they for got the words "or less"; difference between being vintage worthy and being barely even standard sideboard worthy.
Posted By:
jonb86
(5/25/2011 1:46:19 PM)
Wow Banned Are You Kidding Me!!!
Now how am I going to counter turn one kills in a Black-Green-White deck?
Posted By:
The_USAgent
(9/21/2011 3:03:40 AM)
Judging by how fast this got banned, I wouldn't be surprised if they preplanned to ban this as they were making it. This card warps formats and they new it... Whats the point of making a card if your planning on banning it?
Also that explains why it wasn't a rare, would cause an insane amount of secondary market grief, the price-tag would have been over 40 dollars.
Posted By:
TheWrathofShane
(10/18/2012 6:34:19 AM)
The fact that it stops fireball for free makes this card way too good against the decks it's good against. The fact it can be played in any color makes this oppressive against ultra-aggressive decks and format warping. If I want to play an aggressive beatdown or RDW strategy I should be able to play it in any constructed format. Hell, in modern or legacy I should be able to make a deck full of 1 mana spells and win games. This is why it got banned. It's just oppressive. Force of will never actually blows anyone out or hoses entire decks, it's a two for one/4 mana counterspell. I mean FoW is clearly amazing, but, it's not unfair.
I mean I understand that this can counter lotus channel fireball but, so does gut shot! At least that's a fair card right?
Posted By:
Ligerman30
(12/1/2012 8:16:51 PM)
So in a set where they supposedly try and nerf Jace they give him a great card to protect him anyway. Seems kinda dumb. Don't forget hex parasite is cmc 1 as well.
Though I have to agree, amazing legacy card.
Posted By:
Names_Suck
(4/28/2011 3:21:30 PM)
That sound your hearing is every eternal format being forcibly shattered simultaneously.
Posted By:
NecroticNobody
(5/3/2011 6:55:20 AM)
"Heh, I just drew Sensei's Divining Top . Look who just got locked out by countertop?"
"What do you mean, all I see is a Counterbalance on board and you casting a Shock."
Posted By:
TokenMaster
(5/17/2011 9:35:53 PM)
Combo just died.
Posted By:
Gormaol
(5/19/2011 6:48:33 PM)
I almost wish it was 1 or less so I could use it on Ornithopter. No idea why, just the thought that occurred to me. Almost. But intentionally tapping out just to edge out little pieces to a foe's strategy-- just the tiniest piece out of their plans... and poof, advantage back to me. Goodbye mana ramping nonsense that tries to ignore me in favor of some ridiculous notion that Magic is a game of solitare-- I will enforce my back-and-forth preference for the game by slowing... you... down...
That, and I once played it for the life cost when hit with a shock. Think about that for a moment. No, actually, don't, it was to power up a runechanter's pike... and to be hilarious, I admit. I much prefer the flavor of only countering a low-cost-card than countering anything 'IF', say, they don't have open mana (I'm looking at you mana leak).
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Posted By:
Zaneshift
(10/5/2011 11:06:22 PM)
Surprisingly, you can counter a lot of Phyrexian mana 1-drops.
For example: Corrosive Gale, Gitaxian Probe, Gut Shot, Marrow Shards, Mutagenic Growth, Noxious Revival, Postmortem Lunge, Surgical Extraction.
And of course, itself. Oh, and for those of you who don't know, when calculating the CMC of a card, X is 0, so yes, Corrosive Gale and Postmortem Lunge do have CMC 1.
Posted By:
j_mindfingerpainter
(4/16/2012 3:17:01 PM)