Shax wrote:
I'm sorry to say, but any argument that you can come up with to make it seem like Vedlion Clique is more broken than Dralnu is invalid for a couple of reasons. One, is that I can run the same idenical deck list a Vedlilion Deck can run because Dralnu is blue. And the fact that I get to run Demonic Tutor, which in any given case will give me an advantage if it resolves running the same list against you, would give me an upper hand. Another is Yawgmoth's Will, or any broken Black Spell that fits the criteria of game winner in EDH. Black is too strong of a color to not take top seat in any format where it's most powerful spells are legal. Ask anyone who plays with tutors or broke spells, they'll most likely be playing black.
This is a fallacious argument simply because you believe you can take the MUC shell, copy-paste it into any blue-based general, and it will still work. It doesn't. The reason Clique is broken and Dralnu isn't mainly is because of stack control. You're stuck having to cast Dralun during your main phase, which is pretty much a death sentence against another blue-based control deck. Clique's flash + much cheaper cost means it can effectively cast everything at instant speed all the time, making sure it controls the stack the way it wants.
Dralnu is good, but he is not a kill card by himself. As a result, you have to devote slots into your main deck to actually killing your opponent. These devoted slots could be used for more countermagic and extra utility, but countering 15+ spells isn't actually a win condition unless you're banking on someone to just ragequit on MWS. Since Clique functions as a very effective win condition, there's no need for the Clique player to weigh down their deck with those types of cards. Clique decks are literally nothing but a heavy density of countermagic, card draw, some bounce, and other miscellaneous utility cards. Clique doesn't just have better stack control against wannabe MUxC decks. It also gets to run a greater volume of counterspells to make sure it wins counterwars.
This isn't even taking into account Dralnu's extreme vulnerability due to his Lich effect. If Clique gets killed some how, you just recast it again and wreck your opponent's hand once more in the process. When Dralnu gets damaged, you're busted. And before you go "LOL just counter it", I'd like to hear you say that when your Dralnu gets
Banefired, targeted by
Mouth of Ronom, a kicked
Molten Disaster goes off, or burn spell X is paid through Boseiju.
Finally, I encourage you to play in one of the MTGS EDH tourneys that are run over there before you start immediately assuming that the ban list is flawed. For instance Rofellos actually isn't as broken as people think, mainly because people actually run 1-2 CMC spot removal that no one in multiplayer plays with. Other decks like Braids and Erayo also aren't that broken because when you remove broken fast mana like Sol Ring and Mana Crypt, they are much more "fair" generals. When Vendilion Clique is removed from the picture, you get a healthy, fostering metagame with all sorts of effective and viable strategies that don't have blue as their primary color.