Just overall state of the game 2026
Standard is a dumpster fire, it would be insanely fast if not for the absurd number of board wipes floating around, so we have come to a really weird feel, the number of banned cards is nuts so I'd have to imagine there's no real plan here other then just keep printing pushed nonsense, I really feel like there's no one running the ship, or more like it only hasbro pushing sales is the actual design philosophy, I'm so sad the game I've loved for so very long is completely dead and sold out to not even good conmen, rip mtg
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I concur on the lack of design competency on display in Standard. I'd say the downfall began with Phyrexia: All Will Be One, reached its nadir with Duskmourn: House of Horror, and we're still trying to recover.
The printing of blatantly OP cards like Monstrous Rage, Vivi Ornitier, Kona Rescue Beastie and reprinting of Omniscience and Bloodthirsty Conqueror in Foundations only served to put the nail in the coffin to _any_ notions of non-combo strategy, long-term game-plans, and actual decision-making.
Yes, some of these were banned, but the point is they _never_ should've been printed and re-printed in the first place.
Standard is now merely a gatcha token machine in deck format driven by marketing IP tie-ins in lieu of good game design.
And I'm not even touching on _all_ of the toxic trolling behavior permitted on Arena, Arena-specific opponent "time-out decks", and the litany of long-term-unresolved client, server, card-specific bugs.
No thank you WotC.