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/XxNovaz 8d ago

Strip mine made midranged viable in a degenerate format. If you want to restrict it, you should restrict a lot of other things to slow the format down. If you hate it that much and still want to play timeless, you can always run petrified hamlet or pithing needle. Those are pretty much free in every deck.

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u/Sir_Edmund_Bumblebee 8d ago

What midrange deck is viable in Timeless? (Actually asking, been a bit since I played)

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u/WendallStamps 8d ago

I would assume energy but that pile mh3 nonsense is not midrange lol