Banning // Unbanning Announcement
Modern forum
Posted on Feb. 3, 2014, 12:14 a.m. by Slycne
So Deathrite Shaman is getting the axe, and Bitterblossom and Wild Nacatl are back to playable.
Deathrite Shaman I personally won't miss him, it's basically a 1 CMC planeswalker, though nothing it did was that broken or powerful. It's just a little value machine.
Wild Nacatl makes total sense to me, and just about everyone else, in a format where the most commonly played spell is Lightning Bolt this really isn't that big a deal.
Bitterblossom will be interesting to see how this effects the format. Maybe a black based control list or full on faeries. Heh, I feel a little silly selling off those Scion of Oona I wasn't using currently.
If you go to magic home page click the link on the bottom that says banned list update or something like that
February 3, 2014 12:25 a.m.
http://www.wizards.com/magic/magazine/article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/feature/285
February 3, 2014 12:25 a.m.
GoldGhost012 says... #5
Huh. Well, guess I need to find a new 1-drop for my devotion deck...
February 3, 2014 12:31 a.m.
Ohthenoises says... #6
Since there are 4 threads about this I'll post here what I said on another:
"I called this like 2 weeks ago.
DRS was being played in Pod and Jund the most, these were the top 2 most dominant decks in the format. Also, DRS has the side effect of raising the value of Zen fetches.
Wizards has made modern their baby and they want it to be accessible to new players. Removing a $30+ DRS that will in turn lower the cost of the Zen fetches as a byprodect was the only sensible way to neuter the two most powerful decks in the format while driving down the price of Zen fetches."
February 3, 2014 12:32 a.m.
I am so fucking psyched about blossom being back. It's one of my favorite cards ever.
February 3, 2014 12:41 a.m.
Zendikar fetches aren't going down in price unless Modern season is over. People don't play fetches for Deathrite Shaman . They play Deathrite Shaman for fetches.
This ban/unban seems awful. They're eliminating one attrition card and replacing it with another. Aggro decks are getting a nice boost in the way of Wild Nacatl , but Lightning Bolt with Snapcaster Mage are going to keep pushing them out of the format. But now, they get Fog 'd every turn due to Bitterblossom .
Meanwhile, Splinter Twin and R/G Tron will continue to dominate the format along with Affinity.
I hope to God Jund is still playable after this and I'm overreacting, otherwise the number of tier-1 decks in Modern dropped from four to three.
February 3, 2014 12:47 a.m.
NOOOOOOO!!!!! NOOOOOOOO!!!! NOOOOOOO!!! NOOOOOOO!!!! IM SO GODDAMN BS!!!
I cant freaking believe the banned DrS. As a rock player, Im outraged. He is so easy to get rid of, and he didnt even make it out of standard before they ban him. I dont know what the fuck im going to do. Im sorry for the language, but im goddamn pissed. Goddamn pissed. I cant even properly express my rage over this banning. DrS + Fetchlands it what inspired me to invest in all my fetches. Now that I dumped all this money into a fucking modern deck, Drs gets banned and they dont do half of what they did for me before. Like what the fuck.
Im going to break something get extremely high now. F U WotC, F U.
GoldGhost012 says... #2
Is there a link to this somewhere? I've been looking for the last 5 minutes and I can't find the updated banlist
February 3, 2014 12:21 a.m.