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Wow. You're right. This card really is better than Terror or Dark Banishing. It's so much better, it's almost as though there's something diabolical about it. It looks like Unmake is the ultimate creature removal for black decks. I think I'll issue an edict about it... :p Oh, and I don't doubt...

I don't know much about what they're driving in East Germany, but it is possible to make cars really light that are actually also quite safe. I think I already posted the one video with the prototype cars in it... Don't believe global warming is happening, don't believe it's anthropogenic, or...

I disagree... Illusions of Grandeur wasn't really any good back in 1995. There were a lot of worse cards in Ice Age, so I doubt anyone would have nominated it as one of the worst even then, but it plainly wasn't very good. Now the card is infamous. Istanbul even got all fussy about me using it...

The link you posted was for when Dark Ritual was banned in Extended (not Vintage). I remember that one quite clearly. I wasn't playing Extended, but I knew a lot of people who were and they were universally surprised that Dark Ritual got the axe instead of Necropotence. A lot of players flipped...

Okay, so Swords is an uncommon. But you know, only one mana. that matters. What drawback? I don't see any drawback...

Get what Will? Force of Will? That's not what people use it for. And yeah, it can get any blue instant, but it's always been able to do that. You're just saying that the card does and always has done. What data would you want me to show, anyway? Dark Ritual restricted? You've already got me...

I know you said it was for a short time, but I can find several online sources all giving the same dates for Strip Mine's restrictions. It was restricted on January 1st, 1998. These same sources give no such details for Mishra's Factory. It doesn't appear to have ever been banned or restricted...

Um, that's not true of the other blue cards though. Ponder and Merchant Scroll weren't even making it into a majority of blue decks. Gush was pretty hugely popular though. Flash was only being used in, well, Flash. Also, see the explanation. That sure looks to the contrary. Where do you see...

Remember what set the Pony's in? Yeah, it's not even in the bottom 10.

Necropotence... I know it's so huge that it's one of the two examples you gave and it's a broken card. I would have loved to have picked something else that's not quite as iconic or infamous. I like Pox, Charisma, Infernal Contract/Cruel Bargain, Kaervek's Spite, Doomsday, Seismic Assault, and...

There's this other card you might REALLY like then. It's called Swords to Plowshares.

Where are you getting that? Are you seriously saying that no one card has ever been in as many decks as the combination of both Strip Mine and Mishra's Factory in 1997? I highly doubt that. Strip Mine by itself (and even Factory by itself at some point) are certainly contenders, in part because...

Makes sense to me. Or should we search the rest of the arena first? It is pretty big and that may take some time, but you never know...

I'm up for it. I think I actually managed to nominate a card every time with the old hall of fame. I'll try to do so with this version...

Yes. I think I said something like this. But if I didn't, well, I do completely agree. I don't think that's what most people would call "vast" but it is, after all, subjective. I think you're reading too much into this. No one's goal so far in this thread has been to develop a comprehensive...

But even at the time there were other popular cards that didn't get restricted. If popularity alone were enough, like I said, basic lands would have been gone a long time ago.

So the word "chroma" doesn't actually do anything? The cards with it would be functionally the same without it? It's just there to warn you: you're going to have to count some mana symbols?

I'm thinking that you're convinced my "view" is more complicated than it might really be. That you've mentioned how up-to-date I am or asked about it so much seem to indicate that maybe I'm basing what I've said on the way things used to be. Is that right? As far as I can remember, things have...

*Cugel will examine the arrows and if they're any good, take them.*

Unshackled? Free? Independent? Hey, wait a minute, just because Ransac's a pony-lover doesn't mean that I'm into that...