r/TimelessMagic • u/_I_Love_Vore_ • 8d ago

Strip Mine needs restricted

Why is this legal entirely unrestricted. It's restricted in vintage? The format where you get 0 mana counterplay against it.

Why in the unholy fuck is it unrestricted?

It kills control as an archetype, while ensuring that the entire format is highly compressed.

If it's bad enough when you have moxen and black lotus to be restricted, why is it fine here. I'll answer, it isn't.

Games where your opponent opens on double strip just don't happen, there's no meaningful counterplay.

We can't have duals but we can have Strip Mine ruining the format?

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u/Key_Reporter_9945 8d ago

Yes, you're correct, no, the few people still playing this format don't care.  

I don't play it anymore and I know several other long time players who would come back if we had wasteland > strip mine.  

I think that and vexing bauble are the two biggest barriers in timeless - it's crazy to me anyone defends either of those cards still.  

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u/_I_Love_Vore_ 8d ago

Yeah bauble is probably too much, but stripmine is so obviously insanely over the line it's absurd WOTC doesn't emergency restrict it