Standard is saved
This is never going to stop until Hasbro/WoTC change their overall strategy. They’re catering 100% to casual commander, and are either actively or passively forcing competitive constructed formats into the ground.
“You cannot serve two masters” is at play here and the two design philosophies are at odds with each other. It’s Vivi right now, it will be Electro in the next set. After that it will be something Avatar, etc etc etc.
They have two options:
- Increase the power of cards/sets, specifically legendary creatures, to grow revenue but ruin competitive formats
- Decrease or maintain the power of cards/sets to save competitive formats but decrease (or risk decreasing) revenue
Since WoTC no longer runs the business of Magic the game, they cannot do option #2 anymore which is what we saw with Masques block and all of the other lower powered sets that re-stabilized competitive formats.
We are forever stuck with #1 until Hasbro sells WoTC.
Wow WOTC said “what if we took Birgi and made it even more OP?”
What the hell.
Yea honestly I can’t believe that card lol just absolutely nuts.
They know that printing activated abilities like
0:and abilities that keep mana floating forever are hyper dangerous yet just don’t seem to care anymore. Or maybe they think they have to do this to sell, who knows.
Top 8 were 6 cauldron decks, two red aggro decks? I’d hardly call standard saved lol. We’re just back to pre-ban red vs red adjacent, though I guess cauldron has the cauldron if it wants to pivot mid-game into combo.
