Quote Originally Posted by Dragonslayer_90 View Post
I'm sure a non-trivial amount of people in the Modern community itself were upset with the banning of Birthing Pod. I know many people who quit because of it. However, there is also a significant segment of the modern community who, while kind of sad to see pod go, also expected it to happen and just accepted it. In other words this periodic banning of the best cards has become a kind of cultural norm/ expectation in the modern community. This is another reason I've sworn off modern at this point until a huge change in the direction of the format happens because I want no part in an non-rotating format where people just blindly accept an unhealthy practice that's only going to kill the format eventually. It's not only because I'm a die hard legacy player that I vehemently reject how Wizards is managing the format. I reject liberal use of bannings for a non-rotating format in a trading card game on principle.
Or maybe there's little reason to no longer play a format just because a deck you don't play got a ban. This might be a reason to not want to further invest in it (e.g. not make any more decks), but unless your deck is directly affected by a ban, there doesn't seem much of a reason to actually quit the format due to it.