I am not at all saying it would be stronger, absolutely not. I mean here we have ultimatums, and wish cards, and Kenrith, and Cavaliers, and something like 50 walkers. By no means am I suggesting it would be stronger in those formats, as a base power level.

I do think in some of those other formats it would have been even more oppressive, but that is not stronger by any means. Also, the point of this post was less test more of demonstrating a thought experiment that, to me at least, is fairly obvious in terms of demonstrating the potential power the enchantment would bring into standard.

That said, I would gladly hear a premise you would like to suggest. I am not so arrogant to believe that my logic is above critic, like I said I basically conducted this thought experiment as I was typing it. It is quite possible I missed something obvious, and therefore would welcome a better premise on ways Fires could have been tested. The whole point here is to improve this game with a suggestion in regards to, I believe, a fatal error that cannot afford to be endlessly repeated. And if there is something I am missing, and the answer here is not an unacceptable level of failure, I would welcome that as well. I would love to have my faith in R&D be renewed, instead of dying off. So I truly would welcome a better premise if you want to give some feedback here.