Quote Originally Posted by LOLWut View Post
It's less clear to me. Maybe they listened to mass bitching. Maybe they listened to the clamorous voices of influential people. Maybe they listened to results of big tournaments. And, I'm sure the other banned cards provoked much bitching before the ban, and had similar lack of clarity regarding the cause of the ban, mass bitching, or otherwise. To my knowledge, mass bitching has never been cited as the motivator.
Until now. Aaron Forsythe said that he had heard complaints through twitter. Not to mention the "Ban Sensei's Top" sign at wotc that was posted last week.

They listened to vocal complainers rather than data. Miracles was a good deck for a long time but its share of the field was not as high as most decks that were previously hit with bannings.

Killing Miracles isn't about data or the deck winning too often and forcing players to choose it (because we've seen that happen in the past with much more dominant decks than Miracles). It's banned and an archetype is killed because it was a control strategy, because it countered cards, and because people whined.