First time seeing a large banning of cards for an event stated as Standard. This isn't like Nexus of Fate...
Wondering if this is because the development team for Arena may have noticed an overabundance of these particular cards dominating and commonly found among the top tier decks.
Anyone catch wind for what was the catalyst? I hardly read Mothership articles... was it already mentioned?
Its just for this event, those are all popular cards, so i guess the event is to allow players to activate their creative juices in deck building a little
I don't play Arena or any form of Standard, but effectively 'you can't play red' just seems really obnoxious. with Ferocidon, that's a full 20 cards banned. again idk how Standard really works, but in a Modern event if you said 'in addition to the actual banned list, you can't play the 19 best cards that are otherwise legal' actually nobody would play. are they stupid?
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This seems like a cool idea to me. I don't see this as being a testing ground for bannings (though maybe we can extrapolate something from it if cards *do* get banned later). Instead, it seems like exactly what it says it is: a Standard Shake-up. People, for better or worse, don't like playing against certain decks because they are top tier. And, for the most part, this list hits a lot of different decks. For people that are tired of playing against RDW or tired of playing against Esper, this format gives a form of reprieve from that without any real overarching changes to Standard. It is a fun event that they could really only do in Arena and it only lasts 3 days.
As of right now, I am not reading anything more into this other than "Wizards hears people don't like certain decks popping up all the time so they are giving us a timed event that eliminates those temporarily". Anyone that doesn't like it can still grind their 6 wins (or just one if they want the XP only) and then go back to playing normal BO1/BO3.
I'm trying to remember where I read it, but I think they have heald a similar standard shake-up and people were actually just playing there fine tuned tournament standard decks instead of something creative. These bannings for the event was just to keep people true to the event.
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How can you make such a bold statement after saying-
I don't play Arena or any form of Standard
It’s nice not to see the same stuff in an event with just alt. art basics on the table. Easy way to grind EXP, and also allows the brewers a chance to test some jank. Beyond that, it’s new player friendly as a lot of those cards aren’t available without purchasing packs or spending wildcards.
I’d say it’s stupid to commentate on something you admittedly don’t know anything about, but that’s just me.
How can you make such a bold statement after saying-
I don't play Arena or any form of Standard
It’s nice not to see the same stuff in an event with just alt. art basics on the table. Easy way to grind EXP, and also allows the brewers a chance to test some jank. Beyond that, it’s new player friendly as a lot of those cards aren’t available without purchasing packs or spending wildcards.
I’d say it’s stupid to commentate on something you admittedly don’t know anything about, but that’s just me.
it was a disclaimer in case something Arena specific like Standard cards not readily available (which is stupid, that is the draw of Standard, that cards are cheaper and there aren't supply issues. I suppose that this may be better for a deeply flawed platform with a worse distribution system than booster packs already are. I just know that when i played Standard back around og Innistrad, if you had banned 19 cards just for one event, that event would not have drawn a single person. because we would say 'oh, the event organizer wants to bend us over? we will go elsewhere. I don't understand what happened from the years of 'Standard sucks, players stop playing it' to 'the format changes every few weeks with arbitrary and ridiculous basically Shaharazad subgames, but we won't bail'. I may not know Arena, but I know Paper Constructed, all formats have a few basic ideas 'I spend the money, i play the cards, you change without warning the playability of the cards, I think twice about spending the money'
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it was a disclaimer in case something Arena specific like Standard cards not readily available (which is stupid, that is the draw of Standard, that cards are cheaper and there aren't supply issues. I suppose that this may be better for a deeply flawed platform with a worse distribution system than booster packs already are. I just know that when i played Standard back around og Innistrad, if you had banned 19 cards just for one event, that event would not have drawn a single person. because we would say 'oh, the event organizer wants to bend us over? we will go elsewhere. I don't understand what happened from the years of 'Standard sucks, players stop playing it' to 'the format changes every few weeks with arbitrary and ridiculous basically Shaharazad subgames, but we won't bail'. I may not know Arena, but I know Paper Constructed, all formats have a few basic ideas 'I spend the money, i play the cards, you change without warning the playability of the cards, I think twice about spending the money'
They are not banning 19 cards from the entire standard format on Arena and forcing the players to change things up. Players can still play their same old standard decks if they want on Arena, this is a side event. A challenge aimed at players who like to deck build to come up with some new decks if the lynchpins of the current meta were off limits.
This is like if a special side event were happening one week at FNM, but the normal FNM standard and draft formats were still available for those not interested in the event.
