>>Our last banned and restricted announcement was roughly three months ago, shortly after the release of Aetherdrift. At that time, Standard was looking fun and healthy.
>It's very challenging to predict what will happen to the metagame after it's banning, but we have concerns that the format may drift back to the format as it existed previously.
WHY WOULD YOU HAVE CONCERNS ABOUT IT REGRESSING TI THE PRIOR STATE, IF YOU THINK THE PRIOR STATE WAS FUN AND HEALTHY WOTC.
WHY WOULD YOU HAVE THOSE CONCERNS, WOTC?!
IT WAS FUN AND HEALTHY, WOTC. YOU JUST SAID IT WAS.