I don't disagree with you, but I think a mirror match with a mix of old and new slivers is a whole magnitude worse.
That's true, but that's the catch to play eternal formats. The more cards are available, the more convolute and complicate are card's interactions. At least many more recent formats (not only Standarc but also Pioneer, Brawl and Historic) will have only the new slivers in their card pool, which means that at least the new players are saved from this bane of card's interaction.
The problem is that slivers are most popular in casual / kitchen table magic. If we were talking about a competitive archetype like storm or whatever, sure, you may have a point. But the place where one encounters mirror matches featuring slivers of all sets is also the place where you encounter slivers the most. And that is why it's more of a problem than it looks on paper.
And whether you make sliver symmetrical or asymmetrical in future it won't matter because both already exist.
I'm talking about the original decision to change how slivers worked, not continuing on that. The horse has already bolted.
I don't disagree with you, but I think a mirror match with a mix of old and new slivers is a whole magnitude worse.
That's true, but that's the catch to play eternal formats. The more cards are available, the more convolute and complicate are card's interactions. At least many more recent formats (not only Standarc but also Pioneer, Brawl and Historic) will have only the new slivers in their card pool, which means that at least the new players are saved from this bane of card's interaction.
The problem is that slivers are most popular in casual / kitchen table magic. If we were talking about a competitive archetype like storm or whatever, sure, you may have a point. But the place where one encounters mirror matches featuring slivers of all sets is also the place where you encounter slivers the most. And that is why it's more of a problem than it looks on paper.
If it's 10,000 then to them the Kami war was almost as far back as the invention of agriculture is to us. Eiganjo Castle could be there Gobekli Tepe.
Funny thing is, i'm willingly to bet with everyone that kami are going to be "dead" and won't return. Kami were too weird obscure for the western public and were badly received. They were also a parasitic mess mechanically. Also they don't mesh at all with the cyberpunk theme. So i think they won't be there.
The problem with the kami wasn't that they were too weird and obscure. The problem was their high numbers in the set (roughly 50%) WHILE being weird and obscure. Weird an obscure stuff is present in all worlds/sets, just usually restricted to higher rarities. See Prowling Serpopard and Hundred-Handed One.
If i were a betting man I'd bet money that kami will return, just in vastly reduced numbers (which, honestly, fits the lore as they only appeared in huge numbers during the kami war), probably a few one-offs here, a cycle there, mostly at higher rarities. And they don't need to have any of the parasitic mechanics. I do not expect spiritcraft and soulshift to return and if splice returns, then probably in its updated "splice onto instant/sorcery" form.
I'm talking about the original decision to change how slivers worked, not continuing on that. The horse has already bolted.
The problem is that slivers are most popular in casual / kitchen table magic. If we were talking about a competitive archetype like storm or whatever, sure, you may have a point. But the place where one encounters mirror matches featuring slivers of all sets is also the place where you encounter slivers the most. And that is why it's more of a problem than it looks on paper.
I don't disagree with you, but I think a mirror match with a mix of old and new slivers is a whole magnitude worse.
The problem with the kami wasn't that they were too weird and obscure. The problem was their high numbers in the set (roughly 50%) WHILE being weird and obscure. Weird an obscure stuff is present in all worlds/sets, just usually restricted to higher rarities. See Prowling Serpopard and Hundred-Handed One.
If i were a betting man I'd bet money that kami will return, just in vastly reduced numbers (which, honestly, fits the lore as they only appeared in huge numbers during the kami war), probably a few one-offs here, a cycle there, mostly at higher rarities. And they don't need to have any of the parasitic mechanics. I do not expect spiritcraft and soulshift to return and if splice returns, then probably in its updated "splice onto instant/sorcery" form.