We discuss the Magic the Gathering Banned and Restricted List Update that occurred today and the impact it is having on two of the biggest Standard decks.
Here is the link to the full announcement: https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/news/january-15-2018-banned-and-restricted-announcement-2018-01-15
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I don’t understand why they ban good cards that work instead of creating new cards to answer or cards that are just as good in their own respective color. seems lazy to me because it’s easier to just slam the ban hammer than actually get their act together.
Ramunap rekt amirite
this is SOOOOOOO STUPID rotation comes soon and yet they banned these cards LMAO energy was good but come on its not like CAW blade or Feldar guardian combo, WOTC needs to stop listening to the whiners and let magic play out, if energy was in ixilan or Amonkhet, then YES ban it but it rotates out soon
There’s only one thing i have to say
*BUT WHY* they did nothing wrong. I just got this temur deck up and running and get banned.
I thought that the dino was completely out of left field and going a bit too far. Now those token/approach decks have not fear. 🙁
Print better cards instead of banning good ones. If a current deck is beating the rest, WotC should print more cards designed to compete with those other decks or make other decks that aren’t so great better.
I really like these bans, as the two impacted decks are two of the three things I least want to play against in any given match up no matter what I’m using.
Merfolks will be next.
So, Ramunap Red is back to just being Mono Red Aggro.
The rampaging really hurt the most there was nok need and as a dedicated control player who plays BUR and always beats energy I find the banned card unessacary I think it’s due to the over flow of netdecks and players forcing the game into midrange only formate
good
Hopefully it encourage players to build there own decks, makes it more pointless to net deck something that made top, spending all the money for cards that inflated
Print answers don’t ban cards. Stop printing weak magic!
Lightning bolt!
BOP!
Counterspell!
Brainstorm!
…..alright never mind I’ll just go play commander…..
what will be the meta now
Metallic mimic is a good pickup because of this ban just saying it’s gonna spike
spent 300 dollars on a deck found out 8 cards from it were banned
Friggin lame.
well great… I was playing with it in my dino tribal deck, and now I have 5 I can’t even sell
For me, the bannings are bittersweet. On the one hand, I held immense ire for both of the decks that got hit, so I’m glad they got hit. On the other, though, I wish Wizards would have printed better answers, so maybe these bannings WOULDN’T have happened. The only card that maybe shouldn’t have been printed at all was Rampaging Ferocidon, as it hosed the only two ways to actually beat Ramunap Red and had to be answered IMMEDIATELY.
U/W Approach for the win every time now, at least until they ban Approach.
The folks at Wizards are just bad at their job lately. There should never be banned cards in a rotating format. If they keep this up, standard will die. And rightly so. Honestly, why would anyone invest in a top tier standard deck when it’s likely the ban hammer will drop on some precious piece of the deck? Sad, Wizards. Just sad.
just got all my cARDS for eenergy on mtgo….yay! maybe i’ll play fling-pummler
I’m done with standard and this crap. Twice in six months my decks have been screwed.
Good ban but they should’ve put Scarab god in there.
Ramunap red to be called red
The death of dagger burn
Something I’ve been wondering for a while, what’s stopping MTG from using a ban system similar to Yu-Gi-Oh that allows cards to be limited (1 copy per deck) or semi-limited (2 per deck)? If having 4 of the Ramunap ruins in a deck was overkill what’s stopping WoTC from just limiting it to 1-2 copies per deck?
(>**_)>Feels like WOTC spends more time researching why cards need to be banned then playtesting solutions within each set.<(_**<)
My plans? Not playing standard anymore.
good
Thank you for posting a video immediately after the announcement and providing a summary for the reasons behind the bans. You were the first, and currently the only, content creator who has covered the bans thus far.
just like the flavor text from attune with aether: “I’ve never seen a world where wizards of the coast weaves through every aspect of the ban list. ” and rogue refiner’s flavor text exactly explains to us about this standard ban: “it’s natural, it’s all around us, and it’s there for the taking. Just try and tell me what I’m doing is wrong.” so as a result, we have the rampaging ferocidon’s flavor text:” all bans are aggressive, but wizards of the coast seems to enjoy their players’ pain.”
These are great bannings. Standard is going to be so much healthier following this, and the financial impact is tiny. Now let’s just hope they don’t make this mistake again.