The September 20th 2011 Banned / Restricted List Update Reaction Thread

[joemauer]

WotC in legacy

+1

[Michael Keller]

Welcome back, "fun" Legacy! :)

[Julian23]

*sits back and observes what's to come now*
*quite excited*

I'm still a bit sad about Control being pushed out of Legacy again.

[ivanpei]

Ur long live zoo? Blue decks are rightfully weakened again. Stoneblade goes back to countertop now? Yes! Countertop is back!!! God what am I going to do with my foil missteps...

[GGoober]

This is why Modern sucks so bad, even more with the updates i.e. IT IS FUCKING STANDARD/EXTENDED ALL OVER AGAIN. Also, Preordain/Ponder banned further kills control. This is why Modern is the shittiest 'eternal' format with this banlist. You will only have one viable archetype: aggro and tap out control. Maybe someone will break it again with a turn 3 combo (and there exists turn 3 combos e.g. Eggs). WotC is fucking approaching Modern in the wrong light entirely. THey are way too focused on "We do not want turn 1-3 combo decks" and the banlist is immature, and does not consider the potential of the format or what the whole point of Modern is all about.

Also, I'm laughing real hard at the Blazing Shoal speculators lmao. It will always be worth $1-2 at most even if it's a tier-1 deck (which it's not).

Anyway, I'm personally happy for Legacy's decision. I can FINALLY brew some decks and bring back old decks that were fun and viable.

[Mr.C]

Ur long live zoo? Blue decks are rightfully weakened again. Stoneblade goes back to countertop now? Yes! Countertop is back!!! God what am I going to do with my foil missteps...

Yay, my Candelabras are worth money again!

[jrw1985]

MM banned. Cool.

[IsThisACatInAHat?]

Hack of a job, Wizards.

This. For once, whining and demagoguery have trumped reason in the eyes of RnD. Eeeven Mystical is OK in hindsight. If we never had Misstep to start with, it wouldn't be so bad. Now that we've had the taste of a serious eternal format, Misstep's departure is just shitty.

In the realm of formats I don't care about, I've never seen such a hamfisted list of changes as they did with Modern. At least they're making Legacy look better.

[into_play]

This. For once, whining and demagoguery have trumped reason in the eyes of RnD. Eeeven Mystical is OK in hindsight. If we never had Misstep to start with, it wouldn't be so bad. Now that we've had the taste of a serious eternal format, Misstep's departure is just shitty.

In the words of the Simpsons, "If things don't go your way, just keep complaining until your dreams come true."

This banning makes me think that other banned one-drops (Land Tax, Black Vise, etc) will never be coming off, now that the best possible hate is gone.

[Koby]

I don't for the like of me see CB-top being remotely playable in the near future. It still loses to a whole host of mediocre mid-range decks.

[KevinTrudeau]

- Can't say I'm surprised about MMS getting banned. It was the newest card to be made and it caused the biggest changes recently. I'm a bit sad because now we're back to CounterTop -> Storm -> Zoo -> Merfolk -> CounterTop again.

The format leading up to the printing of Mental Misstep was a lot jankier/more diverse than you're giving it credit for.

[clavio]

Stifling Fetchlands looks real good again!

[TheInfamousBearAssassin]

I would rather they had banned Brainstorm, but it seems reasonable enough. What surprises me is that nothing was unbanned. This breaks the policy that had seemed to adopt of keeping the list the same length. It's weird because there were still several completely safe unbanning candidates on that list.

[Goaswerfraiejen]

Awww, fuck. There goes MM. And it was only just printed, too. :(

[DragoFireheart]

The format leading up to the printing of Mental Misstep was a lot jankier/more diverse than you're giving it credit for.

- Well, maybe it's no longer the format of good cards. It's now the format of pet decks: the only viable decks are the ones that people will cry enough about. The precedent set now means that if enough people complain about a card regardless of how objectively good or bad it is, WotC will ban it to appease the masses.

[Deck Dont Matter]

copy and paste of it please

[TheKingslayer]

Fuck.

[joemauer]

I would rather they had banned Brainstorm, but it seems reasonable enough. What surprises me is that nothing was unbanned. This breaks the policy that had seemed to adopt of keeping the list the same length. It's weird because there were still several completely safe unbanning candidates on that list.

Yeah still holding breathe for Mind Twist.....one can dream.

[ivanpei]

Welcome back led! Storm combo alive again? So how does this affect snapcaster mage's effectiveness in legacy?

[Koby]

"There are currently 119 users browsing this thread." LOL

Way OT, but is #thesource still a channel on EFNet?