It's honestly so weird to me that this card is banned, when there are so many far more unpleasant and things allowed in play.
People already talked about a great example in Living Plane which is definitely a more unpleasant card. I have a Derevi, Empyrial Tactician deck which wins via living plane with Elesh Norn, after applying Stasis, Winter Orb and other such fun stuff. I guarantee you I would be gaining friends faster if I was going for the much less reliable ugin+painter. My point is this being banned feels arbitrary with all the crazy stuff that happens in this game. People have already been putting this more eloquently than I am but I just wanted to add another voice.
I know I am also biased, I mean painter is my favorite card in all of magic and I'm not allowed to play it because I don't have friends who play magic to let me.
People already talked about a great example in Living Plane which is definitely a more unpleasant card. I have a Derevi, Empyrial Tactician deck which wins via living plane with Elesh Norn, after applying Stasis, Winter Orb and other such fun stuff. I guarantee you I would be gaining friends faster if I was going for the much less reliable ugin+painter. My point is this being banned feels arbitrary with all the crazy stuff that happens in this game. People have already been putting this more eloquently than I am but I just wanted to add another voice.
I know I am also biased, I mean painter is my favorite card in all of magic and I'm not allowed to play it because I don't have friends who play magic to let me.