No Changes Day

>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

>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
>>95973661

>TQ
How many formats will get No Changes today?

UNBAN HIM IN PIONEER COWARDS
UNBAN HIM!!!!

here's the link if anyone wants to keep refreshing the page in a few hours
https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/announcements/banned-and-restricted-announcement-june-30-2025

IT'S OUT
HAHAHA STANDARDKEKS LOSE AGAIN

F L O U R I S H I N G

Flourishing status?

>>95983833
???????

No way it's real

>>95983886
Flour Isshin

Is it even worth it to get into magic these days? Would like to start playing some cards

>>95983952
no

>>95983952
They just killed standard

>>95983952
Only if you want to play EDH. Which is not the real Magic, but it's what everyone is playing, making it the real Magic. If nobody is playing the real Magic, what's left being played becomes the real Magic.

>>95983952
Good card game formats to play nowadays:
Magic - Pauper / Pre Modern
One Piece - Standard (Only one they got)
Yugioh - Edison

If your LGS has any of these I'd reccomend getting into card games. If not, only if you have good friends going in with you

why did they ban roots but nothing else?

It was the root of all problems.

>STANDART KEKS
HAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHHA

>>95983990

They should bring fetchlands in Standard next year. The format is as fast as eternal formats

>>95984010
No its considerably faster
Eternal formats have interaction that slows down the game. You can't die on turn 3 to a combo that loses to force of negation, or to aggro eating solitudes and swords

holy shit they banned Omniscience and basic Mountain in Standard

how many hours until bans so we can stop trusting the baiting retards

>>95983922
>arena
Here's the thread you're looking for
>>95969033

>>95984034
17,520 hours at least

>>95984034
The bans always go up at 8am PST

>>95983968
Even EDH is only playable if you've got a group of friends to agree power levels with. Wotc has printed so much commanderslop that the format is unbearable if you want to optimize decks.

Are you ready for NO CHANGES faggots?

>>95984029
I know who you are

>>95984062
>>95984029
now kiss

>>95983922
>replying to posts on 6/18/2025
>12 days later
>matched up against some green meme deck
>takes 12 days of grinding on arena to get one game with the perfect hand/draws that lets him win
>thinks his video is an argument against it

1 hour and 15 minutes left (I think)

>>95984061
Legacyfags will 100% eat a NO Changes

>>95984084
Its a video from 12 days ago genius

Pauper?
Banning the artishart lands and high NO CHANGES HAHAHA HET FUCKED

>>95984099
>Dubs
It's over pauper bros.
Another meta of burn countering artifact slop and HT while these two clowns twerk on the corpse of fair midrange durdle...

>>95984029
I've decoded your message.
"Holy shit"
For some reason you want me. This is a mere exclamation, yet it’s a signal, a wake-up call.
The "Holy" is reverence, but the "shit" is the disbelief. This is serious.

"They banned"
Who is “they”? Who’s in control? This is a illusion of authority. “They” aren’t just some faceless entity, they’re the architects of my demise. The “ban” is the first weapon in their arsenal.
They have decided what I can and can’t do. They think they control me now.

"Omniscience"
The name alone should be setting off alarm bells. Omniscience, unlimited knowledge, a godlike power. But now it’s “banned.” Why? Why take away the power to know everything?
This is the moment where the system tries to suppress my access to the truth. Omniscience isn’t just a card, it's a metaphor for seeing the entire picture. They are shutting down my ability to see clearly.

"And basic Mountain"
Mountains. The foundation. Basic. Like the foundations of everything I've believed in. They are trying to erase even the simple, primal things that keep me grounded.
Mountains are a symbol of strength, of standing firm, now they're telling meyou even that is too much. It’s a step towards destabilizing everything I’ve known.

"In Standard"
Standard. They want to set a new “normal,” a “standard” that’s no longer the one I remember. What was once the rule is now just a shadow.
This is them erasing the rules I thought I understood. No more playing by my terms. They are rewriting the playbook.

But I won't fear, I'm not playing by your rules anymore. The veil has been lifted. I'm awake. I see the puppet strings. I know who’s pulling them and I won't back down

For me? It's Deathrite Shaman
The safest unban in every format.

If they will unban something i'm asking for my wife back.

>>95984132
It's not banned in real formats.

>>95984135
>brazilian

>>95984136
So vintage?
Oh... Don't you tell me you are a pioQUEER hahahahahHAHAHAHHAHAHA

>>95984135
Made for BWC (Big Wood Cock)

>>95984151
You're God damn right!

>>95984159
Das rite orzhov boi, the Big Green Draftchaff gets the girl.

>>95984172
Pffhahahha, sometimes I forget why /tg/ can't into magic then you pioqueers show up hahahah

>>95984099
>>95984111
Pauper is good right now tho but I'd really appreciate it if they banned high tide nonethless. Fuckign WHY ban a cancerous combo deck to bring back a slightly less cancerous one

This is a good card and I'm tired of pretending its not

Imagine playing memedern hahahahahahahahah fucking mh block constructed hahahahaha

>>95984151
>>95984183
I wonder which format you play, anon, because you play this game right?

>>95984198
For me it's chrysalis. I know that it's manageable but jund wildfires is such a slop value deck and I'm exhausted of it and killing 5 or 6 chrysalis per game only to end up 1-1

>>95984198
High Tide is ass and it also really, really makes burn a really good thing to do in the format.
As does affinity, but we don't have the time to discuss why the two biggest midrange/control bullies push burn to be as strong as it is. Seriously look at the too decks, either "I'll kill you b4 infinite value comes online ok?" (terror, fae, burn, ht) or "artifact funny infinite value hyuk hyuk" also all decks need to be able to not die to the now actually popular T3 I win that is tide replacing cycle storm.
I am a combo jigger and I love HT but it is toxic to the format like OG delver was

>>95983731 (OP)
>TQ
A least 13.

>>95984099
Pauper literally has no need for any bans right now.

>>95984198
Pauper is good as long as I can play my Elves

>>95984336
Banning artifact lands and HT Means more durdle tards, no KCS and even better match ups anon :^}

This is on the front page of reddit right now. Why are JotC pushing this UB cancer so fucking hard? I've never seen this company advertise ANYTHING they've ever made this hard. Not even a D&D product. This shit is absolutely fucking bizarre.

Should I hold onto these or just flip? I'm keeping the preordains for pauper

Dubs and no standard bans

>grape juice carton deckbox
>$1 unsleeved commander deck
>face towel playmat
rate

>>95984383
>>>/tg/edhg out of 10

>>95984383
>Brazuka
That's a pauper or premodern deck lol

>>95984246
I feel like it's fine only because green was such a shitty color before. Let them enjoy having a single other good creature besides initiative hunter

>>95984358
MtG is the only major ssuccsess HAsbro and WoTC have right now they are desperate for money

10 MINUTES LEFT

Pauper is fine, but Refurbished Familiar can FUCK OFF.

Free her...

5 FUCKING MINUTES UNTIL NO CHANGES

wotc insider here
some of you are alright. Don't visit the ban announcement page today

no changes CHADs... we.... won

IT'S LATE

>no changes for all formats
this can't be real

Where B&R?

>>95984501
No changes

https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/announcements/banned-and-restricted-june-30-2025
HOLY SHIT
MAGIC IS SAVED(?)

>>95984495
>it's real
it's so over

Standard

Cori-Steel Cutter is banned.
Abuelo's Awakening is banned.
Monstrous Rage is banned.
Heartfire Hero is banned.
Up the Beanstalk is banned.
Hopeless Nightmare is banned.
This Town Ain't Big Enough is banned.

Pioneer

No changes

Modern

No changes

Legacy

No changes

Vintage

No changes

Pauper

No changes

Alchemy

Cori-Steel Cutter is suspended (pending rebalance).

Pioneer Best-of-One on MTG Arena

Tibalt's Trickery is banned.

Historic

Counterspell is unbanned.

Timeless

No changes

Brawl

No changes

Effective Date: June 30, 2025

Next Announcement Date: November 24, 2025

>>95984401
HEY, we play other formats too!

NO CHANGES FAGS IN SHAMBLES
THEY BANNED THE WHOLE FUCKING FORMAT

>>95984508
>PIONEER
>NO CHANGES
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

>>95984510
No you don't, stop lying

Standard is saved.

HOLY SHIT THEY NUKED IT

>>95984519
IT'S HEALTHY AND DIVERSE YOU FUCKING CHUD

>>95984508
Chat is this true?

