If the "Removal" is all that's needed flame slash will replace it. Bolt is good because it's a perfect midrange card.
Bolt in the format prevents decks that would play Kird ape, loam lion, and goblin guide from being remotely good. Replace bolt with flame slash and suddenly you have a card that is ACTUALLY dead in some matchups which is very good. I can say with all confidence if bolt didn't exist the format would be significantly more balanced. The "Ridiculus" creatures aren't better than the creatures in legacy where the two most common removal spells are bolt and swords. Path is much worse than swords but bolt is just the same.
Bolt being in the format without swords or a real combo deck (And no, turn 4 storm decks that can't seem to T8 a GP and auto lose to half the hate aren't real combo decks in the same way Spanish inquisition isn't an actual deck) you reach midrange hell. No fast storm combo to beat rock decks means that rock can tune it's deck to beat every single deck in the field. Bolt enables this. Without bolt Helix or tribal flames is the next best burn spell which means jund wouldn't even run them meaning people would have to chose between cheep removal and universal removal or they would have to play dismember (which still has a cost).
The reason jund is dominant is because the closest things to a "fast" deck this format has are affinity and infect. Those are the only two decks that are really "Fast" decks in the format. The turn 4 rule honestly is strangling the format due to the whole midrange thing. Simply racing a storm deck on the play shouldn't be an option and yet it is! Removing bolt forces you to deal with Affinity and infect by additional MD cards.
i think that something in tron o jund deserves a ban, nothing else. i really like to see poner/preordain in modern. The format needs a good library manipulation
In all seriousness, they should bite the bullet and revise the Reserve List.
There will be much vocal griping and moaning, but there is about anything they ever do anyways, and it too shall pass. They will need to lay out the strong logic for doing so:
1. The new List will keep all the important Power and Dualies and other Important stuff safely tucked away for ever.
2. The perfectly fair, should-have-never been on the List cards will GO UP in value by being reprinted, not down, and add much to the game by being dusted off and put back in action. Cards like Thunder Spirit, and a hundred others, would be fun to have in Standard and pimpin to have old versions of if they are in Standard.
3. Frequent and thorough calm, assertive articles and PR campaign to explain why it was the wrong list before and that the new, better list is safe.
4. Doing this would make for a really fun 20th year/M14 set that will appeal to those of us oldtimers in a new way by getting our hands on cards we haven't played with since the mid 90's.
the only reason to care about the reserved list is the lack of reprints of the good cards (duals, p9, led, etc). if they do what u are saying, that will be a really bad joke.
as a storm player, i feel your pain
it cost 2 mana?
the only reason to care about the reserved list is the lack of reprints of the good cards (duals, p9, led, etc). if they do what u are saying, that will be a really bad joke.
another question: what about primaeval titan? seems really powerfull in valakut
im noob with this arquetype