'A turn-four Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger is virtually game over, which, according to Frank Karsten, happens in around just 9.4% of games.'
'The effect of stealing any lands or key cards, when at a high play rate, reduces diversity in the metagame.'
'While there’s nothing intrinsically bad about multicolor good-stuff decks, their power and flexibility is usually counterbalanced by making concessions in their mana bases.'
'Without ~, energy decks will need to make more difficult decisions about how many colors to play and how to structure their mana bases.'
'The high percentage of the field playing ~ suppresses decks, especially other creature decks, that have an unfavorable matchup.'
'While the rest of the format is quite diverse, the dominance of Jund is making it less so overall.'
'the number of triggers generated by these decks can be cumbersome for both players in digital play.'
'...normally playing mana acceleration comes at the cost of playing cards that are less powerful in the late game.'
'...they fall behind when the blue decks reload for two mana...'
'Created to be scarily powerful, ~ delivered on that promise too well.'
'...the winningest Modern deck at any given point in time has usually been a ~ deck. Examples include Hollow One, Izzet Phoenix, and Dredge and Bridgevine variants...'
'What we expected to take a few weeks to understand has ended up taking two days to form a clear picture of a metagame unbalanced by the Copy Cat combo...'
'~'s ability to produce a constant stream of Zombie tokens for little resource investment gives the strategy an often-inevitable win condition in long games...'
'Because of the flexible nature of the cost reduction effect, ~ decks would continue to gain power as new high-mana-cost spells are added to the environment.'
'This hurt the ability of reactive decks to effectively bluff or for the aggressive deck to miss-sequence their turn.'
'With the printing of Cathartic Reunion and Prized Amalgam, the deck once again became unhealthy for the format.'
'After signs of the metagame being unable to self-correct, such as players adopting large amounts of maindeck graveyard hate... we restricted Bridge from Below to weaken the deck.'
'Games with ~ can often involve excessively arcane rules interactions using mana ability timing windows...'
'We expect that individual creatures with adventure and decks using Edgewall Innkeeper will continue to show up...'
'...this is a unique case where restricting ~ wouldn't affect its usage as a companion...'
'...we'd like to take this opportunity to address another problematic interaction between Karn, the Great Creator and ~.'
'~ has also reduced metagame diversity and diversity of gameplay in Standard by shutting off build-around creatures and artifacts.'
'The two most popular decks in the Standard metagame, Four-Color Ramp and Four-Color Adventures...'
'For many players, ~ is likely to be the most surprising of the cards we're taking action against. After all, many Ramunap Red decks don't play four copies in their main deck.'
'~ adds a lot of 'invisible power' to the deck, often acting as a virtual reduction to the opponent's starting life total.'
'~ came up time and time again as both frustrating and a targeted way to diminish the White-Blue Flash deck.'
'~ is what we term a generous 'rate' card, one that simply provides a lot of value for little investment.'
'Modern tournaments have recently been diverse... however, large tournaments have had a problem with the Eggs deck, causing rounds to take significantly longer.'
'~ is a card we've had our eye on for some time as an enabler that speeds up fast combo decks.'
'~ was the result of a new card type pushed too far, and, as such, is now banned.'
'We considered what one would do with the cards from a ~ deck with ~ banned... there is Kiki-Jiki as a replacement.'
'When the deck generates seven mana on turn two, there are a lot of cards that could lead to a quick finish.'
'the repetitive play patterns and reduced capability for interaction that ~ can create feel oppressive and limiting.'
'...we see Modern as the format where those decks are uniquely problematic via ~'s interaction with cascade.'
'It's too much more efficient than the other cards in its cycle... gives green decks too much resilience against removal and disruption.'
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