Boy I'm so glad they banned the pushed mana producing mythic from a universes beyond set. Just in time for the new standard season! Picture unrelated.

"We are thinking about considering creating concepts of a plan to improve the ban schedule, a problem which has been a known pain point since at least June 2024. Pwease bear with us."

Its 2024; there's a card printed that's too hard to interact with profitably in standard, it must be banned!

Is is a sign of a healthy format that now that I'm qualified all I feel is relief that I dont have to play standard until after November?

No, you all don't understand. It's not about politics. It's about ethics in vintage tournament attendance.

Boosting this for the afternoon:

Hahaha this sucks man

What do you mean Ikoria came out five years ago

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But if you close your eyyyyyyyyyyes Does it almost feel like nothing changed at all? And if you close your eyes Does it almost seem like you've been here before?

It's a good sign for format health when judges are handing out play aids for convoluted combo turns right?

RT if you also wish ill upon JK Rowling.

Good thing we banned the 2 mana artifacts that’s good in the Izzet deck to make room for the other 2 mana artifact that good in the Izzet but this time it’s the $70 one yippppppppeeeeeeeeeee

Is standard flourishing Wizards? Asking for all of us that have to play an RC season before the next ban windows.

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We remain happy with the state of pioneer

Oh, they're just not testing cards in standard at all.

REMAIN HAPPY WITH THE STATE OF PIONEER!

Its 2022; theres a card printed thats too hard to interact with profitably in standard, its banned Its 2023; theres a card printed thats too hard to interact with profitably in standard, its banned Its 2025; theres a card printed thats too hard to interact with profitably in standard, its banned

I'm so glad I get to live in the era of magic where we can go from "standard is flourishing" to "oh fuck ban seven cards" in three months. Five of those cards were from the top decks when "standard was flourishing" too. I wonder if that should tell us anything... 🤔🤔🤔

What stings the most about today’s B&R is the dissonance between March’s “legacy looks balanced but we know people aren’t happy so we’re changing things” to today’s “legacy looks balanced so no changes.” I had hopes we would continue to improve the format, now we’re stuck with this until 2026.

Come on people, what are we doing here?

Sorry American friends, I think I'm staying away for a long, long time.

What an extremely balanced and normal top 8 metagame. I look forward to a "No changes in all formats" ban announcement on June 30th.

Congratulations to Wizards Play Design for really pushing boundaries in awful one deck formats.

I can't understand how this happened. I was told that standard was flourishing, with a rich and diverse metagame. Certainly there were no warning signs that Wizards failed to act upon in earlier ban announcements.

This must be a mistake. I distinctly remember being told that standard was flourishing.

Rest in peace Pioneer, 2019-2024 You were an adequate competitive format.

magic.wizards.com/en/news/feat... Oh we cant ban anything during Modern RCQ season, that would be insanity. However, we can CHANGE THE RULES OF THE GAME in a way that massively affects the modern format.

50% monstrous rage? Good thing standard is flourishing!

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War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength, and Standard is Flourishing

These collector boosters cost more than Double Masters 2022 collector boosters.

This pricing is terrible and it's even worse here in Canada. Seeing the price point here has literally turned me off from the set.

Many Magic: the Gathering players ask the question, are they even testing the cards they put into standard anymore?

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Is this what a healthy metagame looks like? Asking for a friend.

No Modern changes until September due to RCQ season is so much worse than any complaints about Standard.