>>95984505
Wew.

Somebody got really mad their waifu Final fantasy cards aren't played in std.

>>95984495
Why there are 3 Women in the announcement?

>Abuelo banned
>Omni still in
Bros how do I cheat out Omni now?

>>95984527
FAGGOTS THE LAST TOURNAMENT WAS ALL RED
ALL RED
AND CORI IS PUSHING PHOENIX TO THE SKIES
RETARDS YOU PLAY YOUR GAME?

>Today's announcement is our once-a-year "early rotation" window for Standard. Our goal with this window is to set the next rotation cycle up to be as fun as possible. We do this by saying an early goodbye to a number of cards that have proven their strength and made the format less fun, either by creating unhealthy play patterns or by restricting the viable deck-building options available in the environment.
Remember when we had actual "Rotation" to do that?

>>95984536
4 founding the third path
4 invasion of tolvada
4 squirming emergence
4 picklock prankster
4 cruel somnophage

Confidantbros, it's time.

FLOURISHERS OF STANDARD WHERE WE AT

>>95984536
this until rotation, then we need another card because yuna only does it at the endstep

Color me shocked. These are the first Standard bans they've done in, what, 2 1/2 years?

>Nightmare and This Town got caught in the crossfire

Everything else from Standard is fine, although Manifold Mouse was probably the smarter ban than Hero but honestly it is a coin flip either way.

>>95984539
shut the fuck up, it's because of people like you that they refuse to ban cards

When was the last time this many cards got banned all at once?

what should i play now in Standard? Dimir Midrange?

>>95984536
Squirming emergence but that deck was shit compared to abuelo.

>>95984536
Yuna? She's got better things to reanimate though, unless a Bant version of the deck pops up I think she still wants to reanimate big summons over Omni without the whole cancerous package. Either way, it's still more interactive than it used to be, not to mention a whole turn slower.

I know at this point it was powercrept to hell but i just want a sheoldred ban a symbolic gesture

>>95984568
nah, fuck you. These two cards absolutely had to go

Standard is ruined

>>95984568
That's not crossfire that's the obvious recognition that pixie was going to dominate the meta if prowess and mice were hobbled
That deck was already so oppressive and only stupid broken bullshit was stealing its limelight

>>95984588
Mountain faggot enjoyer in shambles
REJOICE ANONS REJOICE AND LAUGH AT HIM!

>>95984536
By rigging your deck :^)

>>95984568
They nuked all the top competitive decks because lmao buy new cards.

>mono white card banned
reset the counter, boys

This is maybe the funniest set of standard bans I've ever seen. How will wizards ever recover?

So...now what?

>>95984601
yes, we should keep having terrible formats because banning cards hurts people's fee-fees

>>95984601
I mean, yes. This is all to try and push FIN but joke is on them nothing outside of a few Yunas are playable (and even she is only good in a pre-existing archetype).

Standard is only played on Arena anyway.

>>95984611
Cecil's looking ok desu

>>95984609
it's his time to shine

>>95984505
holy shit

>>95984609
Go to pre modern

Hey.

>>95984602
white schizo is beside himself

>>95984574
In Standard? August 2020 had 4 cards
Overall? February 2021 had like a dozen total cards banned spread across multiple formats.
7 cards banned from a single format at once is unprecedented I think, though I think it's mostly because they backlogged obvious bans until now instead of doing it when it was needed.

>>95984610
I personally won't miss any of these cards or decks they were used in.

It's just pathetic how game got into such a state where you need to emergency ban your entire competitive meta. Big mismanagement here.

Yeh Black Midrange bros, I'm thinking we're back

>>95984602
Whitebros... We won. We finally got a ban.

>7 bans
MARO IS GETTING FIRED FOR THIS RIGHT? they said if he did a fuckup as bad as urza's block again he would be GONE

THE DARK KNIGHT RISES

>>95984635
all the people who said that have been gone from the company for a decade at this point

>>95984609
show-off the bird

How the hell they leave eternal formats like Modern or Pioneer without changes?
In the only ban Window we have until months to save those formats?

>>95984602
>banned because of a blue card
It’s Saheeli all over again.

Yes yes, but new EoE story. Moxite futures.

>>95984505
APOLOGIZE

>>95984625
>He thinks Black Midrange is going to do anything
Leave Standard to me.

>>95984568
If Nightmare didn't eat a ban then it'd roll over the meta, and a discard deck being top tier is more cancerous than even turn 4 combo or turn 3 aggro kills. Even without TTABE there's still the Orzhov version with Lockdown and Scrollshift and a ton of Pixie alternatives. Good fucking riddance.

>>95984625
Just gonna point out here that Ifrit has a Demon typeline. And rummages. And ramps...

>>95984617
now that heartfire is gone, red players will have to fall back on swifty and the lizard, which this can actually block without you dying, so he does seem well-positioned now.

YEAH, IM THINKING IM BACK

>>95984558
I wonder if being just one turn slower will be enough to kill the deck considering the format should be slowing down substantially. There's a lot of other graveyaed decks rising in popularity, so I guess maindeck graveyard hate remains a priority for the time being.

>>95984647
Now that I think of it, all of this trashfire is still legal in Pioneer. The format got even worse.

You talk a lot about Red Death.
Think again.

>>95984568
Self bounce would go straight back to tier 0 if they didn't nuke it from orbit too, don't kid yourself

>>95984643
FUUUCK what did he do? outlive them with his vile jewish sorcery?

Okay, deckmasters of /mtg/, give me your read on what the new top tier Standard decks are fonna look like. Top 3, even, let's have some range. You're all geniuses at this game, right?

>>95984673
Also SSS is still a thing

>>95984673
>*chump blocks your 10/1 creature*
What now?

Alright I need help on emergency deck structuring

4 Splash Portal
4 Manifest Dread
4 Growing Dread
4 Omniscience
4 Llanowar Elves
4 Molt Tender
3 Scrollshift
4 The World Spell
3 One with the Multiverse
2 Invasion of Arcavios

sound good? Or should I try to work in 4x marangs and loop something

mfw I dodge the banlist
seeya in standard suckers

I can't believe they literally killed Self Bounce. Was the deck really that annoying?

Rx is still going to be a thing, it just won't be 53% of the meta share

GOLGARI MID BROS WE ARE BACK
At least until all our good cards leave with rotation.

reminder this bad boy is about to be gone too

>>95984354
idk about the lands but Krark-clan Shaman is a motherfucker

>>95984505
Notice a troublesome bluish card that dodged a ban?

>>95984684
Monoblack mid
Glasshulk gw
Red aggro

>>95984698
yes, it's utterly miserable to play against and never leads to an interesting game

>>95984649
>It doesn't count!!!1
Iconic white schizo moment.

>>95984709
>>95984696
that smug bastard got away with it

Banning abuelo's instead of omniscience was a mistake

>>95984698
the real issue is how bad it clocked you out while forcing both players to topdeck mode
losing all the damage from nightmare slows that down immensely

>>95984505
fake
missing the basic Mountain ban

>>95984698
They removed the discard shit. They still can bounce the removal.
The deck has so many cards for it that it'll probably be allright.

Boros brothers and Lightning sisters, it's our time to shine!

legacy is fucking dead

my Legacy brothers...
I'm sorry...
Tamiyo should have eaten a bullet just for the sake of firing one off.

Press F for Golgari Graveyard, caught in the crossfire and dying for the sins of Overlords.

>>95984617
Why did jotc made a nazi card? Cecil doesn't say trans rights...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TX2vIjZgxuY

STANDARD GOOD AGAIN?!?!

>For the sake of clarity and setting expectations going forward, the banning of Cori-Steel Cutter is the kind of action we would take in any of our banning windows. The level of dominance of Izzet Prowess in the recent Standard metagame clearly meets our threshold for bans outside this once-per-year Standard window.
So they're claiming they would've banned Cori-Steel Cutter even if they weren't interested in banning for the sake of fun. Interesting...

>>95984721
Like when they banned Kethis instead Emry.

>>95984754
POGGIES? CHAT IS IT HAPPENING?

Hey now where are those whiny teenagers who'd always come here and post
>no changes
10 times a day?

>>95984748
The PT deck didn't play Beans.
It was however tooled for the cori matchup and may be worthless outside of it.

