Cleansing Wildfire is a better answer to this combo than Stone Rain and is legal in standard 2022.
Such are completely different cards with entirely different use-cases.
You need a damn good reason to play Cleansing Wildfire and its not a card to maindeck, unless you have a specific reason to.
Cards that are way better at the job: Wasteland (so efficient that you play it anyway, maindeck) Vindicate (Hits permanents, so it just hits whatever is the problem, no questions asked) Assassin's Trophy (Also hits permanents)
To play fringe specific cards maindeck is not a recipe thats reasonable at all, but actual useful powerful flexible answers prevent such problems from happening, as players will have some form of answer to whatever problem is relevant, so you are never a completely sitting duck, you have outs.
Stone Rain and friends are specific land destruction that you maindeck if your strategy is to denial mana in general. That by "accident" also destroys lands that are problems, as it destroys any lands. Pillage is more flexible, and they print Demolish versions quite often, could simply make it 1RR and its somewhat competitive, as the difference of 3 to 4 mana is so massive if the goal is to deny mana (especially with the super hyper efficient 1 and 2 drops we get today).
As of right now, "lands" are the most protective permanent type of them all, anything else has proper maindeck removal, but lands are the holy cow that nobody is allowed to touch, so if a land becomes a problem its a problem that has no good answers (but to be frank, here its not the land thats the problem, but the entire rules interaction of the land having an ability that is supposed to be on a creature, and we have plenty of creature removal).
Stone Rain is only maindeckable in dedicated land destruction decks. If you have a red deck with a different strategy and want to add a card to answer this combo, Cleansing Wildfire is better because it is cheaper and cantrips. The point I was making is that reprinting Stone Rain would not help here.
And they were doing so well with sets released in 2021 so far.
Like why ban it for Standard 2022 and not for the format moving forward post-rotation? The combo pieces will still be intact so how is this any different or going to solve anything?
Future Future League needs to be reintroduced.
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It's better than nothing. With all the fixing from treasures around it wouldn't be hard to do.
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Yeah there's that and also Smashing Success Kaldheim.
But then not many people seem to think like that so I guess this ban could've been offset if people just opened their eyes a tad.
'buster
HR Analyst. Gamer. Activist | Fearless, and forthright | Aggro-control is a mindset.
Elspeth and Jhoira rock my world.
"It's too powerful!" they say. Yeah well the format is pretty damned powerful as it is without it so having it around might balance it out a bit.
'buster
HR Analyst. Gamer. Activist | Fearless, and forthright | Aggro-control is a mindset.
Elspeth and Jhoira rock my world.
Like why ban it for Standard 2022 and not for the format moving forward post-rotation? The combo pieces will still be intact so how is this any different or going to solve anything?
Future Future League needs to be reintroduced.
'buster
HR Analyst. Gamer. Activist | Fearless, and forthright | Aggro-control is a mindset.
Elspeth and Jhoira rock my world.