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New cards flooding the Standard format means that players will be trying all kinds of different deck permutations as they attempt to figure out which strategies have legs and what cards are worth testing

Then, I came across these tweets from Alex from The Spike Feeders, which really resonated with me: In the abstract, power levels should be simple enough to figure out, but the imbalance that many players often experience shows that theory is very different from practice

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The New Phyrexians launched a full-fledged invasion into several planes, using the Realmbreaker, a corrupted version of Kaldheims World Tree

Maelstrom Wanderer The original Temur showstopper, Maelstrom Wanderer still feels like a mic drop whenever it hits the stack