Critical Mass: Why Vintage Needs Bannings Now, And Three Approaches To Help Make It Painless
Burning Desire has shown us the way of the future: There are enough ways to break the rules that they barely exist anymore for a Type 1 combo deck. Granted, I didn’t play during Combo Winter – but I’ve never seen a deck before where drawing the eye-popping three-land hand was considered a serious blow to the probability of that hand being playable (even Gro decks and ten-land Stompy don’t hate drawing their land as much as this). So what can we do about it?
Ever since http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=mtgcom/feature/133 Aaron Forsythe mail call to the Type 1 community, banning cards in Type 1 has…
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