The only problem is that you get no relief for collateral damage. The banning of Winota gives you your 4 wildcards but what about the cards that are absolutely worthless without them such as angrath's marauders? Especially when it dodged the announced bans people thought it was safe to craft those unplayable cards only to have it struck down out of nowhere.
This is the exact scenario that happened to me. I got my mythic wildcards back from Winota but I'm fresh out of rare wildcards from having crafted the rest of the deck. Cards such as Bonecrusher Giant, Legion Warboss, Fauna Shaman, and the shocklands/checklands are playable enough in a variety of decks, but cards like Haktos the Unscarred and Angrath's Marauders are stone unplayable outside of the deck.
They should allow you to redeem those banned cards for wild cards.
They actually do exactly that, when a card gets banned on Arena they let you keep the card AND give you a wildcard of the same rarity of the banned card for each one (up to 4) in your collection.
I've been saying for years they need to print:
Hellhole - sorcery - "Destroy target non-basic land" should be printed as a rare for RB
or "Destroy target non-basic land, it's controller loses 2 life" for RRB
I personally expect them to appear as box-toppers (and appear in collectors boosters) but specifically have them NOT be standard legal (like inventions).
I have a very credible source that has informed me that OP's claims are false, and that Zendikar Rising will sell like crazy because it will have enemy fetchlands in the set, which is all it needs to fly off the shelves.
Reserved list cards have gone up in value during the pandemic for the same reason that gold skyrocketed in value during the recession of ten years ago: in times of uncertainty tangible goods feel like a safer place to store one's wealth than in banks. Second to that, reserved list cards have gone up lately because that's what they do - they go up in value over time. It's always been like that and it always will continue to be so. People collect old cards like people collect old comic books, they hold collector, nostalgic, and historic value beyond their playability in kitchen tables or in tournaments.
This is the exact scenario that happened to me. I got my mythic wildcards back from Winota but I'm fresh out of rare wildcards from having crafted the rest of the deck. Cards such as Bonecrusher Giant, Legion Warboss, Fauna Shaman, and the shocklands/checklands are playable enough in a variety of decks, but cards like Haktos the Unscarred and Angrath's Marauders are stone unplayable outside of the deck.
They actually do exactly that, when a card gets banned on Arena they let you keep the card AND give you a wildcard of the same rarity of the banned card for each one (up to 4) in your collection.
Hellhole - sorcery - "Destroy target non-basic land" should be printed as a rare for RB
or "Destroy target non-basic land, it's controller loses 2 life" for RRB
Nailed it.
Reserved list cards have gone up in value during the pandemic for the same reason that gold skyrocketed in value during the recession of ten years ago: in times of uncertainty tangible goods feel like a safer place to store one's wealth than in banks. Second to that, reserved list cards have gone up lately because that's what they do - they go up in value over time. It's always been like that and it always will continue to be so. People collect old cards like people collect old comic books, they hold collector, nostalgic, and historic value beyond their playability in kitchen tables or in tournaments.
"Swamp
Basic Land - Swamp"
Seems like a great limited uncommon.
Nice.