standard just stopped being complex enough for me. over the years they've really toned it down, from 3 viable archetypes to basically 1, sometimes 2. the meta gets solved incredibly quickly with every new set, and it tends to boil down to just 2-3 decks. to me that's boring. as long as that's going on i really won't have an interest in standard. it gets very tiresome to play against and see the same cards day after day.
brawl isn't really an option to compete either, the format is just as bad as standard. there are less than a handful of viable decks, and that's basically it.
there's also the lack of multiplayer, and that just makes the disparity between builds all the more glaring. often whoever gets ahead first, stays ahead and wins. there's no way to politics out of it, there's no duck and cover, there's no biding your time, you just get ****ed.
edh can be competitive, so claiming it isn't as the draw for most seems really... well like mislabeling it and ignoring what makes the format great to so many. its complex, multiple archetypes are viable, you can use cards from all through magics history, those are some of the real draws.
my other gripe with the modern era and exploiting the popularity of edh is that they keep pushing cards, in sets, in precons, we keep getting targetted cards. cards that are aimed squarely at edh. its made deck building a nightmare, and has also lead to a lot more ubiquity between decks as some of the newer cards aimed at edh are just a little too good. that in the long run will either stagnate the format or put too much pressure on players to consume consume consume all while there's a nuclear arms race in card design.
i'd much rather they focus on just making cards. design sets that are engaging and fun to play, in sealed, in standard, in draft, ignore edh completely. hell ignore legacy, modern, and pioneer also. if cards are designed well they'll find a home, it doesn't need to be forced. forcing playability just upends formats and isn't fun for anyone. we'll get more creative builds again, and a more diversified standard environment too if they emphasize that over jamming ways into every set to get edh players to buy, or legacy players to buy, or whoever else to buy.
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brawl isn't really an option to compete either, the format is just as bad as standard. there are less than a handful of viable decks, and that's basically it.
there's also the lack of multiplayer, and that just makes the disparity between builds all the more glaring. often whoever gets ahead first, stays ahead and wins. there's no way to politics out of it, there's no duck and cover, there's no biding your time, you just get ****ed.
edh can be competitive, so claiming it isn't as the draw for most seems really... well like mislabeling it and ignoring what makes the format great to so many. its complex, multiple archetypes are viable, you can use cards from all through magics history, those are some of the real draws.
my other gripe with the modern era and exploiting the popularity of edh is that they keep pushing cards, in sets, in precons, we keep getting targetted cards. cards that are aimed squarely at edh. its made deck building a nightmare, and has also lead to a lot more ubiquity between decks as some of the newer cards aimed at edh are just a little too good. that in the long run will either stagnate the format or put too much pressure on players to consume consume consume all while there's a nuclear arms race in card design.
i'd much rather they focus on just making cards. design sets that are engaging and fun to play, in sealed, in standard, in draft, ignore edh completely. hell ignore legacy, modern, and pioneer also. if cards are designed well they'll find a home, it doesn't need to be forced. forcing playability just upends formats and isn't fun for anyone. we'll get more creative builds again, and a more diversified standard environment too if they emphasize that over jamming ways into every set to get edh players to buy, or legacy players to buy, or whoever else to buy.