Ancestral Recall and Concentrate are creatures now? And their existence leads to the opposite conclusion that creatures have in fact gotten worse over time?
The whole 'lol new cards' is such BS. Yes creatures have generally gotten way more powerful but really? Power 9 is in basically every competitive vintage deck. Remove a few key cards (P9, FoW, Strip Mine, Library, original duals) and you completely gut Vintage.
And get Legacy, which is still an incredibly high powered format, just not quite as ridiculous as Vintage.
I think you missed the reason I said Chillwind Yeti. Of course they release cards that are better than previous, it'd be silly to suggest otherwise. My point is that they usually don't just go +gooderer. It's possible we'll see another 4/5 for 4 mana with an effect that makes it mostly better than Chillwind. It's extremely unlikely that we'll see another 4 mana that simply has better stats. I never said expansions don't add strong cards, in fact I specifically said they increase the pool of strong cards. Usually they do this through new effects or better versions of the weak cards, not better versions of the strong ones. The fact that the "vintage deck" that was discussed earlier hasanycards from early expansions just illustrates that point.
No, he gave an example of an ubiquitous card being replaced by a strictly better version. You trying to conflate that into 'just creatures' is silly. UtH going to get a better version now that they learned their lesson? Anyway, whole point is invalidated and Column is wrong anyway because unlike regular card games, Blizz has no compunctions about simply editing cards or abilities if they fuck up. Even MtGO, Wizards won't simply edit wording on a card besides official errata to work with the new rules. Otherwise Mox Sapphire would cost 2 colorless and it would be fine. Granted it might take a year knowing Blizz, but still.
No, I said the format was BASED on them. Not constructed with majority numbers. And it is... There wouldn't be an entirely separate format WITHOUT those key restricted cards if they weren't so pivotal. Or for that matter, they wouldn't be restricted/banned in the first place.
No, he did not. Ancestral Recall was not replaced. When your format is "all cards ever printed" Ancestral Recall and Concentrate are competing for deck slots. When you print a card that is worse than current options no one will use it. When you print a card that is better than current options everyone will use it.
Are you trying to be obtuse and argue semantics because you don't have a valid point? I said 'replaced' as in 'will be used exclusively in place and/or because it is strictly better it will replace the other card in every deck', just like Ancesrtal Recall and Concentrate. Who gives a shit that both are 'competing', because it isn't a competition when one is inferior in every way.
It's not semantics. You said that Mr Creed gave an example of an ubiquitous card being replaced by a strictly better version. He did not. Ancestral Recall was first. Ancestral Recall is the ubiquitous card draw spell of Magic the Gathering. It has not been replaced by a strictly better version.
The fuck are you smoking? That was exactly my point. That cards which follow are NOT always strictly better.
Wait, do you think I literally mean all new cards are more powerful than all older cards? Do you think that was my position? Well shit, here's a blue spell that says draw cards on it that isn't better than Ancestral! ARGUMENT DEFEATED.
