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<blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 7725074" data-attributes="member: 4937">I don't know that a random deck of older cards would not also defeat your hurloon minotaur deck as well, simply on average quality.&nbsp;&nbsp; And certainly, any modern deck you come across would be constructed, just as older decks were and no one still in magic is playing the meta of those first few days or months after the game was introduced, when packs were hard to find and people were talking about how $20 for a black lotus was ridiculous.&nbsp;&nbsp; The first and only time I deployed Hurloon Minotaurs on purpose, was when I had but two starter decks of Revised era cards.&nbsp; &quot;Power Creep&quot; in those terms, is best defined as me simply buying more cards since, even at the time I could have replaced what I had with things that were strictly or practically better since as a point of fact, the uncommon and rare creatures of the time (much less those of some distant future) were also better than those early common cards.&nbsp;&nbsp; The truth is your hurloon minotaur decks, with your benalish heros and prodigal sorcerers would have lost in a hurry to an real deck back then as well, and the limited meta you observed on the playground and the childish strategies employed there doesn't change that.&nbsp; &nbsp; I am the only one that has actually quoted a textbook definition of Power Creep.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Celebrim, post: 7725074, member: 4937"] I don't know that a random deck of older cards would not also defeat your hurloon minotaur deck as well, simply on average quality. And certainly, any modern deck you come across would be constructed, just as older decks were and no one still in magic is playing the meta of those first few days or months after the game was introduced, when packs were hard to find and people were talking about how $20 for a black lotus was ridiculous. The first and only time I deployed Hurloon Minotaurs on purpose, was when I had but two starter decks of Revised era cards. "Power Creep" in those terms, is best defined as me simply buying more cards since, even at the time I could have replaced what I had with things that were strictly or practically better since as a point of fact, the uncommon and rare creatures of the time (much less those of some distant future) were also better than those early common cards. The truth is your hurloon minotaur decks, with your benalish heros and prodigal sorcerers would have lost in a hurry to an real deck back then as well, and the limited meta you observed on the playground and the childish strategies employed there doesn't change that. I am the only one that has actually quoted a textbook definition of Power Creep. [/QUOTE]

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