How Far We've Come...

Uncounterable way to tutor equipment out of your deck, and get it into play?  We had a way to do it in the original Mirrodin block!  Why wasn't this the basis of the #1 deck in standard at the time?  That is a question I'll leave up to the reader to determine.  I mean, T-N S is a full +1/+1 better after all...