Chatter of the Squirrel — Legacy Elves!
I was not the only person who believed that the existence of Flash was good for the metagame. It set a very clear bar that all rogue decks had to be able to beat, and it weeded out many of the more random combo decks both by virtue of being “better” in the abstract and because of the necessity to try and hate it out. After Future Sight it probably gets ridiculous, but in Columbus it was simply a very good but very vulnerable combo deck that defined the metagame without unhealthily warping it.
So… Legacy. I know. The format’s dead, everything changes with Future Sight, there’s no reason to talk about it, blah blah blah. Whatever. The…
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