You believe that? I think its the start of decay of modern. Modern is the most succesfull format of magic because his diversity, and that diversity was created in a great way thanks to Faithless Looting. I Dont know whats pretend blizzard with this move, create a legacy clone format? The diversity of midrange decks Will decrease, and the gy strategies will goes very underpowered.
I personally do believe that modern gets better, but that is just an opinion and isn't based on any testing. I will admit I don't have full knowledge of what SFM will do to the format in terms of diversity so I am glad they explained that we have a "testing period" for SFM to see if it can remain. I think GY based decks were becoming a little too ubiquitous. With so many decks utilizing looting it was getting to a point where you had to run 6 copies of GY hate in your maindeck/sideboard.
I personally didn't think faithless looting needed to be banned right at this point, but I understand what they are saying in terms of future design of graveyard based cards. I think with the printing of Sticker Supplier and still having Cathartic Reunion,Burning Inquiry, and that artifact that mills for 1 (I can't remember of the top of my head) that pure graveyard strategies could still be relevant especially given the decrease in GY hate after the announcement. Also UR Phoenix can still run Izzet Charm and can still exist in a form. I don't think it's the end of GY based decks, but it is definitely going to take a while for the GY based decks to get back. I do hate when anyone loses their deck due to ban.
I too am a little worried about homogenization with SFM decks so that remains to be seen. I was a big supporter of the Jace unban, but I honestly didn't think SFM would be unbanned. I definitely support the unban because I didn't think the card was overpowered. My only concern was diversity as you pointed out.
I am mainly excited just to see modern get back to the battlefield a little bit more. I hope that it makes modern a bit more skill intensive. It's an exciting time. Whether it's correct or not remains to be seen.
I personally do believe that modern gets better, but that is just an opinion and isn't based on any testing. I will admit I don't have full knowledge of what SFM will do to the format in terms of diversity so I am glad they explained that we have a "testing period" for SFM to see if it can remain. I think GY based decks were becoming a little too ubiquitous. With so many decks utilizing looting it was getting to a point where you had to run 6 copies of GY hate in your maindeck/sideboard.
I personally didn't think faithless looting needed to be banned right at this point, but I understand what they are saying in terms of future design of graveyard based cards. I think with the printing of Sticker Supplier and still having Cathartic Reunion,Burning Inquiry, and that artifact that mills for 1 (I can't remember of the top of my head) that pure graveyard strategies could still be relevant especially given the decrease in GY hate after the announcement. Also UR Phoenix can still run Izzet Charm and can still exist in a form. I don't think it's the end of GY based decks, but it is definitely going to take a while for the GY based decks to get back. I do hate when anyone loses their deck due to ban.
I too am a little worried about homogenization with SFM decks so that remains to be seen. I was a big supporter of the Jace unban, but I honestly didn't think SFM would be unbanned. I definitely support the unban because I didn't think the card was overpowered. My only concern was diversity as you pointed out.
I am mainly excited just to see modern get back to the battlefield a little bit more. I hope that it makes modern a bit more skill intensive. It's an exciting time. Whether it's correct or not remains to be seen.
SFM is also sold out on SCG