>Drop Final Fantasy patch on Magic Arena
>All the cards are underwhelming
>No one wants to play them
>NOOO, THIS CANNOT BE, WHAT ABOUT ALL THE FINAL FANTASY TOURISTS?
>Ban the centerpieces of the top 5 decks in the game
>Go full scorched earth on the entire fucking format
>All so that Final Fantasy Timmies can play their gay Sephiroths and Terras
Cringe as fuck

QRD?

>>714253889
They banned these 7 cards. This is the most cards that have been banned at once for the normal format. All so the FF cards are viable.

>>714254151
Heartfire Hero and Monstrous Rage were part of a really powerful deck that obviously needed to get banned. Same for Cori-Steel Cutter. The others I can't excuse.

>>714253704 (OP)
RDW has been been the dominant fucking deck for ages and its well deserved, this is all cause they extended the rotation window standard has too many cards as is and has become too fast for what it's supposed to be.

>>714254236
Cori isn't even 3 months old and literally everyone agreed it needed a ban immediately lol

>>714254325
Like the other anon said, Heartfire and Rage were obvious bans. Cori too. Banning Omniscience Combo, Fear of Isolation and Big Mana is embarrassing.

>>714253704 (OP)
Maybe collaboration with a big ass IP was a bad idea. No wonder why Konami never considered it in yugioh
>but Kozmo!!!
I meant a direct collab with another current IP

>>714254236
Retard. Pixies was the next best deck with a horrible play pattern and omniscience combo was primed to take over the game

Micebros... Not like this...

MtG always felt too nerdy even for someone like me.

>>714254387
Up the beanstalk is kinda ridiculous desu, and I say this is a domain player

>>714254473
>horrible play pattern
>t-t-this was gonna take over the game
Translation
>NOOOOOO THEY AREN'T PLAYING THE FF CARDS, WE HAVE TO MAKE SURE THEY PLAY THE FF CARDS
lol

>>714254512
>is
*as

>>714254484
Don't be sad it's over
Be cheesed it happened

Here were the only 3 FF cards that managed to make it into the meta before they just banned everything to open up space for them btw lol

>>714253704 (OP)
Your fault for playing this shitty game. Imagine playing magic in 2025.

>>714254151
>This is the most cards that have been banned at once for the normal format
standard rotation was changed to be much less frequent since foundations came out, the card pool is massively bloated and all of these cards were design cancer with all these modern tier 1drops and the mistake that is up the beanstalk

>>714254151
Mirrodin had more cards banned. Also all these cards deserved it. You sound upset that you can't faceroll with Mice in best of 1 anymore, I haven't seen a single person who disagrees with the ban.

Bet Vivi is never getting banned despite being obviously cancerous kek

Has there been time for the meta to shift yet? What Final Fantasy cards are in now?

>>714257053
He's in!

>>714253704 (OP)
It looks like AI lol

>>714257190
Rent free

I think Chocobo might actually have a chance now that the format is slower and Temp lockdown is rotating out soon. You can make some silly boardstates with it.
That said, I think we're just going to see a lot of Vivi Cauldron.

>>714257214
Are you an mtgfag or an aifag? Trying to understand your butthurt :)

>>714257053
Still early days, but judging by link related
https://mtgdecks.net/Standard/mtgo-standard-challenge-64-12801189-tournament-202376

>Cecil
>Vivi
>Dark Confidant (Technically a Final Fantasy 14 card)
>Demon Wall
>Dragoon's Lance

>>714257190
Modern MtG art is mostly insanely formulaic and bland to an extreme degree so it's easy for AI scrapers to copy the style.
Bland high quality real art looks the most like AI art because AI scrapers are the best at copying bland art.

