We had actually talked about pushing it off, but it played so well and was such a perfect character fit that we decided to leave it
There's standalone strong cards like Foundation Breaker and Shriekmaw, and good support cards like Risen Reef and Omnath, Locus of the Roil
What Scout the City offers in exchange, however, is the flexibility of also being a hard removal spell
Whether the card gets banned depends entirely on whether the metagame can adapt but in the short term, this is the most impactful competitive card in the set
Thanks to this, as the game continued to grow, meeting the sheer demand has become challenging
Flare of Denial in particular is another potentially free counterspell that can hit any spell type