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Feb 4, 2014Yonekura posted a message on Launch Giveaway!Squee's Embrace I have always loved this card. The art is done by Rebecca Guay and its one of the few cards with art of an actual hug/embrace. It buffs your creature and gives them squee's ability in a way making it harder too get 2 for oned by your opponent. Oh did I also mention it references Squee?Posted in: Announcements
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So I would construct a deck that would consist of one Double Stroke name cyclonic rift. Also start the game at billion life then play islands each turn till I can cast cyclonic rift overloaded.
If you notice I discussed each color. For instance do you think affinity would use the green one? If they did they would swap out dark steel citadel. It's off color for what the deck wants. So it ends being the same. The white one also does not really help affinity. Where things start to get dicey is the black land. The red and blue land affinity would want and are probably are too risky.
It's better than ancient tomb for eldrazi. However, I would be sad to see an other card on the banned list. We really just need something close to wasteland perhaps costing one mana to use.
Artifact Land Cycle (Verdict atleast 2, but perhaps 3)
Lets start off Tree of Tales. There is not really any thing that this one land would enable that is broken. Ancient Den, can see a little more play and maybe enable some cool cards like Tempered Steel or a white equipment deck. Vault of Whispers this does match up with cranial plating attach cost. So I am on the fence on this one, but maybe. However, Seat of the Synod and Great Furnace are the big players here. There are a lot of red and blue cards that interact with artifacts. The riskiest of these two would the seat, but I would put furnace not too far behind. However, there is no reason for the entire cycle to be on the ban list.
Gixtaxian Probe (Verdict: Yes)
I know this was just recently banned, and is unlikely to change. However, I still felt the reasoning was pretty weak, and will add this ban surprised me.
Chrome Mox (Verdict uncertain, but perhaps)
I will say Chrome mox seems to be in a weird spot. It might push some decks fast than we or wizards would want or it might not. However, we don't really have any data points on if it would be bad for the meta. Afinity really does not want it. You have to pitch a colored card. Storm would prefer to pitch a land, but it is not a mox diamond so it would have to pitch a can-trip or ritual. The only deck that worries me is Ad Nauseam, and I would rather just ban Ad nauseam. I did try proxing up some belcher lists and concluded that there is not enough fast mana to make it consistently explosive. I don't really see Chrome Mox breaking the meta though. I could be wrong. However, I see it more like Goryo's Vengeance, and would probably not push the meta in bad direction. However, the plus side is that other interesting brews could use potentially use it.
Punishing Fire (Verdict Probably Not)
I really like punishing jund in legacy. It would be cool to see that in modern, but I feel it might push creatures with less than 2 toughness out of the meta that don't have an immediate pay off. I am not sure we need more people playing tasigurs and gurmag anglers, and goyfs. It would also probably affect affinity quite a bit. However, graveyard hate dose stop the engine so I am hesitant to just say no. However, modern sadly does not have wasteland and that gives other decks in legacy a different avenue of interaction with punishing fire.
Glimpse of Nature. (Verdict probably too risky)
So wizards printed beck // call a few years ago. The card see marginal/fringe play at best in modern. Glimpse of Nature while being the same effect. (besides cast vs enter for the effect) I am not sure what deck it would go right into other than elves. Perhaps Cheerios, but they are pretty much a blue/red storm deck with a different engine. It would also loose a lot of the zero drops. They have to be creatures. So cards like Burning-tree emissary would be needed instead. Cheerios in legacy is not that great of a deck, and further we don't have as many cards like land grant and elvish spirit guide. Legacy cheerios also looses to it's self quite few times. So I guess it's probably not that large of a threat in cheerios. However, how big of a monster would elves become with glimpse? Especially with cards like pyroclasm being legal. However, Shaman of the Pack could be a problem then, and make it even more unlikely. Is there an other decks that I missing?
The only cards after these that I feel could also merit discussion are Umezawa's Jitte, Seething Song, Deathrite Shaman, Dig Through Time and
redacted. Past that we start getting into cards that modern can't really deal with and probably never will have the tools to do so. I will say depending on how modern evolves we should hopefully be able trim the ban list down. The riskiest of the cards I mentioned in my opinion is probably glimpse, but I could be wrong. However, some these cards we just don't have great data for so it makes hard to really know.~edit~ it's 2:00 am please bear with any typos, and lack of proof reading.
I agree with an shuffling an opponent's deck, but being allowed to cut your own deck once returned would help stopping any cheating. It does not stop peeking, but the alternative is worse. However, I usually don't suspect cheating when someone shuffles my deck. Further, competitive and professional RELs require that an opponent to shuffle a presented deck.
Also when shuffling my opponents deck I try shuffle a little less or the same as my opponent. However, if you intentionally are trying to shuffle longer than your opponent that could lead to some long shuffling. Especially, if the opponent was aiming for something similar.
Lastly, why the bitterness over shuffling? It is required for higher level RELS. Further, some people like to keep it a habit if they play at events so they don't get sloppy or just do it out of habit.
It makes wonder if the people making decisions even knows Goodhart’s law is, and how to properly account for using metrics like that.
I don't think it would be that great though. Especially, without elvish spirit guide, Lotus petal, Lions Eye Diamond and Land Grant. Thoughtseize also is pretty brutal or a counter spell even if it's a remand.
I don't think chrom mox would put elf belch
Further, I am still surprised bloodbraid elf is banned, and main thought is that functions very similar to collected company. However, collected company is quite strong, and similar to birthing pod and just keeps getting better with new creatures. So I can understand why wizards could hesitant on blood-braid elf. I also honestly think collected collected company is stronger, and the main reason is you get to choose from the top 6 cards. Bloodbraid elf gives you no choice you could flip a removal spell on an empty board.
Stoneforge Mystic is a turn 3 batterskull game ending? No, but tron can drop some pretty game ending cards on turn 3. I can't see this being banned at the moment. I guess if I were wizard's part of my reason would involve limiting the design space for high CMC equipment cards. However, I don't see that as a good reason personally. Unless wizards has such a card in the works right now, I would say it being a problem would be years away.
Ponder, and Preordain really? Especially, since green has cards like ancient stirrings, and Traverse the ulvenwald, Oath of Nissa
More Risky Cards
Green Sun's Zenith, My only concern are the COCO decks, but they do have Chord of Calling and it can get any creature at instant speed. The fact it can only fetch green creatures makes it a lot weaker. Chord of Calling also can be quite mana efficient since it has convoke. Even more so after M15 allowing the colored part of the cards cost to be reduced. Oh let's also not forget summoner's pact which arguable more powerful for any all-in combo decks that needs to tutor a green creature, but it does not put it into play at least.
Chrome Mox, it sad this card has never been legal. The only deck I can think off the top my head that may worries me is Ad nauseam. Storm may use it. Also no affinity would not want this you have to exile a colored card to use it. It also see less play than other mana sources in legacy.
I would hardly call Liliana oppressive.