MTG Salvation

Also I think the problem is that there's no ingenuity going on. People play decks that are proven and build accordingly to that. Now take YT people like CovertGoBlue who designs these crazy decks no one sees coming and he stomps them to the ground. Why? Because no one has a SB answer or ability to think about threats that they aren't accustomed to. The element of surprise often is the winning factor.

When people step out and create, that's when a format becomes healthy. That being said I miss the days when netdecking wasn't a thing.

Home brewers rise up!

'buster

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STP!

Counterspell do do da do do do
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Counterspell!

Lightning Bolt do do da do do do
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Lightning Bolt!

This can easily be solved if reliable answers from days of yore were reprinted with earnest. Remember M11 standard? Bolt was there. Were there any out-of-control decks at the time? Not that I can recall. At least they brought Disenchant back over Naturalize...

This is also a telling sign of the neglect WotC has put into the designing of standard-level sets and focusing too much on auxiliary products. But that's the result of having so many formats that require product support. They reap what they sow...

'buster