Quote Originally Posted by ESG View Post
In fairness, Stax is not every non-blue deck. Stax has struggled to reach Tier 2 since about 2010. Sometimes the deck is well-positioned, but usually it isn't. Lands is a Tier 1 deck, as is Death & Taxes. Elves is great in an environment low on Miracles, and other non-blue decks can be good foils to blue decks.
Oh I do understand. The argument is though that if you do not wish to play Blue and you want to be in the running to win an event (I know this is slightly hyperbolic) your option are limited to "Redundancy.dec" (DnT, Eldrazi) or "Four Demonic, Four Tinker and Four Recall" (Lands or Elves) to be relevant.

The flip side of "Do you want to play Blue?" means you have what, Miracles, Delver in 3 stripes, SnT, BUG Control, Shardless, Infect, Omni science... So on. I guess there is the new Reanimator deck. That's something.

It bothers me that a buch of people have to activately choose to hamstring themselves so the illusion that Blue is not a white wash in this format can continue. Then those who are on the Blue side bitch about Thorn, Chalice or whatever else is "Not fun" and just dance down hypocrite lane. You don't get to play the most powerful cards in the format and then bitch when someone finally says no. You also don't get to bitch that it's not fun when someone finally tells you no instead of voyeuristicly watching you masturbate with Cantrips.

//end rant