DemonDragonJ it’s an assumption, but a pretty well-thought-out one. Having the cards exiled face-up only ever leads to worse gameplay.

This feels a little like deja vu... I feel like this conversation has happened before on this site.

If the cards are exiled face-up, from a competitive standpoint players are incentivized to look through the entirety of both their-own, and their opponents, exile-piles, to work out what is left in the deck as well as what could be in their opponents hand. Having players do this would be a MASSIVE time waster and cause a bunch of issues with competitive events.

Having the cards exiled face-up only leads to bad play patterns and an environment where both players best possible option is to scan through two large exile piles to calculate the best plays/outs available to them in the remaining turns of the game. It unnecessarily creates a subgame of admin-work which is just going to be tedious and slow.

This is perfectly fine. At the time blockers were declared the power of your creature met the requirements to block. What happens after then is irrelevant.

I think the two big winners from this announcement are Amulet Titan and Mill.

Titan is already at/near the top of the meta, and Green-Suns gives it another tool to be more reliable/obnoxious. A LOT of cards are already on the banlist for Titans sins, so this feels super dicey.

With Faithless Lootings return, there’s likely going to be a lot more decks trying to do something nonsense with their graveyard, and mill runs mainboard Surgical Extraction to punish those plans. Looting also plays into strategies that encourage dumping swaths of your own deck into the graveyard, which is also just doing Mills job for it.

I’m pretty happy with all of it - but would have preferred safer unbans to Looting & Opal. Both of those cards are only ever going to be used for degeneracy.

I’m happiest when the format is led by midrange strategies. I’m not convinced this announcement will deviate us in any direction other than more aggro & combo decks… but we’ll see.

In any case i’m super happy the Ring is finally gone!

Enchanter's Bane has the enchantment dealing the damage. Because Fiery Emancipation only triples damage from your own sources, only your own enchantments will deal triple damage to you, if for some reason you’re targeting your own stuff with Enchanter's Bane

DemonDragonJ its likely that Banishing Light is getting the reprint because its rules text more closely fits with the current 2024 wording for designs like this. It’s also easier to grok for new players getting into the game. I don’t see the comparison between this and Lotus Vale being at-all close.

Permanents controlled by other players return to their owners when that player dies

DemonDragonJ it’s not a ”good and clever strategy”, its abusing the card to make it do something it was never designed or balanced to do, as already pointed out by Caerwyn

Blue would only apply a single +1/+1 counter to other creatures. I’m not sure what videos you’re watching hit they seem misguided

I’m going to try my own rendition of that same card:

Yula, Titan of Life's Disease

Legendary Creature - Elder Giant

When Yula enters, sacrifice it unless it escaped.

Whenever Yula enters or attacks, distribute three -1/-1 counters divided as you choose among up to three targets.

Escape - , Exile five other cards from your graveyard. (You may cast this spell from your graveyard for its escape cost.)

6/6

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I’m not convinced the 3-life thing is core to all titans - it’s just something we’ve seen in all 3 so far.

Repeat or wild

Two. Nothing is stopping the second trigger from resolving, so it will.