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brandnewlow on June 18, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: The mathematics of Magic: the Gathering (1999)

Along with the radical power creep of creatures, Wizards has

- increased the cost of blue spells that counter creatures, because new players get sad when their monsters get countered

- started giving evasion abilities to many more creatures, since new players get sad when their monsters get blocked

freeone3000 on June 19, 2018 | [–]

Standard currently has Essence Scatter, Divest, and Wizard's Retort. It's not that counterspells have gotten cheaper, but graveyard recursion is fairly prevalant and "Can't be countered" clauses are on some pretty beefy finishers right now.

technofiend on June 18, 2018 | [–]

Time to dust off the shadow deck. :-)

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