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Basically, the deck feels unbalanced, and if players know your strategy is basically to go all in on creatures, they're going to be far more aware of your combos and keen to stop them

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Theres also the fact that this green sorcery only costs two mana

The tricky thing is that formats regularly remove cards from Standard every few years, typically in the Fall

As time passes it is slowly fading away from relevance, but it is our format's annoying burden to bear for the time being

Remember, deck construction rules wouldn't officially happen until Wizards started up the DCI in January of 1994