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[Rodrigo]

Wizards decided that they needed to slow down Jund and Storm, and they really did it.

 

 

• Ancestral Vision
• Ancient Den
• Bitterblossom
• Blazing Shoal
• Bloodbraid Elf
• Chrome Mox
• Cloudpost
• Dark Depths
• Dread Return
• Glimpse of Nature
• Golgari Grave-Troll
• Great Furnace
• Green Sun's Zenith
• Hypergenesis
• Jace, the Mind Sculptor
• Mental Misstep
• Ponder
• Preordain
• Punishing Fire
• Rite of Flame
• Seat of the Synod
• Seething Song
• Sensei's Divining Top
• Stoneforge Mystic
• Skullclamp
• Sword of the Meek
• Tree of Tales
• Umezawa's Jitte
• Vault of Whispers
• Wild Nacatl

[Borderline Unplayable]

Don't really care about the Seething Song hit, but my reaction to the BBE hit has gone from annoyed to worried to really damn glad. It stops Jund smashing control out of the format, and I for one am happy to be slinging around Cryptic Commands.

[Borderline Unplayable]

You mean Delver-less Delver, right?

[Borderline Unplayable]

American Delver was just weak because you can't reliably flip the Delver. It's just become American Geist of Saint Traft, which I think it should have been the whole time anyway since Geist is the reason the deck can kill opponents fast.

[Kalam Mekhar]

Unless of course you got the god draw of turn one delver, turn two flip, delver, turn three flip, delver...oh wait, I won already? Yeah, Geist was definitely the main beats for that deck though. I will say I'm a fan of Delver/Guttersnipe decks though, even if they're not quite good enough in most cases.

[Borderline Unplayable]

Ponder is just too good for combo in the format, simply put. It helps combo decks see too many cards for WotC's taste.

 

Seething Song is what let UR Storm break the 4 turn rule, albeit a weird banning anyway given Storm was only really popular due to its price.

 

If anything, before BBE's ban, there was plenty a good argument for unbanning Jace, and there probably still is, in all fairness.