MtG Standard General Thread

fuck my creatures

Are they cute?

>tfw dominaria is released, they're all here, but the big five are banned in standard

not after a lightning bolt

The problem is a lack of risk and reward. You play a Torrential Gearhulk and flashback a Glimmer in your opponent's end step after holding up multiple counterspells, then your opponent removes it. Boo fucking hoo you're still up 2 cards. Compare this to 7 years ago when Baneslayer was doing the rounds. Sometimes you'd drop Baneslayer and it'd win you the game. Then sometimes you'd drop Baneslayer, it'd eat a Doom Blade, and you'd be losing. You had to sculpt the game to a point where your opponent was out of resources to deal with this huge game winning threat.

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Recall is reserved though.

I will accept brainstorm and a shuffle mechanic as a substitute.

ramunap red and energy will just be replaced by some other equally annoying and bullshit deck. honestly energy is still pretty fucking powerful and red wasnt really hurt that much either though red is definitely not going to be as prevalent

standard is a pile of horse shit anyway. unless your taking some budget meme deck to FNM for giggles there is no reason to play it over any other format

Are you an idiot? Do you think they didn't consider that? This isn't some online game you can fix with a patch. They cannot print cards to fix issues.

Of fucking course preventing is better than curing. But when you go to a doctor and his reply is "tough luck pal have you tried not getting ill", that's not fucking useful at all, is it?

They can either let standard be a fucking shitpool for a year, causing people to stop playing standard completely, or they can do the one thing in their power to fix it (banning cards)

>banning a land that gives an aggro burn deck late game reach is going too far
>banning lands that just tap for mana is a-ok