100% agree with Affinity driving players out of Magic. I stopped playing when it came out.

Why did he not bring up the vintage flash hulk combo that literally wins before your opponent has drawn their first card by playing gemstone caverns, tapping for blue, discarding a spirit guide to flash hulk then tutor one carrion feeder, four disciples and any amount of cmc 0 artifact creatures which you instant sac to kill your opponent.

Protean hulk is still a deck (in modern) , Footsteps of the goryo on the hulk-> Get viscera seer+ body double which copies hulk -> Grab mog fanatic and reveillark. Sac reveillark to get back a body double which copies reveillark. Infinite damage.

But could any of these decks beat Exodia?

So where is Birdemic, the deck in which Storm Crow showed up for the first time? The deck was so brutal 70% of standard players conceded to the power of birds

love the air quotes on "took a break"

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It's pretty obvious all these people who think Eldrazi should be on this list never played during Cawblade format... a LOT of people stopped playing magic for a couple of months because you either built the deck or lost.

I started playing mtg during the caw-blade format at KG in Brooklyn. That deck was definitely a pain to go against as a new player but it never discourage me from playing. I played mono red kuldotha rebirth LOL

a top 5 underwhelming cards or top 5 most anticipated cards before a release that did not live up to the hype. at all. gogo

What about "The Deck."

I do like that you attribute Memory Jar's ban to Combo Winter and not to Jar decks being busted. Yes, Jar was plenty busted back in the day, but the context was more important here. Academy had dominated for months, and Wizards thought they had fixed things when they banned out the cards that made that period of time absurd. But along came Memory Jar and Tinker in Urza's Legacy, and Randy Buehler and Eric Lauer decided to bring the deck to an Extended tournament. They both Top 8ed, and Wizards realized that Jar decks threatened to bring more of the same for the next few months, losing even more players than they had during Academy's legality.

Everybody's like "Eldrazi is not in this list?!" "wtf?, Eldrazi is not in this list???".