>>96355850
> easy access to trample
Oh yeah. Because Rage was the only source of that. Worst case scenario, you go to turn 4 and have to offspring manifold mouse to get both trample and double strike. It's still faster than 90% of the decks in the format and it would still be able to turn 3 consistently.
>>96355889
>Without rage
Mice would be dominating the current year format even if rage was the only card banned. You're just bad at MTG if you want to pretend that rage was the only thing making it viable.