And the banned and restricted articles are a great insight into why these cards are broken, and what they’ve done to their formats. Honestly, the day a new B&R article drops is like Black Friday for some of us. Especially when the metagame turns into what it’s become recently. I ...
Zenith Flare doesn’t have Cycling itself, but it was the key card in Ikoria’s red-white Cycling draft archetype. Zenith Flare was somewhat broken in the format – it could end games out of the blue extremely quickly, and any deck lucky enough to pick up multiple copies was pretty unsto...
This is mega powerful when it hits the board, but in most decks I’d be worried that my back would already have been broken by the time this hits the battlefield. In some prowess decks with Frost Breaths and Roaming Ghostlights to bounce their threats, you might feel more confident of ...
the Broken Bladewas one of my favorite cards coming out, but I’m not sure how long she can maintain $24 without having that crucial fourth point of toughness.Spell Queller, the fifth most expensive card as of me writing this, is over $12 and still just a rare — I expect that valu...
and it’s the open ended synergy of that play sequence that has me seeing $$$ down the road. This card is going be a slow gainer out of the gate, but the second it posts up some interesting Top 8s in Modern, it’s going to explode and you’re going to want to be holding copie...
Of a format, to create a deck so much more powerful than the other decks that it dominates the format's metagame. E.g. "After Pro Tour Paris in 2011, Caw-blade broke Standard." Of a card, to create a deck in which that card becomes broken. E.g. "Johnny's new deck is an ...
I'm of the opinion that running a lot of removal is paramount, otherwise it becomes a race to see who can get their broken synergy engine online first. Especially in a slower environment (like mine) where you aren't pushing aggro, disruption is absolutely necessary in my mind. Otherwise ...