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Erm yeah, I mean't to write BS but somehow my brain mixed multiple browser tabs.

I would love to see BS banned solely to see what it would do to the metagame.

High Tide decks in 1999. Frantic search was banned in 1.5 in September '99 when they banned most tutors, mana artifacts etc. responsible for combo winter and it has been on the banned list ever...

Apart from that fact that i don't see how that changes anything, no. TNN ist not a threat, it is an answer to uncounterable removal (Abrupt Decay and Punishing Fire). Decks don't want to play a 3/∞...

Frantic Search is absurdly powerful in Tide. So powerful that one could rather easily drop Time Spiral from the list (maybe not the right thing to do but definitly possible).
Nevertheless I doubt...

You really think that many people that enjoy a format with a few viable decks that change ever couple of month would suddenly permanently jump to a extremly slowly changing format where there are...

Well, that's their own fault. They could just screw the reserved list and print "From the Vault: Forgotten Realms" with all the Duals and Fetches and sell it for 500$ - i'm completly sure they would...