Back in the days, you didn’t have to get internet access to check a card wording. You just read the card and played it. Although it was not impossible to have someone around who had printed the erratas, and that one applied, you mostly just played your cards fair and square (except on the “edges“).

But then difference in powers emerge among the different versions of a card, and -oh surprise- they’re not necessarily all in favor of the older, pimper cards. In order not to spoil the fun for the millions who intend to play Original Type II the way it’s meant to be, I won’t reveal the most competitive one -even if only a few people play the format by the old rules, it should still be a joy to search and find those edges and I wouldn’t want to prevent that, but yes, there is some very advantageous versions of ogt2-legal cards (though probably Rule abuse-worthy in some cases). Omitting those, there’s still a lot to do with.

Why ? Well, Conversion, duh ! And RTFC by the way : “If a spell alters one of these land types, the other land is unaffected.” So any revised mountains dual, would still conserve its non-mountain half in presence of a Conversion -although it wouldn’t be of any use for Plateau of course, still Volcanic Island, Badlands, Taiga are half conversion-proof. And since Magical Hack exists, it is actually each dual-land which is improved in the Revised version.

So what’s the difference, you ask ? Your ABU elves can be altered by a Sleight of Mind to give purple mana, dummy. Also with the older ones, you can use it as an instant, so it asks you not to forget to specify that you use it as an interrupt : an excessively demanding card. You’d have to be insane to play that.

Well, what are you gonna do ? Clap your hands if the pimp plays that one, then wait until he tries to bring it back from the graveyard at which point you try not to laugh when you inform him that he’ll have to pay 2 black to get his 1/1, since he didn’t want to play a cheap revised in its stead 🙂 That’s like the the pimp tax, only in reverse ! Justice is served. You’re welcome.

Actually, there wasn’t much white enchantments beside the circles to impair like that at the time, but still, wouldn’t miss an opportunity to say it : duh.

That one isn’t helpful in ogt2 to my knowledge. But in type I, the revised version did neutralize Cursed Rack. And when Necropotence would be released, it would make its controller skip their discard phase to get their necro-cards during their discard phase, so while Necro would be unplayable with a Revised LoL, you’d probably wouldn’t want to play both anyways since Necro is for spike/competitive decks. Conversely.. what about making the Necro players skip that phase ? Now that would be fun ! Juxtapose + Revised LoL let you do that. And considering their way out of it is a Nev’s Disk, you can just wait until they play it to do the exchange (helped in that by the fact that if they were to make you discard the Juxtapose, the LoL would let you put it back to the top of your library) and seal the game with a big grin on your non-pimp face !