What does everyone think about a Punishing Fire unban? I feel like it's probably too slow to be the powerhouse that it once was but allows any deck who might want to play Grove of the Burnwillows a chance to compete. It gives inevitability to slow decks, while also lining up really well against aggro decks like humans. Slogging through a repeatable 2 damage will likely be difficult for aggro to deal with.
The two best things to be doing in innistrad standard was something with delver and UW humans. Delver had Ponder, snapcaster, and mana leak and humans had thalia, mirran crusader, and geist, as well as the "swords of". It was hugely popular because, much like it is now in legacy, the best way to hit a deck that wants to play a bunch of cheap spells is to make them pay more. The curve of Champion of the parish, thalia, crusader was the nuts. Then when they decided snapcaster/leak was too powerful and printed cavern of souls it solidified tribal humans for the duration of her stay. I stayed on UW humans from the moment Thalia was leaked until she rotated. I won a lot of games with her. Then immediately witched to playing DnT in legacy because of her power level with something like wasteland/rishadan port. Actually, it seemed like a lot of decks from that time period just ported fantastically into legacy/modern. Splinter twin, delver, many of the white creatures went into DnT, valakut/primeval titan, jace in everything...it was a really good time for magic as a whole assuming you dodged Caw blade.
The two best things to be doing in innistrad standard was something with delver and UW humans. Delver had Ponder, snapcaster, and mana leak and humans had thalia, mirran crusader, and geist, as well as the "swords of". It was hugely popular because, much like it is now in legacy, the best way to hit a deck that wants to play a bunch of cheap spells is to make them pay more. The curve of Champion of the parish, thalia, crusader was the nuts. Then when they decided snapcaster/leak was too powerful and printed cavern of souls it solidified tribal humans for the duration of her stay. I stayed on UW humans from the moment Thalia was leaked until she rotated. I won a lot of games with her. Then immediately witched to playing DnT in legacy because of her power level with something like wasteland/rishadan port. Actually, it seemed like a lot of decks from that time period just ported fantastically into legacy/modern. Splinter twin, delver, many of the white creatures went into DnT, valakut/primeval titan, jace in everything...it was a really good time for magic as a whole assuming you dodged Caw blade.