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Episode 75 — December 6th, 2021
All About Brainstorm
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5:17
What does Brainstorm do?
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6:14
Why is Brainstorm controversial in the cube world?
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7:38
What is the best-case scenario with Brainstorm? Why is it so potent in eternal constructed formats?
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11:06
When is brainstorm “bad”?
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12:09
Why being “brainstorm-locked” is absolutely not a thing.
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14:03
What is “Xerox Theory”?
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19:58
The diminishing returns of cantrips
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22:37
The intrinsic overlaps between “Xerox theory” decks and other powerful strategies
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25:25
Why Reach Through Mists is actually good, and the real reasons why it’s not played
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28:46
The different kind of Magic communities and their evaluation of Brainstorm
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31:18
How is brainstorm better than Reach Through Mists even without a shuffle effect?
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34:53
Just how many cards is Brainstorm specifically good with and against?
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41:19
Brainstorm in Historic
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43:29
Andy’s Brainstorm evaluation in summary
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44:32
Brainstorm is difficult to play well
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45:36
Why it’s so easy to underrate Brainstorm
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52:55
Anthony attempts to talk Andy down
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56:52
A note on Brainstorm’s pick order in the MTGO vintage cube
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58:30
Closing thoughts
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Brainstorm — Christopher Rush