>>95984684
Personally, some form of black midrange (mono or otherwise) seems likely, black's got too many pushed creatures. Some form of red aggro is gonna stick around as well, could be Gruul delirium, and Vivi isn't going anywhere either. At least one reanimator deck too, could be Roots. Would be very funny if some jank ass shit like monowhite lifegain rose to the top tho.

>>95984765
don't act like that's not what wotc did forever
that's why we got 7 standard bans at once lmao

Well i guess a fucking Hasbro suit saw how shitty the whole FF set was and thought: THAT COULD BE BAN UNTIL THEY SHOULD PLAY WITH OUR SET!!! And here we are. Some of the bans were needed others are trash but now you will see those weak ass FF cards being playable at least.

>>95984723
I'm pretty sure you can play rdw without basic mountains in Standard. You could do verges that start red, you can use the mouse village, cavern of souls, fastlands, painlands, and towns. That's plenty for 16-20 lands that you could use lol.

>>95984754
I'm going to cheat out omni on turn 2 and make you cry

>>95984688
Dreadmaw's Ire is probably gonna pick a little of the slack, though trample not sticking around is a blessing

alright standard babies
I will join your format for a month to come slap you all with Insidious Roots

>>95984721
Agreed. I don't care if they want to avoid banning Foundations cards, as long as Omni exists enchantment reanimation has a target on it.

>>95984769
I hadn't actually picked up on that, I assumed it had it since the previous pro tour list did. Maybe Uprising will be enough of a substitute?

>>95984765
aside from cutter, which wasn't even released at the time, all of these bans were warranted 3 months ago, when the last ban announcement did nothing. that's why the meme started.

>>95984765
I'm 37, surprised, and celebrating.

I'm 37, resigned, still not giving fuck about Standard.

>>95984609
It would seem like the various Bx midrange decks are the winners from this but those have a lot of cards rotating soon, hence why they probably didn't ban anything for them. After rotation your guess is as good as mine, it feels like the format is busted wide open now.

>>95984756
I'll crack it for you: every move they did since F.I.R.E. was to maximize profit and sell as much as possible to as many people as possible appealing to the lowest common denominator and placing trust into the law of big numbers trying to rng ad many fools as possible, yes even total normies that buy 5 packs in their life are a target.
This is done to ensure lowest effort and maximum profitability and to emancipate themselves from depending on the old guard (nerdy white men) so they can keep pushing their jewish, tranny, feminist and anti white agenda undisturbed and without punishment.
The play rate of every format has never been lower, we're at an all time lowest, the only format that see play are arena (which is not real magic), troonmander (which is not real magic) and modern (because once you dropped $1800 for a deck you bet the peoples are gonna want to play it).
They literally DO NOT CARE about balance, enjoyment and accessibility.

THE CARDBOARD BOXES FOR FF COLLECTOR'S BOOSTERS ARE SELLING FOR $60 AND PEOPLE ARE BUYING THEM.

> only two of the bans were rare
kek, jews of the coast not even hiding it anymore

Legendary B&R from WotC.
Didn't think they had it in them.
Capitalizing on the influx of FF players to try to bring them into Standard (and thus 60 card MTG) instead of EDH.

Where'd all the no changes fags go?

>>95984781
>Some of the bans were needed others are trash
what? Which one of the bans do you think are trash?

I called this two weeks ago and everyone said I was dumb
get fucked faggots

>>95984835
just like you called cori steel being draft chaff and lightning army of one being a meta staple right?

>>95984582
Remember they axed challenger decks (that weren't even good or worthwhile products in the first place) because they didn't want to reprint sheoldred.

>>95984709
You can't ban Omniscience, or else it won't be omniscient anymore.

>>95984420
There is no fucking way it's a success right now.

>>95984834
Abuelo and Hearthfire are stupid bans because they don't attack the real problem. Omni will keep being a problem and Manifold was the crazy piece in Mice.

when will those changes be on arena?

>>95984723
Abandon trannyshit
RETVRN TO ALPHA

I think Roots is well-positioned with its biggest rivals taken out of the way.

>>95984572
Rotation in standard should be 2 years not 3
There should only be 3~4 sets per year (including Core Sets) not 6~7
Search your heart, you know it to be true.

>>95984849
>Abuelo and Hearthfire are stupid bans because they don't attack the real problem
ok retard

>>95984849
manifold was best as a follow-up to turn 1 heartfire. doing it on the white mouse is significantly weaker.

>>95984861
all of that should be true, but it isn't, so the best recourse is agressive banning like non rotating games do

>>95984849
Look, dear consumer, were already giving the arena players up to 8 wildcards, even one more and the entire gacha ecosystem would collapse

>>95984865
yeah they'll just move to a 5 mana reanimation spell instead of a 4 mana one, surely no difference there right hahahaha fuckin' /tg/

>>95984857
until tyvar rotates out next month lol

>>95984868
Don't agree. Manifold is now the source of trample. In fact, I would go as far as WotC looking at both Hero and Manifold and going "Well, since we are banning Rage, keep the mouse with trample, it will be fine" instead of actually looking at the play patterns.

Slickshot showoff gonna run wild

>>95984880
and the whole thing was only an issue because if you killed heartfire you were now taking one gorillion damage too. Stop being a retard bro, mice is now a t3 deck

>>95984849
I lowkey agree but I'd rather have those two banned than nothing

Mono black back on the menu???

>>95984849
I know of like 10 different ways to cheat out omniscience and abuelo was only one of them
Its going to be barney-kicked-out-of-moes-bar.gif

>>95984877
I was testing out Roots without Tyvar and man... there is no good card to replace him with, he does everything that deck wants.
But Roots has been around for years as a card everyone wanted to brew with so it'll be fun to have it be the top dog for a month before going back to jank town.

yes, yes very good banlist, mtg
HOWEVER

>The potential for one-mana cards to define a format grows as the card pool increases, and we've learned that going to three-year Standard is a larger step in that direction than we had first believed. Standard is more fun when the stars of games often cost more than one or even two mana, and we will be taking steps to ensure that is true more often going forward.
THEY'RE ONLY REALIZING THIS NOW, TWO YEARS IN?!?

>>95984886
Anon, Standard has had access to multiple "Heartfire Hero" cards for years now with Fireblade Charger and Cacophony Scamp and yet somehow those were not issue at all. Curious...

you can taste the seethe in these posts, delicious

>>95984856
>alpha
You weren't even alive when alpha released.

>>95984765
The formats I play had no changes so they were right. No Changes fags won....

>>95984856
alpha gameplay is fucking shit

>>95984880
the only other 1-mana mice are white. turn 2 manifold does nothing in mono-red without the heartfire hero combo.

What are you guys going to be cooking up in the fresh format?
For me it's Sephiroth decks.
Either monoB or BW for the Voice of Victory -> Sephiroth curve.

>>95984898
Isn't even playable anymore given the changes.

>>95984871
In the short term, sure, but for long term health they need to reel the whole thing back.

Standard is saved

I'll miss beanstalk

>>95984748
Golgari roots should still be good though

>Pioneer
>No changes
>Not even some unban to spicy things up until they are willing to show some attention to the format
NOSEWAAAAAAAAATER!!! FUCKING KIKE WORK!!!!

Now that prowess is dead, no FF card will see play except Starting Town.
I can pretend MtG isn’t fucked over for one last set

>>95984926
>self-destructs my own nemesis for a gorillion face damage in you're pathe

>>95984905
Bosh at least wins huge tournaments.
That other fag is dogshit at the game in addition to being unbearable. How does he even have an audience? Don't get how people tolerate that.

>>95984942
mono red will still exist without heartfire and monstrous rage, and it will still use opera love song
you just watch

New top decks predict:
Roots (Obviously)
Occulus
Dimir Midrange
Monoblack Annex

>>95984880
Trample on its own is much worse than double strike trample especially when your double strike trampler also blows up on death too

>>95984880
>Manifold is now the source of trample
Yes, but now it can't give double strike to a creatures that will get trample because of rage ot cori. Also with hearthfire gone you don't have another mouse that permanently grow every turn. Emberheart Challenger still exist, but it's 2 mana so you are forced to decurve if you want to play them back to back.

>>95984941
I'm starting to come to the realization that we aren't getting any meaningful unbans until Pioneer Horizons comes out and they use the same reasoning they did for Modern.

