On September 28 Wizards of the Coast announced that Dig Through Time would be banned in Legacy and restricted in Vintage. This is something many of us expected to happen. I hoped the card to be banned prematuraly but that did not happen. We had to wait for the normal official announcement. During the period which started with the bannings of Treasure Cruise and ended 2nd/7th of October I actually started to get used to Dig Through Time to some extent. I included it in my 4c Delver deck in two copies even though sometimes I just had the urge to play 4 of those. One or two would get ditched into Force of Will most of the time but the one that would actually resolve would be awesome (usually). This card saved me many times from utterly dying to some combo deck be it Show and Tell or ANT/TEPS.
When I was in Utrecht some time ago though I faced Dig Through Time all day and most decks that ran it were UR Omni-Tell decks. At that tournament I remembered how I hated the card after it was announced that it won't be banned alongside Treasure Cruise. Everyone was trying to abuse the card. I thought I would tear my hair off waiting for someone to resolve Dig Through Time. It was always a very devastating experience. That is the reason I stopped playing Jund altogether because just this single card kind of killed the deck. But even when playing blue I felt the same way. I played against Miracles finally hoping to be able to either play something or swing for lethal...and then BAM... Dig Through Time and the game was over.
When I used to play against Show and Tell decks I was quite fine with it before Dig Through Time happened. One could simple counter the Show and Tell and even with Omniscience in play it was possible that the Show and Tell player wouldn't find what he needed. But with Dig Through Time I knew I straight lost. Adding red to the deck just worsened the Omni-Tell nightmare. That was the time when I started to hate Dig Through Time once again. Whenever someone played Dig Through Time against me and it resolved I felt really bad. I felt miles behind and many times I just couldn't keep up unless I played my own Dig Through Time. Blue decks became more frequent and many players just prepared to play Omni-tell at bigger tournaments. This is something that should not be happening and I'm glad this card got banned.
The banning of the card though means that I have to abandon this deck and say goodbye to it. I will still be playing 4c but I will join the ranks of those players playing Tarmogoyf - a card I'd rather avoid - but it seems that now legacy needs powerful cards, the more the better.
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