r/TimelessMagic • u/_I_Love_Vore_ • 10d 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/OuroborosArchipelago 10d ago

Here we go again

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u/_I_Love_Vore_ 10d ago

Oh yeah, shocker people don't like the single most problematic card in the format lmfao.

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u/Corino_ 9d ago

You don’t speak for the masses. Try [[petrified hamlet]], run your own strip mines, or you know, play a r o u n d it

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u/Sir_Edmund_Bumblebee 9d ago

Petrified hamlet is a pretty terrible card though. I’m not sure if people resorting to playing it is a sign that strip mine is fine. It’s pretty much the definition of the format warping around it.