Changes I found:
Section 3.15 (Sideboard): When you control another player's turn, you can no longer look at their sideboard.
Appendix F (Rules Enforcement Level of Programs): Grand Prix Trials have changed from Competitive Rules Enforcement Level to Regular Rules Enforcement Level.
The net effect of this change is that Grand Prix Trials now require a level 1–certified judge and no longer require decklists (though judges and organizers may still require decklists).
Yep. Ah well, only another two months of slogging through Miracles I guess.
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Really no Gideon ban? Sounds like I'm staying away from standard for another 6 months
There's a small set of new cards waiting to change around the standard metagame. I say wait till those cards get settled in before pleading for the Ban Gods.
Really no Gideon ban? Sounds like I'm staying away from standard for another 6 months
Play mono red, or UR, or White control
Or, don't try either of the first two because red is worse than any point in in recent history (at least 5 years). So ya, you're stuck with monoW, or some Bant deck (either spirits or CoCo or whatever), or CoCo. In other words absolutely nothing will change until kaladesh
Really no Gideon ban? Sounds like I'm staying away from standard for another 6 months
Umm yea, since he has released Gideon has been at 50-75% of the competitive metagame. That's jtms/caw blade level oppression. Of course it's not a blue Caruso you never hear anyone complain
Really no Gideon ban? Sounds like I'm staying away from standard for another 6 months
Umm yea, since he has released Gideon has been at 50-75% of the competitive metagame. That's jtms/caw blade level oppression. Of course it's not a blue Caruso you never hear anyone complain
That percentage doesn't seem at all accurate. He's played in the best deck, GW Tokens, which holds a 17.9% share; the sideboard of some Bant Humans lists (14.4%); and BW Control (3.5%). He's not particularly important in Bant Humans, so it's really just GW Tokens and BW Control that's relying on Gideon. They are not going to ban a card in standard unless there is absolutely no other choice.
Dromoka's Command is more format warping than Gideon.
The amount of hate a card has to receive to get banned in standard is mindblowing. They don't do it unless they're forced to do so by like attendance dropping at major events.
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"Yawgmoth," Freyalise whispered as she set the bomb, "now you will pay for your treachery."
Can't look at another player's sideboard now? The game is now literally unplayable.
Actually, I think exceptions might be made if you control another player's turn and they draw one of the old wish spells? Would you then be allowed to? I would have to assume so to prevent illegal targets. Not that this kind of thing would happen often, but I'm just saying.
Can't look at another player's sideboard now? The game is now literally unplayable.
Actually, I think exceptions might be made if you control another player's turn and they draw one of the old wish spells? Would you then be allowed to? I would have to assume so to prevent illegal targets. Not that this kind of thing would happen often, but I'm just saying.
Why does this always happen? The goal is to never ban cards in standard. Gideon isn't even that oppressive. When jace and stoneforge got banned, it was because caw blade was nigh unbeatable unless you were playing it, too. Jace's ultimate also reads "win the game. " you think things are bad, but you rattled off a stack of decks. Until the format gets so warped that we lose a noticeable amount of players, they won't make any bans in standard. The ban list isn't there to keep you from getting bored, it's there to keep the game from going down in flames. And in my experience if a card gives you fits, you should be playing it.
I'm not worried about Gideon, so I guess I should have clarified. I don't think he needs to be banned at all, I think that's crazy. I just don't see anyway that red or red blue will be able to compete in the current standard with everything pushed to bant or GW. Even spirits are bant color now instead of the traditional UW. Gideon is fine, wizards just needs to print red cards with equal cmc that can even begin to compete with the cards in the decks Gideon is in
The sideboard rule change makes sense. Cards outside the game are just that: outside the game. It doesn't make sense for an in-game effect to give you information about things not in the game. Also, strictly speaking, since the rules of Magic are the same for all games, if Mindslaver lets you look at your opponent's sideboard in a tournament, then in a casual game it should allow you to look at their entire collection. This also makes Wishes failing make more sense.
Really no Gideon ban? Sounds like I'm staying away from standard for another 6 months
If you actually think Gideon is anything close to a bannable card, you haven't played standard very long.
