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In Modern, Golgari Grave-Troll has been banned again alongside Gitaxian Probe. I wasn’t surprised by the removal of Grave-Troll from the format as it made dredge both too consistent and explosive. I would argue that Prized Amalgam would have been a better choice because by taking away Grave-Troll, the deck now has fewer opportunities to kill you using the order of threats within their deck, as opposed to making the deck’s threats less potent. Resulting in a deck that can be just as powerful, but more random. Gitaxian Probe was the much less expected though understandable ban of the two....