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This is why I am critical of modern wotc printing practices starting with the masters sets and haven't purchased any product in years. They saw that the secondary market was pricing cards very high...

I assume it is something like pro play was their attempt to foster personalities that could be good ambassadors for the game, specifically in marketing. This was traditionally the case with how pro...

They are kind of stuck now, they cant un-print the cards they did, and I doubt they would ban them because consumers really hate when the power level is lowered. Its like when Patrick Sullivan made...

Talking about what should and shouldn't be banned doesn't really matter when the design paradigm of legacy essentially forces any new cards to be borderline bannable if they want to see any real...

Covid aside, iirc they said 2019 was their best year yet, they have been growing yoy for a while. Arena is hitting its stride now their marketing team is going into overdrive with all these special...

Maybe that just doesn't matter, from what I have seen mtg seems to be more popular than ever. They can cycle from broken format to broken format, banning busted cards after they have sold their...

I think that 50% is actually historically relatively low/average, the lowest I remember was when maverick was top tier, I think around when ZEN came out, when brainstorm was around 40% iirc. The...

I think non competitive archetypes are usually non competitive because they either lack the consistency or power, the problem lies in printing cards that address those issues that dont fit into the...

I think there is a general misunderstanding of the 'debate' that dominates this thread. The discussion is mostly between a group of realists that see that brainstorm is untouchable and idealists that...

Brainstorm + Fetchlands are never getting banned, I assume it is the hill that maro will die on with regards to legacy. This was decided long ago, and the format has since been warped around the...

Well considering they develop sets a couple years in advance this will probably continue for another year, if War of the Spark was start and they immediately decided to shift gears afterwards.

If people are fine with a format where 4c good stuff is a thing, I don't think 5c good stuff isn't that much different, or even 5c with blood moon, it is basically what blue players want. People...

I pretty much agree with your sentiment that it has moved relatively in the right direction. I remember making a post probably a year or so back in this thread about them needing to print things that...

Well the main takeaway is that legacy players can basically be separated into people that like the format because of the large card pool, who would enjoy blue not having a monopoly on card selection...

All it takes is a Matt Nass to run the tables a couple times with it at some high level tournaments to earn the ire of ban hammer.

The only way I see is to give card selection/ interaction of equivalent power to other colors, since that is the only powerful thing that blue wouldn't co-opt since they already have a plethora of...

You're right, I wasn't necessarily making an argument for or against anything, but just stating that it is natural for the format to progress the way that it has. The design 'restriction' of cantrips...

Cantrips see the most play because they are the most flexible and most accommodating, and by association their access to counterspells, and every other good blue thing makes the package way, way more...

I think either need to nerf blue creatures, nerf blue spells or buff non blue card selection. It used to be either good spells or good creatures, but since blue has access to both now they probably...

The issue is probably that it outclasses every other shell that tries to do the same thing (CA/consistency), the other options are things like loam/ library, then other things like bob/ looting/...

Legacy isn't dying it is just changing to become more of a spike format than a johnny format, mostly through power creep that has made it difficult for such strategies to flourish.

I pretty much agree with that, but it also makes me wonder why portent was essentially unplayable (and largely still is outside of miracles), I assume part of it was that the value of consistency...

Its just that we have reached a convergence where Blue almost has direct access to the best of everything, and what it doesn't it can splash fairly easily and brainstorm is the best card in the...

When Canadian thresh first came onto the scene it had to run green beaters because blue had shit all to offer and barely had enough blue to make force work. Now blue has one of the best aggressive...

It depends on how neutered you think blue decks would become if such a ban occurred. Historically (maybe a little less than a decade ago) when cantrip shell decks comprised a significantly smaller...