Oversoul
The Tentacled One
I know that it looks small compared to the massive bannings imposed on Standard, but one other change in this last announcement was the restriction of Trinisphere in Vintage (oh, and they also made all four Portal sets legal and banned/retstricted some tutors in Legacy/Vintage).
I am not sure what this will do to the format. It doesn't look good. Trinisphere was good, but not too good. And the Workshop decks it made so great were one of the biggest obstacles for storm combo. This will severely hurt Workshop decks (an important part of the metagame). It will also totally change the matchups that storm combo has to deal with.
Trinisphere was not dominating in tournaments. I didn't think that it was distorting either, and although there were a lot of complaints in this area, the vast majority were from obviously biased players who lost heavily to Workshop decks (this has been happening for a while, but after attacking other cards like Goblin Welder, Workshop, and Crucible, they finally directed their collective voice at Trinisphere).
The distortion that this restriction has the potential to cause is far beyond what Trinisphere could have been responsible for by itself.
There are a lot of ways the format could go at this point. It seems paranoid to think that this is part of a trend that will lead to the restriction of Dark Ritual, but it is really starting to look like that (unrestrict Doomsday and then restrict Trinisphere).
I am worried about the future of my favorite format...
I am not sure what this will do to the format. It doesn't look good. Trinisphere was good, but not too good. And the Workshop decks it made so great were one of the biggest obstacles for storm combo. This will severely hurt Workshop decks (an important part of the metagame). It will also totally change the matchups that storm combo has to deal with.
Trinisphere was not dominating in tournaments. I didn't think that it was distorting either, and although there were a lot of complaints in this area, the vast majority were from obviously biased players who lost heavily to Workshop decks (this has been happening for a while, but after attacking other cards like Goblin Welder, Workshop, and Crucible, they finally directed their collective voice at Trinisphere).
The distortion that this restriction has the potential to cause is far beyond what Trinisphere could have been responsible for by itself.
There are a lot of ways the format could go at this point. It seems paranoid to think that this is part of a trend that will lead to the restriction of Dark Ritual, but it is really starting to look like that (unrestrict Doomsday and then restrict Trinisphere).
I am worried about the future of my favorite format...