Resource Denial is part of the game. Look at white and red, they don't ramp and they draw like crap - their thing is removing other player's resources. In addition to 40 life, the taboo on resource denial is one of the reason these colours are so bottom tier.
Just like other resource denial such as discard I don't play or endorse MLD in a casual setting, or in every game. But in a competitive meta (with or without combo, you can have no-combo competitive!) lands are not sacred and MLD is fair game. When I play MLD, I usually do so to try and set up a lock or a win - run a ton of artifact mana or have some big beaters on the table etc. But I'm ok with MLD as a slowing effect on the game - hell, thats what wraths do and the answer isn't to ban wraths but to play around them.
One of the worst things I've seen is somebody complain about MLD and then slam a Cyclonic Rift or some other nonsense in a game. At least that makes the "who do I attack first" decision easy for the next game...
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EDH RRGrenzo plays your deck, GGYeva's mono green control, WW9-tails trys desperately for monowhite not to suck RWBUTymna and Kraum's saboteur tribal, UWG Kestia's Enchantress Aggro, RUB Jeleva casts big dumb spells, RGB Vaevictis' big critters can kill your critters hard
Resource Denial is part of the game. Look at white and red, they don't ramp and they draw like crap - their thing is removing other player's resources. In addition to 40 life, the taboo on resource denial is one of the reason these colours are so bottom tier.
Just like other resource denial such as discard I don't play or endorse MLD in a casual setting, or in every game. But in a competitive meta (with or without combo, you can have no-combo competitive!) lands are not sacred and MLD is fair game. When I play MLD, I usually do so to try and set up a lock or a win - run a ton of artifact mana or have some big beaters on the table etc. But I'm ok with MLD as a slowing effect on the game - hell, thats what wraths do and the answer isn't to ban wraths but to play around them.
One of the worst things I've seen is somebody complain about MLD and then slam a Cyclonic Rift or some other nonsense in a game. At least that makes the "who do I attack first" decision easy for the next game...
RRGrenzo plays your deck, GGYeva's mono green control, WW9-tails trys desperately for monowhite not to suck
RWBUTymna and Kraum's saboteur tribal, UWG Kestia's Enchantress Aggro, RUB Jeleva casts big dumb spells, RGB Vaevictis' big critters can kill your critters hard
Arena Standard
UUUU Tempo, since before it was cool
Various Wx decks running Fountain of Renewal and Day of Glory
Anything I can cram Chaos Wand in to