Why can't Lightning Bolt be printed in standard? I feel like you always say it "warps the format", but with how powerful a ton of cards are in standard right now, the idea that getting 3 damage for 1 mana would be a problem when none of the other cards that get printed are feels laughable to me.
“Why Thing X?”
“<reason>.”
“But what if we ignore <reason”?”
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You not believing it warps the format doesn’t stop it from warping the format.
This isn’t even speculation. We actually brought Lightning Bolt back to Standard, and it didn’t go well.
The problem with cheap removal is it greatly limits what creatures can be constructed viable.