After sleeping on it, I think it's a good ban because it will nerf arclight phoenix.
It does feel bad that cheaper decks like dredge, hollow one, and mardu pyromancer took collateral damage.
Still seeing phoenix put up tons of results in medium sized events. No one is denying it is good of course, just feel that hogaak has overshadowed another big problem.
i don't know, an 8/8 with trample is kinda hard to deal with on turns 2 or 3. knowing wotc past behavior they will drag their feet on a decision but i don't see why.
fnm shops have always been terrible places to play if you're looking for casual games. I still play though because I'm addicted to competition in general. As you play more, you'll find more like minded people. Don't go in with any kind of expectation and limit your outings to maybe once a month or so. Also, look for shops that aren't as competitive or offer weak prize support. I find less net deckers/odd behavior at smaller shops.
I read on other forums that this phenomenon or whatever you call it became more of a problem in the late 2000's, also around the time people became comfortable spending $30+ on a single card. I don't know, they need more reprints to boot out the speculation stuff and elitist mindset.
I am going to go back to a stock list from march/april, before all the hogaak nonsense. I think we still split sweepers because of meddling mage.
It does feel bad that cheaper decks like dredge, hollow one, and mardu pyromancer took collateral damage.
I guess duals hold value long term anyways because of commander.
I read on other forums that this phenomenon or whatever you call it became more of a problem in the late 2000's, also around the time people became comfortable spending $30+ on a single card. I don't know, they need more reprints to boot out the speculation stuff and elitist mindset.
As if that's a big drawback.
Also, just ban the hogaak, altar is cool and bridge was never a problem before