally going to be used in Standard so why should the older formats have different...

I already run Platinum Angel main and with chalice and trinisphere most combo decks, besides sneak and show and reanimator are already very good. Blightsteel doesn't really help much against those...

Well resolving 3 artifacts isn't necessarily a win if it is things like Metalworker (sometimes), grim monolith, even chalice and trinisphere somtimes are pretty low impact.

I'm not a huge fan of...

Sorry I'm a little late to respond to this (work), but I think that banning entreat is the way to go if you want to ban something out of miracles with minimal impact on the rest of the format. If...

Well given the way you built the deck Forgemaster looks pretty weak since the best card it would get is wurmcoil engine. It can also get staff if you have enough artifacts for the combo but since you...

Maelstrom Pulse is usually a 1 or 2 of, shardless also doesn't play much counters. Strix can be anywhere from 0-4 of depending on the deck as well. I have more experience with Jund and Junk decks...

If you are playing goblin welder Wurmcoil is probably just always better because of the ability to constantly flip it in and out of play.

Well against decks like BUG delver or Shardless BUG that can realistically keep counterbalance from sticking Entreat or Jace are usually the biggest problems. The difference between Jace and Entreat...

Well I'm just assuming its not on the table since counter top hampers most decks enough you can win with something a lot worse than mentor.

There are a lot of ways to deal with a 2/2 for 3, including but not limited to discard spells, abrupt decay, lightning bolt (sometimes), swords to plowshares. The thing with entreat is that you have...

I don't want top to go mainly because it would significantly hamper decks like 12 post, Nic Fit, and Doomsday. I think banning entreat is the way to go, since it makes it so that BGx midrange decks...

I don't even think Delver is the best blue deck, that title belongs to miracles.

Well maybe Brainstorm is part of the problem with growth? The meta, to an outsider, probably looks pretty homologous, and while there are certain variations in the decks that are quite significant at...

Well show and tell is different because it already has 2 ridiculously broken cards it can cheat in. (Omniscience and Griselbrand)