Quote Originally Posted by Mon,Goblin Chief View Post
@Barook: While I completely disagree with your assessment of Council's Judgement - I happen to think reasonably costed, flexible answers make for better games - I totally agree with your position on TNN. However your example wasn't exactly chosen perfectly (Toxic Deluge is in fact one of the best answers to TNN, too, not just Mirran Crusader ;) )
Of course Toxic Deluge also answers TNN. I was just telling this as an example how BUG decks adapted over the course of time.

CJ is reasonable costed, but its an abomination in design since it ignores basic rules of the game. Making removal for TNN might a noble cause, but not at the cost of fucking over all kind of protection mechanisms on-board like non-TNN protection creatures, etc. - once a CJ is cast, there's absolutely no way to save your card since you don't even know what exactly could be "targeted".
All while blue is laughing all the way to the bank because the color that plays TNN also has the best (and pretty much only, aside from discard) answer to CJ in form of counters.