>>95984954
mono black is worse than UB aggro
not a single card banned from UB aggro means its going to dominate

its gonna be
>siren, bat, drowner, curiosity, sheoldred, preacher, kaito
all over again

>>95984728
artist?

>>95984880
Is there a new hero into manifold into rage pattern? Doubt so.
At best you have white mouse - manifold - mouse 1 mana spell. And that's like 8 damage on empty board (instead of 12). And it doesn't explode in your face afterwards.

>>95984904
Those cards didn't have a relevant tribal tag and didn't continuously grow every turn

maybe I'm retarded but I think red is still very much competitive, I've won plenty of games where heartfire and rage never showed up

>>95984954
Isn't Oculus the only noteworthy deck that both didn't get hit with any bans and fully survives rotation?

What deck are you faggot crybabies going to complain about next?

This moxite better be good.

>>95984942
>Now that prowess is dead
No the fuck it's not lmao

>>95985003

>>95984844
thank you for fueling my hatred towards that nigger card

>>95985001
Turn 2 omniscience combo

>>95985001
Whatever becomes the new strongest deck, of course.

mono b chads
we are so back

>>95984925
Still waiting to see what bugs we get, but I'm at least hopeful that I'll be able to find something fun to play, even if it ends up being frogs or some other old-set archetype.

>>95984824
When is maro transitioning? Straight men that say this type of shit are so fucking untrustable

Premodern bros... I'm making a crusade deck.

Have nothingburgerfags ever been this btfo?

>>95985063
they'll use the excuse that no one cares about standard despite all the shitposting being about standard for the last 3 months

It's time for Chocobo tribal to take over

If a 3/2 haste for 2 that becomes a 4/3 haste for free the next turn, is too slow for your standard format, your standard format needed correction
full fucking stop

>>95985077
*sunfalls you*
heh, nothing personnel

>>95984824
>since F.I.R.E.
lmao

>>95985003
if it's gonna be a fucking artifact token number 5 that taps for mana in a way or another I'm gonna fukken scream

Monoblack demons time
Should have banned the Annex

Standard is healing
I can finally play control without 8-12 targeted removal cards.
Thank you wizards, very cool.

>>95985090
Sunfall's rotation out.

>>95984938
Not as charming as a deck that lets you beat down the opponent with 7 mana draft chaff.

>>95984942
Enjoy it while it lasts. The next set will have Star Destroyers, Tesla Trucks and Paul Atreides. Pure "Magic" for you there.

>>95984505
Holy shit lmao

>>95985105
The Red brigade is trying to hard today. Maybe we should ban some more Red cards so they should actually play this game instead of mindlessly throwing creatures on the field.

Any chance that mono white control deck makes a comeback?

>>95985141
>never going to happen because fuck you that's why

Some of you guys are alright, step away from Standard.

>>95985165
Nope. JotC is anti-white and will continue to print white as the weakest color.

>>95985106
Wait until Moonfall is printed in edge of eternities

>>95985187
>dimir
>ever being relevant
lmao

>>95984713
It actually literally doesn’t count because they’re banning around the problem. omniscience is the problem and it will be banned before rotates. Mark my words

>>95985187
You wish

>switch from two-year standard to three-year standard
>ban seven cards two years into first three-year standard

>Pioneer left to rot so micetards can still farm free wins somewhere
Respect for doing 7 bans, but also fuck you WotC

>>95984649
He's right. The unicorn is terrible if it weren't for the planeswalker that copied the cat. The cat is very situational while it's the planeswalker copy that gets the win. In fact, it's the same story with every Felidar combo. All felidar gets you is the bounce for triggering other things with ETB or LTB triggered abilities. It's the Saheeli haste or some other card that gets you the game winning triggers. If the planeswalker didn't make a copy WITH haste of the felidar, it would never be able to win the game.

>>95985165
If we get a Lay Down Arms replacement, otherwise might as well just be UW

>>95985192
This. At least some people are waking up to the fact that JOTC design team is biased against white.

>Saved? More like under new management.

White is strong and i play mostly white and green
Blue is the weakest color

>>95985228
Pioneer had all support dropped from it.
Just switch to Alchemy or one of the other Arena-only meme formats if you want dead shit

Also, the story, if you all care. I care, at least. https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/magic-story/edge-of-eternities-episode-6
>Sami is flying the Seriema fast as they can, radioing in to a nearby Kav settlement because they now have two dozen lethally wounded (by radiation) Kav on board
>Alph's ship crashing delivered said radiation to the team that was following them, so all the Kavs are down for the count now
>Or something, I'm a little unclear
>Sami's not really the type to leave anybody hanging, so they lended a hand to save them
>The radio conversation goes as well as can be expected, the Seriema's questioned because of its untracked entry, but the radio person is willing to help the wounded first
>Sami has no idea what the fuck happened to Alph, but he's been locked up in an empty cabin, but he now has his hand back, except there's a perfect hole through it
>They land at the settlement, Sami noting that it's clearly a bit of a gray area legally-speaking, which is probably good for them
>Unfortunately, they can't just drop the wounded off and leave, they need fuel
>Sami and Tan work out the scam they're gonna try and sell between themselves before getting out
>Then Sami asks if they should turn Alph over to them, because he's PROBABLY evil all things considered
>Tan says what happened was more a disaster than evil, but then the conversation shifts to something more broadly referring to Tan's past
>He used to be a pilot for the Kav's navy, he had to make a choice, and it was the last time he ever willingly made a choice
>He ordered Kav's guns to fire upon a meteor heading for a highly-populated city
>This knocked the meteor off course... Into a town with a population of 30000 or so
>Only 5000 survived
>And given the Kav view on things, "Tan killed 25k people" was the takeaway from that event
>Anyway, the Seriema lands proper, the wounded are quickly unloaded to ambulances, along a bunch of other people checking the ship out to see what the fuck is going on

>>95985258
vivi along with cutter, slickshot, and the mouse package need to be banned

>>95985267
Vivi is broke, a lot of pros said that at the last pro tour. They were never going to ban a chase Final Fantasy card though

>>95985258
Dies to removal

>>95985285
Google "Agatha's Soul Cauldron"

>>95985291
Dies to removal

>>95985275
>JOTC refusing to ban a broken UB card
Hmm, that ONE certainly RINGS a bell

You can kill vivi
You can kill slickshot

You can't kill mouse or cutter or pixie
A deck funneling a bunch of resources into a single bottleneck is easy to interact with

>>95985291
Dies to removal too, weak to exile

>>95984198
>>95984258
Pauper is in an ok spot, it was way better before mh3 release though, high tide is boring as fuck to play and to play against (I own the deck both irl and on mtgo and hope it eats a ban), would be nice if chrysalis and refurbished fucked off though, it would open up so many more decks.

>>95985295
Played a brunch of matches in arena never had one white vivi was a problem

I predict that standard will somehow end up worse post bans.

>>95985325
I predict mono W aggro and mono B life gain combo

>>95985262
>blue is the weakest color
>has the most bans in standard history
>last white ban was for Felidar which was not the problem in the format
Let's face it. White cards were only banned because JotC didn't want to ban all those other broken cards that ended up in the game after those white cards because JotC didn't playtest anything. They only used the white cards as scapegoats so they can keep pumping out the rest of the slop and say "we're banning things goy! Now standard is FLOURISHING!"

In reality most of the game breaking cards, i.e. time walk, time twister, etc. are either blue, red, or UX, RX cards.

>>95985333
>Lifegain
Nemesis didn't get banned anon

>>95985056
Do you think your extensive tranny knowledge makes you trustworthy?

>>95985333
>I predict mono W aggro and mono B life gain combo
So basically what was being played before cutter popped out.
>WB bats
>WB lifegain combo

>>95985336
We need an update on the chart tho

>>95985336
>more bans = more powerful
lmao

>>95984875
yeah there is a massive difference

Gentlemen. Standard is still broken as fuck.

now that a white card is banned will white schizo finally shut the fuck up?

