>>4520482>they had reworked how standard cycles so cards would stay in for much longer.Nope, standard was always a 2-year rotation. For about 2 years or so (around Kaladesh, and ending at Ixalan) they experimented with a 1.5 year standard, but everyone hated it and they quickly scrapped the idea and went back to 2 years. It didn't help that standard gameplay was an absolute shit-show at that point, and people were leaving standard in droves to play literally anything else. As stupid as bans are, imagine the same idiotic design decisions, without bans. So not only did energy make it to print, they sat on their hands for months as it ran roughshod over the meta until finally, cautiously banning one card. More months of meta dominance by energy, and then they finally get the message and nuke two more cards.
>>4509049>even fa/tg/uys stopped playing this game after the new garbage sets/tg/ really is a perfect mirror as to why mtg is so fucked right now. They complain about bans and lack of playtesting, but as soon as a set with a reasonable power level comes out, they complain it doesn't have any powerful chase cards, and don't buy it. (Same thing with the larger consumer market as well - as dumb as
>>4512345 is, there's a reason sales are at an all-time high). Then, instead of maybe, possibly considering games that aren't mtg, they keep talking about mtg in an endless cycle of salt.
