Combos become much less dominant.
Aggro and midrange strategies (and hybrid strategies featuring aggro or midrange) become more viable.
Playing multiple cards with similar abilities for the same effect (e.g., Grave Pact, Dictate of Erebos, and Butcher of Malakir) becomes more common.
Card draw also becomes a bigger deal, as does scry.
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Card advantage is not the same thing as card draw. Something for 2B cannot be strictly worse than something for BBB or 3BB. If you're taking out Swords to Plowshares for Plummet, you're a fool. Stop doing these things!
As it has been said. Combo decks are far less powerful due to having to rely on drawing the card. Blue is still the most viable due to How powerful card draw will be. Aggro shines more. Fetch lands would need to go since they can tutor shock and duals in addition to basics.
Green would still be good since they can still rampnout fatties.
The format would warp but not in a bad way. It would actually change format to a far more casual format. But sadly. Decks that are ready comparative and do not tutor will still be comparative and No longer worry about even faster combo decks.
Bottom line is that Simic would dominate the format - ramp in green, mass card draw in blue, and the other three colors wouldn't be able to keep up. Simic is already good, but this change would cement its superiority.
Aggro and midrange strategies (and hybrid strategies featuring aggro or midrange) become more viable.
Playing multiple cards with similar abilities for the same effect (e.g., Grave Pact, Dictate of Erebos, and Butcher of Malakir) becomes more common.
Card draw also becomes a bigger deal, as does scry.
On phasing:
Green would still be good since they can still rampnout fatties.
The format would warp but not in a bad way. It would actually change format to a far more casual format. But sadly. Decks that are ready comparative and do not tutor will still be comparative and No longer worry about even faster combo decks.
And stax is all a lot more powerful.
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Bottom line is that Simic would dominate the format - ramp in green, mass card draw in blue, and the other three colors wouldn't be able to keep up. Simic is already good, but this change would cement its superiority.
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