Re: Lion's eye diamond: Banned in type 1

"David Chapman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> FRM did not say this.  FRM was not here:
> > as someone (who?) will remember i re-started magic after 6 years of
> > stop...at that time i used to find a nearly awful card called, guess,
> > lion'eye diamond...now, after six yrs: banned! banned? i mean, if it
> > was banned there must be someone that broke the card! but how? this is
> > the question i ask you...i still have that diamond in the crap&lands
> > box, and still can't figure out how can a three mana boost with no
> > cards in hand to play be as effective as wotc say...
> 
> Yawgmoth's Will.

The more complete answer is that there now exists a deck in Type One
called Long.dec. Decklist below. The deck can consistently pull off
turn 1 and 2 wins by casting plenty of free spells, fast mana spells,
and card drawing spells. It then uses Tendrils of Agony (the storming
Drain Life) or Hunting Pack (the storming creature generator) to kill.
Burning Wish and Lion's Eye Diamond are the key cards. It emptied its
hand so quickly that the Diamond has little to no drawback, and the
numerous draw-7 spells refilled the hand in no time.

It had to go.

Long.dec, by Roland Bode

1 Future Sight
1 Necropotence
1 Yawgmoth's Bargain
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Demonic Consultation
1 Fact or Fiction
2 Hunting Pack
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Vampiric Tutor
4 Dark Ritual
1 Balance
4 Burning Wish
1 Demonic Tutor
4 Duress
1 Mind's Desire
1 Time Walk
1 Timetwister
1 Wheel of Fortune
1 Windfall
4 City of Brass
4 Gemstone Mine
2 Underground Sea
1 Tolarian Academy
4 Chromatic Sphere
4 Lion's Eye Diamond
1 Lotus Petal
1 Mana Crypt
1 Memory Jar
1 Mox Diamond
1 Black Lotus
1 Mana Vault
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Sol Ring

Sideboard
1 Decree of Annihilation
2 Hurkyl's Recall
1 Innocent Blood
1 Mind Twist
1 Ray of Revelation 
1 Recoup
1 Replenish
1 Tendrils of Agony
1 Vindicate
3 Xantid Swarm
1 Yawgmoth's Will

-- 
Justin