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SaffronOlive | What I Would Ban on Monday to Make Standard Fun (and What Wizards Will Ban) (www.mtggoldfish.com)
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Feels like a fair assessment. I think it's almost guaranteed that Monstrous Rage, Manifold Mouse and Cori Steel Cutter get banned, but I'm thinking Up the Beanstalk, Stormchaser's Talent and Omniscience are likely hits too

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[–] TehPers@beehaw.org 3 points 22 hours ago

I'd love to see WOTC take the hammer to standard. It'd make it more fun for me at least.

I think my list is at minimum Monstrous Rage, Cori Steel-Cutter, Manifold Mouse, Stormchaser's Talent. Following that:

  • Either Omniscience or one of its support cards. GY hate and control are more viable in a slower format though.
  • Either Callous Sell-Sword or Cacophony Scamp to reduce the consistency of the red fling deck, considering we'll still have Turn Inside Out and some other support pieces. Remember, this was a pretty oppressive deck, and scamp rotates soon anyway. Sell-Sword does not rotate yet, so I can see them leaving it in.
  • Possibly Up the Beanstalk. I'm mixed on this because the deck loses support soon, but it also restricts design space.
  • Possibly Screaming Nemesis. I'm personally of the opinion that this single card negates the entire lifegain archetype and is largely unanswerable. I'm mixed on this though since I don't think it's too insane outside of that, just that it severely restricts what decks can exist in standard.

Decks I think will rise are the bounce deck, hopefully a goblin deck for red (instead of the BS we have now), maybe jeskai prowess(?), jeskai control, dimir control, and some reanimator strategies that weren't as viable before. Boros tokens coming back could be interesting too.