Posting for discussion. Personally I don’t agree, aside from it being the most popular format on Arena, I think it serves as sort of a load-bearing pillar for Magic. Even if it doesn’t seem popular right now I feel like removing it would have ripple effects that would hurt Magic overall
@MysticKetchup I continue to mentally entertain “Chaos Standard” as a format. 60-card, 4-of, constant rotation (ie if a card was released Nov 13, 2020 it wouldn’t be legal in this hypothetical format, or
date\>=2020-11-14/ today’s date as this is read on Scryfall) but any printing with the real card back puts the card into legality again.Biggest problem with this would be attempting to onboard people to a 60-card format that’s currently just the obnoxious bits of present Modern.
Yeah that’s my issue with a lot of standard right now. If every other format is B/x goodstuff and 5C Atraxa piles, why do I need a Standard format with that?
@MysticKetchup A not-insignificant chunk of this problem is the fact that all of those decks are powered primarily *from* Standard, or at least would-be-Standard-if-not-Banned-ard *cough* Fable *cough*. MH2 doesn’t help what with the Beans deck but 5C Beans still plays cards from current Standard to facilitate major parts of the engine (Binding and Beans itself).
So I dunno. I just find the idea of having a format where the fun ideas of Commander deck cards can run free without FoW sometimes.
@MysticKetchup @SteveHeist standard has issues when power creep is strong, as other formats resemble it too much. Control power creep better and that isn’t such a problem.