Yeah, but where's your proof that Jitte will be fine? Haven't we debunked the need for this? Not even WotC uses "proof" to unban things. Slide yourself up to post #1 in this thread and open all those unban announcements. I have no opinion about Jitte in particular, but not a single unbann...

But the whole point was that oracle cant be wished via fae. Wow, I totally forgot that Fae doesn't get creatures. That changes things a bit; shifts the weight of the argument more toward it being a weak Inverter nerf. I'm not sure how often Breach needs to reach into their board for Jace, tbh, but ...

robertleva I'd still be interested to hear your original thoughts on Inverter. The card is still unique and warrants more than I've given it. Overall, I'm glad you see it my way though, lol. The other cards are just too interesting to toss aside. Greeksis Ha! I don't have any personal affection for...

To add to the pile, Greeksis , I have this paragraph for you: "This trend, in combination with community feedback, has prompted us to take a look at the role of combo decks in the Pioneer metagame. While it can be a good thing for metagame diversity to have an archetype that plays differently f...

what they overlook is how it crowds out the fair decks that people want to play. Pioneer is the place to play fair decks and that needs to remain its format identity. This is why I still have reservations about Inverter and Lotus Breach existing. My issue is mostly with Inverter because Breach can ...

Walkers 3 The Royal Scions 2 Teferi, Master of Time Draw Spells 4 Witching Well 4 Thrill of Possibility Creatures 4 Bonecrusher Giant 4 Brazen Borrower 4 Irencrag Pyromancer 2 Embereth Shieldbreaker Other 4 Improbable Alliance 2 Teferi's Ageless Insight 2 Soul Sear 2 Sorcerous Spyglass Land 4 Steam...

I have to admit, there has been some meta shifting. I don't think I would make any calls on things right now, but it's nice to see the numbers change at least. Reddit still seems to be dunking on people claiming things are improving. Hopefully we see things settle in a more evenly distributed way, m...

The "article" you quote here is just a reddit post. I read it as well. Thankfully, I agree with many of the points in the bullet list. I do want to point out #2 though where they directly say that they "wouldn't be against banning the most broken cards, like small teferi, thassas orac...

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and probably one bonkers reprint

They only reprint Marsh Flats, lol. MaRo tweets only middle fingers for 24 hours.

I mean, you are right. BUT when a lot of people AGREE that a certain strat is obnoxious then people stop playing, as we are seeing now. There will always be those that love and those that hate every state of every format. Greeksis is just one of the ones who likes things right now. I think we can p...

After reading some of the reddit posts responding to the B&R, I pretty well agree. It's like they forgot to add some cards to the banning half of the announcement. Also, there is a bunch of "the format is dead", I'm not optimistic but I do think they're going a bit far. Not firing a si...

For those who haven't seen the B&R yet. Oath of Nissa is unbanned. Since the launch of Pioneer late last year, we've seen significant changes in the metagame. Early in Pioneer's launch window, various green ramp decks were among the most popular and successful archetypes. In order to reduce the ...

I think this is broad enough for me to jump on as well. Honestly, interaction is like a conversation. I make a point, you make a counterpoint, I make a point, you make a counterpoint, etc, things shift, you make a point, I make a counterpoint. "Moves and counter moves", if you will. If I'm...

I still have a hard time with TO potentially being banned. Inverter itself was unusable prior to TO's printing, the card was virtually forgotten up to that point. TO itself is useful for anti-mill strategies (you literally just win the game), it's a great EtB effect and early 1/3 for control decks (...

Is anyone going to be surprised to see Inverter take a hit on Monday? Maybe not be erased completely, but something will happen to the deck. The announcement of an announcement in case anyone missed it. I think the real speculation here is whether or not more than one thing gets banned. Will they ju...

There are in fact multiple ways to play the game; I think referencing the now ancient article "Who's the Beatdown" is relevant here. It is common practice to recognize that you are "the control" in the matchup- sometimes so granularly that it depends on play/draw. In that sense, ...

I'm not sure how I feel about Ballista, tbh. It's the easiest combo to break, requiring something as simple as a Shock to totally subvert. Do people feel this deck is too aggressive to also hold a combo in it? I just don't have a ton of experience with/against the list. Edit: I didn't realize Rob wa...

Could we not? This is a card game, not a governmental body with the ability to actually change people's lives. Use your effort to sway legislators , not WotC staff or other players. The cards WotC banned were already good enough because they actually had real symbols from the past (even if you don't...

Someone posted on reddit that this combos with Sporeweb Weaver and Heroic Intervention . Hit the spider over and over as Saprolings cause the Dragon to trigger. Gain life, gain Saps, profit. Probably not overly competitive but I was planning on some jank with the two creatures anyway, now there is r...

That 2 toughness is sooo deliberate... Black is all -2/-2 sweepers in all the recent sets. You can get the one time upgrade to -3/-3 now. You can still cheat the legend rule and get that -2/-2 by casting a second one though, I like that, was a fun trick with Betrayal. I'm sorta disappointed that the...

I like the way you're talking. I think we agree pretty well. I'd love to see the rise in relevance of 2cmc multi-color (or double pip mono-color) removal. Black can have their seat on high with Push, that's sorta their thing. I'd love to see a 2cmc "Counter target Creature or Planeswalker spell...

That's fair. Generally speaking, you're right, I define answers as non-persistent and responsive. Loosely a "one question, one answer" mentality. The main issue I take is not that answers (my definition) are too weak, it's that threats are too strong/efficient. You can only make things so ...

M21 in general seems to be an increase to the power level of answers I think some people, myself included, will roll their eyes a bit at this statement and say that Containment Priest and Runed Halo aren't really "answers" they are Prison cards and sideboard queens (hate cards). They're r...

Okay... I'm going back to not saying anything. Have a nice day.

I'm going to try to keep the trees and forest analogy. You mentioned 7 cards (of 10) that are currently legal but should be banned. They "are 100% too much" by your words. So we agree that Pioneer is on fire, awesome. You mention that other formats are also on fire; again, we agree. The fo...