Since I have completely stopped playing organized events, and only play at home with my brother and friend (who are both even more casual than I), I have realized there is little point in keeping my decks according to the whims of WotC and their ever-changing banned/restricted lists. My brother and I have been working on a new format and some big changes to the other two we play:
1. No-Ban Modern. This is not our invention, actually I kinda think this format should have a subforum here since SCG actually had a recent major tournament in this format. In this format, we're looking forward to upgrading Affinity to having Disciple of the Vault, colored artifact lands, and Skullclamp, and Eldrazi Tron will be getting Eye of Ugin.
2. "Legacy 2.0", for lack of a better name. This is the existing Legacy banned list, except that any card which is not restricted in Vintage is not banned in Legacy 2.0 (with two exceptions, which I will mention in a sec). This allows: Deathrite Shaman, Earthcraft, Frantic Search, Goblin Recruiter, Hermit Druid, Mana Drain, Mental Misstep, Mind Twist, Oath of Druids, Skullclamp, Survival of the Fittest, and Yawgmoth's Bargain. The exceptions to this are Mishra's Workshop and Sensei's Divining Top, which we're keeping banned. This is not really an exception, though, because of the changes we made to the Vintage restricted list. Our Legacy decks are Burn and mono-green Elves, and I believe both are unaffected by these changes.
3. Vintage changes: Mishra's Workshop restricted. Lodestone Golem, Thorn of Amethyst, and Trinisphere all unrestricted. We all know which of these cards was really the problem all along, but WotC didn't want to destroy one of the pillars of the format. Since none of us have this deck anyway, we don't really care, and we're making this change in case one of us decides to make it some day. Voltaic Key restricted. Combo with Time Vault is grossly easy to pull off. With both cards restricted, it makes games with this combo present in one or both decks much more interesting. Sensei's Divining Top restricted. Mox Opal restricted, because in any Vintage deck that plays it, it's the best mox ever printed. The deck of ours that this affects the most is a blue/artifact deck that tries to combo out with Magistrate Scepter, Core Tappers, and Voltaic Keys. I've been doing this instead of the much easier Time Vault combo because nobody wants to play against a combo that reliably locks down a win that easily. With these changes, I can switch to Time Vault, only play one Voltaic Key, and it opens up a lot of room for other cards in the deck.
Open to suggestions... We'll never really have the truly degenerate decks that made these bans exist, and even if we do, our playing skills are not on the same level as the people who broke these decks (I'm the only one with significant tournament experience, and my best record was 2nd place at a PPTQ which is really nothing to brag about). We love when our decks pull off something absolutely gross and disgusting (like a first-turn win) as long as they don't do it often.
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1. No-Ban Modern. This is not our invention, actually I kinda think this format should have a subforum here since SCG actually had a recent major tournament in this format. In this format, we're looking forward to upgrading Affinity to having Disciple of the Vault, colored artifact lands, and Skullclamp, and Eldrazi Tron will be getting Eye of Ugin.
2. "Legacy 2.0", for lack of a better name. This is the existing Legacy banned list, except that any card which is not restricted in Vintage is not banned in Legacy 2.0 (with two exceptions, which I will mention in a sec). This allows: Deathrite Shaman, Earthcraft, Frantic Search, Goblin Recruiter, Hermit Druid, Mana Drain, Mental Misstep, Mind Twist, Oath of Druids, Skullclamp, Survival of the Fittest, and Yawgmoth's Bargain. The exceptions to this are Mishra's Workshop and Sensei's Divining Top, which we're keeping banned. This is not really an exception, though, because of the changes we made to the Vintage restricted list. Our Legacy decks are Burn and mono-green Elves, and I believe both are unaffected by these changes.
3. Vintage changes: Mishra's Workshop restricted. Lodestone Golem, Thorn of Amethyst, and Trinisphere all unrestricted. We all know which of these cards was really the problem all along, but WotC didn't want to destroy one of the pillars of the format. Since none of us have this deck anyway, we don't really care, and we're making this change in case one of us decides to make it some day. Voltaic Key restricted. Combo with Time Vault is grossly easy to pull off. With both cards restricted, it makes games with this combo present in one or both decks much more interesting. Sensei's Divining Top restricted. Mox Opal restricted, because in any Vintage deck that plays it, it's the best mox ever printed. The deck of ours that this affects the most is a blue/artifact deck that tries to combo out with Magistrate Scepter, Core Tappers, and Voltaic Keys. I've been doing this instead of the much easier Time Vault combo because nobody wants to play against a combo that reliably locks down a win that easily. With these changes, I can switch to Time Vault, only play one Voltaic Key, and it opens up a lot of room for other cards in the deck.
Open to suggestions... We'll never really have the truly degenerate decks that made these bans exist, and even if we do, our playing skills are not on the same level as the people who broke these decks (I'm the only one with significant tournament experience, and my best record was 2nd place at a PPTQ which is really nothing to brag about). We love when our decks pull off something absolutely gross and disgusting (like a first-turn win) as long as they don't do it often.