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Growth still gets printed pretty frequently. Pretty sure it's legal in standard right now.

But don't forget all of the other broken stuff blue had from the start: timewalk and timetwister, to name two.

We old people used to joke that the most powerful card printed of all item was "island".

I think it hasn't been playable outside of limited for a very long time though.

Ixalan standard had a powerful monoblue Tempo deck that used Curious Obsession and cheap scry cards to draw a ton while attacking with cheap fliers. I think it was tier 1 actually.

Interesting! I don't really follow standard much to be honest, I was aware of the curious obsession deck but I didn't know that it played giant growth.

Huh. No, sorry, that's a misunderstanding. The monoblue tempo deck didn't play giant growth. I thought you were talking about playing Islands :)

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