It's basically an engine for two mana that can kill Delver, Pyromancer, Strix etc. Good riddance.Wrenn and Six is an interesting one, didn't they they would hit that as quick.
Pauper got Daze, Gush, and Gitaxian Probe all banned in one day earlier this year.Has there ever been as many cards of the same colour banned at once?
I... I can play bigger creatures and artifacts in Standard again?
Its not as big as the affinity ban but that was mostly colorless, all however played on the same strategy so ot was more focused that this green ban.Has there ever been as many cards of the same colour banned at once?
Yeah, agreed. Personally, I think the player base could easily deal with having the rule in Limited but not Constructed.
We had YEARS where EDH used a different mulligan than other formats. I don't see an issue with keeping the London Mulligan for Limited and going back to the Vancoover Mulligan for all constructed formats. "If your deck contains less than 60 cards, do this. Otherwise, do this"
I thought it was fine to test, and worked great in limited, and thought it was smart to use it in a Modern PT AKA the most incentive to break it. Then, the mulligan appeared broken as people were just mulling to 4 every game and winning, and they went "Looks good! Lets keep it!", which was weird!Everyone said I was crazy when I said I was worried about the London Mully but here we are haha
One of the dominant player narratives during the reign of cards like Gideon and Energy was that these overpowered cards would have been a non-issue in many other standards. Wizards of the Coast needs to print some "wow" cards, but in a more powerful standard those "wow" cards are allowed to be splashier for older formats and are more likely to have stuff that keeps them in check.The play design article was mostly nonsense. Having sets not have massive impacts on eternal formats with 500 sets in them should be normal. And the idea that, to cushion the impact of broken cards, they needed to make the whole set broken is absurd. You don't need to print Oko and OUaT to make Gideon Ally of Zendikar acceptable! You can just, you know, not print preposterous PWs at all! And then the whole section on 3-mana PWs and attacking them -- like, how did they not know this? I'm not sure how the F.I.R.E. thing interacts with this stuff. Do they think playing the same planeswalker subgame every match is fun or replayable?
Honestly, I think this was also a warning that you need to be careful about how consistent the early game is. There are some decent answers in standard right now, but so many of them are just too slow for the ridiculously consistent turn 1 Goose, turn 2 Oko. Or turn 1 Edgewall Innkeeper every goddamn game.they want to sell new packs to players who don't play standard or limited
also the london mulligan will never really be the fundamental problem with a format. the problem will always be the lack of interaction and wotc's inability to balance the power of answers vs threats (and play vs draw). london mulligan is a very poor scapegoat for poor balance
they want to sell new packs to players who don't play standard or limited
also the london mulligan will never really be the fundamental problem with a format. the problem will always be the lack of interaction and wotc's inability to balance the power of answers vs threats (and play vs draw). london mulligan is a very poor scapegoat for poor balance
London Mulligan leads to repetitive play patterns, which can't be solved by printing between answers to threats.
Hell, Preordain was basically doing the same thing as Once Upon a Time 8-9 years ago.the london mull is fine if we don't print free card selection.
is not like OUAT would have been fine with the old mulligan rule.
I wish they'd just relegate the stuff for eternal formats to sets like Modern Horizons and Commander releases instead of ramping the power of standard to the moon.
One of the dominant player narratives during the reign of cards like Gideon and Energy was that these overpowered cards would have been a non-issue in many other standards. Wizards of the Coast needs to print some "wow" cards, but in a more powerful standard those "wow" cards are allowed to be splashier for older formats and are more likely to have stuff that keeps them in check.
As a primarily EDH player, I think the format definitely needs a continuous flow of new cards. The recent sets have been good for that and I hope it'll continue in the form of new commanders and new staples/niche power. The thing EDH needs most though is more varied win-cons. I don't feel we have found a good place for that when Green's main win-con is still Craterhoof and Black often still wants to Exsanguinate or Torment.
torment was only printed 3 years ago. I think finale of devastation is a better wincon than craterhoof already.As a primarily EDH player, I think the format definitely needs a continuous flow of new cards. The recent sets have been good for that and I hope it'll continue in the form of new commanders and new staples/niche power. The thing EDH needs most though is more varied win-cons. I don't feel we have found a good place for that when Green's main win-con is still Craterhoof and Black often still wants to Exsanguinate or Torment.
torment was only printed 3 years ago. I think finale of devastation is a better wincon than craterhoof already.
Also my wallet definitely doesn't agree that EDH needs a constant influx of new pushed cards. Heck I'm in the process of cutting my 20 decks down to about 5 since I don't want to have to keep up anymore.
I don't play craterhoof anywhere so that can't happenFinale of Devastation is great until you realize you use it to fetch Craterhoof.
I haven't spent much time theorizing what an alternative green win-con should look like, but it should be something. Variety is the spice of life.
While the cards printed have been bad, this has actually been a great year for WoTC given how much Arena blew up. They've made a lot of mistakes with it which has creating a new whiny fanbase but it's still a massive success.I wasn't expecting them to flat out admit they suck at their jobs but it's not like confirmation was needed that this year was a complete trainwreck for mtg, just mistake after mistake after mistake with no end in sight and I barely touched the game this year, I can't imagine actually playing it. I believe 2019 will be looked back on as "the dark year" where magic players were forced to become cannibals at gunpoint.
" Ultimately, we did not properly respect his ability to invalidate essentially all relevant permanent types, and over the course of a slew of late redesigns, we lost sight of the sheer, raw power of the card, and overshot it by no small margin. "
They claim testing was largely using Elkify on their own food and creatures.Lmao, they're saying they 'didn't realize' the Oko being able to basically invalidate other creatures that could threaten it as a second plus ability was too powerful?
Especially in green, which tends to have big creatures to act as walls of its own? And was just recently given protection from kill/bounce spells?
.....I'm in awe of how inept that comes off as.
They claim testing was largely using Elkify on their own food and creatures.
Which is super embarrassing to claim.
This could have been solved by keeping the plus for your creatures and a minus for opponents.
Oko is just a couple minor number tweaks away from being fine and it sounds like that happened a lot
I guess to be fair, some of the reddit rumors also imply/suggest that Oko was originally limited to only using your own stuff as elk, not any target.
Which....then brings up the question of why the last minute changes that don't seem to get tested enough (which is almost, if not, every design decision that's ended up busted) happened AGAIN, but...who knows.
To be fair, the same could be said for any busted card in the game. So many things are possible and legit in magic, which is why it's infinitely fun, but allowing people to do tricksy shit for no mana cost or have a card early in the game that is essentially giving them infinite value and incredibly hard to remove is BS.