Quote from Teia Rabishu »There's a lot about the pro scene that really trickles some bad values down through the playerbase when you get right down to it. Problem is I can only antagonize so many people in one article, you know?
True that. There's only so many times I can handle people questioning why I mainboard Duress instead of Thoughtseize or inquisition of Kozilek, when those cards are outrageously priced and someone would have to have either gotten lucky with their drafts or have a lot of disposable income devoted to magic just to have them.
But yeah, it goes back to the whole deal of Wizards needing to print something like Vingolf Engage Knights each rotation that contains all the dominant main deck cards found in top pro-tour decks that are rotating out. Just slap two of each in there and sell them at msrp 35 usd to all major retailers.
I will say that modern and legacy are both going to be dead though with the power creep Gavin and Co introduced with Modern Horizons and Throne. MH2 was a small scale apocalypse.
It's like green is the new blue in this format.
Abrade, Fatal Push, Dreadbore, Kolaghan's Command, Assassin's Trophy, etc, are all really good answer cards. Also, the format has the Leylines, Rest in Peace, Tormod's Crypt, etc for dealing with other kinds of problems.
The only cards that I think need banning are probably Dig through time and Deathrite Shaman. There isn't a single format where those two cards should exist.
https://deckstats.net/decks/50249/1428931-it-rides-as-one
I like the flipper knight. =p
Also, Forebear's Blade and Godsend are good if you have some discounts for equipping them.