Temur Tower is the breakout deck for this GP. Lots of pros are on it. It's seen some success online, but it seems like the decks here have different card choices.
Deck of the tournament-Mardu Ballista. I'm guessing some more bans are heading our way in March. Let's see if the playerbase can withstand the upcoming new drop in confidence.
This format is pretty fun. There's only a couple of decks, but the way that the matches play out is much more engaging and skill-testing than last season.
Deck of the tournament-Mardu Ballista. I'm guessing some more bans are heading our way in March. Let's see if the playerbase can withstand the upcoming new drop in confidence.
Banning IMHO was the wrong road to travel down, they ban again it's just going to cause more problems. If anything, a preemptive ban on felidar guardian would have been the best option for banning. At this point they have three competitive decks. Question is what doors if any open by the hands of another ban? I don't know to be honest. My approach would be to not ban and hold tight through this crappy standard storm. Immediate action should be rolling through the R and D teams at wizards to solve it through card design and not card banning. Also seriously talk to these teams there and solve it. I think Block-Core-Block was a more balance system. I dunno. It feels like we are playing a series of block constructed formats rather than standard... I am finding it hard to see these sets working together rather than what we have now which to me looks like block constructed vs block constructed... mechanics are not in sync with each other's sets. SMH cause I really don't know... and I fear #MakeMagicGreatAgain won't happen for years
If WOTC bans any more cards we're going to run low on playables. It would just make the remaining best cards even more powerful.
The format is pretty stale right now, but Amonkhet is around the corner. I hope this experience has convinced people that banning cards from standard is not a good solution to "fix diversity" (unless it's something absurd like CoCo).
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RNA Standard: Grixis Midrange, Jund Deathwhirler, Sultai Vannifar
GRN Standard: Red Midrange, Mono-Blue Tempo, Wr Aggro, Gruul Experimental Dinosaurs, Sultai Midrange, Jeskai Midrange
Modern: Bant Spirits
Forcing a single archetype in all formats: too many colors, bad mana.
GW ~ Angels ~ WG
Modern:
RBW ~ Shadowmancer ~ WBR
Legacy:
BUG ~ Shadow Delver ~ GUB
Banning IMHO was the wrong road to travel down, they ban again it's just going to cause more problems. If anything, a preemptive ban on felidar guardian would have been the best option for banning. At this point they have three competitive decks. Question is what doors if any open by the hands of another ban? I don't know to be honest. My approach would be to not ban and hold tight through this crappy standard storm. Immediate action should be rolling through the R and D teams at wizards to solve it through card design and not card banning. Also seriously talk to these teams there and solve it. I think Block-Core-Block was a more balance system. I dunno. It feels like we are playing a series of block constructed formats rather than standard... I am finding it hard to see these sets working together rather than what we have now which to me looks like block constructed vs block constructed... mechanics are not in sync with each other's sets. SMH cause I really don't know... and I fear #MakeMagicGreatAgain won't happen for years
The format is pretty stale right now, but Amonkhet is around the corner. I hope this experience has convinced people that banning cards from standard is not a good solution to "fix diversity" (unless it's something absurd like CoCo).
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