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Katana Gomai posted:If there's only one ban, it'll be attune, if there's two, it'll be attune+rogue refiner. There won't be more than two. I think they'd ban Ramunap Ruins over Rogue Refiner, if they're gonna ban anything besides Attune.
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mcmagic posted:That card was completely warping the format. Scarab isn't doing that. It’s in half the top decks/remains good even if Hub gets banned and they just printed a 4 drop it’s insane with, give it a bit
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Jan 15, 2018 16:17
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I feel like whatever they ban won't make standard any better. Rivals couldn't be more boring.
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Jan 15, 2018 16:19
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Is the goatsucker a 4-of in a deck that also includes the Scarab God? I kind of think it is.
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Jan 15, 2018 16:20
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Pac-Manioc Root posted:Is the goatsucker a 4-of in a deck that also includes the Scarab God? I kind of think it is. It’s a small body valueman that shares a colour It absolutely is
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Jan 15, 2018 16:22
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Pac-Manioc Root posted:Is the goatsucker a 4-of in a deck that also includes the Scarab God? I kind of think it is. It's 100% a 3 or 4 of in Scarab God decks, yeah. They go so well together it's kind of disgusting. Makes me wish a deck with Shriekmaw and Scarab God was modern viable...
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Jan 15, 2018 16:23
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The Shortest Path posted:I think they'd ban Ramunap Ruins over Rogue Refiner, if they're gonna ban anything besides Attune. Banning just Attune isn't enough to kill Energy. Refiner needs to go too.
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Jan 15, 2018 16:26
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The high price on Scarab God is the only thing keeping me from building an EDH deck with it, so please don't ban it and tank the price Wizards.
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Jan 15, 2018 16:26
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Attune with Aether is banned. Rogue Refiner is banned. Rampaging Ferocidon is banned. Ramunap Ruins is banned. https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/news/january-15-2018-banned-and-restricted-announcement-2018-01-15
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Jan 15, 2018 16:33
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Woo. Nobody saw ferocidon coming.
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Jan 15, 2018 16:34
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Tainen posted:Attune with Aether is banned. Rampaging Ferocidon is banned? what?  Too good for standard?
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Jan 15, 2018 16:34
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All hail the Scarab God!
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Jan 15, 2018 16:35
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Jesus Christ. They really wanted Red to go away too.
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quote:```The cards we considered taking action against were Ramunap Ruins, Rampaging Ferocidon, Earthshaker Khenra, Ahn-Crop Crasher, Bomat Courier, and Hazoret the Fervent. quote:```For many players, Rampaging Ferocidon is likely to be the most surprising of the cards we're taking action against. After all, many Ramunap Red decks don't play four copies in their main deck. However, in analyzing the evolution of the metagame over time as well as contrasting pre- and post-sideboard game win percentages, we have determined this to be one of the cards that most discourages and invalidates counterplay against the deck. It's worth noting that Rampaging Ferocidon was designed at a time when Saheeli Rai–Felidar Guardian decks were coming to dominance in the real world, in part to counter those decks```
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Sickening posted:Rampaging Ferocidon is banned? what? That is a weird ban. It's just a 3/3 guy. But they have definitely killed Red.
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Jan 15, 2018 16:36
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Scarab god will be 80 bucks tomorrow.
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Yeah I would have given pretty high fake money odds if someone wanted to put a dark dino-horse bet on Ferocidon WTH?? Heh, I was going to pick up a few as a sideboard plan against this hidden stockpile/annointed procession/Servo spam pile that's somewhat prevalent locally, glad I didn't bother getting them yet.
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Jan 15, 2018 16:37
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"Ahn-Crop Crasher"
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Jan 15, 2018 16:38
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Man, they have banned a lot of cards in Standard over the last 1.5 years or so
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Jan 15, 2018 16:38
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Hot Take: Dino guy was only banned because they wanted to push the Sphinx. They can't say that, though, so we get this bullshit.
