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6 months ago ::
Dec 13, 2012 - 5:27AM
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Yeah, I went to the Legacy pre-release, and remember people not being able to deck Memory Jar  s if they pulled them. 
You are misremembering.
Urza's Legacy was released in mid February 1999. Memory Jar was banned or restricted on April 1st 1999. It was legal in standard for maybe 6 weeks.
The ban was triggered by the card's results at GP Vienna in February 1999. Two players - Randy Buelher and (I think) Erilk Lauer - included it in their decks. They both made the top 8. This harbinger of things to come was spotted in time to announce the ban in accordance with their then timetable on March 1st for implementation a month later.
I was a floor judge at the London prerelease for Urza's Legacy, and there was no ban of Memory Jar in force.
The only card to be preemptively banned or restricted was Mind's Desire  .
Three Nemesis cards got errata prior to their prerelease - search for cards with "Parallax" in their names.
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6 months ago ::
Dec 13, 2012 - 7:22AM
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Rancor  is far from the most op card.
It's not even the most OP card in the Urza block. Let's go by color, shall we?
 : Replenish  , Opalescence  , Academy Rector 
 : Palinchron  , Time Spiral  , Peregrine Drake  , Cloud of Faeries 
 : Yawgmoth's Will  , Yawgmoth's Bargain  , Exhume  , Phyrexian Plaguelord 
 : Goblin Welder 
 : Argothian Elder  , Elvish Piper  , Greater Good 
Artifacts: Masticore  , Memory Jar
Lands: Serra's Sanctum  , Tolarian Academy  , Gaea's Cradle 
Yay People love me. Seriously though, Masticore is no where near OP by todays standards, take away his draw back and he STILL wouldn't be that good.
Borrowing the East Wind  (P3) - Haha, it's like Hurricane  but for horsemanship? That makes hilariously little sense. "Oh man, the wind is so much worse up on this horse."
Jon Finkel can win a Magic tournament with a ham sandwich. That doesn't mean ham sandwiches are now the metagame breaker.
Koth: I'm the first viable red planeswalker. Who are you?
Tibalt: I'm a two-mana red planeswalker.
Koth: I'm the last viable red planeswalker.
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6 months ago ::
Dec 13, 2012 - 7:25AM
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Yeah it really sucks when they play a Champion, then Rancor Champ 1, play Champ 2, or Mayor. I'm down to 16 or 17. Then Geist or Silverblade who can't attack. Silverblade still needs a guy to pair with, Rancor need a guy to go on. Idk, I just Wrath  .
That's pretty much the problem though. Standard is mostly sorcery speed removal right now, which makes Silverblade really bomby, especially if he is dropping doublestrike on something that has a rancor on it.
Borrowing the East Wind (P3) - Haha, it's like Hurricane but for horsemanship? That makes hilariously little sense. "Oh man, the wind is so much worse up on this horse."
Jon Finkel can win a Magic tournament with a ham sandwich. That doesn't mean ham sandwiches are now the metagame breaker.
Koth: I'm the first viable red planeswalker. Who are you?
Tibalt: I'm a two-mana red planeswalker.
Koth: I'm the last viable red planeswalker.
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6 months ago ::
Dec 13, 2012 - 7:44AM
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Clever deduction Watson! Maybe you can explain why Supergirl is trying to kill me.
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Autocard is your friend.
[c]Lightning Bolt[/c] = Lightning Bolt 
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6 months ago ::
Dec 13, 2012 - 5:48PM
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Yeah, I went to the Legacy pre-release, and remember people not being able to deck Memory Jar s if they pulled them.
You are misremembering.
Urza's Legacy was released in mid February 1999. Memory Jar was banned or restricted on April 1st 1999. It was legal in standard for maybe 6 weeks.
The ban was triggered by the card's results at GP Vienna in February 1999. Two players - Randy Buelher and (I think) Erilk Lauer - included it in their decks. They both made the top 8. This harbinger of things to come was spotted in time to announce the ban in accordance with their then timetable on March 1st for implementation a month later.
I was a floor judge at the London prerelease for Urza's Legacy, and there was no ban of Memory Jar in force.
Wow, it's amazing what 13 years and two kids (and the assosciated lack of sleep) does to the memory! Were there twitterings of the Jar's impending doom at pre-release time? Maybe that's what I remember...
Yeah it really sucks when they play a Champion, then Rancor Champ 1, play Champ 2, or Mayor. I'm down to 16 or 17. Then Geist or Silverblade who can't attack. Silverblade still needs a guy to pair with, Rancor need a guy to go on. Idk, I just Wrath .
That's pretty much the problem though. Standard is mostly sorcery speed removal right now, which makes Silverblade really bomby, especially if he is dropping doublestrike on something that has a rancor on it.
So, in other words, it's the 2012 version of Turn 2 Edge  on Nip  . 
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6 months ago ::
Dec 15, 2012 - 9:51PM
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Yeah it really sucks when they play a Champion, then Rancor Champ 1, play Champ 2, or Mayor. I'm down to 16 or 17. Then Geist or Silverblade who can't attack. Silverblade still needs a guy to pair with, Rancor need a guy to go on. Idk, I just Wrath .
That's pretty much the problem though. Standard is mostly sorcery speed removal right now, which makes Silverblade really bomby, especially if he is dropping doublestrike on something that has a rancor on it.
Well, thats what I do. And it works. I worry more about Rancor on Lotleth Troll  s, Strangleroot Geist  s, and Dreg Mangler  . Haste, Undying, and Regenerate actually make a creature hard to deal with.
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Proliferate w/ 
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