You can instantly drop a dork in size by -1/-1 and a massive -13/-13 if something died that turn
Making your creatures unblockable is good
Fetching here to play around Stifle is no consideration anymore, thanks to Defense Grid
Specifically, were locked out of all the great assassin support cards in the Assassins Creed set
At such a low cost, there arent likely to be quite as many threats out so early in the game, either, making Pinocchio, Star Attraction a way of bursting out of the gate with a lore total that your opponents may struggle to ever catch
Heres an example of the kind of deck that got Mind Twist banned: Creatures (2) Lands (21) Spells (37) 4 Mana Drain 2 Counterspell 4 Swords to Plowshares 1 Sol Ring 1 Regrowth 1 Mind Twist 1 Demonic Tutor 1 Braingeyser 1 Time Walk 1 Ancestral Recall 2 Red Elemental Blast 1 Jayemdae Tome 2 Disrupting Scepter 4 Disenchant 1 Recall 2 Moat 1 Mirror Universe 1 Timetwister 1 Black Lotus 1 Mox Emerald 1 Mox Jet 1 Mox Pearl 1 Mox Ruby 1 Mox Sapphire Thats right, one of the most famous, most influential decks of all-time, The Deck, was a Mind Twist deck until Mind Twist was banned