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Jan 15, 2018 16:39
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Toshimo posted:Hot Take: Dino guy was only banned because they wanted to push the Sphinx. They can't say that, though, so we get this bullshit. What Sphinx? Azor?
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Jan 15, 2018 16:40
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Elyv posted:Man, they have banned a lot of cards in Standard over the last 1.5 years or so Almost as if WotC has realized that instead of printing good answers they can just ban all the good cards! And yet Scarab God remains because he sells packs.
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Jan 15, 2018 16:42
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Someone do a custom Star of Extinction alt art with Ferocidon in the foreground. I would but I'm just the ideas guy.
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Jan 15, 2018 16:44
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Rinkles posted:What Sphinx? Azor? Cause dino guy seems like a horrible card against a UW control shell (unless you were envisioning Azor elsewhere)
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Jan 15, 2018 16:44
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Tainen posted:Attune with Aether is banned. Wow, they are really cratering the hell out of standard. I just uhhh vampires and merfolk might be competitive now? Or will it just be all midrange, all the time? Dominaria better be a goddamn amazing set.
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Jan 15, 2018 16:46
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Rap Record Hoarder posted:Wow, they are really cratering the hell out of standard. I just uhhh vampires and merfolk might be competitive now? Or will it just be all midrange, all the time? Whatever shell works best with scarab god or if new red cards make mono red still good enough. Don't get your hopes up over dominaria. The same folks who made standard a shitpile made dominaria too.
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Jan 15, 2018 16:49
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Oh wait I cracked a Ferocidon at the IXN prerelease, I hope I traded it off already.
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Jan 15, 2018 16:49
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Sickening posted:Whatever shell works best with scarab god or if new red cards make mono red still good enough. Ruins was the best card in the deck lol
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Jan 15, 2018 16:50
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Finally, this banning has put my trust back in standard and I'll get back into its tourname ahahaha Can they just officially announce that Standard rotates every 6 months now? Because that's the longest you'll get to play your deck.
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Jan 15, 2018 16:52
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looking forward to nearly two full weeks of "no really, standard is good now" before the meta is 49% Scarab God Midrange Hell and 49% U/W Approach
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Jan 15, 2018 16:54
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This format is low-energy.
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quote:the environment has been dominated for several months by two archetypes: Temur Energy and Ramunap Red. Together these two archetypes represent more than 40% of the competitive metagame I guess that sounds better than admitting that Energy was more than 50% of the meta.
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Jan 15, 2018 16:55
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also they moved up the release date of the core set by a week https://magic.wizards.com/articles/archive/news/core-set-2019-release-date-changed-2018-01-15
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Jan 15, 2018 16:56
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quote:However, in analyzing the evolution of the metagame over time as well as contrasting pre- and post-sideboard game win percentages, we have determined this to be one of the cards that most discourages and invalidates counterplay against the deck. Well I suppose that's fair. It's a shame that there's literally zero ways they could print that somehow "remove" a 3/3 creature. Nope, just got to ban it because creatures can only die from blocking other creatures.
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Attorney at Funk posted:This format is low-energy. 
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mossyfisk posted:Well I suppose that's fair. It's a shame that there's literally zero ways they could print that somehow "remove" a 3/3 creature. Nope, just got to ban it because creatures can only die from blocking other creatures. How the hell did Goblin Rabblemaster survive 2 years lol
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Jan 15, 2018 16:59
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Mono-black aggro maybe is viable? It won a 300+ tournament pre-RIX (in the Philippines), and it has tools to fight Approach and Scarab God. Also chupacabra. http://mtgtop8.com/event?e=17713&d=309728&f=ST
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Jan 15, 2018 17:00
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A strange game. The only winning move is not to play. How about a nice game of chess?
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Attorney at Funk posted:This format is low-energy. Sad!
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mcmagic posted:Ruins was the best card in the deck lol It was a good card in the deck but give me a break.
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