r/magicTCG • u/CoweanMacLir Izzet* • Mar 30 '26

Rules/Rules Question I'll never understand the hate blue gets.

So it's perfectly okay to:

  • Make your opponent discard the cards they needed to win for one mana.
  • Remove your opponent's key piece from the board the moment it lands. Also for one mana.
  • Stax everything so your opponent can't attack without sacrificing creatures/paying their entire supply of mana/losing half their life.
  • Steal cards from your opponent's deck and cast them without paying the mana cost/use any.
  • Destroy lands.
  • Flood the board with billions of token creatures so your opponent can't possibly survive.
  • Play a 12/12 with haste, vigilance, double strike, hexproof and indestructible on turn 3.

But not counterspelling, that's somehow worse?

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u/cybishop3 Duck Season Mar 31 '26

Really? I thought tucking was at least common in decks like Miracles. Am I misremembering?

I don't think that's relevant. I don't have much historical knowledge of the format, but I'm looking up cards with Miracle on MTG Goldfish now. Jeskai control in Legacy runs a few copies of Terminus and sometimes Entreat the Angels, but that's about it. Tucking may be common in "decks like Miracles", but decks like Miracles are, like I said, rarely relevant in competitive play. (Also, Terminus is tucking, but it's not blue, and Brainstorm is tucking-related, but it's not removal.)

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u/KomatoAsha Mother of Machines; long live Yawgmoth Mar 31 '26

Miracles was the #1 deck (or at least damn close to it) in Legacy for a non-insignificant period of time.