>>714257380
Agreeded

>>714253889
>People say mono R/RU is too powerful for a long time
>wotc says "no, game is healthy and exactly where we want it to be"
>every set includes cards that make these two playstyles even stronger and harder to counter. Others get jack shit
>literally only 2 decks are played in tournaments and games last like 4 turns at max
>FF comes, it is the biggest cash cow but nobody uses the cards
>Players are extremly mad because the game is stale.as fuck and unfun
>SE is extremly mad because FF cards get no exposure
>Wotc is finally forced to nerf their favorite play style

>>714257350
>Dark Confidant is still relevant in 2025
Holy SOVL

>>714257512
Guess who's back
Back again
Bob is back
Tell a friend

don't be mad just because you can't win with your gay anti-fun cards anymore
omniscience is still in too, it just takes one or two more turns this time to get it out

>>714254151
>banning commons
jejozzle

>mfw cutdown into demon wall into unholy annex
YEP, ITS GAMING TIEM!

>>714257512
Erm, sweetie, only the Final Fantasy XHIV art is allowed ITT.

>>714257512
>>714257731
>soul vs soulless

>banning old cards to make place for new ones
I thought this was normal TCG stuff
t.ygo player

>>714254501
Been playing the game for 25 years. Sure, you have your fair share of turbo virgins and autists, but a surprisingly large percentage of players are well-adjusted and good at socializing.
On the other hand, I've never met a weeb who wasn't a massive spastic weirdo.

>>714257808
We already ban all old cards that don't get reprinted through rotation, but they realized they had to do it even faster for the sake of the FF Timmies

>>714257154
He better be I opened a playset

FF set is great for commander/brawl, idk about standard i only play these and pioneer.

>>714257690
Oh, so that's why Demon Wall is playable lol
Of course

Alright, I'm kind of curious to see what standard looks like now on Arena, this thread got me curious.

>>714257731
>total sovl extraction

>>714254484
Bloomburrow was peak magic

>>714253704 (OP)
Imagine still playing Hasbroshit.
Arena is for whales no no one else.

>>714259502
You can reach mythic in few weeks f2p

If I start playing Arena now. Will I even have time to play FF drafts? Or did I miss the boat on that?

>>714254151
Beanstalk absolutely deserved it just for reading 1G draw a card cheap enchantments have gotten way too powerful in general but that's beyond the fucking pale, but you might honestly be onto something with the timing.
Cori was fucked but man it's a shame they couldn't have just printed it to be less powerful to begin with, lose the haste or something

Card games are a fucking scam, who is STILL falling for this shit?

Am I just a retard who miscounted my mana or am I misunderstanding a rule here
I should be able to cast injury on my combat courier and then use my combat couriers ability to sac it for a card and then injury should still resolve since it still has one legal target of a player right? the game didn't even give me a chance to respond to my Injury cast, which leaves me to wonder if I just miscounted my Mana but I feel like I still had 2 lands left

XMage doesn't have this issue.

>>714253704 (OP)
>Waaah a banlist
As a yugioh player I laugh at this thread.

>>714261146
is that abortion on the left real templating?

>>714261146
>deal 2 damage to target creature AND 2 damage to target player
no you can't

Does anyone remember mono green?

>it's actually a conspiracy that a deck which dominated was nerfed

>>714262180
Yes
>>714262454
Ah I see that makes sense, I would have thought it would still be technically possible to respond to it but I guess it's a moot point since it wouldn't have worked anyway, I probably did just miscount my lands though

>>714262008
Magic has a rotation, YGO uses its banlist for that.

>>714258098
Well, spent the past one hour and a half seeing what pops up in gold standard
Played 6 games

Literally the only FF card I saw was pic related

If they want FF cards to be viable, then they're gonna need to do more bans

>>714258458
zoom zoom

>He still plays MTG

roflmao

>>714263146
He's not wrong though. Secret of Nimh is more Magical than Wacky Races or Columbo.

Why the fuck did mtg become fortnite?

>>714263520
$$$$$

>>714263520

>>714260601
I assume you mean F2P drafts. FF Quick drafts should be up for another 5 weeks, still. And the Jump In is still FF and you get 5 for free.

