Type 10

[Shade]

This is, quite simply, a format that utilizes only cards with the new card face (10th Anniversary cards, aka Type "10").  All cards with the old card face are banned, as are any normally non-tourney legal cards (World Championship decks & Unhinged, with the exception of Unhinged basic lands, which are legal).  Promo cards with the new card face, however, are legal (such as Balance, Powder Keg, Accumulated Knowledge, etc.).  No cards are restricted (yet ).

So, what deck would you play in this format?  Affinity seems an obvious choice, but there is also the capability of running a deck with 4 Balances to keep that in check.

Thoughts?

[49 Cents]

So it is like.. A broken T2? Mono U or even U/W seems g00d.. With Brainstorm and 4 balance to fight aggro it's insane..

[Shade]

So it is like.. A broken T2? Mono U or even U/W seems g00d.. With Brainstorm and 4 balance to fight aggro it's insane..

Yeah, currently, it would be T2 with the affinity cards unbanned and the following cards added to the format:

Accumulated Knowledge
Armageddon
Avalanche Riders
Balance
Blastoderm
Brainstorm
Cabal Therapy
Carrion Feeder
Flametongue Kavu
Hermit Druid
Krosan Tusker
Krosan Warchief
Lightning Rift
Mother of Runes
Powder Keg
Phyrexian Negator
Psychatog
Rancor
Reanimate
Seal of Cleansing
Silver Knight
Slice and Dice
Smother
Sparksmith
Time Warp
Treetop Village
Whipcorder
Willbender
Withered Wretch

And, soon, also add:

Duress
Fact or Fiction
Kird Ape

I definitely feel a deck at least splashing white for 4 Balances would be optimal.

[Revvik]

Plus, an early Keg could be pretty good at neutering Affinity.
But it begs the question, would Balance help keep Affinity at bay, or would you rather drop Affinity artifacts, cast Balance, and use Thoughtcast / Brainstorm to help compensate for the fact that you just gave your opponent a much smaller starting hand before they played their first land?

[That0neguy]

Im pretty sure this would just be UW against Clamp Affinity maby even balance in clamp affinity since you could clamp stuff after you drop your hand then balance it away to have your hand back with maby a few threats as well.  You would also be alble to run chrome mox for more balance synergy.