Belly_Beanis [he/him]

These things already exist. Credit scores determine whether or not you can buy a house in certain neighborhoods. People are being deported for their political beliefs. The US has the largest prison population on the planet, both per capita and sheer numbers. When/if you do get out of prison, felonies stay with you the rest of your life, even for something ridiculous like marijuana possession.

You’re worried about a hypothetical when there’s the real thing right in front of you.

I’ve been playing since Mirage and Universes Beyond combined with Modern Horizons has left a bad taste in my mouth. They’ve also had more bans in Standard in around six years than the previous 25 years combined, including the initial banlist separating it from Type 1, Urza’s block, and the first Mirrodin block.

UB is WotC trying to avoid paying artists and writers to make new worlds. MtG hasn’t always had the best writing or storytelling, but it’s always been a labor of love creating different settings. With UB now coming to Standard, they don’t have to do any of that. The artwork for Marvel/Assassin’s Creed/etc. is already done. They can use leftover storyboards and concept art from films, video games, and TV shows. They don’t have to do any writing.

WotC will eventually use AI images when they think they can get away with it. Combined with UB, they will completely gut their creative department.

UB would have been great as silver bordered cards. It gets people to actually buy Un-sets while keeping it seperate from the main game. Silver borders would allow them to explore deliberately broken mechanics without damaging the meta of the main game.

Like the Infinity Gauntlet in the upcoming Marvel stuff could be something stupid like an Omniscience, Staff of Domination, and Mindslaver rolled into one card.

Really wish they’d stop making “equipment and auras matter” themed mechanics/archetypes without giving them proper support. The reason decks like Bogles were a thing is because the creatures had hexproof and there was a draw engine with Kor Spiritdancer.

When it’s just “This creature gets +1/+1 for each equipment you control,” it leaves new players feeling like garbage because they constantly get 2-for1’d. They feel like they wasted money and lose interest in the game. Experienced players don’t like these products/draft archetypes because they already understand what happens.

The basic lands look dope, though.

Breach is a card that should have never been printed.

I have no fucking idea how it got past playtesting. Yawgmoth’s Will was, for a long time, the strongest non-power card in Vintage.

Daze, Reanimate, and Entomb existed for years without being a problem. Banning them would IMO be a sign R&D screwed up somewhere else.

I too would like to see Bowmasters gone, along with The One Ring, mostly so I can save my store credit. I’d rather drop $200 on ABUR duals than a playset of cards that can be reprinted or always have the banhammer looming over them.

Okay what if we also wash the chicken in sodium? Then everybody wins!