Saying that Uro is not fun to play against and that it homogenizes formats is highlighting the same issues with Twin. Twin wasn't fun to play against for a lot of people, and it homogenized blue decks within modern. If you were in blue at that time, you were playing Twin or merfolk and let's be real about merfolk... Just because you could play Grixis Twin, Jeskai Twin, or UR Twin - doesn't mean blue was diverse. All three decks had very linear play and the play patterns were clones of each other.
Looks pretty homogenized to me. UWx wasn't even really on the metagame radar at the time and it took Teferi's to bring that deck into the fold. Sure, you might argue that the viability of UW in today's modern may allow for a less homogenized format, but I don't see that happening at all. i just see Jeskai Twin running the format because another problem with Twin is that it couldn't realistically be hated out by other decks at any significant rate.
So what makes the call for Uro being tied up with a call for unbanning twin so funny, is that they both present very similar issues except 1: Uro decks can be hated out at a much more acceptable rate than Twin.
Did...did you make a graph about homogenization and then only show two decks? I'm pretty dang sure there were more than two decks.
No, the graph was from an article published at the time.
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I dont get the astrolabe ban. Admittedly I haven't played in quite some time but aren't there other filter artifacts out there. Is it the one drop, the card draw, or all three that made this too powerful?
Astrolabe costs 1 instead of two and it draws you a card and you don't care about as much about Blood Moon so you can be more greedy. Another piece to the puzzle is Ice-fang Coatl which is just a strictly better Baleful Strix that also has flash and all you had to get it online was two snow basics and a astrolabe. Then you have Uro, Titan of Nature's Wrath which also draws you a card like the prior two, but it also ramps and gains you life. You also have the sb card Veil of Summer which also draws you a card but also stops blue and black spells. Oh and before you go thinking this was just UG pile, its actually a 4 or sometimes 5 color pile. In fact before companions got nerfed to require 3 cost to put them in yoru hand first, the same deck that ran astrolabe could also run Yorion to just generate more value from its ETBs.
TL;DR: Its a piece that enabled a lot of nonsense in the format.
No, the graph was from an article published at the time.
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TL;DR: Its a piece that enabled a lot of nonsense in the format.
|| UW Jace, Vyn's Prodigy UW || UG Kenessos, Priest of Thassa (feat. Arixmethes) UG ||
Cards I still want to see created:
|| Olantin, Lost City || Pavios and Thanasis || Choryu ||