my fav part of spoiler season is people freaking out about a card saying it’s going to be banned bc of how insane it is and then once it’s out we never hear about the card being relevant in any format
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Graham, if I have the perfect 4 cards in my hand and my opponent agrees to never interact, that card will break Magic as we know it forever. Sound evaluation here.
The MTG Salvation thread when Jace TMS was revealed is very funny to read in hindsight.
I personally am doomed to forever be dunked on for being vocally anti Siege Rhino, thinking it was worse than the multiple 4 mana 5/5s we had in Standard at the time
I distinctly remember someone back in 2020 being like: "yeah, but people are gonna reanimate it!". Yeah, sure, and then...? You pull this back from your Graveyard on Turn 3, you had to jump through hoops and have three Lands, have fun.
I'm not expecting it to be top tier, but I am genuinely surprised by how many combos it has in standard. Even just in monogreen, you've got Escape Tunnel and Rogue's Passage to give it unblockable, over 20 cards to give it trample, Oviya to cheat it out and half a dozen cards to tutor for it.
That's usually a good detail in these cases. People are usually not wrong about what can be done with the card unless they miss something it can do, and it's better than expected.
The problem is that the play isn't good in the overall meta context, not that it's worthless entirely.
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I personally am doomed to forever be dunked on for being vocally anti Siege Rhino, thinking it was worse than the multiple 4 mana 5/5s we had in Standard at the time
Except whenever someone plays it against me because that's how this game works apparently.
The problem is that the play isn't good in the overall meta context, not that it's worthless entirely.
Then it got printed and I don't think I've heard too much about it since.