The Iona ban is absolutely ridiculous. She's so innocuous I was laughing when I read the announcement. I still think Paradox Engine is fine and shouldn't be banned, but at least that card *was* legit broken if you're that kind of player. Banning Iona is just a sign to me that the rules committee has completely lost touch.
One vote of no confidence from me. I think Wizards should take the reins and come up with a ban list that makes at least a *little* bit of sense.
Painter + Iona = lock everyone out.
Iona has already a bad reputation, this hard lock is too much.
So don't unban Painter... pretty simple
Karn + Lattice is equally as nasty IMHO.
Not as much. Being a planeswalker and an artifact there is only 2 color that can possibly assemble the combo easy (blue using tutor for artifacts and black with universal tutors) (and being able to use nul rod that is easier to find than karn) (with red being almost possible with the artifact cards)(and lets face it nul rod was a thing before karn) but we have to remember that for this to happen for the non black deck the deck needs to be build around too much.
For the Iona and painter for exemple you need white black or green to “cheat Iona into play” also you need to remember how easy it is to generate resources in graveyard. But ye if we are technical Karn and Latice does the same as Iona and painter but Karn and latice is much harder to assemble than a 2 creature combo. And Iona was usually played as the random reanimator target that sometimes happened to lock people out of the game without the need of outside help, a one card combo is usually better than a card that combos with other cards usually and the amount of people defending Iona as fair for a combo format says enough about the card
I wonder how many painters servants the big stores had ready to sell. Seems like such a bad idea to unban it unless someone wanted to make a truck load of quick cash.
You know, magic market is all full of shade people and people making the banlists want a buck or two sometimes (keep an eye on SFM cause the stocks are comming down and if a card have 400% inflation over a unban that is a lot of potential extra money for some people).
So Paradox engine from $41 to what, $10? I'd say less but I would imagine if people bought in at $40 they'd rather keep it than sell for just a few bucks. Either way, funny how as usual the price of a card started to drop and then it gets the ol ban. Read people speculating it was getting a ban due to this a few days ago.
It is about 2 years of people calling it would be banned, lots of youtube videos too. It was just a easy combo machine.
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Not as much. Being a planeswalker and an artifact there is only 2 color that can possibly assemble the combo easy (blue using tutor for artifacts and black with universal tutors) (and being able to use nul rod that is easier to find than karn) (with red being almost possible with the artifact cards)(and lets face it nul rod was a thing before karn) but we have to remember that for this to happen for the non black deck the deck needs to be build around too much.
For the Iona and painter for exemple you need white black or green to “cheat Iona into play” also you need to remember how easy it is to generate resources in graveyard. But ye if we are technical Karn and Latice does the same as Iona and painter but Karn and latice is much harder to assemble than a 2 creature combo. And Iona was usually played as the random reanimator target that sometimes happened to lock people out of the game without the need of outside help, a one card combo is usually better than a card that combos with other cards usually and the amount of people defending Iona as fair for a combo format says enough about the card
You know, magic market is all full of shade people and people making the banlists want a buck or two sometimes (keep an eye on SFM cause the stocks are comming down and if a card have 400% inflation over a unban that is a lot of potential extra money for some people).
It is about 2 years of people calling it would be banned, lots of youtube videos too. It was just a easy combo machine.