How can you make such a bold statement after saying-
I don't play Arena or any form of Standard
It’s nice not to see the same stuff in an event with just alt. art basics on the table. Easy way to grind EXP, and also allows the brewers a chance to test some jank. Beyond that, it’s new player friendly as a lot of those cards aren’t available without purchasing packs or spending wildcards.
I’d say it’s stupid to commentate on something you admittedly don’t know anything about, but that’s just me.
it was a disclaimer in case something Arena specific like Standard cards not readily available (which is stupid, that is the draw of Standard, that cards are cheaper and there aren't supply issues. I suppose that this may be better for a deeply flawed platform with a worse distribution system than booster packs already are. I just know that when i played Standard back around og Innistrad, if you had banned 19 cards just for one event, that event would not have drawn a single person. because we would say 'oh, the event organizer wants to bend us over? we will go elsewhere. I don't understand what happened from the years of 'Standard sucks, players stop playing it' to 'the format changes every few weeks with arbitrary and ridiculous basically Shaharazad subgames, but we won't bail'. I may not know Arena, but I know Paper Constructed, all formats have a few basic ideas 'I spend the money, i play the cards, you change without warning the playability of the cards, I think twice about spending the money'
How about you educate yourself before spouting off?
I’m not going to waste my time explaining what this is, but I will waste it by telling you that you look pretty ignorant by doubling down on your initial post by not attempting to gather any information what so ever on this particular topic before b****ing.
I'm trying to remember where I read it, but I think they have heald a similar standard shake-up and people were actually just playing there fine tuned tournament standard decks instead of something creative. These bannings for the event was just to keep people true to the event.
It was in their MTG ARENA: STATE OF THE BETA – JULY 2019 announcement. (Sorry for the caps, it’s a C&P and I’m lazy.) I just re-read it yesterday trying to figure out what the landfall event was all about.
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Wondering if this is because the development team for Arena may have noticed an overabundance of these particular cards dominating and commonly found among the top tier decks.
Anyone catch wind for what was the catalyst? I hardly read Mothership articles... was it already mentioned?
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As of right now, I am not reading anything more into this other than "Wizards hears people don't like certain decks popping up all the time so they are giving us a timed event that eliminates those temporarily". Anyone that doesn't like it can still grind their 6 wins (or just one if they want the XP only) and then go back to playing normal BO1/BO3.
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A legacy of lies,
A familiar disguise
Sing with me a song of conquest and fate
The black pillar cracks beneath its weight
Night breaks through the day, hard as a stone
Lost in thoughts all alone
How can you make such a bold statement after saying-
It’s nice not to see the same stuff in an event with just alt. art basics on the table. Easy way to grind EXP, and also allows the brewers a chance to test some jank. Beyond that, it’s new player friendly as a lot of those cards aren’t available without purchasing packs or spending wildcards.
I’d say it’s stupid to commentate on something you admittedly don’t know anything about, but that’s just me.
it was a disclaimer in case something Arena specific like Standard cards not readily available (which is stupid, that is the draw of Standard, that cards are cheaper and there aren't supply issues. I suppose that this may be better for a deeply flawed platform with a worse distribution system than booster packs already are. I just know that when i played Standard back around og Innistrad, if you had banned 19 cards just for one event, that event would not have drawn a single person. because we would say 'oh, the event organizer wants to bend us over? we will go elsewhere. I don't understand what happened from the years of 'Standard sucks, players stop playing it' to 'the format changes every few weeks with arbitrary and ridiculous basically Shaharazad subgames, but we won't bail'. I may not know Arena, but I know Paper Constructed, all formats have a few basic ideas 'I spend the money, i play the cards, you change without warning the playability of the cards, I think twice about spending the money'
They are not banning 19 cards from the entire standard format on Arena and forcing the players to change things up. Players can still play their same old standard decks if they want on Arena, this is a side event. A challenge aimed at players who like to deck build to come up with some new decks if the lynchpins of the current meta were off limits.
This is like if a special side event were happening one week at FNM, but the normal FNM standard and draft formats were still available for those not interested in the event.
How about you educate yourself before spouting off?
I’m not going to waste my time explaining what this is, but I will waste it by telling you that you look pretty ignorant by doubling down on your initial post by not attempting to gather any information what so ever on this particular topic before b****ing.
It was in their MTG ARENA: STATE OF THE BETA – JULY 2019 announcement. (Sorry for the caps, it’s a C&P and I’m lazy.) I just re-read it yesterday trying to figure out what the landfall event was all about.