Lord Mistborn wrote:Ravengm wrote:The original vision for the format was "don't win before turn four" and Storm did that pretty consistently.
So does infect and they haven't banned any of it's cards. I think the fact that the deck cost less than 100 and was all over mtgo was the main reason that Wizards took it behind the woodshed a blew it's brains out.
I suspect that if asked, they would say that it's because infect is susceptible to more common forms of removal AFAICT. Counterspells are blue-only, but every color has answers to creatures.
Answers to infect:
Green: Fog, removal
White: Path to Exile et al., Pacifism-like effects, tapdown, etc
Blue: Bounce, counter, tapdown
Black: Removal
Red: Removal (used when the creature can't attack so they have to use up their pumps if they want to save it)
Also, the turn two win can generally be chump blocked.
NineInchNall wrote:They won't do anything to limit infect because infect is MaRo's baby, his favorite mechanic of all time.
Which is one major reason he can eat a dick.
Actually, the entire deck could probably be considered his 'baby', with infect replacing Berserk:
https://www.wizards.com/magic/magazine/ ... aily/mr204 (ctrl+f 'berserk')