Poc Posted January 15, 2018 Report Share Posted January 15, 2018 Standard - Attune with the Aether, Rogue Refiner, Rampaging Rampadon, and Ranumap ruins are banned No changes in other formats. More standard bans targeting energy primarily. If you read the wizards article the data shows Energy and Ranumap red are overly dominate in their win %. Attune and Rogue refiner are sources of "free" energy and cantrips so it makes sense to take them out of the deck. Rampaging Rampadon is kind of a curveball but I understand their reasoning. Its a one card anti-token/life gain card thats easy to search out with all the dino support. Ruins are just and overly good land in a RDW. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bury the year Posted January 16, 2018 Report Share Posted January 16, 2018 Ferocidon was the only one I was surprised by, but reading Wizards' rationale it makes sense. The dino prevented any meaningful counterplay to RR (tokens or lifegain). Attune and Refiner was pretty damn obvious: they were what let energy decks be so greedy. Energy as a whole wasn't properly costed - even MaRo admits it - and those two were the greatest offenders. Ruins wasn't necessarily expected, but when you look back on other recent Standard bannings (which hurts to type), Wizards bans stuff from the other dominant deck in the format so that it doesn't just take over. Energy was RR's only bad matchup, and Ruins gave it too much free reach. So yeah, this round of bans make sense. Now let's hope Development gets their sheet together such that we never see something of this magnitude again. EDIT: The real reason Ferocidon was banned was that Dagger Burn is OP. :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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