In this edition:
- Just One Week Left to Preorder The Lost Caverns of Ixalan
- See All the Cards in The Lost Caverns of Ixalan
- Streamer Event this Thursday, November 9
- The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Prerelease Begins November 10!
- Story Spotlight Cards for The Lost Caverns of Ixalan
- Don’t Miss the Extra Life 2023 Sleeves and More
- Your Path to Magic Greatness Begins November 11
- Play in the Historic All-Access, Basically No Bans Event until November 14
- Dev Diary: What We Mean by “Basically No Bans”
- Chromatic Cube Is Back Tomorrow!
- Event Schedule
I haven’t played it, I’m not really a Historic player at all. Might try to do a game or two just for the 1k XP, we’ll see.
I have to admit I don’t understand the logic behind the “basically”. If you ban three cards to make the format balanced, and it works, why isn’t Historic just like that all the time? Conversely, if it doesn’t work, then how is this unbalanced format any better than the unbalanced format where those three cards are playable?
Yea you’ve correctly identified the paradox in Historic. I think they kind of screwed up with Alchemy being forced in. They should have made a “Historic Alchemy” as a separate format. Historic would be amazing as a vintage style format where these cards were all legal. I personally thought it was fine but perhaps they have data on the game play and it could have shown cards like Channel were played in too high a %. Release the data!