Deafening Silence

Card Drawing Restrictions

Shouldn't "each opponent can't draw more than one card a turn" type effects be white? It's the color that wants everyone to play fair after all. It's also the color that wants to set rules (Ethersworn Cannonist, Rule of Law, Deafening Silence). It even started in white with Spirit of the Labyrinth. What caused that ability to shift to blue (the color that already has the most ways to gain card advantage anyways)? It feels like Hullbreacher and Narset should be white cards and not blue.

The effect can be in white, but it’s also home in blue.

Blue Card Draw Colors Deafening Silence Hullbreacher Rule of Law Rules Spirit Spirit of the Labyrinth White

White's Stack Disruption

Why is White better at disrupting Blues normal stratagies then either Red or Green? Deafening Silence, Orims Chant, Silence, Spirit of the Labyrinth, Aven Mindcencor, Rule of Law to name a few. White has many other cards that limit or restrict playing the game on the stack, drawing cards etc.

Instants and sorceries aren’t inherently a blue thing. All the colors have access to them.

Blue Card Draw Colors Deafening Silence Green Instants Red Rule of Law Rules Sorceries Spirit Spirit of the Labyrinth The Stack White

Stack Interaction Opinions

Given the extreme effort that has been tsken too to invalidate counter spells, instants and generally dealing with the stack with Teferi, Time Raveler, Veil of Autumn and now Deafening Silence; is there a forward push to eliminate stack interaction?

Extreme effort? You must think we really, really hate creature strategies. : )

Creatures Deafening Silence Instants Spells Teferi, Time Raveler The Stack

Deafening Silence Critique

I detest Deafening Silence as someone who likes noncreature spells and spells that copy other spells. Considering many of those copy effects are in Red - e.g. Increasing Vengeance, Fork, Reverberate - which has absolutely no recourse in-color to deal with enchantments (like Deafening Silence), it feels like it majorly hoses those types of fun red cards and is very uninteractive where it has that effect. To balance this with something positive, Fervent Champion is delightful.

Magic shines because it makes a wide variety of threats and a wide variety of answers. One of the downsides of playing a monocolor deck is you are more vulnerable to certain threats as not every color has every answer,

Champion Colors Deafening Silence Enchantments Fervent Champion Increasing Vengeance Monocolor Non-creatures Red Reverberate Spells

RG Hasty Sloth?

Could we get an RG hasty sloth?

In the Oxymoron set along with the Giant Shrimp, Deafening Silence & Open Secret. : )

Deafening Silence Giant Gruul (R/G) Sloth

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