Originally Posted by
Tao
So 7 out of 16 decks did not play Brainstorm. And you use that as a sign of balance if only 9/16 decks play the same card 4 times? This is actually more dominating than Affinity back in the day. And also oppressive. There were other decks that were good when Affinity was banned, they were just heavily metagames against Affinity. And the same thing happens today. Merfolk and Maverick just happen to be good against the majority of the blue Brainstorm based decks and that is the main reason why they are contenders so on top of the 60+% Brainstorm decks you have the rest filled up with decks that are good against Brainstorm deck. That is the same oppression as back then with Affinity.
