May all of you pushing for the unrestricting of Vise meet a newbie with a hand of Vise and Stipmine/Wasteland one day. In our gloriously swingy format, there is no need to increase the number of luck wins.
I understand the logic here. Damage doesn't matter. Decks that deal damage over several turns lose to decks that just win. Lock first the kill. All true.
BUT
If Black Vise were a murderer I'd not parole the %@%@#%^@# even if he is 87. Vise is the Smallpox of Magic. There might be worse things out there now, but there is no advantage to releasing it.
It's not as if there aren't worse cards on the B&R list.
Ok so some newbie is able to slaughter a terrible deck. This would not bother me. A workshop deck would take three then drop mox land lock peice. A control deck probably would not waste force of will on vice. This speeds up only red sligh strategies which are unviable because Chalice @ 1 owns then. Most disruption is discard which would shut off vice. I don't think it matters whether or not vice stays restricted or not because it isn't a useful card.