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Message: <blockquote data-quote="nightwyrm" data-source="post: 4976823" data-attributes="member: 75542">Wow, one night of sleep and this thread grew by 2 pages. Before 3e, a lot of spells had negative effects. Haste ages everyone by a year. Polymorph et al all requires system shock rolls. Heck, old school fireball and lightning bolt were dangerous to use in confined spaces.  I think if WotC had learned anything from MtG is that a large number of players (expecially more casual players) hates disruption. They hate not being able to play out their game and hate "not doing anything". You bring a heavy disruption deck (permission, land destruction, discard etc.) into in the casual room on MTGO and people will hate you. Those disruption decks were often beatable but they were not fun to play against. They take 20 turns to kill you but you aren't allowed to do anything in those 20 turns. You can call those casual players scrubs or whatever. But WotC knows that those scrubs are the ones who pays their salary.</blockquote>