@Goaswerfraiejen- I think I got hung up in your backing of Draener's most recent statement (which I have now come to understand was unintentional conflation), because I am finding myself in complete agreement with everything in your last post aside from counterpoint two, in which my use of a dated poll and statistics from a large-scale tournament from separate adjacent years was indeed relevant by illustrating the fact that control archetypes had not only coexisted with Vial in multiple metagames, but had been very healthy. However, from what I gather, Vial was just a superficial example, so the argument is pretty much moot.

Just to clarify my position on the banning— Mental Misstep shouldn't have been banned because the general Legacy metagame with Misstep hadn't reached its end behavior yet due to only being four months old, and therefore, couldn't be adequately assessed. The metagame was also not necessarily unhealthy enough in its current state to warrant a banning.