You cannot have a 3rd party that exists in the secondary market be in charge of a banlist. It leads to corruption. Prime example unbanning Painter's Servant. Any player who's been in mtg awhile knows the cards that are inherently used around this and can just hoard them, unban servant and sell out.
It's insider trading and WotC needs to take over the banlist before this gets out of hand.
Yes, I'm sure that a Wizards employee, a level 5 judge, a PhD, and a dude who writes for SCG weekly, gets an active duty military pension, and has a rocket scientist wife need to skim a couple of bucks by unbanning cards just to flip them.
which one has the Rocket scientist wife or is this just one person?
I love the salt coming from r/MTGfinance for example
"I think PE should be banned, that being said, I don't think Sheldon should be the final say on bans anymore but I also think the ban list should be binding and not a suggestion.
I don't know what the right answer is but it def feels bad having a singular PLAYER be able to cut or add millions of dollars from/to magic collections world wide with a tweet."
As far as I know, that's not even how it works. I'm under the impression the RC is more democratic. I'm sure Sheldon's opinion carries a whole lot more, maybe the most, gravitas behind it, but that only goes so far. The idea of King Menery and his Court of Merry Men dictating bans from a single mind doesn't really add up to the impressions the RC gives at each B/R update.
It's not even close, they meet up or meet via discord or something and talk and then take a vote but like i said i love the tears out of that subreddit
I love the salt coming from r/MTGfinance for example
"I think PE should be banned, that being said, I don't think Sheldon should be the final say on bans anymore but I also think the ban list should be binding and not a suggestion.
I don't know what the right answer is but it def feels bad having a singular PLAYER be able to cut or add millions of dollars from/to magic collections world wide with a tweet."
which one has the Rocket scientist wife or is this just one person?
It's not even close, they meet up or meet via discord or something and talk and then take a vote but like i said i love the tears out of that subreddit
"I think PE should be banned, that being said, I don't think Sheldon should be the final say on bans anymore but I also think the ban list should be binding and not a suggestion.
I don't know what the right answer is but it def feels bad having a singular PLAYER be able to cut or add millions of dollars from/to magic collections world wide with a tweet."