Bans in Standard have only ever made sense when the entire format was on fire - shit like Urza's Winter or Skullclamp. Modern fuckups like Saheeli combo, Oko, Uro were nowhere near as destructive (even though they should not have happened in the first place) but opened the floodgates to banning shit willy nilly, including "thing that is popular" and "thing that prevents new cards from selling".
This is also your threadly reminder to never under any circumstance give JotC your money.

>>714263520
Many years ago, the head card designer for MtG said they'd only ever do crossovers if they completely ran out of ideas.

UBshit is soulless

>>714263520
Chris Cocks became head of Wizards in 2017, then head of Hasbro in 2022.

>>714264092
Maybe he got mad when we wouldn't stop calling gatewatch the "Jacetice League" and did it out of spite (but also money)

>>714263870
>Oko was not as destructive as Skullclamp
That's an easy way to quickly indicate that the rest of the post isn't worth reading.

>Heartfire shitters seething over being forced to actually play the game
love to see it

>>714253704 (OP)
I don't get it.
Why not just let people play what they want? The whole thing is to make fun decks right? Why does everything have to be sweaty meta shit?!

>>714264373
>>714263870
>banned in nearly every format
>a Wizards employee openly said on stream that they didn't even think of using his +1 on the opponent's cards
Kino.

>>714254686
>Vivi
All was right with the world.

>>>/tg/
Not video games.

>>714264516
>Why do people want to win? I don't get it

>>714264516
>The whole thing is to make fun decks right?
Apparently not. Blame predatory f2p economy and rigged matchmaking

>playing the fortnite of card games

>>714262730
It's not "a deck that dominated"
It's "the deck that dominated, and another deck that dominated, and the 3 decks below it that didn't dominate anything, because they didn't have FF cards in them"

>>714257154
>>714257350
Anyone remember a couple months back when those two anons went all fucking day over whether Cecil was Standard viable? I knew the guy who was talking out of his ass was onto something.

>>714266835
So the decks that dominated were nerfed.
Glad you agree.

>>714253704 (OP)
what is the point of rotation if cards get banned anyway?

>>714253704 (OP)
Dude I can literally fucking see a 3 mana red otk with just these banned cards are you retarded

>>714254151
Standard should have been aborted when they had to issue the first ban in 6 years and get rid of Smuggler's Copter

Faggot Trantasyfags always run everything they touch.

>>714254151
>All so the FF cards are viable.
Are you ignoring the fact that a fuckton of people wanted these cards banned?

Fuck izzet prowess
Fuck monored
Fuck bounce
Fuck omniscience
Fuck domain
that is all

>>714264517
>total identity death that can be used on an opponents monsters
>DURR WE DIDDN THINK THEY WUZ GONNA USE THAT ON OPPONENT THINGS!
The absolute retard lmfao

most if not all of those cards are complete cancer and needed to be banned, don't blame it on muh FF
but then again, that says far more about how badly balanced magic is in 2025 than how badly they're trying to push the latest set. and frankly I still don't think it compares to 2020 when they put out shit like Oko and the entire companion mechanic. Never let them forget they made something so broken it had to be *banned in vintage*

Magic fell off after the Mirrodin block. Why is this game still played?
>MUH KAMIGAWA
Shut up, weeb.

>>714268550
nobody liked OG kamigawa the fuck are you on about
you're still a gay retard for dismissing OG ravnica, OG innistrad and zendikar though

>>714268973
I liked Lorwyn (minus pl*neswalkers)

>>714254151
Every single one of these deserved it.

>>714269351
Beanstalk didn't. Messed up mana mechanic is the problem

>>714269296
lorwyn was also good yeah.
People were screeching and shitting themselves about how JOTC is gonna wokeify it or whatever due to some statement rosewater put out and it baffled me cause, the fuck did you expect? When I heard they were returning to lorwyn I wasn't excited, I knew how it'd end. I genuinely pray that the worst of that sets problems comes from shitty art direction and worldbuilding. at least that can be fixed down the line with reprints, you can't un-fuck a bad card design.

