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Thursday, July 02, 2015

3 cards that I think would face the Ban-hammer [Flash!]

If there is an announcement for another ban coming up soon, I would like to propose 3 cards that may face the Ban-hammer.
  • Summer Bloom
  • Nourishing Shoal
  • Jace the MindSculptor


Summer bloom in t2 to give bloom titan players 4 additional ANY lands and untapped? That's downright wrong... While I personally think that it is not broken on its own, and the titan can still be answered, having 3-6 additional mana ramp-ed in turn 2 could be really a killer. That being said, Azusa, lost but Seeking seems to be more fair. And, that being said, Bloom titan losing this card would risk only being able to win earliest in turn 4.


Nourishing Shoal fuels the life aspect for Reanimator decks. Having that 10+ life difference makes a huge difference for Griselbrand to refuel the hand, and as well as an almost insta-win against Burn decks. Not exactly broken like Blazing Shoal, but this is almost completely unfair, having to start off at 31 life instead of the conventional 20 life. Sure counterspells work, but what doesn't?


I said facing the Ban-hammer, but I didn't say facing the ban-hammer to be banned or unbanned. I personally think that JTMS in Modern format now is not as powerful as how it broke standard back then. Sure, it's the ultimatum for some control decks, and honestly, I really think that Modern format needs a good control deck to balance out the format. With the meta going at 51-18-31% with aggro decks dominating by more than half of the meta percentage, I really think that having a good control deck will help keep these decks in check. Then again, the meta will definitely shift to a control-dominated meta if this is unbanned. Hey, restricted is an option right?

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