Brian,
Although some of your attitude and behavior has struck the wrong chord with me in the (even recent) past and we've had some words traded back and forth. Both of which I blame on us having a different outlook on acceptable moral behavior and what not, I'm not at all unwilling to complement people when they truly do something worthwhile and deserve it. Although you might see this posts and assuming it's coming from me just skim over it without giving it a second thought. I still wanted to express this.
As opposed as our opinions on various things might be, this article was spot on and very well written. Vintage players in general are extremely stagnant when it comes to new cards (see Jace, The Mind Sculptor, Lotus Cobra and a dozen other cards in the past, I remember a thread about Gifts Ungiven even, and how it was far worse then the just recently restricted FoF and wasn't even playable at all.
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Vintage and even TMD would be a far nicer place if people would just stop complaining about how "Gush, Time Vault, Gifts, FoF, <Insert big bad card>" should be restricted because they can't seem to beat it with their pet deck and actually got up and did some innovation themselves.
Kudo's...
I'm looking forward to reading more of these type of articles from you in the future. Maybe next time I'm in the US at an event we're both at, I'll come and talk to you instead of trying my best to ignore you.
