i love playing around censor and eventually see the opponent cycle it out of frustration.

I play around it only when I strongly suspect it might be there. The advantage you are getting from me doing this incorrectly is FAR SMALLER than the advantage I gain from playing cards ONE turn off and effectively killing at least one of the cards in your hand in the process.

Plus, that one mana I'm saving for Censor is often used to hold up a blink or blossoming defence or whatever. I don't mind.

Anyway, i never lose to censor anyway. I hope all my opponents play that trash.

To Gem's point, Negate will cause me far more fits

I play around it only when I strongly suspect it might be there. The advantage you are getting from me doing this incorrectly is FAR SMALLER than the advantage I gain from playing cards ONE turn off and effectively killing at least one of the cards in your hand in the process.

Plus, that one mana I'm saving for Censor is often used to hold up a blink or blossoming defence or whatever. I don't mind.

Anyway, i never lose to censor anyway. I hope all my opponents play that trash.

To Gem's point, Negate will cause me far more fits

I play around it only when I strongly suspect it might be there. The advantage you are getting from me doing this incorrectly is FAR SMALLER than the advantage I gain from playing cards ONE turn off and effectively killing at least one of the cards in your hand in the process.

Plus, that one mana I'm saving for Censor is often used to hold up a blink or blossoming defence or whatever. I don't mind.

Anyway, i never lose to censor anyway. I hope all my opponents play that trash.

To Gem's point, Negate will cause me far more fits

I'm just saying that this card has not caused me any problems.

As an aggro player, I'm not happy at all when my opponent plays around my removal. I would much rather they play their strongest drops first so i can zap them. The fact that they sometimes hold onto their best creatures and play the weaker ones first to draw out removal that I may or may not have isn't a big win for me at all. Those creatures are eventually coming out.


edit: anyway what the hell do i know about playing control anyway? If Vert comes on here saying Censor is good, then Censor is good and I'll know I'm wrong.

You actually can play around Censor to some degree, since Aggro especially likes to play multiple cards a turn. If Control Censors a 1-drop we're happy, if they Censor a 2-drop you're still fine.

That being said, Aggro needs to be mana-efficient, so if your curve is 2-3-4-5 playing off-curve doesn't really help.

I'm Not talking about going a turn slower, instead I'm talking about playing a 2-drop and a 1-drop (for Umstände) on turn 3. Or drop two 2s (or 2-drop and leave up Scrounger) turn 4.

I agree Aggro has to be mana-efficient, but that doesn't mean every Aggro deck drops a 3-drop turn 3.

Censoring a 1-drop is like using a 2-mana removal spell on their 1-mana play. I see this as a necessary evil rather than actively great. While you trade resources (which is your goal in Control), Aggro gains tempo (which is Aggro's goal). You slow them down, but not to the point that they need to slow down.

If the Censor-holder DOES in fact cycle the card instead of holding it forever, then yeah, that's a decent way to use it. But I don't think Xbox Control players are mostly doing that. I think they're holding onto it cuz they want to live the dream of countering a t6 Chandra or a t10 Nissa. That's why i think Censor is bad. I don't think they are disciplined (did I spell that right?).