Why did they nerf indestructible?

Why did they nerf indestructible?
It wasn't that broken

They didn't. What the fuck are you talking about?

Possibly user means the M14 rules change (where Indestructible became a keyword ability)? And if so, it's because the absolutely inconsequential drop in power is worth having the cards plays the way everyone expects them to anyway...

Before they changed indestructible to a key ability, if something would change your creature into some other type and make it lose all abilities, it would still be indestructible. But, now that it's a key ability it will lose indestructible.

Ah, so it made Turn to Frog and that ilk marginally better, not anything actually relevant.

This is only relevant to about 15 cards among the countless thousands of Magic cards in existence. I don't think it's a big deal.

I thought it was about how now most of the cards just exile instead of destroy

Snakeform, bitch!

That only applied when it was something else giving the indestructability - Darksteel Colossus would still lose it from various lose all ability cards because its own ability was what was granting it indestructability

No it didn't. Because it wasn't an ability to lose. It simply was indestructible at all times. That is why they changed Indestructible to a keyword ability.

A card like Snakeform blanks all the text on the card, including the part that says 'Darksteel Colossus is indestructable', just like how it also blanks 'Tarmogoyf's power is equal to the number of card types among cards in all graveyards and its toughness is equal to that number plus 1' - they're characteristic defining abilities, but they are still abilities. There was nothing special about being indestructable that prevented it from being taken away on a card that was indestructable by its own ability. This is also why all 'lose all abilities' cards set power and toughness, because most characteristic defining abilities involve power and toughness.
What DID change was that a card that said 'Target creature is indestructable' would not be overwritten, but now says 'Target creature has indestructable' which does get overwritten if it's hit with a snakeform or similar afterwards.

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So why does -X/-X get around indestructable again?

state based effect, not destruction.

Because nothing is being destroyed.

this is close, but not on it. Being destroyed for having lethal damage marked on the creature is also a state based action.

In Magic "destroy" literally just means "moves from the battlefield to the graveyard."

No, that is not true. You are doing that all B is A therefore all A is B error. It isn't destroyed unless it was put into the graveyard by lethal damage or an effect that says "destroy" or "destroyed". Sacrificed creatures, for example, go to the graveyard without being destroyed. Not all B>G transfers count as destruction.

That's "dies". "Destruction" causes "dies", but is not the only thing that does.

Because it's easy to figure out how immunity to destroy effects/dying from damage works, but 0 toughness is a bit wonkier. As well, they wanted there to be some ways of dealing with indestructables while preventing the most common ways of doing so.

Because it isn't primarily U's thing therefore it needed to be taken down a notch