>>4509748Okay so 2015 was Tarkir right?
So. To sum up the last six years of magic.
- Standard bans are now common enough that wizards uses the Yugioh approach to card design.
>Make something broken, wait for people to buy packs, ban the broken mythic.- Standard now consistently prints stuff that needs banning in modern.
- They now make a set that prints directly into modern without going through standard. The first set has had about 10 bans or cards banned for supporting a card printed in it. Including one that broke modern all summer.
- They printed
>>4510121, which was banned in all formats.
- Green has the best counterspells and cantrips in modern.
- Simic became wizards pet "print anything broken into this to sell packs" color combo.
- We returned to Ravnica, only for an Avenger's Endgame tier planeswalker wankfest that resulted in the second most broken planeswalker printed in recent memory.
- They printed Companion, a mechanic that lets you cast 1 creature from your sideboard as reward for a deckbuilding restriction. The rule was eratta'd to cost 3 mana to add it to your hand. Including the first card to be power level banned in vintage since '96
- Think of any spell in the game, and add "gain 3 life, draw a card" onto it. That is now the design philosophy of new magic.
And I suppose the thing that will blow your 2015 mind.
- Jace the Mind Sculptor is unbanned in modern and it isn't even good because t4 is too slow.
