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A case could be made that there was no greater skill tester than Disrupting Scepter, but not because it forced your opponent to make hard decisions

Even a Spiritomb with 10HP left on your turn isn't safe though, since Crobat G can pluck it

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They also realized there wasn't much they could do about older formatsif you are going to keep printing cards, you simply can't test every synergy in every format, especially older formats where all of the cards in Magic 's history are legal, so bans in Legacy and restrictions in Vintage would still happen from time to time, but Standard, with careful set design, could be a ban-free zone

Mill doesn't affect the board, which means that it's very hard for your cards to do anything else if your primary strategy doesn't work out