Tremayne said: I lack an option, specifically the “not sure yet” option.It seems that M19 will only be in standard for half the time that IXN. I think that the ramifications of this needs to be pondered a bit more before I cast a vote.
Froggy said:I guess the best part of this is that Oktagon have set a good simple guideline so players don’t need to keep guessing. It is no longer left up to whim. For this fact alone, I think it is good news. We can finally predict and don’t need to bother them about this any longer.
madwren said: It's fine, really, but it does mean that toxic or poorly-designed cards will have that much more time to influence the meta.
GrizzoMtGPQ said: I don't like how the sets stay for diminishing amounts of time. It skews how you buy/invest in cards. I liked how we just kept dropping the last set. I also do not like how important XLN has suddenly become. Chasing it is now as important as chasing Origins. Seems wrong. If we were going to keep a set for a year, I'd rather we got to keep HOU.
Mburn7 said: madwren said: It's fine, really, but it does mean that toxic or poorly-designed cards will have that much more time to influence the meta. True. An extra 9 months or so of StV, Ghalta, Etali and co is going to be interesting.Maybe they'll do more card balancing while sets are standard to compensate?
Tilwin90 said: The future future league focuses on balance. This can lead to answers of potentially problematic cards or against specific strategies. There is a reason no strong artifact removal existed in kaladesh but then amonkhet brought by force, abrade and forsake the worldly.Now this all depends on how things get translated in MTGPQ of course as translations are not one on one. Format warping cards can find answers either in nerfs or answer cards being released (the latter being preferred)
Mburn7 said: Tremayne said: I lack an option, specifically the “not sure yet” option.It seems that M19 will only be in standard for half the time that IXN. I think that the ramifications of this needs to be pondered a bit more before I cast a vote. Oops, sorry I missed that option.And yes it does appear that the 4th set will have the shortest lifespan while the first one will have the longest. But it does mean that M19 will still be in rotation ~3 months longer that it otherwise would be (since it rotates out at the 5th set after it comes out instead of the 4th like it would now).The more severe change is that now Ixalan will be in standard ~15 months longer than it would be now. That is huge.