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Ban List Update Thread (4/2013)
Poll: What will be unbanned?
Ended Apr 22, 2013
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-unban either sensei's Divining top or Jace, the Mind Sculptor
-unban wild nacatl
-unban either seething song or Preordain
What everyone else wants banned/unbanned:
-ban something from eggs
-unban Jace, the mind sculptor or something else that makes control better
What will probably get banned/unbanned:
-ban something from eggs (probably lotus bloom)
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Dredge and Dredgevine are basically noncompetitive now. I think I recall seeing 1 or 2 of these decks in Day 2 of any Grand Prix for the past few months, and none of them even came close to getting Top 16. The prevalence of Deathrite Shaman alone is reason enough to allow GGT to resurface into the metagame.
The other candidates are less certain, and I need to think a bit more on them before posting anything else.
EDIT: I also think it is more likely that Wizards will unban GGT than it is that they will do nothing. Right now, Wizards wants to increase format diversity and challenge existing archetypes. Unbanning GGT should elevate Dredge strategies into solid tier 2 territory, which can help shake up the top tables and keep Modern interesting.
As much as I believe a GGT unban is healthy and will not affect the meta, I believe Wizards has opened too many cans of worms with Beck//Call and Breaking//Entering to dare try that this ban session. (So far, Breaking//Entering has been fun and balanced, but Beck//Call still tastes too much like Glimpse of Nature to me, and this is after testing Combo Elves.)
(I actually believe there's a nonzero chance that Wizards preemptively bans Beck//Call from Modern before DGM's release due to its resemblance to Glimpse. It's not good for publicity, either, but Wizards just might do it.)
Most likely nothing.
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I'm still hoping on an eggs ban, but hopefully not lotus bloom, without seething song we're lacking ramp for decks like Hive mind, if they lost lotus bloom it would be the nail on the coffin. maybe Reshape.
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I feel like Eggs will get hit with the ban hammer, even though there is nothing inherently broken with the deck there are people that are scared out of the format by it and if the want to raise the playerbase (in preparation for modern masters?) that could very well be the way to do it.
Reshape or Sunrise I would hope if anything.
I also voted for Nacatl and SDT to come off, but I'm not too hopeful there, Zoo isn't in a terrible position but I think Top could help control (Terminus anyone?)
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I'm also hoping we can have preordain and GGT back, neither which would create degenerate decks. Blue could use a decent canttrip and GGT shouldn't have been banned in the first place imo.
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There are plenty of things which could potentially be unbanned without ruining the format though.
I could see Bitterblossom, Sword of the Meek, Dark Depths, Wild Nacatl, Green Sun's Zenith, Stoneforge, Rite of Flame, Preordain, Ancestral Vision.
Something from eggs could possibly be banned. I pray that if they do that, they at least give storm Rite of Flame so that people can try to get it off its feet again.
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Of those, I'm certain GSZ and Stoneforge will stay banned. I'd say the rest are unlikely, with the exception of maybe Wild Nacatl and Preordain.
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whoever voted JTMS, please don't, he won't come off. maybe misty might and batterskull will get banned.
but i feel that something will get banned....
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