Same question here '<| sep |> Smooth is not subjective . <| sep |> Understood . But , let ' s be fair and acknowledge that even if Twin were still legal , it would not be the only deck that people played . I wasn ' t advocating for an entirely equal playing field , but merely commenting on the idea that having a deck that has actual game against mostly anything is wrong for the format sounds absurd to me . Second , it doesn ' t just ' autowin ' against every other deck in the format . Jund , Grixis ControlDelver , and Abzan would beat up Twin regularly . The whole point of building ' Tier 1 ' decks is so that you ideally , have a chance to compete throughout the 15 rounds of a tournament . That ' s what Twin was all about . I just don ' t agree with the idea that variance is a good thing in a competitive environment . The inherent nature of Magic makes that an impossible thing to ignore , because , literally , it is entirely possible for someone to get mana screwed every single round of a tournament . I think removing variance as much as possible is what any organizationcompany promoting and marketing a competitive product should be aiming for , and Wizards most recent that I can recall attempt at doing that is with the new mulligan rules . The odds of winning with the new mulligan system is significantly better than it was before , so there was a conscious attempt at closing the gap in variance , if you were to take a mulligan . This all goes back to the idea that shooting for variance is a plan of Wizards . Maybe it is ? I haven ' t looked for any statements from Wizards themselves advocating this , and it wouldn ' t make any logical sense that they would , especially for their competitive scene which is what the BR list exclusively exists for in the first place but I may be wrong . Perhaps I am misinterpreting what you ' re trying to say ?