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Interesting that they chose to use modern rules for premodern. I recently tried to play my oldschool Rock and Madness decks against one of my rather weak standard decks and got absolutely trounced. Partly due to power creep of course, but the rules change made these decks obsolete. I still find premodern intriguing, but it seems like the meta there can not be the same as it was before mirrodin.

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Yes its not the same. For example a Mishra's Factory can block and then tap itself to pump and blocks as a 3/3. This was not the case back in the day.

I still very much prefer modern rules compared to the message they were in the early to mid 90s

I agree the modern rules are better.

Mogg Fanatic was massively nerfed in the modern rules though, which is sad, because it was such an iconic part of the monored deck. (It used to be able to sac itself and deal 1 in combat trade)

I played Tempest block, I remember! But it's still good enough nowadays to see play in the Sligh deck of Premodern

Back when the stack had been introduced to the game rules, and combat damage still used the stack to resolve/apply, is when the rules were the most fun to me.

No card has ever been nerfed as hard as that.

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