3 months ago people were clamoring for a jvp ban when the card wasnt even played in the best deck and had similar meta shares to gideon. Since gideon isnt a blue card, no one sees issue
Really no Gideon ban? Sounds like I'm staying away from standard for another 6 months
Umm yea, since he has released Gideon has been at 50-75% of the competitive metagame. That's jtms/caw blade level oppression. Of course it's not a blue Caruso you never hear anyone complain
That percentage doesn't seem at all accurate. He's played in the best deck, GW Tokens, which holds a 17.9% share; the sideboard of some Bant Humans lists (14.4%); and BW Control (3.5%). He's not particularly important in Bant Humans, so it's really just GW Tokens and BW Control that's relying on Gideon. They are not going to ban a card in standard unless there is absolutely no other choice.
Dromoka's Command is more format warping than Gideon.
Dromokas command is a flexible removal spell that is only decent in this standard because WoTC has decided that green and white should have the best everything. Throw, i dunno, doom blade in the format and d command is significantly worse
Yep. Ah well, only another two months of slogging through Miracles I guess.
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UR Blue-Red Control
Modern:
UBR Grixis Control
UWR Jeskai Control
UWRjeskai nahiri UWR
UBRgrixis titi UBR
UBRgrixis delverUBR
UR ur kikimite UR
EDH
RUG Riku of Two Reflections RUG
UBR Marchesa, the Black Rose UBR
UBRGYidris, Maelstrom Wielder UBRG
UBRJeleva, Nephalia's ScourgeUBR
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Or, don't try either of the first two because red is worse than any point in in recent history (at least 5 years). So ya, you're stuck with monoW, or some Bant deck (either spirits or CoCo or whatever), or CoCo. In other words absolutely nothing will change until kaladesh
Umm yea, since he has released Gideon has been at 50-75% of the competitive metagame. That's jtms/caw blade level oppression. Of course it's not a blue Caruso you never hear anyone complain
UWRjeskai nahiri UWR
UBRgrixis titi UBR
UBRgrixis delverUBR
UR ur kikimite UR
EDH
RUG Riku of Two Reflections RUG
UBR Marchesa, the Black Rose UBR
UBRGYidris, Maelstrom Wielder UBRG
UBRJeleva, Nephalia's ScourgeUBR
That percentage doesn't seem at all accurate. He's played in the best deck, GW Tokens, which holds a 17.9% share; the sideboard of some Bant Humans lists (14.4%); and BW Control (3.5%). He's not particularly important in Bant Humans, so it's really just GW Tokens and BW Control that's relying on Gideon. They are not going to ban a card in standard unless there is absolutely no other choice.
Dromoka's Command is more format warping than Gideon.
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Actually, I think exceptions might be made if you control another player's turn and they draw one of the old wish spells? Would you then be allowed to? I would have to assume so to prevent illegal targets. Not that this kind of thing would happen often, but I'm just saying.
Nope, the spell just resolves with no effect. http://tabakrules.tumblr.com/post/147598104424/so-with-the-updates-to-the-tournament-rules-to-no
If you actually think Gideon is anything close to a bannable card, you haven't played standard very long.
3 months ago people were clamoring for a jvp ban when the card wasnt even played in the best deck and had similar meta shares to gideon. Since gideon isnt a blue card, no one sees issue
UWRjeskai nahiri UWR
UBRgrixis titi UBR
UBRgrixis delverUBR
UR ur kikimite UR
EDH
RUG Riku of Two Reflections RUG
UBR Marchesa, the Black Rose UBR
UBRGYidris, Maelstrom Wielder UBRG
UBRJeleva, Nephalia's ScourgeUBR
Dromokas command is a flexible removal spell that is only decent in this standard because WoTC has decided that green and white should have the best everything. Throw, i dunno, doom blade in the format and d command is significantly worse
UWRjeskai nahiri UWR
UBRgrixis titi UBR
UBRgrixis delverUBR
UR ur kikimite UR
EDH
RUG Riku of Two Reflections RUG
UBR Marchesa, the Black Rose UBR
UBRGYidris, Maelstrom Wielder UBRG
UBRJeleva, Nephalia's ScourgeUBR