The inevitable truth about SoR is that in the long run, it is only a turn delay, if that. The only reason it was ran was because there were not many other options to slow other decks down.
That changed with 3sphere, and since then SoR has only seen play in the odd deck or two (none spring to mind, but I remember for a fact seeing it at least once).
The sad fact of the matter, is that with SoR, sure people groaned but they moved on and overcame to it (or were beaten by the opponents deck itself) where as I have seen person after person scoop to a 3sphere. Agreed it is a pain, but not something that is unbeatable. Get creative, find answers that work for your deck, and work around it - it is possible
