Displeasure with Standard Format after recent bannings and changes
I would like to take this opportunity to express my dissatisfaction with the recent changes implemented in the Standard Format.
Firstly, your decision to postpone rotation for 1 year was premature. If you are going to change the rules on how the format operates, you should design sets that will work in that environment and not change the rules on a whim. The next two standard sets that will release this year (Wilds of Eldraine and Caverns of Ixalan) were designed with the previous environment in mind. It would be better to wait until sets are designed for a 3 year cycle before implementing that kind of change. There are plenty of cards that I feel have a negative impact on standard and need to be flushed out with rotation. Keeping them legal for another year is only going to cause more problems and more difficulty playing the format especially since we don't know what is being included in the next 4 sets that could make the current decks even more powerful than before.
In my opinion the bans that were announced in May were a big mistake. I don't know how you arrived at the decision to ban Reckoner Bankbuster, Fable of the Mirror Breaker and Invoke Despair, but that decision allowed the various control decks (Esper Control, Dimir Control, etc) to start to appear and take over the format.
I am not a big fan of control decks and hate to play against decks that have a wide array of counter spells and removal such that every move I make does not matter all the opponent has to do is sit there and wait until I cannot do anything and then deploy all their stuff. In my opinion, control decks should not exist because they remove any chance of having a fun and interesting game. It is just the same repeatable pattern, play land, do nothhing, wait, kill or remove whatever comes on the board from the opponent, rinse and repeat until the opponent is out of cards then go for the kill.
I don't know if the pro players (ex. Huey Jensen) are recommending how the format should be and what cards need to be banned but I think it would be better if you asked the actual players instead.
I know this isn't going to happen but I would prefer you to revoke the changes that were made to standard (rotation delay and the aforementioned card bannings) and instead ask the players directly of their thoughts of what should be banned and what changes need to be made to Standard overall.
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Andy York#83293 commented
Congratulations on screwing up standard by removing rotation this year. There are plenty of formats that allow you to build decks from past sets and the freshness of standard rotation has simply gone killing the format as all you see are repeats of net-decks from the older sets. Zero innovation from players as nobody tries to develop a new meta.
The only way to rescue this debacle is to ban dozens of cards from the older sets as so far there is no sign of this.
Man up and admit thus is a mistake or lose players, its that simple.