I was only referring to there being a plural "rotations," not so much what happens to the cards that rotate. It was in the same announcement as Momir Basic coming out, I believe.
Still, the real problem is "what do I do with all these useless cards?" The easy answer would be a trade-in similar to hearthstone's dusting OOOOOOHHHHHHHHHH WAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIT!
Note that with the addition of Guilds of Ravnica, we're aligning the pool of available cards on MTG Arena with Standard. When Open Beta starts, you'll be able to get the following sets: Ixalan, Rivals of Ixalan, Dominaria, Core Set 2019, and, of course, Guilds of Ravnica. We are committed to ultimately providing a format for MTG Arena post-rotations, so once we have settled on how set rotation works, next year we will likely return previous sets to the system, including Kaladesh, Aether Revolt, Amonkhet, and Hour of Devastation.
This is the first time I've seen Wizards actually go on record for a non-rotating Arena format: note that they say "post-rotations" plural, not just post-rotation singular. I think there was a vague reference earlier to the so-called rotation problem, but this kind of more explicit acknowledgement deserves discussion. I'm particularly nervous about how this would affect MTGO collections, in addition to its impact on Modern.
Arena is adding a pauper-style format that exists within the standard-legal sets but will allow only commons. Hence referencing multiple rotations.
Toolbox decks are just worse versions of midrange decks. Rather than packing powerful generic answers, they have overall weaker answers that are very good in super specific scenarios. The only time that doesn't turn out to be the case is if the tutor card is so powerful it pushes out other midrange decks. This kinda goes back to an earlier discussion on strategy diversity where I posed the idea that at some point, the goal of diversity breaks down the categories into way too specific of items.
Should WOTC just errata the rules on how to pay for spells to nerf KCI? I do not know any other deck that specifically relies on that feature (or flaw depending on one's perspective).
Gosh, that would be huge! I'd rather just ban Stirrings. I don't want any ban, but before such a change I'd accept it gladly.
How would it be huge? 99.9% of the time a player pays the mana before casting the spell. No bans, stirrings opal etc all stay. The game receives clarity on a weird gray area that allows a deck to exist basically via loophole. Aside from the knee jerk reaction of "changing any rule ever would ruin the game," it's a non-issue. Rules change. Damage used to go on the stack.
Should WOTC just errata the rules on how to pay for spells to nerf KCI? I do not know any other deck that specifically relies on that feature (or flaw depending on one's perspective).
Been playing burn all year, and if you look at metagame data, it is fairly well positioned. Tron is a good matchup now that mono green is almost universally played over a white or black splash. UW is about even. Humans is a slight disadvantage but not enough to make that a reason to not pick up the deck. I don't know much about the spirits matchup, this past weekend was my first experience against it and got the win.
KCI is rough, and KCI is being pushed out right now as people look for ways to not lose to it.
No. This isn't a trial. Nobody is obligated to prove to your expectations anything about twin. I also still laugh at cfusion's hearthstone comparision, as if no instants existed in the game besides counterspells to produce interaction on the opponent's turn.
It's not blue, it's twin. These two guys want to play twin and claim that's because it is a fair deck. NEWS FLASH! Twin isn't ******* fair. It's a combo deck with enough free slots due to being a two card infinite combo that it can add a bunch of counters. If storm didn't need cost reducing creatures and instead could run mana leaks and dispels, that is the best comparison to twin. Period. It is, in reality, so broken that it doesn't even eat up a ton of space in the deck to run its combo.
Yeah, because at this point this thread has turned into an "unban twin" argument without actually saying twin.
The format has control, it has tempo, it has midrange, it had disruptive aggro. It has a big pile of stuff. But a few people here want ONE deck to exist at the top, and will hate on modern until that ONE deck is up top again. It's just annoying. When we got grixis shadow, it wasn't blue enough. Now miracles is a thing, but it isn't tempo enough. It's clear, particularly for cfusionpm, that the premise is just a thinly veiled claim that some won't be happy until twin or a close analogue exist.
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Still, the real problem is "what do I do with all these useless cards?" The easy answer would be a trade-in similar to hearthstone's dusting OOOOOOHHHHHHHHHH WAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIT!
Arena is adding a pauper-style format that exists within the standard-legal sets but will allow only commons. Hence referencing multiple rotations.
How would it be huge? 99.9% of the time a player pays the mana before casting the spell. No bans, stirrings opal etc all stay. The game receives clarity on a weird gray area that allows a deck to exist basically via loophole. Aside from the knee jerk reaction of "changing any rule ever would ruin the game," it's a non-issue. Rules change. Damage used to go on the stack.
Love Eidolon. That thing did so much work over the weekend. Had three out vs humans and that guy looked like he was in a Saw movie.
KCI is rough, and KCI is being pushed out right now as people look for ways to not lose to it.
The format has control, it has tempo, it has midrange, it had disruptive aggro. It has a big pile of stuff. But a few people here want ONE deck to exist at the top, and will hate on modern until that ONE deck is up top again. It's just annoying. When we got grixis shadow, it wasn't blue enough. Now miracles is a thing, but it isn't tempo enough. It's clear, particularly for cfusionpm, that the premise is just a thinly veiled claim that some won't be happy until twin or a close analogue exist.