What cards/decks/players do you think are horrible cancer? Pic no longer related.
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Deathrite Shaman. It's not that the card is overly powerful, it's that it homogenizes a large swathe of the decks in the format to a point that when you opponent goes Underground Sea/Trop -> Deathrite you can often name +75% of the cards in their deck. DRS and the decks it facilitates are boring to play against, they are literally the most milquetoast deck to play in the format.
Chalice will always be my hated.
I dislike Abrupt Decay, but I genuinely hate Council's Judgement and the way it gets around hexproof/shroud.
On the other hand it's 3 mana in a format where there is A FUCKING TRUE-NAME NEMESIS WHAT THE FUCK WERE THEY THINKING?
Really? I think it's the opposite actually, there are a ton of different decks that can go usea into deathrite, you don't know if they are on a delver variant, a midrange deck, something slower and more control-like, or even a combo deck like aluren. The card has such a high power level on its own that it forces decks to play it, even if they have to go out of their way.
>True-Name Nemesis
This would probably get my vote. I see it's place in multiplayer, but in one-on-one games it's really dumb and doesn't belong.
Also now that Miracles is dead, I hope they unban Balance.
>The card has such a high power level on its own that it forces decks to play it, even if they have to go out of their way.
This is basically what I'm saying, it homogenizes the format into B/G/X, and most B/G/X decks play a small handful of cards because they are the generic pushed cards that wizards has shit out over the past couple of year for those colors (Leovold, TNN, Decay, ect.) in addition to the tradition format all stars.
>you don't know if they are on a delver variant, a midrange deck, something slower and more control-like, or even a combo deck like aluren.
The problem is that the BUG midrange/control/combo decks share the same shell, they are pretty damn similar, they are all going to have the basic shell of:
19-22 Lands
4x DRS
3-4x Hymn
3-4x Force
4x Brainstorm
3-4x Ponder
3-4x Fatal Push
1-3x Abrupt decay
1-2x Leovold
1-2x JTMS
1-2x LoTV
You see the issue? They could be playing BUG Delver or BUG Control or BUG Midrange, it's pretty immaterial to the backbone that makes up 70-75% of these decks, the 25-30% not represented in that list is just what determines the mode of victory for the deck.
Oh gee, Are you telling me the BUG is now the new miracles? Oh boy, who could have guessed.
And btw, you could say the same things just about any other net deck. Storm variants ain't that different to each other. You know 100% of the cards in opponent deck when they play turn 1 mountain into goblin guide.
>Comparing two combo decks using the same mechanic to a large number of decks doing different things with the same shell.
Please share more of your magical insights into the format senpai, you seem VERY knowledgeable.