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Ohh, the salty bittersweet taste of Nerdrage Tears (that's the new name for my Vanilla Ice tribute act btw)...
No changes doesn't surprise me. Legacy has just settled down from the previous bannings, Vintage seems to be adapting to Paradoxical Outcome (the new U/W Legend seems to be helping) and Modern, well, who really cares?
"Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted." - John Lennon
nothing on faithless looting in modern :( at least they could have said what was their intentions in the future for that card (nothing / watchlist / ...)
Announcement is on 5/20, any predictions?
Faithless Looting was heavily under the radar for Modern, but I think Phoenix and Dredge decks have dropped considerably since the last announcement. They are both still popular decks but the meta-share of Phoenix is dropping to a safe level I think. The London mulligan test in, um, London, resulted in Humans taking 3/8 slots, Tron 2/8, with Phoenix, Valakut, and Affinity rounding out t8. I think the decision will be that the new London mulligan takes effect at the 5/20 announcement, effective for the upcoming MC.
I'm still very skeptical of what the London mulligan will do for Legacy. While I don't think the sky is falling I think the format will take on a different identity, and I'm not looking forward to playing against Chalice decks multiple rounds in every tournament. It's a little ironic that the goal of change is prevent non-games but in Legacy it will make non-game decks like Moon Stompy more prevalent, thereby making more non-games. Limited, Standard, even Modern, have at it. Once you hit Legacy/Vintage I think there will be a significant impact that won't be quite so positive.
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I've played north of a hundred matches since the London Mulligan hit MTGO. Chalice is still not that common (anecdotal, I know). The decks that "abuse" the London Mulligan best might get a slight bump in game one, but almost all of these decks lose so many points games 2 and 3 that really the overall difference in performance is quite small.
So we have BS, Ponder, Surgical in more than 50% of the decks.
And the new Muligan rule will favor Combo and Xerox decks.
If CotV will be more played than usually Decay will make a come back.
Time will tell.
I think thalia/non-combo thoughtseize decks will be hit worst long term. It will be so easy to t1 combo or t1 chalice that you'll need to be on those plans or fow. Not sure on how it will affect bans...
By the way, does anyone know why frantic search is banned? I can’t figure out, outside of high tide decks, why it’s banned.
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IIRC, Frantic Search was never Legacy legal, so the answer is "because it was restricted in Vintage at the time Legacy was created as a format."
As to why it's still banned though, well, I'd guess it is that no one at Wizards sees much value in unbanning it.
"The Ancients teach us that if we can but last, we shall prevail."
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I believe Karn, the Great Creator will be the next card to hit the banlist in Legacy and Modern, and the restricted list in Vintage.
Card is straight busted in every constructed format except Standard...
- 'Pathy' on MTGO
- Eastern PA player
Several of the other cards in the ban list are ostensibly only usable in one kind of deck. What kind of deck does Flash get used in?
It sees fringe play in Nourishing Lich as a way to make 3 5/5 tokens EOT with Worldspine Wurm
Gitaxian Probe is banned and you ask about this? Free spells are good. Free spells that can net extra mana or enable graveyard tricks are even better. It's banned in Pauper too.
Originally (birth of Legacy), it was banned for being too good in combo: High Tide, Academy, Storm, Reanimator, Replenish... Now there's just no fair reason to unban it. It would do nothing to improve the health of the format or open design space for fair decks.
Honestly haven't played much legacy, but the format seems to be stable if not straight up boring right now. Don't think anything needs to be banned right now although the normal shit like BS is still clearly busted. I still don't see why we don't get an unban on something bad. What was the last card that got unbanned that has had any impact at all?
Depends on what "any impact" means, but I think the last really influential unban was Entomb in 2009.
2010 saw Grim Monolith, Illusionary Mask and Time Spiral unbanned but Monolith and Spiral are only fringe playables. 2012 saw Land Tax unbanned, to no impact. 2015 saw Worldgorger Dragon and Black Vise unbanned, to no impact.
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