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@IzziDoodles @blakepr What mistakes were made?

@blakepr Making mistakes like this, and not addressing actual concerns, while Riftbound quite literally is stealing your competitive playerbase, is a huge blunder. You say you aren't ignoring us, but that's just a lie. You guys don't care.

As always, we'll be on WeeklyMTG tomorrow (24 hours from this post) to discuss all of this and whatever questions you may have! Feel free to drop any questions/thoughts here and we'll cover what we can. #wotcstaff

@SkarlonYGO Choosing to not ban cards in formats that don't need cards banned is actually a good idea. Magic tends to be less explosive with its card design and doesn't end up printing ban-worthy buildarounds and enablers every se t

Mtg is an incredible game dude

@Tezkiya @SkarlonYGO Because that's what historic is about? It's a digital format with its own rules and isn't meant to be an analogue to a paper format? you can just, not play it? What's your problem?

@SkarlonYGO That alchemy exists is an affrent to mankind. Also WHY THE FUCK is DRC, Omnath, T3feri, unholy heat, and a bazillion other cards nerfed in fucking historic and in FOOOOOOOOOOOOOOKIN historic brawl. Fuck these bums, for real.

@realkomshow @SkarlonYGO Modern is healthy, it's just not for you, with all respect. All the decks in the format are doing something incredibly powerful. Eldrazi is stone raining you and ramping on turn 4. Izzet Prowess is making a 10/10 with double strike on turn 4.

@SkarlonYGO Modern has become boring as fuck, arena phlage draco blink 1st turn kappa everytime yet Reddit will tell you it's healthy because energy doesn't win every tournament

@Nikolai88981022 @SkarlonYGO Food Chain was banned in historic. Also B&R updates are scheduled ahead of time so it would be weird for them to not say anything when the time comes

@SkarlonYGO What’s even the point of this banlist?!

@TheEmperorOppai @SkarlonYGO Magic formats are well managed. You can make arguments that some cards could be banned, but to say they're poorly managed displays a lack of experience and research into standard right now

@SkarlonYGO As someone who plays both Yugioh and Magic, I can say that almost every format (everything above vintage) would be drastically improved by real format management but also the last 2 decks I've bought in yugioh I've had hit on lists before I got the last card delivered which sucks

@SkarlonYGO @tastysnackies So you think the B&R team isn't doing their job unless they ban cards you dislike? They're writing articles giving in-depth analysis. Banning cards isn't their job, deciding whether or not cards should be banned is their job.

@tastysnackies 4 people to write an article about why theyre doing nothing to almost every format is hysterical

@SkarlonYGO @Pawg_Alf Standard is very much healthy. the metagame shares are fairly even and there isn't a definitive one deck that's winning every major event. You should understand well that while green landfall is a strong deck, it winning a spotlight series doesn't make it the best deck.

@Pawg_Alf I play standard lmfao it is far from healthy I just judged a yugioh event this weekend, looks healthy and diverse to me

@itsJulian23 the whole point of cEDH is that it uses the rules of the Commander format. There have been tournaments with their own custom bans, but there is no committee for the cEDH "format" (a group tried and immediately got hated out.)

Genuine question: why doesn't (c)EDH just ban Rhystic Study? The continous level and amounts of misery I see in connection with this card is something I've only ever experienced with one other card.

@NamelessMTG If Rhystic Study was a one-sided sphere of resistance it would still be insanely busted. People would still be running cards that were capable of cloning it.

If Cedh players played the game like these are the exact same card then they wouldn’t be complaining about it so much. 1. Pay the 1 2. Counter it 3. Bounce it, blow it up Maybe we should change our play patterns before banning it. Me personally, I love me some Rhystic Study

@DabMasterDaniel @KoDiamonds22 bans are always immediate as of the article being posted

@KoDiamonds22 when does the bans start, they didn't say when in the article it just says "1 card banned" but no mention when it starts

Wow, Pioneer seems great! Can't wait to jam Pioneer RCQs this year! 🤡

@HushTCG @MegaMogwai that tweet is not a very good argument to be fair. alpha is x100 times more powerful than origins by far. set 1 of magic was not designed with 30 years of prior card design. we actually know what's coming with set 3 considering most of the legends are pretty strong

@MegaMogwai Insert the Daniel tweet. No I dont think bans will affect how people view this game. I think a couple bans on common and uncommon cards will not matter because these decks will be getting new tools next set. x.com/ctcg_dziden/st…

