Or, the player may use a card with Magic: The Gathering Menace to attack a weaker one
Moving forward, the worst-case scenario of bannings will hopefully be less likely because with these hate cards and hosers, the Standard format will have the necessary tools to self-correct and fix itself before drastic action is needed
[61] It also introduced the "last-in first-out" (LIFO) timing system that in a similar form is still used in the game today, instead of spells being simultaneously resolved as they were in earlier editions
If you are playing against a counterspell-heavy control deck, Cathartic Reunion gets worse, and you can consider siding it out
Whether that's a good thing or not, I'll leave it up to the reader, but having games progress and end in improbable, redundancy-ignoring ways sounds pretty delightful to me
Its also one final opportunity for players to activate instant spells and abilities, following the stack system as normal