I'd say Eminent Domain (Kamigawa/Ravnica Standard) was the last time a real LD deck was viable. There was a Spreading Seas/Convincing Mirage deck during Jund's heyday, but that was more fringe. I'd say the last playable LD effects in Standard were Zendikar block, with Tec Edge and Goblin Ruinblaster.
The irony of this hypothetical is that Trevor actually has gotten hit in the head with a chair while at a Magic tournament.
Source?
Being from New Jersey, I know a lot of people that are/were friends with Trevor (and am an acquaintance of him myself), so the story circulated a while back, although at the time I wasn't aware it was Trevor that was involved. The story popped back up again after the cheating allegations. His Instagram account has pictures of his face at the hospital, as well as his own recounting of the story (although it differs from every witness account I've heard). I'm not comfortable sharing his Instagram account here, but it's public.
Instead of ally pain lands in khans I'm expecting to see ally fetch lands in khans.
Why? Why even start this line of speculation? It seems pretty obvious that Khans will more than likely finish the 10land cycle. It has been said a couple times nkw by wizards that they work 2 years out and they didnt foresee the fetchland spike. This to me seems to point at them being in fall of next year at the earliest. I also seem to remember someone askng about them at Pax and being told not to expect them soon.
Going to repeat this until I'm blue in the face, but there has never been a standard environment that did not have a legal 4 mana wrath effect.
We have had the situation (twice actually) where the core set didn't have it and the wrath was in the fall set, and people made a big to-do about it, complaining that WoTC was screwing control etcetc.
There was a small period of time between M10 and Zendikar where Wrath rotated but Day of Judgment hadn't been printed yet. (The "super-standard" with two core sets legal didn't start happening until M11, IIRC.)
C) Don't just throw in cards you think will be good against a certain strategy if it isn't consistent with yours. If you're playing an aggressive deck, don't bring in a bunch of counters and removal for game 2 if it keeps you from being as aggressive as you'd like.
The only match-up where I'd disagree with this notion is probably Mono-Blue Devotion vs. UWx Control. Mono-Blue turns into more of an aggro-control deck post-board, since quite a few of its threats pre-board match up poorly to control.
I think Mono-Black splashing white will be really good since people are cutting back on Devour Flesh for other pieces of removal, so Blood Baron will be more insane. Also, white now has Revoke Existence, which answers obnoxious things like Assemble and opposing Underworld Connections.
Wow. Seems like just about every color now has decent God removal...
God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. Yet his shadow still looms. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it?
Sneak Attack
Force Spike
Chain Lightning
Vindicate
Enlightened Tutor
No Reprint:
Scalding Tarn
Deathrite Shaman
Thoughtseize
Abrupt Decay
Sensei's Divining Top
Can confirm this, as a player at his LGS.
Did you actually read the article?
There was a small period of time between M10 and Zendikar where Wrath rotated but Day of Judgment hadn't been printed yet. (The "super-standard" with two core sets legal didn't start happening until M11, IIRC.)
Probably some sort of Time Ebb effect.
It's clearly enablers for limited, and also, it's one of those things where costing both at single G would be ridiculous.
The only match-up where I'd disagree with this notion is probably Mono-Blue Devotion vs. UWx Control. Mono-Blue turns into more of an aggro-control deck post-board, since quite a few of its threats pre-board match up poorly to control.
Little late there, buddy
God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. Yet his shadow still looms. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it?
I don't know, white hasn't seen a reprint of Disenchant in forever to confirm that.
It still will be? People played Pharika's Cure and liked it, this does work against people nutting out with Burning Tree/white weenies/etc.