Flash, Brainstorm, Ponder, and Merchant Scroll were all restricted at the same time (along with one of Gushs nine stays on the restricted list), and the story of one of the more broken strategies in Magics history came to a close
Plenty of decks, be they straightforward Reanimator piles like Terra, Herald of Hope, or dedicated discard decks like Norman Osborn Goblin, can turn this into a positive
Heres what red usually brings to the table: Burn Red is the main color for cards that deal direct damage to targets, and this includes classics like Lightning Bolt and Fireball
The theme for a cube deck will be substantially more vague and thus allow for many more kinds of cards to work in that archetype
Instead, it exiles them from the stack, which also prevents them from resolving similar to countering