Will Treasure Cruise Be Banned?
Modern forum
Posted on Jan. 2, 2015, 3:41 p.m. by Skimm3r
So, there's one card that has completely broken several formats that everybody is wondering about... Treasure Cruise. Most people I hear from believe that it is going to receive the ban-hammer soon, but I'm not so sure anymore after looking into it a bit.
The common argument is that Ancestral Recall in modern is not a fair decision from Wizards. Also, if Ponder, Preordain, and Ancestral Vision are banned, why isn't a card comparatively the same or better in power level? However, there are some drastic differences between these two... All of these currently banned cantrips can be cast with just ONE BLUE MANA, so any deck that can make a blue mana can abuse them. Treasure Cruise takes a bunch of cards in the graveyard. There is one glaring deck in the format that can do this consistently, and those are Delver variants.
Delver variants have on average 10 or more cantrips in the mainboard, which is a number that would be illogical in any other kind of deck (except twin, possibly). Sure, Jeskai Control or Twin can fill it's graveyard pretty quickly, but these kind of decks like using reactive spells to grind out value. Delver, comparatively, can generate wins from casting any variation of spells with a Young Pyromancer or Monastery Swiftspear, which is something no other deck does. Name one deck that isn't Delver in modern that plays more than 2 Treasure Cruise, if any, over using Snapcaster Mages.
Also, this strategy is very easily disrupted... Scavenging Ooze, Rest in Peace, Leyline of the Void, Relic of Progenitus, and Tormod's Crypt are all things everybody should already be using in every sideboard.
So, what do all of you think about the banning of Treasure Cruise in the future. I personally think that it is too narrow for most people to use, and that not everybody can consistently throw cards in the graveyard enough to cast it every game. I'm also speculating that it could be an attempt to change the meta a bit for the better... Tarmogoyf just might drop in price because people will be exiling a great majority of their graveyards, as opposed to keeping them around for value.
But I may be wrong, on several fronts, which Is why I'm starting this forum. So please throw your opinions in the comments, and thanks for reading...
ChiefBell says... #1
Why bump this thread?
January 16, 2015 6 p.m.