It's only a matter of time until they print a 0 mana artifact that can be sacced for 3 mana!!!!!!11

It's only a matter of time until they print a 0 mana artifact that can be sacced for 3 mana!!!!!!11

Actually, I don't think it is necessarily overall power creep. Certainly creatures are becoming more powerful, but non-creature spells aren't really overpowered. So, it might feel like power creep because back in the good ol' days creatures were bad and spells won the game and now creatures win the game and are only supported by spells.

But if you look at current Vintage decklists you'll find mostly the same stuff you found 5+ years ago. Sure, snapcaster mage has found his way in to some decklists, and tarmogoyf is around, and dark confidant, and stoneforge mystic. But according to mtgdecks.net only 4 creatures break the top 50 most played cards. The most powerful cards are still spells.

Even in legacy, creatures only take 9 slots out of 50 (again, according to mtgdecks.net). So, even with power creep in creatures, the eternal formats are still dominated by old land and old spells.

Of course, every set is going to have a couple powerful cards that obsolete older cards, but that has to happen to keep things fresh.

I'm not saying I necessarily like having my good creatures become mediocre every other block, but I feel like Magic is actually pretty balanced right now.

My biggest beef is having the gold-standard green creature cost over $100...

See, I thought Magic was getting closer to Yu-Gi-Oh when they started making you need specific cards to work together. You know, like:

Kyscu Drake + Spitting Drake ==> Viashivan Dragon

Urborg Panther + Feral Shadow + Breathstealer ==> Spirit of the Night

I dunno, I just really don't like cards absolutely requiring specific other cards to be of use. I know each of them could be used on their own, it just kinda irks me to see them print this kinda stuff. That was one of the biggest things that bothered me about Yu-Gi-Oh...

~SE++

These cards, and several others that weren't on your list, predate the YGO card game by several years.

No thanks. I'm perfectly fine playing casual Magic with older cards. Where the game's not on a 6-7 turn clock. C:

Oh, maybe. Based on Wikipedia, which is never reliable, Yu-Gi-Oh! began on September 30th, 1996. Mirage came out the next month. Not that Wizards would have had enough time to do anything like that, nor do I think they would feel the need to snag ideas. But yeah, Yu-Gi-Oh! has only been around 3 years less than Magic as far as I can see. The full game wasn't released until something like 2002, but the Manga whith the base ideas has been around since the mid-90's.

~SE++

Yeah...what?

Legacy aggro decks don't kill on turn 3, so I doubt Modern and Standard do.

I mean, Burn MIGHT be able to pull a turn three win (5 bolts, fireblast, and utilizing opponent's fetchland), but those wins are few and far between.

Still, Standard is a silly stupid format. Just gonna put that out there. B^)