updated banlist:
* Ancestral Vision
* Ancient Den
* Bitterblossom
* Chrome Mox
* Dark Depths
* Dread Return
* Glimpse of Nature
* Golgari Grave-Troll
* Great Furnace
* Hypergenesis
* Jace, the Mind Sculptor
* Mental Misstep
* Seat of the Synod
* Sensei's Divining Top
* Skullclamp
* Stoneforge Mystic
* Sword of the Meek
* Tree of Tales
* Umezawa's Jitte
* Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle
* Vault of Whispers
Wow banned list. That is ridiculous. Valakut is banned? Ancestral Vision? Dread Return? Glimpse of Nature? Mental Misstep? Time to unload my Hypergeneses
To be fair, they're probably just being overcautious. They can always unban things (cough Jitte cough, it no longer wins NEARLY as many games in Legacy as it used to when it was in Standard, and that's WITH Stoneforge), and while I feel a lot of these bannings are ridiculous, they at least have justification for nearly all of them.
EDIT: Also, if they wanted to neuter Dredge, they should have just banned Bridge From Below instead of Dread Return. Dread Return is a good card in decks besides Dredge, since it's just a black-heavy Zombify that can be flashbacked, whereas Bridge is completely useless outside of Dredge.
This is great news. Apparently Wizards REALLY hates Caw-Blade though. Would not be surprised to see Stoneforge Mystic and Jace the Mind Sculptor get banned in Extended as well.
So basically they banned all the fun decks? If they want to keep all "turn 3 kills" out of the format they're going to have to keep banning new stuff as soon as its released. This is just disappointing...think I'll sell off the Rav duals i bought a few weeks ago.
And AEther Vial still somehow escapes the banlist? Odd.
Damn, I was thinking about porting my Legacy UW Stoneblade list onto Modern by replacing Brainstorms with Ponders, Tundras with Hallowed Fountains, etc etc but half the deck's cards ended up getting banned For the best I suppose, but now I doubt I'll ever get into this format.
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Terrible banlist. If they DO NOT ban any cards on the banlist, they might as well have a format with archetypes driven by EACH card on the banlist.
It just looks like "Kill all top standard decks, let all the second tier card see play" format, or CREATURES SMASHHHHH
if that were the case they would have also given Bloodbraid Elf The hammer. I'm interested to see how this turns out. I might even make a modern deck...
Honestly It doesn't bug me that much (surprised that Aether Vial escaped the ban), I guess they didn't want to turn this into extended which really was just let's make some edits to our standard decks and every now and than come up with something completely new.
Yeah the banned list is kind of extensive I was expecting Hypergenesis because that card with cascade is just beyond broken, but I was not expecting the Stoneforge and Jace bans (even though I should have being that bant is so very popular in extended right now).
The banning of Valakut to me and am happy about the bitterblossom ban.
What we are going to see is Jund running hog wild all over modern at first, but we are also going to see some really interesting builds.
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And AEther Vial still somehow escapes the banlist? Odd.
My first thought as well. Once I saw all the other new cards added to the list, I had to scan it a 2nd and 3rd time to make sure I missed Vial in there somehow. Wonder how long that will last!
EDIT: And I missed that Mental Misstep is also banned...seems to make Vial 10x stronger (rushes off to buy Vials)
updated banlist:
* Ancestral Vision
* Ancient Den
* Bitterblossom
* Chrome Mox
* Dark Depths
* Dread Return
* Glimpse of Nature
* Golgari Grave-Troll
* Great Furnace
* Hypergenesis
* Jace, the Mind Sculptor
* Mental Misstep
* Seat of the Synod
* Sensei's Divining Top
* Skullclamp
* Stoneforge Mystic
* Sword of the Meek
* Tree of Tales
* Umezawa's Jitte
* Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle
* Vault of Whispers
To be fair, they're probably just being overcautious. They can always unban things (cough Jitte cough, it no longer wins NEARLY as many games in Legacy as it used to when it was in Standard, and that's WITH Stoneforge), and while I feel a lot of these bannings are ridiculous, they at least have justification for nearly all of them.
EDIT: Also, if they wanted to neuter Dredge, they should have just banned Bridge From Below instead of Dread Return. Dread Return is a good card in decks besides Dredge, since it's just a black-heavy Zombify that can be flashbacked, whereas Bridge is completely useless outside of Dredge.
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Damn, I was thinking about porting my Legacy UW Stoneblade list onto Modern by replacing Brainstorms with Ponders, Tundras with Hallowed Fountains, etc etc but half the deck's cards ended up getting banned For the best I suppose, but now I doubt I'll ever get into this format.
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It just looks like "Kill all top standard decks, let all the second tier card see play" format, or CREATURES SMASHHHHH
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if that were the case they would have also given Bloodbraid Elf The hammer. I'm interested to see how this turns out. I might even make a modern deck...
Honestly It doesn't bug me that much (surprised that Aether Vial escaped the ban), I guess they didn't want to turn this into extended which really was just let's make some edits to our standard decks and every now and than come up with something completely new.
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The banning of Valakut to me and am happy about the bitterblossom ban.
What we are going to see is Jund running hog wild all over modern at first, but we are also going to see some really interesting builds.
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My first thought as well. Once I saw all the other new cards added to the list, I had to scan it a 2nd and 3rd time to make sure I missed Vial in there somehow. Wonder how long that will last!
EDIT: And I missed that Mental Misstep is also banned...seems to make Vial 10x stronger (rushes off to buy Vials)
You really want to play in a format of turn 3 kills and Legacy decks without Force of Will?
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