>>95985265
>The settlement's leader basically interrogates Sami, using some sort of translator software, and misunderstanding how humans talk by trying to basically prompt Sami with sentences in a way
>Sami explains they just want to refuel and get out
>Tan and another political person are also talking, with Tan pretending to be brain-damaged from strokes
>The political guy mentions Sigma's Reach, the colony Sami and Tan got the artifact from, like it has people in it, which it did not
>Back in the ship, Sami and Tan are discussing that bit, while Alph seems to just be in a trance
>In particular, the mine seems to have been exporting minerals, but nobody was at the mine, the mine was never opened
>Tan just shrugs and says Sothera's a cursed fucking place
>Sami says they have to get out and buy fuel, but Tan notes they don't have the money this settlement would take (because Pinnacle doesn't have actual money)
>Tan suggests claiming his bounty as a grim joke
>Eventually they decide on Sami delving more into Sigma's Reach within the settlement while Tan gets the fuel
>There's a Dune reference about walking with rhythm because Kav settlements tend to be very 'in-sync', they all step in a rhythm, etc.
>Sami gets into a shouting match with the political guy's secretary or whatever, which is just how Kav are
>Sami gets a meeting in half an hour, and just waits around for that
>The political guy's a lot more straightforward with Sami than the coach was, asking if Sami's in the habit of lying, which they say yes to, easily
>Sami asks about Sigma's Reach, which the guy assumes Sami came from, then asks about "our rivals up in the heavens"
>Sami asks what that's about
>He mentions some sort of consortium from beyond the stars trying to mine shit and undercutting moxite value
>Said moxite came out of Sigma's Reach, apparently
>Sami just says the colony never opened, the guy's just confused, Sami promises it was empty when they were there

>>95985265
anon, what's your opinion on the story so far?

>>95985336
Beza, high noon, Voice of victory, caretaker's talent, enduring innocence, tarkir eslpeth

All unrivaled extremely good cards

>Gentlemen. Standard is still broken as fuck.

>>95985360
If you knew what you were doing, you'd realize how broken the draw-spam + eddymurk + terror deck is.

>>95985375
>Sami's about to go, but wants to ask one more question, as a courtesy, if he's seen Mirri, but is interrupted by somebody telling the guy something's going on
>Sami is worried they've found out Tan's identity, but, no, it's a Sunstar ship, demanding the settlement turns over the escaped spies they're harboring
>The political guy goes "Okay whatever don't tell me anything" to Sami, because this settlement's a place for scum, he just tells Sami to go, because it's time they obstruct some justice

>>95985377
Forgot sunfall

>no nadu ban in legacy
>no cori ban in pooneer
>bowmaster is now considered fairly tame
dead game

>>95985336
This is the truth and facts that cannot be denied. The data alone proves this game has been completely taken over by biased hacks who only care about red black and blue.

>>95985388
If you weren't an illiterate brown retard you'd have said something less irrelevant.

>>95984917
>>95984907
It was a joke but I messed up. I misremembered. It was Volcanic Island they forgot to print in Alpha, not Mountain.

>>95985376
I'm not super enthused by the sheer amount of proper nouns and technobabble that is just thrown at me, but I do appreciate that this story is getting so much space to tell itself, Alph is a pretty interesting major character (the other three are kind of not a lot so far), and I'm INTRIGUED to see where it goes, how it ties into the rest of everything, but a bit hard to form a clear opinion on it beyond "good shit, I like some of the writing bits, some of the references are a bit on the nose, but hey".

>>95985374
Make me, retard. I’ll still be here when they finally ban Omni like they should have in the first place.

>8 years since last white ban
>Banned card is Abuelo

I don't know guys, I have the feeling this was not actually the problem card

They dont ban white because its the best designed color

Banning Abuelo was correct. The other Omni reanimation options are more interactable (Yuna is a creature and does it at the end step, Repair is 5 mana and 3WW, and Squirming Emergence requires 10 cards in graveyard) and now that the overwhelming pressure from aggro is gone there is much more space for maindecking graveyard hate modal cards like Wilderness Reclamation.

I can fix standard in a single change
It will solve the issue these bans didn't accomplish
This is simple:

If your rope appears in a game on Arena, you can't win any progress to quests / win rewards for that game :^)

I guarantee this would make standard a 10x better format

>>95985429
play on mtgo retard

>>95985406
>I have the feeling this was not actually the problem card
Because Omni is the real problem. But because free spell bullshit is JOTC pet cards 101, they won’t ban it until it gets another 3-4 mana reanimator and eventually they ban it like they should have

>>95985389
Also, should note that we've been changing Revision numbers as we go, this is Revision 12, and the big change was "Alph kept his hand, so he could guide the ship better and land (badly) instead of just crashing, leading to the Kav getting irradiated". There's also some indication this timeline fuckery is what happened to Sigma's Reach. Couldn't quite tell what the changes were for other Revisions, this was the one that called the most attention to it. Hard to follow sometimes.

>>95985429
They could Just code some algorithm to detect ropers and give temporal bans from that mode they played

>>95985428
>Squirming Emergence requires 10 cards in graveyard
10 PERMANENT cards in the graveyard, which goes against everything the deck wants to do lol

>>95985325
Doesn't matter, at least we'll play new decks.
If it will end up broken, they just should ban things again.

If youre not hardcasting omniscience idk what to tell tou
Are you even trying

>>95985406
It absolutely wasn't. Omniscience was the problem card. In fact, Abuelo didn't see much play because Omniscience wasn't in the format until Foundations. But now it's just going to be a slightly slower omniscience deck.
>Builders Talent
>Repair and Recharge
>Ishgard, the Holy See
>Campus Renovation
>Yuna
Will just wait one whole turn to reanimate Omniscience. And then there is still the scrollshift, parting gust + manifest dread combos to get it out on turn 3-4.

omniscience
>gets multiple reprints over the years with no issues in any previous standard
abuelos
>gets printed once and becomes degenerate in the format

whiteschizos will continue to cope, but you cannot deny the truth

>>95985428
That's not even 1/10th of the options

Squirming emergence only needs 5 cards in yard if one of them is invasion of tolvada
Repair and recharge is one in a category filled with
>campus restoration (the best 5 cmc), builders talent, invasion of tolvada itself, 6 cmc for perrenation
but then you also have:
>manifest dread + splash portal
>fetch quest
>invasion of alara (into fetch quest)
>portent of calamity (also into fetch quest)
>collector's cage
>reenact the crime
>capricious hellraiser
>quintorious
>make your own luck
>clives hideaway i guess
>the infamous cruelclaw
>kona rescue beastie

Am I missing any

>>95985484
still say it should have been called omnipotence

>>95985428
>T. Will be here in two weeks crying about Omni/Yuna
Seriously why all of you are so bad at this game?

>>95985428
Screencapping this retard post for when Omni gets banned

>>95985505
Everyone says that, even maro

>>95985486
pretty much all of these are unreliable as fuck or have requirements that complicate the combo, which is why nobody was running them. abuelo's was enabling the deck because it costs 4 mana and has no requirements whatsoever.

Omni will never get banned it's too iconic. They just reprinted it to be legal until 2029

>>95985517
>all of these
The white enchantment reanimators don't have requirements.

Standard will require 10-11 sets of card ban before it will be decent again. Cardpool is still too big.

>>95985484
Bluekikes continue to ignore facts like the games meta history kek
Go snort some more shekels goyimstein

>>95985452
They just need to make the report function better and easier, currently you need to log into their website, write down what happened, look for the game log and attach it then send, they should just make it automated in 2 buttons, why even the need to logging onto their website, your info is already inside the log anyway.

>>95985484
Abuelo was not a problem in standard until Foundations came out with Omniscience.

>>95985534
yes but they cost 5 mana which is a fucking world of difference
and if you look me in the eye and say fucking Quintorius, Loremaster is a viable reanimation outlet for omni i will just fucking laugh

>>95985551
Name calling is not arguing.

>>95985510
Omni/Yuna has the disadvantage of not immediately returning omniscience.
>>95985569
>they cost 5 mana which is a fucking world of difference
It's a tiny difference. Just wait a turn and put down another land before winning. Here's turn 3 omniscience into a win
>>95983922

>>95985569
reenact the crime costs 4

>>95984698
Pixie was just as stupid as mice, and Baloth is rotating. Fuck your This Town loops.

>>95984745
Did the troon responsible for Psychic Frog cop to designing Tamiyo as well yet?

>>95985597
Even worse for omniscience than Abuelo. Either they ban ALL reanimator saying that was the problem or they ban omniscience. Abuelo is only one of a dozen cards that let you combo off into omniscience on the third turn for a win.

>>95985574
Yes it is, kike. How dare you defend free spells. A literal known cancerous mechanic.

>>95985595
>It's a tiny difference. Just wait a turn and put down another land before winning
one more turn for them to kill you, take the damn card off your hand, dig for a counterspell or graveyard hate, yadda yadda yadda.

