Quote Originally Posted by Catitas View Post
http://www.starcitygames.com/magic/v..._Too_Fast.html

another article Demars talks about banning brainstorm too
The vintage part of that article made me LOL. I love it when blue control players cry about Dredge, in any format. The guy obviously hates combo with a passion, and anything he says should probably be taken with a grain of salt as a result. I do agree that Blightsteel was a stupid printing, however.

But anyways, back on topic. His reasoning for a Brainstorm ban was entirely based on Brainstorm enabling combo. It does enable combo, true. However, it's basically never the combo decks enabled by it that dominate the format, so I don't see the issue from that angle. Even during the Mystical Tutor era, combo was not dominant (Hulk-Flash was the only time I can recall where combo was actually dominant in Legacy).