Editing Arabian Nights (section)

=== Shahrazad ===
[[File:Shaharazad.jpg|Turbo-Fog? Bitch please.]]

The first of a very short list of cards banned from every tournament format, everywhere, forever. It was grotesquely abusive and lent itself to all manner of awful strategies. Matches would take forever and often go to time. Due to weird rulings that are no longer in place, if 1 card got removed from a subgame, it was removed from the games above it. It was even took up to much playing space because the initial game needed left alone while the players played a subgame near by. During this time Arabian Nights featured no deck or card limits. It was theoretically possible to construct a deck of nothing but [http://magiccards.info/query?q=!Mox+Pearl Mox Pearls] and Shahrazads, trapping your opponent in an infinite fractal nightmare of subgames. If they didn't concede they would usually lose at game number 5^7 from deck attrition. Also, with the old mulligan rule, the deck's opponents couldn't mulligan to lower their starting hand size (simultaneously increasing their library's starting hand size). Lastly, with the old mulligan rule, it worked by revealing all the cards in your hand and if you had all lands or all non-lands you could mulligan (once per game). Shahrazad is probably [[Richard Garfield]]'s favorite card, and he thinks it is a reasonable card... for casual play, but will admit (without being asked) that a card like this has no place in competitive play [https://youtu.be/eSfqLdsMK30?t=3m30s]. Also casting Shahrazad in a subgame is a flavor win. A Thousand and One Nights had stories within stories, going even 6 or 7 layers deep.