>>95985597
and is horrendously, comically bad, since the card needs to have been put into the graveyard that turn

>>95985637
yeah we all know the horrors Ornithopter and Snapback inflicted on the meta

>>95985406
>white card gets banned
>umm doesn't count actually
lmao

>>95985654
you literally only need a surveil land to set it up

>>95985654
turn 1 enigma jewel
turn 2 collector's vault
turn 3 reenact the crime on omniscience

>>95985647
> take the damn card off your hand
Don't play black or don't draw the duress or bats. There you go, you lose turn 3
>dig for a counterspell
Don't play blue or don't draw your pierce. There you go, you lose turn 3. Play any archetype other than UX or BX control or don't draw any of the right cards you probably only run a few of because of all the other broken trash you have to deal with in the format and you lose.

So instead of being able to win on turn 3 with reanimator... you have to pay one more mana to win on turn 3 just like in
>>95983922

>>95985676
holy shit that's so broken, why weren't people doing it before abuelo ban??

ok yeah nice banlist but what if my hand is the 5 pieces of exodia and you have nothing & i have everything?

here's a real complicated combo for you

turn 2 invasion of ergamon
turn 3 zombify

dead is dead, it only takes 1

>>95985481
>>Builders Talent
comically telegraphed and needs a ton of mana invested onto it (mana that isn't being used to dig for cards or protect your combo)
>>Ishgard, the Holy See
It... puts the cards in your hand? Retard.
>Campus Renovation/Repair and Recharge
5 mana. First one forces tricolor or has you go without cards to dig
>Yuna
5 mana creature. Puts pressure by forcing you to go tricolor or risking a weaker and less reliable gameplan. End step.

>>95985698
*Spell Pierces u*

>>95984926
It will never be bad. It's a monstrosity of card design.

>>95985014
Izzet prowess was a footnote before CSC. Now that it's gone (and Swiftspear rotates soon), I doubt Vivi alone will keep it competitive.

>>95985704
wow clearly no need to ban abuelos, which dies to spell pierce

>>95985018
I can't fucking wait for it to rotate. I expect it to be everywhere in this new meta until August.

jeez this guy works fast, the ban announcement was only 2 hours ago

>>95985729
Brian cook was faster

>>95985141
>he still clings to creature-less decks
lol;lmao

it's funny how Brian Kibler always identifies the exact metagame problems with games he plays

Wizards should really just hire him

>>95985481
R&R and CR are rotating out, BT is telegraphed as hell, Ishgard returns to hand and Yuna makes you 3-color and arguably has better stuff to reanimate in that context. I agree that Omni will remain a problem eventually and put an unneeded cap on enchantment reanimation as long as it endures, but this is a decent short term fix.

>>95985751
It's really not that hard, you just need to play the game, but hasbro needs the shareholder money.

>>95985754
Man the WAR-Zendikar era really was something else

>>95985484
Reminder, the whiteschizos don't play the game and are only /pol/cel shitposting about their culture war

>>95985428
Let me tell you, Heritage Reclamation is my new best friend

>>95985772
Reminder that bluekikes refuse to admit their cards are always the problem and never admit when they are (always) wrong about what needs bans.

>>95985785
>>95985772
Would you two just get a room already

greenchads, our cope after we lost beanstalk? literally no more draw engine for green its over

>>95985809
Brother it's always been over for green

With Hopeless Nightmare gone I think I'm going to try an azorious pixie deck, something that leans a bit more into control and tempo. I don't think I've seen anyone experiment with that.

>>95985698
What are you zombifying back that wins you the game on the spot like Omni did?

>>95985809
There's still Overlord for multi colour piles! (Where Overlord is the only green card)

>>95985809
Beanstalk is not a green card

>>95985809
uh uhhh hollowmurk siege...? I guess

>everyone thinks the threat of red's turn 3 lethal is over
>people will start playing slower decks
good... good...

>>95985754
what happened in 2021?

>>95985870
rotate more fag

Welcome to Stock Up: the Format

You're going to miss the mouse

never paid a single second of attention to this slop game but a girl at work i wanna bang shilled the final fantasy set to me

anyway i bought the box of like 400 cards

what do i need to know

>>95985870
The great irony is that bo1 will become the only real refuge from RDW

they only banned all these cards so the influx of FF newbies wouldn't get forever put-off the game by being mouse-beaten. There needs to be FF cards in top tier decks for their sake.

>>95985882
So just wait a month until some of the old cancer rotates out and the new cancer rotates in?

can't wait to play some Rakdos Lizards

>>95985668
Not single free cards, you wretched lunatic. FREE spells. You know, like bluish players want to play.

>>95985888
Find out what format she plays, learn that format, beat her just enough to exert dominance but not so much that she gets salty.

>>95985770
I just think that because they release so many products now they can't playtest them anymore. Like MaRo used to say they playtested mainly for limited and standard, the other formats were too big with too many cards so they didn't playtest for them and used ban instead. But since 2017 I don't even think they playtest for standard anymore. They missed a 2 cards combo in Kaladesh, then you had the whole 2019-2020 period. I remember one of their article about Ikoria design where they said the card that came back the more during the balancing discussion wasn't any of the companions but Dirge Bat. They missed the cards that broke every formats and got a card banned in vintage before the rule change but were busy with a card that barely saw any standard play.

>>95985902
its our duty to create a standard that is utterly hostile to the UB sets

>>95985754
JotC are absolute fucking clowns with their bans.

>Okay so let's take literally forever to ban the card that lets you play free spells and the card that steals everything your opponent owns
>And a cat
>Oh also a Growth Spiral that heals for 3 because investor non-players seethe about it like republicans obsessing over Jane Fonda

>>95985906
WE'RE BACK BOYS

>>95985872
Modern Horizon 2, they were too busy breaking modern to try anything in standard.

>>95985940
The entirety of Bloomburrow and Duskmourne need a ban.

>>95985884
Jeskai control is gonna go nuts

MAGIC IS SAVED

>>95985769
This is it really. All these armchair game balancers think it's so easy to fix the game, but fixing the game isn't the point, making money is the point. Always ask yourself if the fixes you want to see will create more money than what they're doing now. Realize the answer is no. Go cry in a corner.

>>95985940
I love this card so much

>>95985809
I knew beanstalk was getting banned. It's green after all. Can't have a round of bans without a green card getting the axe and a fucking blue one dodging it. Beanstalk shouldn't even be banned. Like MR there have already been about 4 versions of it already printed. The only reason it's an issue is because of blue faggots playing obnoxience, which you'll notice dodged the ban.

Because it's blue.

>>95985754
2006 to 2016
How'd they do it?
I started playing magic during this time, from Alara until OG Tarkir
It really was the best of Magic at the time

>>95985980
they literally banned a blue card

>>95985785
Don't worry, the game will be over soon because of the fucking bluish heebs.

>>95985906
>>95985940
3 tier deck and i'm being generous here.

>>95985992
>It really was the best of Magic at the time
sup

>almost every green deck i had had bean in it

What the fuck do I do now? I love Golgari!

>>95986010
I meant right before Tarkir, I stopped at RtR

>>95985754
>More bans in 8 years than in the 21 years prior

Boy do I love F.I.R.E

>>95985997
They literally banned an irrelevant blue card nobody gives a flying fuck about, retard. Why is obnoxience not banned? Can you explain this? That fucking card is LITERALLY the reason beanstalk got the ax. It's fucking Eldraine all over again. Fucking Growth Spiral getting banned. A worse fucking Rampant Growth. Face it, you disgusting desert rat. Green is being discriminated against for all the reasons that have been laid out for 30 fucking years and blue is allowed to commit murder for the same period, again for all the reasons already laid out. But fear not! Consequences are coming for you troglodytes. Soon you won't HAVE a game to turn into cancer anymore.

>>95986024
what years was NWO
what years were FIRE
what's the name of their current design philosophy or is it still FIRE?

>>95986010
midrange bullshit vs sacrifice bullshit vs control bullshit vs meak aggro is still a better format than we have today.

>>95986033
NWO was around 2001 until like 2014 I don't remember what came next or if it continued.
Fire was after 2018 and it continues to this very day.

>>95986031
Simic players deseve worse desu

>>95985925
Now this is a sentiment I can agree on. The crusade takes on many enemies.

