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Having played through all the severely nasty days of Magic...the Academy decks, ProsBloom, Necrodecks, The Deck...I've learned several things.
First of all, cards that let you violate the basic precepts of Magic have great potential for abuse.
Second of all, anything that has ANY potential for abuse will be abused, and in the most abusive way possible.
Flashback gives players the ability to access spells out of their graveyard. Memorable spells that have done this in the past are Living Death, Yawgmoth's Will, and things like that. Picture a counterspell with Flashback. Picture a Wrath with Flashback. Suddenly, you get double usage out of every spell with Flashback that you have.
Threshhold rewards players for putting cards into their graveyard. Sacrifice effects, discard, countermagic...these suddenly become even better than they already were, because putting cards into your graveyard suddenly turns all Threshhold cards into undercosted, hard-to-deal-with monstrosities.
Yes, I may be paranoid. Maybe R&D have learned their lessons, maybe Odyssey will be sufficiently balanced to overrule these problematic concepts.
And maybe monkeys will come flying out of my butt.
First of all, cards that let you violate the basic precepts of Magic have great potential for abuse.
Second of all, anything that has ANY potential for abuse will be abused, and in the most abusive way possible.
Flashback gives players the ability to access spells out of their graveyard. Memorable spells that have done this in the past are Living Death, Yawgmoth's Will, and things like that. Picture a counterspell with Flashback. Picture a Wrath with Flashback. Suddenly, you get double usage out of every spell with Flashback that you have.
Threshhold rewards players for putting cards into their graveyard. Sacrifice effects, discard, countermagic...these suddenly become even better than they already were, because putting cards into your graveyard suddenly turns all Threshhold cards into undercosted, hard-to-deal-with monstrosities.
Yes, I may be paranoid. Maybe R&D have learned their lessons, maybe Odyssey will be sufficiently balanced to overrule these problematic concepts.
And maybe monkeys will come flying out of my butt.