I think it's kinda crazy how the Geist deck is still tiered in Bo1 Timeless. They REALLY need to fix that in Historic imo, the fact that it's competitive in Timeless is more than enough.
It's not a bad meta for Bo3, but it still just seems like the same pool of 60 different cards is being rearranged in every one of these decks.
I see why they did it, but personally I think saying "When [creature] enters, ..." sounds weird. It wants a noun after it when I hear it. It sounds like "enters the room" or "enters stage left" when I read it. It also kinda makes ETB no longer mean anything, and I really like that abbreviation 😕
So the Pro Tour is back? I will admit, the pro scene in magic has confused me a lot since they ended the Pro Tour and implemented the Magic Pro League. It's nice that it seems the PT scene is back. I don't really like MKM draft very much but it's cool to see Pioneer played on all three days.
This was a great survey and asked basically every question/response selection I was looking for. Hopefully they really use this data.
That link also didn't work for me, but I was able to access it here:
https://survey.marketpointsinc.com/wc0224gb1/WIZARDS
Edit: fixed link
Always a good day w/ that free gold
Thank you! This is actually really cool and I love that they put this together
Wow this is really cool. Was there some sort of in-game set of clues to put this together? I love stuff like this.
Yea I think you're right. Honestly the last time I was interested in Standard was when Theros Beyond Death came out. I bought into Selesnya Enchantments right before Covid. Since then, regardless of Covid, I have not felt any desire to get into Standard at any point. In fact it pains me to see cards like Sheoldred still around and having to still deal with those.
At this point I think it would be worse as far as consumer confidence goes if they reverse and shorten standard again. But at the same time, I honestly think they need to if they want to keep it fun, at least on Arena. Arena is just fundamentally not the same as paper games, the fact that you can play so many games on Arena affects things like a meta feeling stale much quicker.
I honestly don't really know what they can do -- they need to keep printing chase mythics to sell packs, but the shorter rotation meant that fewer people wanted to invest in standard paper cards so they lengthen standard, but a longer standard makes Arena too stale and too frustrating to play. It's arguable if any of this will have the stated effect of increasing paper standard play.
I think the real solution here is to stop printing insane chase mythics in every set, but they can no longer do that even because they increased the cost of booster boxes so much, there needs to be a compelling reason to buy them at MSRP. If consumers stop buying them at MSRP and WoTC is forced to lower the play booster box price, then I think consumers ultimately win but it will come at some unknown price, either to the teams building the game or the game itself.
I'm still acquiring cards for this, but I have a really cool [[Mikaeus, the Unhallowed]] EDH deck that focuses on undying mechanics and ETB effects for creatures. Tons of reanimation effects, and [[Persist]] type cards.
Here's the full decklist