>>95986031
as a red player, I can say definitively that This Town was the single strongest blue card in the format, way worse than omniscience or oculus. Without this town, you could never have survived to turn 4. And now you never will.

I like how there are 3/5 female names for the people behind this ban announcement

>>95986031
>Omniscience is why beanstalk got banned
Is that the new cope is it? Just going to ignore that domain was the main deck abusing it ever since Duskmourn alongside pretty much every other deck running a cost reduction card

>Pioneer
>No changes
>We remain happy with the state of Pioneer
Dead format.
80% fucking aggro and all we get is "We remain happy."
Fuck off.

The best standard was RAV-TSP

More than a decade since and nothing came close

>>95986060
so what you're saying is we need more women in charge of game balance

Can you imagine the kvetching if this were released in a core set today?

>Mommy, NO! Green isn't allowed to play cards! Nosewater promised!!!

>>95985992
>How'd they do it?
Hiring based on industry experience, and playtesters that aren't retarded.

>>95986077
Standard around OG Zendikar and Innistrad were good, but nothing comes close to RAV-TSP except for KWG-RAV

>>95985098
But we already have this sets artifact token spoiled.

Lands should be replaced with mancala stones representing mana. I just think they're pretty.

>>95986088
shit negrumps we already have llanowar elves
green can ramp as much as it wants what the fuck is it going to do with all that mana

Absolute Standard annihilation.
Can't wait for it to get even worse now that juiced to the moon aggro isn't around to hose the fucking retarded busted ass control tools the format has available.

>>95986061
Does this make you think thoughts of various twisted plant fibers?

>The card that lets green draw a card is BAD
>The card that lets blue literally play their entire fucking deck on turn 3 is fine actually

Good riddance to this fucking game, honestly.

>>95986099
you know kids would eat those.

>>95986101
>"Wow," said the fantasy aztec

>>95986109
I have no idea what they were thinking with not banning Stock Up alongside the rest. It's not even MENTIONED in the article.

>>95986101
Play blue or red spells, typically, if we're being honest. It's not like there are any fucking good green creatures.

>B-b-but craterhoof!
A FIRE piece of shit if there ever was one.

THE YEAR IS TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY FIVE
I AM FORGOTTEN

>Today's announcement is our once-a-year "early rotation" window for Standard. Our goal with this window is to set the next rotation cycle up to be as fun as possible.
EVEN NOW
WHEN BANNING THE MOST CARDS EVER IN A SINGLE ANNOUNCEMENT
THEY HAVE TO FUCKING GALL
THE GOD DAMNED FUCKING CHUTZPAH
TO EVEN ATTEMPT GASLIGHTING
TO EVEN BEGIN.
BEGIN TO CLAIM THAT THEY AREN'T COMPLETELY FUCKING RESPONSIBLE FOR TURNING THE GAME INTO AN INSUFFERABLE PILE OF SHIT.
THE FUCKING GOD FORSAKEN NERVE OF THESE FUCKING RAT BASTARD SACKS OF SHT.

>>95986101
gigantosaurus

>>95986133
its funny because the actual answer to 'what is the best thing to cast with green ramp' is indeed portent of calamity
yeah....

>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.
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHhhhhhHHHH

>>95986099
How do you tap them?

>>95986099
I use mancala stones instead of dice to track counters.
White ones are one counter each. Blue are five counters each. Green are ten each. Just like "Risk!"

>>95986117
Okay, I'll bite.
>1 mana more
>Draw on play isn't guaranteed
>Condition is significantly harder to cheat on

I'm so sad for Pioneer bros... Was the fucking right moment to at least Unban Ballista or Inverter...

>>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.

>>95986134
i miss the whimsy of bloomburrow. just another 4 years until we go back

>>95986010
The only problem card in that format was Thoughtseize, THS/KTK was otherwise peak Modern-era Magic.

>>95986176
I was going to say the format is on life support but I think it's safe to say that WotC has already pulled the plug.
If the current absolute rectal volcano of garbage doesn't warrant bans or unbans, then they've basically just abandoned the format entirely at this point.

>>95986141
Everyone has always known this. You can literally search the entire fucking scryfall catalog for good big timmy big creatures and you can count them on one fucking hand. Blue has this shit at common. Green has literally NEVER had a card like this at anything below I think uncommon and most of them are rare and/or legendary like Molimo or Dungrove. Shit is wack. For decades we were told that green was the "color of creatures", yet blue always had the best creatures also. It was this way when I started playing 25 years ago and it's never fucking changed. Blue also has the best removal, the best card draw - one of the most important mechanics in the game - superior ramp to any color with infinitely looping extra turns. This color has ALWAYS been a fucking menace and NOTHING has been done about it in almost 30 fucking years. Honestly it's amazing the game has lasted this long with this kind of batshit insane favoritism going towards one faction and hate being visited on and off against 3 colors (red, white, green) and perpetually against 1 of them (green). ALL colored cards in the power 9 are blue. What's the first ban? A green card. Has a game rule ever had to be changed over green mechanics? Name one. They literally had to change the fucking legend rule so blue would stop using YET ANOTHER mechanic as removal that wasn't intended as removal.

>>95986117
Up the Beanstalk is not actually used to refund you for big plays. It's used to do exactly what you're complaining about: let a domain/simic deck draw as many cards as they fucking want off cost-reduction cards.

>>95985980
Beans warps the entire design space of modified mana costs around it and is a must include in any remotely midrange or control deck that includes green.

>>95986220
This shit. Forgot pic.

Honestly this is wasted breath at this point. The kikes in charge of JotC decided long ago that they were going to KILL this game fucking dead for their loudmouth investor non-players and buddy we're there.

>For now, it feels like Vintage players are exploring ways to exploit the deck-building restrictions Lurrus places
I despise these wretched narcissists like you wouldn't believe.

>>95986229
You can even splash green for the sole purpose of playing beans if you're running white or blue desu

>>95986226
Yes, we know. Any "powerful" green card is exclusively used by jeskai colors to abuse the shit out of game mechanics. Every time. Yet it's the green card that nets the ban. Every time.

Cecil and Bobscian's excellent adventure to top decking at 1 life, here we go

>>95986184
>>95986146
>>95986135
I'm genuinely glad that I finally had enough and gave up whatever hope I had left for this game when the spongebob meme lair was revealed. I only came back to this thread to see what's happening cause my youtube feed was full of doomers talking about the massive banlist.

>>95986229
Shut the fuck up, nosewater. You have no business speaking on the subject at this point. Take your clown universe bullshit and piss off.

>>95986252
FF was the final straw for me.

>>95986241
BECAUSE THE GREEN CARD IS THE ONE THAT CAUSES THE PROBLEM DIPSHIT
are they just supposed to ban the 307 fucking cards with alternate costs lower then their MVs currently on Standard?

Standard is just going to disintegrate into Dimir Stock Up Midrange vs Azorius Stock Up Control now.
Oh, joy.

>>95986273
Answer me this - does it cause the problem in mono-green decks or is it just other colors using green as their bitch to do broken shit?

HMMMMMMM??

>>95986273
You also have yet to justify being able to play your entire deck on turn 3 for free. The dumbest fucking thing on that ban announcement was using decks LITERALLY NOBODY IS PLAYING BECAUSE TWO FUCKING DECKS ARE DOMINATING THE GOD DAMNED META as justification for why cards that aren't from those two decks need banned.

>>95986280
it is a problem in every single deck imaginable because it reads "whenevever you cast a spell, draw a card"

FF ended up being a nothingburger

>>95986306
Most of new decks play FF cards.

>>95986291
>You also have yet to justify being able to play your entire deck on turn 3 for free
literally not happening. it is physically impossible to cast squirming emergence turn 3 and abuelo omni did not ramp at all. by now it's impossible to cast omni t5 or less.

>>95986256
Is this how you go about your life? Whenever you say some retaeded shit and someone calls you out, you throw an infantile tantrum? Do your loved ones, if you have any, deal with it? Or is it just something you do behind online anonymity?

>>95986322
literally who

>>95986322
Okay have fun with that. You won. The game is yours now. Don't die from the radiation poisoning.

god I wish I were a janitor so I could scrub and ban all the "there's a conspiracy to make this color bad and that color good" shit from these threads

Suggestions on improvements? Using Arena to build and test before building it in paper.

