Un-ban Uro
Ban Genesis Ultimatum and The Great Henge.
Un-ban Uro.
Gruul and Dimir Rogues are toxic to play against.
Uro was only banned because of Omnath. Uro and Genesis Ultimatum really shouldn't be legal at the same time because it makes it too easy to ramp to Genesis and mana-cheat your whole deck out. It's already too easy to do this as it is.
With Gruul being able to play Embercleave or The Great Henge by turn four, along with so many excellent cheap creatures (Edgewall Inkeeper, Brushfire Elemental, Kazandu Mammoth, Questing Beast, Bonecrusher Giant, Lovestruck Beast) makes every threat a must-answer the same turn. Keeping Embercleave in keeps this deck fair but still solidly T1.
Dimir Rougues doesn't need any cards banned, but they should have to worry about main-decking answers to something in the format. Every other deck has to think of including answers to Dimir Rogues in their main-deck so it seems reasonable that Dimir Rogues should have to do the same.
Uro is a powerful card, but not moreso than the other top-tier cards currently legal in standard. There are plenty of answers to it in every color. Having it legal would allow more decks to be competitive while toning down the power of some of the other top-tier decks.
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Ziusdra#40716 commented
I could get behind this if Ugin is also banned. I don't want to see more ramp-to-Ugin decks. Ugin is bad enough as it is, he alone prevents a number of decks from being playable (notice how there is no such thing as a +1/+1 counter deck in spite of the hundreds of synergies--this is 100% because they have no response to Ugin).
I would love to see Uro come in and send Ugin out.