MTG Salvation

Regardless, Baneslayers and Cobras are seeming more stapleish (tell me if you are playing W or G you wouldn't want to play either of them?) and any rare that runs $30 a piece (ever) is ridiculous.

Agree about Goyf too. Great opportunity cost, bad beating on the wallet ($160-$170 a playset on Ebay right now, which is slightly lower than retail (geesh). If you want a slod 1.x deck you gotta drop a G. Seems bad.

I'm not sure where you're looking, but if you're looking at actual decklists, like I am, then you're not seeing that many Baneslayers. The top 8 from the last five PTQs (the last five visible on Wizards' site) have 41 maindeck Baneslayers and 3 sideboard Baneslayers spread across the 40 decks represented. That's an average of one angel per deck. In only one case did a deck with any Baneslayers in it at all finish better than 4th. Only a minority of decks are playing Baneslayer at all.

Iterstingly enough, if you look at ptq results, look at the top decks five colour control, blue white BANESLAYER, white blue reveillark, five color cascade, five color colfenors plans, all off those decks between main and board ran at least 2-4 baneslayers. Also, the tarmogyf thing, there was an official comment stating that tarmogyf waas unintentionally overpowered and another card of that magnitude would not be printed again, for the shear fact that that card was much like baneslayer in the fact that it was almost a near playseet in every standard deck, and now 80% of the legacy and extended decks. Your right that wizards cannot intentionally promise not to make a card this powerful, but a card being unintetionally power like tarmogyf happened with baneslayer ,and making it a myhic rare only worsens the situation.

I don't love the mythic rarity myself, but nowhere in the history of official statements made about mythic has anything remotely like "just ment for casual play" been uttered. There's never been anything like a promise to never print a card as strong as Tarmogoyf again either. (Tarmogoyf was stronger than intended, and there's no way they can promise to never print a card that turns out to be better than they anticipated. It's not possible.)

I'm not happy about mythic, but the idea that the rarity was ever intended for only cards that wouldn't be popular tournement cards is pure delusion and doesn't have any basis in anything an official source has ever said.

Equally incorrect is the notion that Baneslayer Angel is played in "90% of the tier one decks". A simple glance at PTQ decklists show that that's completely untrue.