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Standard No Longer Makes Sense for Magic (www.hipstersofthecoast.com)

submitted 11 months ago by MysticKetchup to c/[email protected]

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Posting for discussion. Personally I don't agree, aside from it being the most popular format on Arena, I think it serves as sort of a load-bearing pillar for Magic. Even if it doesn't seem popular right now I feel like removing it would have ripple effects that would hurt Magic overall

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[–] MysticKetchup 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Yeah that's my issue with a lot of standard right now. If every other format is B/x goodstuff and 5C Atraxa piles, why do I need a Standard format with that?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

@MysticKetchup A not-insignificant chunk of this problem is the fact that all of those decks are powered primarily *from* Standard, or at least would-be-Standard-if-not-Banned-ard *cough* Fable *cough*. MH2 doesn't help what with the Beans deck but 5C Beans still plays cards from current Standard to facilitate major parts of the engine (Binding and Beans itself).

So I dunno. I just find the idea of having a format where the fun ideas of Commander deck cards can run free without FoW sometimes.