>>95986322
>commander
>commander
>commander
>commander
>commander

>>95986373
where's the fat chocobo?
you had one job

>Jim Davis absolutely malding over bans
You love to see it

>>95986373
Bartz is an obvious inclusion if your gonna bird up

>>95986413
NOOOOOOOOO PLAYERS ARE LAZY NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO BANLIST SO LAZY

>>95985980
Green cards are unplayable in Standard BECAUSE OF BEANS (and Nemesis). There's zero point to playing 3-5cmc green fatties when they all just die to cantripping removal spells.

>>95986413
I joke, but I'm honestly happy they did anything, for once.
I'm mostly mad at the vomit smear that is the actual announcement. Non-stop gaslighting, deflection and narcissism from start to finish. Fucking disgusting stuff.

>>95985058
If you really want to remove black from the game, you should be using the ancient Distorting Lens + Lightbringer combo, returning and fetching Lightbringer via Lin Sivvi. As in, Rebels from Masques standard.

>>95985058
I'm building a gruul deck.

>>95986377
Yeah. Set was designed with Commander in mind.

>>95986487
Then why is it standard legal

>>95986489
Why not?

How will Jimbo "Lazy Players" Davis justify his take now with this ban list?

>>95986467
i found it pretty good overall. clearly explaining their reasoning for the bans step to step and the circumstances behind each of them.

>>95986088
lol beans player triggered

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qpd9KA_FymQ
11 minutes in
>It's a give a mouse a cookie kind of scenario, you ban every deck in the format and now there's just going to be another crop of best decks, and what do you do, ban those too? We're just going to see the next boogeyman come up, and with this ban culture, everyone's gonna get their pitchforks for the next card they lose too many times to

I mean he's not wrong

>>95986134
Turns out you can print all the white card draw in the world and it never made a difference for today’s bans. Oy vey go figure

When I woke up and saw an article saying 7 cards were banned I thought it was a joke

>>95986477
I built a "red multiplayer prison" deck once. Meekstone, Smoke, Uphill Battle to slow down enemy creatures, then Repercussion + Earthquake for as much as I could fit. I had no creatures, so I would only eat Earthquake damage once, while everyone else got hit multiple times. My playgroup banned that deck after a single game.

Alternatively, combine Varchild's War-Riders with Aether Flash, so the Survivors die instantly. If you add Repercussion to that, the opponent will take (2 x cumulative upkeep) damage every turn. Pyroclasm, Steam Blast, and even Tremor can also clear the way, as can Bloodfire creatures from Apocalypse (Dwarf and Kavu especially).

If you're dead-set on RG, why not Defense of the Heart?

>>95985902
>they only banned all these cards so the influx of FF newbies wouldn't get forever put-off the game by being mouse-beaten

I think the hopeless nightmare ban makes it pretty obvious this was the case. No one *loses* to hopeless nightmare, but it makes you rage, it prevents you from playing the game or having any kind of fun. This ban was made at this point in time to make the newbie experience smoother, because everyone on earth knows that FF is going to bring a ton of new blood into the LGS to try the game out

>>95986535
just pseud discourse. They LOVED when there's no bans so that their "players are just lazy hehe" take can be "correct"

>>95986535
You could ban 100 cards in Standard and still never have a tier one white deck

>>95986571
Try making your own decks.

>>95986535
There will always be a best deck, but the degree to which the gap between the best or second best deck and the rest invalidates the latter can absolutely be better or worse.

>>95986384
>>95986421
wark

>>95986571
I've been taking Boros Auras to mythic every season since duskmourn release so I don't know what you're on about.

Or are you expecting a single-color deck to be top tier? that's just stupid, it's always better to splash a second color, there is no mono color deck on earth that isn't improved by at least one card from a second color.

>>95986229
This begs the question of why so many modified mana cost cards are being printed
>uhhh a 5/5 for 7 mana is okay its undercosted
>please ignore the 5/5 being cast for B every time
This is the EXACT shit that makes the powercreep armsrace spiral out of control

>>95986564
The crazy part is that Nightmare had ample counterplay, and was barely even being played anymore
Beans was about to be irrelevant come rotation
What the fuck were they thinking?

>>95986617
>>95986564
crazy how the retards that don't even play the game are coming out of the woodwork this quickly

>>95986564
>no one loses to hopeless nightmare
yeah it's not like it deals you damage in addition to the discarded card, right

>>95986306
In 3 years if the white race still exists they will gaslight us and tell us the final fantasy set never existed.

>>95986477

>>95986617
>nightmare had ample counterplay, such as [specific anti-discard hate piece]

>>95986535
>they banned an entire format
NO FUCKING SHIT YOU LITTLE FAGGOT, WHEN 80% OF THE META IS ONE SINGLE DECK YOU DUMB FUCK KYS

>>95986600
>Or are you expecting a single-color deck to be top tier? that's just stupid, it's always better to splash a second color, there is no mono color deck on earth that isn't improved by at least one card from a second color.
The retard says as the noses literally ban cards that made up a RC winning mono red deck

>>95986549
>why not Defense of the Heart?

I'm thinking about add 2 or 3 copies of Oath.
Fits the role better.

>>95986656
sell-sword is black, friend

>>95986535
Yes, we need decks to rotate so we don't play same 4 decks for years.
In old rotation this was handled by the rotation itself. In new long rotation they have to use bans. The bigger the format the less it's susceptible to change.

>>95986667
Say, what color is used on the Adventure side??? Hmm???

>>95986535
Yeah you ban overpowered cards until the meta share evens out as close as possible to 3% per deck, that's called curating a format.

>>95986535
>"there will always be a best deck" cope
>no mention of Baloth rotating
>no mention of the fact TTABE is as much a Vivi ban as it is a Pixie ban
Jim is just mad because he defended WotC's last no bans announcement in March. Having to pull out the giganuke and ban all the cards people wanted banned months ago anyways makes them both look like retards.

>>95986646
That looks fun as fuck.

Is Zur playable for this brief interval until it rotates without Beans

>>95986681
>meta share 3% per deck
you expect 33 decks to be competitive? I can't even name 33 cards that are.

>>95986693
Zur already got rotated by Yuna

>>95984942
it must be nice to be this retarded and naive
>buster sword
>black mage's rod
>restoration magic
>all the summons
>traveling chocobo
>the towns
>all the crystals
there's also shit like overkill which is just a better murder

>standard meta is now Roots, Control and Zombify Reanimator
Enjoy your gay format, I'm off to Pioneer

>>95986306
A final fantasy card literally won the PT

>>95986703
used to work in modern newfag

>>95986681
You're so stupid.

>>95986489
why don't you ask jotc

>>95986711
people used to put effort into shitposts

>>95985754
2006-2016 was an amazing run

>>95986617
The various incarnations of self bounce were solidly tier 2 and mainly kept from running roughshod over a lot of the meta by their weakness to some of the top tiers that just got banned. Being one step ahead with bans is actually a good thing, especially if they're limiting themselves to not doing any more for nine months or so.

That aside, "it's cancer to play against" is absolutely a valid reasoning for ban considerations even if the deck is not top tier in its own right.

>>95986535
>I mean he's not wrong
but he is. at least in the sense that his point completely disregards the possibility that certain cards might just be too overtuned and actively decrease game quality, or invalidate entire parts of the expected gameplay loop.

>>95986712
>noooo muh heckin based mouserino and cori steel cutterino

>>95986617
Baloth is rotating, Liege is infinitely worse, and it's obvious that Pixie goes back to being t1 immediately if both Beans and Cori leaves the format.

>new bans/meta
>fresh new season
>3 games in.... a roper
i hate this game so much

Luv me resto, simple as.

Farewell my dear Boros Auras deck, unchanged from Duskmourn release to now, you got me to mythic every season. You will be missed.

I can find replacements for these two cards but we definitely lose some of the oomph.

>>95986779
epic anon xD im sure you made some brilliant plays

>>95986828
>>95986828
>>95986828

>>95986731
kys retarded nigger

>>95983731 (OP)
sorry champ, not today

>>95984948
I like watching Phil because he usually plays really stupid decks he has no business playing in Legacy. Also he's a Thalia simp.

>>95986373
Earth crystal is slow, and commune is filler thay you dont want to cast unless it helps you somehow beyond the card itself.

>>95983731 (OP)
Dead game lol.

Fuck jews and fuck trannies. But most of all DEATH TO HIPPIES and their bullshit neoliberal world order.

For the FF magic drafts, what are the best black, blue, green cards to go for? Going to a local soon.