The supply of sealed magic will inevitably & permanently decrease with time and consequently, the supply of graded magic cards will increase with time as the remaining decks are opened to obtain pristine Alpha cards for grading.
You don't need life points until you are about to die, unless you feel the urge to pay them to do something silly like draw extra cards
Junk decks need a threat in play to take advantage of all of the time their Thoughtseizes are buying, and chipping away with bears is actually a perfectly valid strategy
Inside that piece, I noted that there were two things I wouldn't be covering: the basic lands and the many iterations of Cid, Timeless Architect
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Heres an example of the kind of deck that got Mind Twist banned: Creatures (2) Lands (21) Spells (37) 4 Mana Drain 2 Counterspell 4 Swords to Plowshares 1 Sol Ring 1 Regrowth 1 Mind Twist 1 Demonic Tutor 1 Braingeyser 1 Time Walk 1 Ancestral Recall 2 Red Elemental Blast 1 Jayemdae Tome 2 Disrupting Scepter 4 Disenchant 1 Recall 2 Moat 1 Mirror Universe 1 Timetwister 1 Black Lotus 1 Mox Emerald 1 Mox Jet 1 Mox Pearl 1 Mox Ruby 1 Mox Sapphire Thats right, one of the most famous, most influential decks of all-time, The Deck, was a Mind Twist deck until Mind Twist was banned
