Dig Through Time
"Drawing two cards from seven options at instant speed for three mana violates fundamental power level boundaries. This effect far exceeds acceptable rates for card selection and advantage in the format. The ability to sculpt perfect hands at instant speed while maintaining full mana for interaction represents an unacceptable convergence of efficiency and flexibility.
Even strategies that struggle to enable the full delve cost reduction routinely cast this spell for three to five mana, still achieving rates well beyond acceptable thresholds. The combination of deep selection, instant timing, and cost reduction creates a perfect storm of advantages that warps deck construction and gameplay patterns around its exploitation.
The card's mere existence invalidates fair card advantage options and pushes control and combo strategies beyond sustainable power levels.
Key ban reasons:
- Provides excessive card selection at an undercosted rate
- Instant speed timing enables unfair end-of-turn advantage
- Delve mechanic makes the effect too easily accessible
- Seven-card selection depth exceeds acceptable design boundaries
- Warps format around strategies that can best exploit it
- Invalidates fair card draw options through sheer efficiency
Dig Through Time must be banned to restore appropriate costs for card advantage and selection effects."
