If their is already a thread about show and tell in general, then i am sorry, i am on a plane writing this and the wifi is cheap, but slow. I wanted to get a general feel of what show and tell is to the meta, and how important it is to the decks using it. i am speaking mostly of reanimator, hive mind, omnitell, and sneak/show. Also the occasional 12 post deck. So my point in making this is, people have very mixed feelings about the card, ranging from "its cute" to its format breaking and must be removed. This is not another BAN X because Y thread, however i would like to discuss that as well. first of all, 6 sneak/show decks have topped recently, and 6 omnitell. My information on that comes from metamox.com. This does not seem like a whole lot, until we look at it this way. lets call these two decks, "show and tell decks", even if sneak/show can win with sneak attack and omnitell with dream halls. if you say show and tell decks, you have 12 decks (excluding reanimator and hive mind). esper deathblade, the deck we have all heard so much about as of late has made 10 top 16 spots recently, and rug delver has 8. Does this make show and tell the best decks in legacy ( notice i say deckS)? I dont think it does. One thing we have to notice is sneak/show did better a while ago, while omnitell has topped more recently. Is omnitell the new show and tell deck making sneak attack obsolete? I dont think it is, but has the meta shifted in a way (jund is not around as much, esper stoneblade is less in favor of deathblade which has a slightly worse combo matchup). Before people start saying OMG they are different decks i am offended! please note that i am well aware that sneak and show and omnitell and hive mind, are different, they just have similar paths to victory, even if one is combat based.

Another thing i want to talk about is the newer more optimized omnitell lists, the ones using laboratory maniac or the clash ants card, and no griselbrand. I have seen the deck play, and it feels strong. has a competent pilot just not taken it to a large scale event? Is it capable of fighting the faster combo decks with its only real counters (lets not count pact for your opponent going off) 4 force of will, and 1-2 flusterstorm? Is having a three card combo on one color worth it being three cards in comparison to our brother deck sneak/show? I have sneak and show built currently, however i have learned from playing it that a resolved show and tell into emrakul is anything BUT a won game. These are just some things i would love to see discussed and feel like if we did, we would all have a better understanding of its place in the meta, and what direction we feel it is heading. lastly, i will leave it at this, Do we think it will be banned? and if it is, will similar decks stick around and win in different ways like dream halls? or will us combo players go back to storm.

The poll is for what deck we think is the strongest of the show and tell decks.