Why?

You just need chalice on 1. Why didn't you play it on 1? You have only yourself to blame for not having 4 chalice maindeck.

/sarcasm

You're just paraphrasing the distribution method Wizards has put in place. You're not explaining or justifying anything. You're not addressing any point made. \_( ' ' )_/

Sorry, but I don't see it. Producing products for different demographics does not make for a shady company. It's not about intended buyers, it's about the method of distribution. It's about the limited time window to create hype and demand. It is also about what could have been. It shows how Wizard...

But the actual reprint portions of the secret lairs aren't actually randomized, in the first round, the only random elements of the lairs were which stained glass walkers you got. That's not what he's saying. He's saying you cannot have both a randomized product and then reprint the select few high...

Yes, alas!, they chose to present the justification in that order. I wish they Had said that they had banned lattice as a power tweak to tron first and foremost. Then add that they had selected that card because they estimated it was widely regarded as unfun. It would have avoided all the drama abou...

On pioneer though, one can see this is happening. My basic decks at the moment are UR Phoenix and UW Approach of the second sun, two decks that were recently played in Standard, rotated out, (banned in Modern) and I get to play them on Pioneer. Why that is? Because the starting set was rightly chos...

Indeed. It was a quote of gkourou in your post, he said it was fine in other formats, it was not your own opinion. I mis-remembered that.

Then drop some wisdom on us. What should we talk about that is pierreb approved? Blarh. Literally blargh. You can't understand that seeing the same posters repeat their views ad nauseam every 3 posts is bad and annoying? Really? And yes, they're merely views. And they're not even coherent.You yours...

There's no drawback, only upside. So what exactly is being underestimated here? That 5 cards is a lot less than 7? That having two cards less than your opponent is a huge disadvantage? That if your opponent kept his 7 it means that his hand was GOOD *and* that he has 7 cards, not 5, like you? The o...

I think ktkenshinx is being generous here... the last page has reverted to all the reasons I avoid posting. Now on top of twins ceaseless posters, we have london mulligan ones. Unless you got number showing a difference in win % for, say, Tron pre- vs post-london, you have nothing to show that the n...

Fetchlands aren't absent for power reasons. There's more than enough dual lands to make a good manabase without them. They're absent because of the shuffling it introduces to the paper game. A fetch that pulled dual lands from outside the game would still be in the format if such a card existed. Wi...

If you disagree with this assessment then by all means please advise your counterpoint and we can talk things out, as I see it, the Pioneer method worked to the extent it did solely on the basis of it being an actual new format which gave players an extra level of patience that they otherwise would...

I'm not convinced about the goodwill argument. Sure, some will see it as you claim, that Wizards is ready to revisit past decisions and admit error. Others would see it as Wizards being dumb and not seeing that cards X should obviously never be unbanned. Of course, we have a good pool of "see? ...

I understand the intent behind the unban experiment, bit I still question its merit. Especially in the context of an article which aims to heal modern. The problem I have with it, which is already a bit illustrated here and would be much more vehemently displayed elsewhere is that it would mostly ju...

White needs all the help it can get. Shadow is doing more than fine and currently preys on the lack of answers in Modern. For example, DS exists in Legacy but is not near as dominant. Its just another tempo deck, which is okay. One of the reasons I cooled on Modern was that 50% of the local meta wa...

I have to share my quick distaste for more powerful removal such as Swords to Plowshares existing in Modern. Death's Shadow is a really unique deck in the format, losing two of them to the same singular spell is just beyond ridiculous. Is this sarcasm? Why not just ban all white card or any instant...

Isn't it amusing though? Not so long ago, people were arguing against ancient stirrings . It's now not even on the radar thanks to OuaT . That says something. Not something Wizards is able to hear, just yet, it would seem. And for the record, I did not exactly say "combo cannot exist from a sta...

I would take "Other decks have to play sub-optimally in order to respond and be able to play more and have my decisions matter" . That tempo advantage was literally the absolute best thing for twin. The format that has since been defined by other fast, powerful, degenerate nonsense, where...

To go on further, most decks can win "out of nowhere." Every time I've lost to Infect, they've had a 1/1 on the field and 2-4 cards in hand. So when my Infect opponent has a 1/1, I expect to die. When my opponent has a Devoted Druid and at least 2 cards in hand (or 1 card, then a draw ste...

I knew all this. I'm just saying people calling the deck fragile and fair is premature. Welding Jar costing zero always give artifact decks a slight edge and the other piece being hard to remove it not countered is also relevant to the evaluation of fragility. I don't think it is inherently more pow...

I'll ignore the Twin analogy, and instead focus on Ballista itself. Are there any highly played removal spells that don't kill a Ballista on 2? (First off, obv, Heliod being an indestructible enchantment is almost impervious to cards normally played.) Ballista survives most removal played in moderm...

I'll probably be taking a break from 1vs1 magic if they end up banning Walking Ballista too because of Heliod. I just generally don't like the attitude that if a card got printed, then it must stay legal. In an alternate timeline where card X never saw print, no one rage on the absence of the card....

No speculation or conspiracy theory is necessary. WotC has explicitly stated it as criteria in two recent banning announcements. While cases can be made for each, we identified Bridge from Below as the card most likely to cause metagame imbalance again in the future. Because Bridge from Below doesn...

That said, Veil doesn't break any of those rules. I disagree. In the case of veil , I think it falls under the case of being too mana efficient. As a color hoser, it's too cheap. It hoses two colors (UB), it hoses the parts of these colors that interact (counters, bounces, destruction, discard), wh...

I guess that's the main problem with it: people disagree with which cards are concerned. From my point-of-view, only cards that are breaking the foundations of the game should be concerned. One should list what are considered fundamental elements that should not be messed with. My initial list, from...