I understand the point you're making Ket, but honestly, what is the difference between choking and disabling your opponents ability to play minions, via lack of twilight, and discarding your opponents minions before they can play them? In my opinion, choking and discarding go hand in hand and either ban them both or don't ban either of them (from decipher's POV since aside from gentelman's agreements I don't think TLHH has banned anything). Honestly how many times have you played against a dwarf/sauron discard deck and couldn't play anything because you had no cards. Choke is the same thing, you can't play anything because you have no twilight. I've been on the wrong end of chokes and discards.
Trust me when I tell you the feeling of, "arg I can't play anything" is present in both a choke game and a discard game.
