I don ' t want to raze your view of the world but shocker I know is there a a slight possibility that your view of what the removal of Twin did is incorrect ? Let me ask you the following To beat twin you had to be in the meta I don ' t know what you ' re saying here but probably extrapolating that in order to be in the meta you need to be able to beat Twin . All decks have poor matchups . Some against ramp decks , some against Jund , some against Burn , others against Dredge and still others against Infect . Ramp as an archetype is large enough to be more than 12 %. Jund and Junk are more than 12 %. Can you ignore those decks but not Twin ? If so , why ? Please tell me what the removal of Splinter Twin has allowed in more detail rather than parotting blanket statements . What other decks that wouldn ' t otherwise see the light have now broken into Tier 1 or Tier 2 ?