Should Brawl and Standard have separate legalities?
Posted: Mon Jul 22, 2019 6:48 pm
In Gavin Verhey's article today, he points out that printing new cards in Brawl's new preconstructed decks allow R&D to provide cards that Brawl needs - filling gaps in the colour-pie among standard-legal commanders, and adding role-players like mana-fixing. This seems like a good way to support the format, but it has people up in arms about printing more mechanically unique, standard-legal cards that aren't available in booster packs. The collector boosters help bridge this gap to some extent, but they will be very expensive and have a low print-run, in line with their collectible nature. How to resolve this? Here's one idea:
What if Brawl legality rotated at the same time as Standard, but was not strictly dependent on Standard legality? It could, for example, be "every standard-legal booster product, plus precons." That way they could print whatever they wanted into the precons without complicating standard legality, and without the risk of accidentally printing a hard-to-access card that's competitively viable in standard. Heck, they could even add supplemental products to Brawl if they felt it was appropriate. What do y'all think? Dumb idea, or am I on to something?
What if Brawl legality rotated at the same time as Standard, but was not strictly dependent on Standard legality? It could, for example, be "every standard-legal booster product, plus precons." That way they could print whatever they wanted into the precons without complicating standard legality, and without the risk of accidentally printing a hard-to-access card that's competitively viable in standard. Heck, they could even add supplemental products to Brawl if they felt it was appropriate. What do y'all think? Dumb idea, or am I on to something?