Episode 75— December 6th, 2021

All About Brainstorm

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

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Brainstorm — Christopher Rush