How many bans we need to fix each format of this god forsaken game?

if I had a nickel for every time in this past month that a black-skinned Vivi ruined something I love, I'd have two nickels.

if I had a nickel for every time in this past month that a dark-skinned Vivi ruined something I love, I'd have two nickels.

You work for multimillionaire international company designing cards, you make pic related and you know will sell like hotcakes, but you have to past the balance team that will evaluate your work. What’s the excuse you give to them to let you print this card?

>>96294762
Non-EDH player here, I have a quick question for everybody in this thread, how has pic related been perceived in the context of EDH so far? Is he broken? Weak? How does it compare to Nadu?

>>281258669
He's got a red card and two blue cards and keeps cucking Brief out of his attacks. Suggesting he's playing Izzit goodstuff. Probably a Vivi commander deck.
Brief has a red a blue and a black card, suggesting Grixis. It's hard to tell if he's a Nekusar basic bitch or lean into his nerd cred and build Sauron, the Dark Lord. Or if he also leans into the vidya UB commanders and built Edward Kenway.

>>96171574
Honestly the only deck I see strong right now is whatever plays this motherfucker.
He avoided bans I don’t know how. (Well we all know it’s because he comes from Final Fantasy)

>>714659613
Quake and Katamari
also the longass FFIX run, even if it's not as good as his ESA one from years ago

They are gonna ban Vivi right? I would just hate to play it against more sweaty old fags that can't but play solitaire at 0.25x normal play speed and need to take a 20 min. turn just to combo play all his spellslinging and storm.

TQ sucks, real TQ:
>are your FF cards as powerful as you thought they'd be?

Vivi Edition

>Bans
https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/announcements/banned-and-restricted-announcement-march-31-2025

>News
The 2025 MagicCon and Pro Tour Schedule:
https://www.magic.gg/news/the-2025-magiccon-and-pro-tour-schedule

Odenheimer, Gruul Aggro, Wins Magic Spotlight: Foundations:
https://articles.starcitygames.com/magic-the-gathering/odenheimer-gruul-aggro-wins-magic-spotlight-foundations/

>Spoilers
http://www.magicspoiler.com/
https://mythicspoiler.com/

CONSTRUCTED RESOURCES
>Current meta, complete with deck lists
https://www.mtgtop8.com/
https://www.mtggoldfish.com/metagame/
>Build and share casual decks
https://deckstats.net/
https://tappedout.net/

CUBE RESOURCES
>Build and share Cubes
https://cubecobra.com/landing

CARD RESOURCES
>Search engines
https://scryfall.com/
https://mtg.wtf/
>Proxy a deck or a cube for cheap
https://www.makeplayingcards.com/
https://pastebin.com/9Xj1xLdM
>Play online for free
https://untap.in/
https://dr4ft.info/

>What is EDH?
https://vocaroo.com/1ihc21gJLBh1

>WotC's War Crimes
https://pastebin.com/JRYDiAjq (OLD)
https://pastebin.com/nEcKGAys (NEW)

>Previously
>>95851992

>TQ
Now that the dust has settled, was FF a failure or a success?