So the set is coming out tomorrow, but we still don't even have any information about prebans in Historic. Or have they just abandoned the format entirely, given that two combo decks have been making the format miserable for months and nothing has been done about that?
We intended to have Historic pre-bans called out in this article, but the blurb got lost somewhere. We're trying to find it. (Edit: Article is now updated)
In any case, it's what you probably expected: Show and Tell is banned in Historic. No other pre-bans or pre-restrictions.
It would be interesting to see how popular historic is after timeless introduction. I for one immediately deleted all my historic decks and haven't played the format ever since.
The combination of no fetchlands, which means pretty bad manabases, and the fact that the threats are way stronger than answers makes the format pretty unfun, gameplay wise.
Not to mention a bunch of cards are still nerfed to unplayable for no good reason.
Both Historic and Timeless have their fans. We love both formats equally, but Historic remains (by far) the more-played format.
Thanks for bringing the metagame challenges back as they were great. Are there plans for any upcoming restriction announcement for Timeless? Also are the STX, MOM, WOE packs going to allow the banned cards to be opened with the patch release of MKM. Or will there be an announcement about when that is to happen?
Timeless: We don't normally forecast upcoming ban or restriction announcements (or lack thereof). I will say, though, that we're finding the Timeless metagame to be generally balanced and diverse so far.
Backlist packs (like STX, MOM, and WOE) will not get their collation adjusted for MKM, but we expect that to come with Arena's next major release, MKM's Alchemy drop. We'll certainly announce it in the patch notes when it changes
Hi Jay, I realize you cant talk about upcoming changes to Timeless , but if combo becomes to prevalent/consistent in Timeless what is more likely: cards like Force of negation or new restrictions?
Philosophically, we would always rather see more cards available for unrestricted play in Timeless. Practically, we can implement a restriction much more quickly than we can add new cards to the game.
If there was a problem developing slowly, we would probably look for venues to insert counter cards. If a problem sprang up quickly and needed immediate reaction (dominating the meta, ruining diversity, etc.), we would almost certainly need to restrict something to control it.
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