Midseason Banned and Restricted Announcement Implementation
The mid-season banned and restricted announcement is this Monday, August 28. Existing constructed are currently set to end Wednesday, August 30.
Hum. Cool! Hope they change a lot of stuff.
Last announcements were all on wednesday if I remember correctly though (I may be wrong because I haven't cared for the format too much in the last few months).
Well at Leviathan I've seen some reports, he looks to be competitive, but he has a hard time against decks that don't care about life points, those decks are just faster than the damage he can push through. Also a guy on a local Shop built him(they play MTGO list there), it looked like he did pretty good against the heavy blue decks and aggressive decks, but suffered a bit against big creature/combo decks like Nissa/Selvala/Animar...
I think he takes over the meta at DC because there is no combo, so he is just too fast for the meta, also vampires, most of them have lifelink which breaks the back bone of Zurgo
Basically what I see is that lifelink prays on the aggressive decks, and the tokens pray on the slower blue decks and also aggro decks, I guess his biggest weakness on 30HP are the big mana combo decks, that pushing 1/1 lifelink every turn is not enough to race them
MY LGS we are playing Wizards's format and Edgar does OK.We don't have any blue/control decks to see how he performs. But he runs down my Daretti deck. So hard to keep with it...
Don't see the 4CGS decks suffering much about this, but I'm a bit scared for what banning/nerfing 3/4 of Edgar's bad match-ups hold for his future in the format and he isn't even legal yet. In what testing I have done he beats Tymna/Thrasios and Tymna/Kraum with relative ease. Has a fair match vs Breya and lost to Jace, Baral, Nissa and Selvala.
I've always thought it was strange that Entomb was banned in this format while Vampiric and Demonic Tutors were totally fine. Now, it seems they're all banned.
He wasn't asking about IMPLEMENTATION. He asked about the ANNOUNCEMENT.
Hum. Cool! Hope they change a lot of stuff.
Last announcements were all on wednesday if I remember correctly though (I may be wrong because I haven't cared for the format too much in the last few months).
Vintage:
Thorn of Amethyst is restricted.
Monastery Mentor is restricted.
Yawgmoth's Bargain is unrestricted.
All other formats:
No changes
http://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/august-28-2017-banned-and-restricted-announcement-2017-08-28
http://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/mtgo-standings/commander-1-v-1-challenge-2017-08-27
1st 5 Breya
2nd Leovold
3rd Queen Marchesa
4th Gitrog Monster
6th Meren of Clan Nel Toth
7th Ludevic, Necro-Alchemist Kraum
8th Baral
I think he takes over the meta at DC because there is no combo, so he is just too fast for the meta, also vampires, most of them have lifelink which breaks the back bone of Zurgo
Basically what I see is that lifelink prays on the aggressive decks, and the tokens pray on the slower blue decks and also aggro decks, I guess his biggest weakness on 30HP are the big mana combo decks, that pushing 1/1 lifelink every turn is not enough to race them
Edit: http://wizardsmtgo.tumblr.com/post/166220048834/mtgo-commander-1v1-banned-announcement
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