But at the same time, if we banned every lock card tomorrow, the game would almost certainly be worse off swamped by aggressive brute force combo decks abusing the most uninteractive, explosive lines beyond the ability of any fair deck to react
There is a trust angle here, too, and it has grown more important
Cards like Pidgeot, Blastoise ex, Nidoqueen, and Celios Network were important in that era and garnered the attention that they should for obvious reasons - just read Pidgeots and Blastoise exs PokPowers, for example
This mat was printed in a joint effort between OMA, Andrea, and UltraPro and we are beyond pleased with the end result
The flip effect can be great against some decks, but in Modern, a dud against low creature or no-creature decks, which are common enough