Brainstorm
Force of Will
Lion's Eye Diamond
Counterbalance
Sensei's Divining Top
Tarmogoyf
Phyrexian Dreadnaught
Goblin Lackey
Standstill
Natural Order
Calling it now. One or more of the following will get banned:
Delver of Secrets
Griselbrand
Show and Tell
Brainstorm
One or more of the following will get unbanned:
Earthcraft
Mind Twist
Mind's Desire
Lets see how accurate I am.
Be kind of sad to see Show and Tell go...not because it's my favorite thing ever, but because there are nearly always decks that do the "put something crazy into play all-in woooooo!" thing Show and Tell fits in nearly all of them. Will Sneak Attack and Reanimator have the consistency they need to compete without it?
Why get rid of show and tell? Its not like it is dominating the meta right now.
My prediction is that they won't change anything this time. They may not want to make last-minute changes with a Legacy Grand Prix coming so quickly afterwards and there not being enough data to really determine whether they need to take action on the Show and Tell/Griselbrand front.
Speaking of which, I do find it a little funny that the cards in Avacyn Restored that people were initially predicting for possible banning turned out to have little impact while it seems (at least in what I remember about the discussions) Griselbrand didn't get much attention for a while.
I think I made the call that one creature would have a major impact on the format. However, I didn't think it would be Griselbrand and I didn't think the impact would be as large as he made.
So yeah, I was way off.
Less than 36 hours before the June 20th announcement! If I had to place my bets, I'd predict 1 card getting banned in standard, nothing getting banned in type 1.5, and am leaning towards up to 2 cards being "lifted" off the banned list for type 1.5, no predictions for type 1 / modern / extended / block constructed, etc.
Last edited by feline; 08-12-2012 at 05:02 PM.
Primary legacy deck High Tide primer
Progenitus being harder to remove is irrelevant. He can be fought or raced. Greasy-brand draws half the remainder of your deck to not only protect himself, but win faster at the same time.
Edit: Drago beat me to it LOL
Edit 2: He would be "fairer" if you could only use his ability as a sorcery. I wouldn't mind that at all.
I could care less if anything gets banned. I just want to see something get unbanned, for Christ's sake.
Once again I would love to see some unbannings.. Doubt it will happen though :/
Team FireBrothers
if all of these cards come of the ban list I will attempt to play all the cards in one deck.
my only hope is that grease-brand get the ban hammer. I also wouldn't mind show and tell getting the hammer.
Griselbrand is so strong he kicked chuck norris's ass. and wow that's bad ass
You're addressing part of my post where I was discussing reanimator (with Griselbrand) vs Maverick matchup. Of course that Reanimator wasn't playing Progenitus, and STP had quite a fighting chance against half of the stuff reanimator could muster. With Griselbrand that doesn't matter since FoW is waiting just around the corner.
As for Karakas in Sneaky Tell regard. Yeah, it couldn't do much vs Progenitus but was still a valid option vs Show and Tell into Emrakul, forcing the opponent to find his Sneak Attack and resolving it. Progenitus itself wasn't that scary (but was still almost main plan vs Maverick) since it could be raced, and that was especially easy in earlier versions of Maverick that ran both Stoneforge Mystic and Baterskull.
What about that tutor-able little piece of gravehate Scavenging Ooze? People stop maindecking 2-3? Or is that unfair and unrealistic?
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