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Okay, once again, your post says... Now, I will give you the benefit of the doubt, and assume that you meant Standard (Type II) when you said "Constructed" there. I'll also assume that in your other post, when you said "Type 1" twice, the second time you again meant Standard. I brought up...

Only the controlling decks, Spidey. Although, in the case of Strip Mine, since it is so useful, it would fit into pretty much any of them, but then again, the decks that already run Strip Mine also run Wasteland (with some odd exception somewhere probably, but not one I know of). Is Wasteland a...

Many of the older cards were rated based on how good they used to be, it seems. The list was not perfect, of course, but in general I found myself agreeing with most of the choices. Mana Vault should have been higher on the list, and Mana Crypt should have been much higher. There were some other...

I don't remember if I traded away my good Portal cards or not. Oh well, none of them are amazing anyway, although I wouldn't mind having an Imperial Seal--so that I could sell it and buy more dual lands!

On Scuta, while I used it myself and liked it, the card had a distinct disadvantage compared to Juzam Djinn: the life-loss happened all at once. If you pay the kicker (which you almost always would) and the Scuta smashes your opponent's face in, that's good. It is effectively Juzam Djinn (or...

You only have four man-lands in the whole deck. If you would like to include Standstill, you would probably want at least two more.

I guess Mikeymike has a valid point there. Visions didn't have any particularly scary cards (Vampiric Tutor aside). But as far as overall power goes, the whole block was mediocre, and Visions was on par with it. Stronghold had some very good cards, but was mostly unimpressive (in comparison to...

HOUTS, if you think that Affinity has dominated Vintage or Legacy, you don't know either format. It hasn't even been particularly good...

Not knowing what the configuration of the Korean keyboard is (I sure hope that it's not as convoluted as our own QWERTY keyboards), I'm not sure how impressive that is. But just from the number, it sure looks impressive...

Worlds and the ones leading up to it? I would like a larger sample group, personally... I have a couple points to make about your other statement, but I want to separate them from each other (simply because they are not related). -Black Vise doesn't really have the potential to punish "any"...

Exactly. There haven't been any--ever. So why are you bringing it up?

I think that the Dark Ritual aspect is quite important here. Things like Phyrexian Scuta, and even Grinning Demon, look like they could be just as good as Juzam Djinn, yet turn out not to see much use. The best one case has been Phyrexian Negator (the only one of these cards that has made an...

I see it as... Dominance: when a card is so good that it is either unbeatable or too impractical to beat. It can be like Skullclamp in Standard or Goblin Welder in Vintage (both had periods in which ridiculous amounts of them appeared in top 8's) or like Tolarian Academy (a single archetype of...

Dilatency

I never really did anything to prepare for it in previous years. Spring is something you have to prepare for?

I don't have extensive lists of tournaments where it failed to dominate or anything like that (I would suppose that such materials would be easiest to obtain on SCG, except now they have the whole "premium" thing going on, although it would be entirely possible to find extensive results...

I know that it looks small compared to the massive bannings imposed on Standard, but one other change in this last announcement was the restriction of Trinisphere in Vintage (oh, and they also made all four Portal sets legal and banned/retstricted some tutors in Legacy/Vintage). I am not sure...

Well, I did forget about the tutors... Personal Tutor (a sorcery version of Mystical Tutor) and Imperial Seal from Portal: 3 Kingdoms (a sorcery version of Vampiric Tutor) are both restricted in Vintage. Imperial Seal is also banned in Legacy. Personally, I think this might be a bit...

Unless you count Blacker Lotus... Oh, and it looks like they hit Standard pretty hard... http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dci/announce/dci20050301a Also, Trinisphere is restricted. Will that kill Stax?

Yukora is pretty nice (not as good as the ancient Djinn, but only black's finest creatures can match him for efficiency). The non-Ogre part seems entirely pointless though. It's one mana more expensive than Phyrexian Negator and doesn't trample, but its drawback only matters if you control other...