Monkey Business: Fixing Legacy
Delver of Secrets was released ten years ago and has defined Legacy ever since. In roughly ever other iteration of Legacy since 2011, some form of Delver deck has been either one of the best decks or the best deck by such a large margin that something eventually had to be banned. Modern Horizons 2 propelled Delver to broken deck status once again - with so many busted threats that Delver itself is optional now - and the inevitable ban conversation is in full force with heated disagreement over who the real culprit is. The most common target is Ragavan, with some arguments for banning other threats like Murktide Regent instead or as well - Matthew Vook lays out a case for banning just Ragavan here while addressing some broader issues and Anuraag Das makes his own case here. Beyond Ragavan specifically, the common 'ban the threats' argument goes as follows: Legacy, and Delver's role in it, were mostly fine before the power creep of the FIRE/2019-2020 era (starting with War