I disagree. It's set 2. Going crazy with bans now would have a very negative impact on the game as a whole. Long post incoming: If a ban must happen, it should be something minimal. I'm not a veteran riftbound player by any means, but in my humble opinion we are not in a hyper oppressive meta. Is the game perfectly balanced? Absolutely not. There is a clear color imbalance, but I'll bring my 2 decade experience in card games to the table here and say that said imbalance could be worse, A LOT worse. Right now, purple reigns. There's no debating that. But if you look into the decks, you'll realize they differ more than you'd initially think. Draven is successful, with or without called shot. I see many top players state how miracle draven is by far the superior vesion, but the results do not back this claim. Vegas was won by a classic midrange, which defeated the miracle deck in the finals. Irelia does not play called shot, in fact the key aspects that make the deck as powerful mostly stem from green, mainly stellacorn. Ezreal is ultimately a different variation of miracle, yet offers a very different approach, reactive instead of proactive like Draven. Kai'sa is still strong, not quite at the level of the big three. Viktor is also at this level. Champions like Jax are a lot stronger than many claim and I do have some hot takes on Ahri being very underrated but I'll keep that to myself, since I do not have the sample size nor personal experience to back them up yet. We are leading into the final month of the set, and while it is pretty much undeniable that Draven is the best legend in the game, he is far from invincible. Purple color combinations stand above the others, but this gap is, in my opinion, a tad exaggerated by a strong chunk of the playerbase parroting what several top players state as absolute facts. And here's the thing, they are not absolute facts. I know this will rub some people the wrong way, but no one player has a perfect vision of the game right now. And I do feel like a lot of players have locked in to a certain belief that against miracle draven there's just nothing you can do, which is NOT the case. If they banned called shot, I won't mind one bit. If they don't... I'm personally ok with that as well. I think there's still one more month in which players could attempt to find ways to adjust some lesser ranked legends against the meta. And hey, its likely the kings (and queens) won't be dethroned, but I do not believe, from my limited experience of course, that we are in an environment where Draven decks deny other legends from being able to compete. In fact I argue the most oppressive deck in the meta as of now is actually Irelia. But I do not wish for her to be nerfed either. This is my take. I could be wrong, a lot will probably disagree, but this is how I genuinely see things as of now. Set 3 will most definitely shake things up, and perhaps then some bans will actually need to happen due to the card pool increasing.

@_whenisleep @davetron blogs.magicjudges.org/rules/mtr4-8/

@AriyaIsTheBest @davetron Huuuuh? Take backs are not allowed in comp play for any major TCG except for Lorcana. Pokemon, MTG, Yugioh, One Piece, all bandai games all dont allow take backs.

Hey Riftbounders! TL;DR (more in the thread - 1/11) 1: We're discussing card bans in the near future based on overly-dominant play patterns, but none to announce today, nor an expected date for bans. 2: Expect a separate rules update on 3/30 for the new mechanics being introduced in our next Set, Unleashed, as well as a few clarities around penalties, judge rewind, edge cases, and more. Read on for more!

@PeruGroyper @TolarianCollege mono red aggro can be built for $70 which is solidly A tier. youre also not going to get run over at locals for not playing badgermole or lessons, most locals aren't as sweaty as you percieve

@AriyaIsTheBest @TolarianCollege Yea I’m not buying that cope, I’d rather play modern if I’m spending that much money, 1vs1 is competitive unlike edh so I would want to build a meta tier 1 deck and not just a fringe tier 3 or less deck so I get ran over at locals

I Was Wrong About Standard: youtu.be/y42u7KR0gMU #MagicTheGathering

@DiosEmperador4 @MixolydianMagus Painfully reductive. A deck is not its mana base, and fetch lands don't make a format less interesting or diverse. That's like saying "everyone in casual edh packs their deck with 10 versions of command tower and 20 basic lands." Is your issue their price? that's different

@AriyaIsTheBest @MixolydianMagus Yeah the diversity is: everyone pack their decks with fetchlands

folks who love the modern format: why?

@IslandsInFront @MixolydianMagus Ruby Storm is mostly older storm cards, and Tron, Eldrazi Stompy, Affinity, Amulet Titan, Goryo's, Yawgmoth, Hollow One, Dimir Death's Shadow, etc. feature a lot of classic cards from old magic

@AriyaIsTheBest @MixolydianMagus I am very curious what you count as old favs

@PoofMacCoohaill @SpoopyBoopys im not crazy about pendulum and links being banned, but the genesys lists that see play are very different from the advanced lists even if both allow many of the same archetypes to be successful. the formats are simply not different enough for you even if they are different.

@AriyaIsTheBest @SpoopyBoopys That's a cop out and you know it lol. Address the elephant in the room.

Genesys haters, I have a question- why? Saw a bunch of people at my local saying that Genesys “isn’t a real format” and calling it “modern but worse”. Do people not realize that even if it is a smaller format, it has a metagame with interesting and interactive gameplay?

@Va1kyrie99 @ihatethisb2680 Describe common? Maybe if you don't play interaction and your opponent has a double badgermole hand then you die on turn 4? The only deck that can actually kill you turn 3 is red leyline and that deck is A tier at best. I've been playing since NEO, fym i don't understand?

@AriyaIsTheBest @ihatethisb2680 T4 deaths are common, T3 kills happen frequently. Dont speak to things you do not understand

This has ruined magic

@DrivetheTacos @SwervoT3k @ashleybits there are several competitively viable decks like mono red aggro, izzet spellementals and mono white mono that can be build for <$150. badgermole aggro and landfall are not the best decks in the format, no data proves that beyond one spotlight series finish

@AriyaIsTheBest @SwervoT3k @ashleybits It’s not it’s $500 for a deck that has an iota of a chance of winning

How MTG Players look at you when you wanna play Standard Instead of Transylvanian Tickle Torture Highlander

@SnnuyLoR Unfortunately he's a standalone legend for set 3 so he has to play with the other cards in the set. Zilean was probably just meant to be a LeBlanc card but hopefully we get timebombs this year (copium)

something isn't quite right with this zilean