>>714269536
beanstalk is broken as hell dude

>>714269536
It's broken with a ton of mechanics. The card and how it's worded is simply broken, unlike any individual mechanic it works with.

>>714266838
All I remember is being disgusted at how overpushed this card is. Whether it ended up seeing Standard play or not, designing a 1 mana 2/3 deathttouch with further upside is fucking ridiculous.

>>714267662
based

>>714261146
You need to go into full control mode (retain priority) to activate Courier in response.

>>714269604
Return to Lorwyn is gonna be good just like Return to Tarkir was
/tg/ just hates everything and is the incarnation of "OLD GOOD NEW BAD"

>>714264517
it's been 31 years but creating good balanced cards is still a monumental task for them(and other card games too)

>>714266886
Omniscience Combo didn't even account for 3% of the meta lol. Nice "domination" you got there.

>>714253889
>want to have sex with the tifa card
>can't because it's digital
This is the life that MtG players chose for themselves.

>>714269694
I don't remember anyone truly complaining about it until Overlords dropped. Before those I believe I only ever saw them in decks with Leyline Binding and Sunfall. Does green even have any card drawing in standard anymore these days?

>>714253704 (OP)
Red aggro players deserve the rope. That one archtype has pretty much dominated the meta game for almost two years to the point where 80% of arena is playing the same two decks

>>714254151
>>714254484
come to pioneer, your deck is not only intact, but it also gets a bunch of upgrades
hell, every card banned except for Abuelo's Awakening goes into an already existing pioneer deck

>>714270051
I mean slashing the teams responsible for balance and testing it’s s real mystery why there’s no improvement.

>>714268973
Dont you talk shit about old Kamigawa you double Negro. That shit was cool as fuck and it's power level was fine considering the amount of cards Modern used from it pre Horizons.

>>714270480
60% of arena will always be playing red aggro burn because it is the easiest bot to program

just play eternal card game
>campaign
>PvE gauntlet mode
>multiplayer casual or ranked
>draft against AI or other players
>monthly draft tournament
>incredibly generous f2p model
>pinnacle of digital-only CCGs

>Weiss Schwarz is the IPslop card game I'd bother playing
>No packs anywhere
>No starter decks anywhere
>Singles really expensive
>Nobody plays it nearby and no online deck player
Fuck.

>>714257836
i play mtg and am a massive weeb. but i hide my power level, don't talk about either in public even with people who like anime or magic because it is never a fruitful conversation. there are likely more people like me than you realize, it is just that those people refuse to engage and show you what they know/like because they don't want to be associated with the turbo autists.

>>714253704 (OP)
>>714254151
this is good. also, expect more massive bans like this now that standard is 3 years before rotation instead of 2.

>>714257683
are you new to mtg or something? of course wotc would ban some commons that cost two pennies instead of rares and mythics that people buy packs for

>>714274635
>expect more massive bans like this now that standard is 3 years before rotation instead of 2
Why not just have it go back to 2 years rotation, then?

>>714270019
Ah I see

>>714275182
>Admitting a mistake

really not that they've done away with blocks I don't see why they don't just straight up make standard 1 set in 1 set out

>>714275182
that doesn't make number go up, anon

>>714275182
Because that would show to the world that Wizards fucked up doing it to begin with and they don't want that.

>>714275182
because then they have to admit they were wrong for a fairly controversial change to the game. it is easier (and better for business) to just actively ban a bunch of shit every so often. either way, wotc has to admit to a mistake, but saying "oh this card just slipped past design!" is a lot easier than saying "oh, we fucked up with this major change to the format that everyone didn't like at the time that we made it. to remedy that, we are going back to the old way AND banning all the cards currently being played from 2.5 years ago."

>>714275793
>>714275867
>>714275868
>>714276041
KWAB

>>714253704 (OP)
Or, hear me out, standard was shit before FF came out.