Quote Originally Posted by Barook View Post
It enables blue decks which leads to a diverse metagame of blue decks. I don't think "Play blue or GTFO!" to be competitive sounds like a healthy format in the long run (I can already hear some people screaming "Play Modern instead if you don't like blue!").
I hear you. I hear you screaming "Play Modern instead if you don't like blue!" Because if WotC ban Brainstorm, there will be one last format where to play Brainstorm.
As a one of.

Brainstorm. It isn't Ancestral Recall. Keep it in Legacy.

But, I quite agree with rest of your post. Esp. the part "play blue or get out of our format" is true. Funny thing is that I'm trying some brews these days, RG Prime Titan and WG Prime Titan, and similar stuff. And everytime I play the deck, even if it works, I'm just saying to myself "Well, it's pretty and all, but isn't it better to just BS into FoW/Stifle/Bolt, gg?" Ok, maybe I brew a bad brew, but reall,y every non-blue deck I tried in past months I just thrown away, be it whatever. Things went so far that I'm selling my stuff and keeping just RUG (I'd keep BURG, but money don't stink), whereas I'm rebuilding and PIMPING my twelve years old casual deck that I will never again play because our group is long dead, yet I still want to own a nice non-blue, non-retarded, non-8thEdition deck.


Except Show and Tell was all the way from Urza's Saga, and those creatures in question aren't Blue (except for the odd Jin-Gitaxias in Reanimator)...
Wasn't Show and Tell broken long before the omnomnom6 creature? I'm really asking, I did not play competitively back in early 200x.
I mean, what's the difference between Reanimating/Exhuming a Verdant Froce and Showing it? In first case you need Entomb and it's a two-cards turn2 combo. In second case you need additional Ritual/Petal to make it similarly fast, or you may just play a two-cards turn3 combo with a danger of opponent putting some monster into play. that way or another, there's a huge monster across you.
I'd be surprised if it wasn't played like this in old Type XYZ.
Also, for me it doesn't really matter if SnT is blue or whatever the color, as long as it promotes such thrilling and enjoyable games like "Ponder, no shuffle, Tomb, SnT, gg". At least with storm it is deserved win, or at the very least it looks like deserved win, but Ponder, gg... um sorry.


I thought about few things in past days. As the color pie is blurred and in fact it's about blue can it all - they should definitely print a Sinkhole and Bolt - while the rest of colors simulate the pie, why not simply abolish it completely.
In chess there are black and white pawns and knights and those other, and while they differ in color, they can the same. So lets make itlike in chess, keep the nonsense for the flavor text, spread the abilities equally amongst the colors and be done with it.