What do you think of the new Standard Rotation?

babar3355

This is fine, I guess

I think it is probably a good thing because of ideas outlined by Tilwin.  Cross set synergies that are developed by WOTC will be accessible to PQ players going forward.

Ideally, we could ditch Origins, but as many people have pointed out that would cause a huge problem for players who left the game for a while.  Imagine losing all of your cards and trying to compete in Platinum to get some new good ones.

wereotter

This is unnecessary

Now that I've seen more details.... I wish I could change my vote.

I think this is a bad change. A very bad change.

The reason Standard was implemented in the first place was because of the broken cards and overpowered combos that exist within the game. Let's face it, the devs don't do a great job of keeping cards that appear weak powered down unless the card is common rarity. Mythic rarity cards are amplified, power wise, beyond reason, not to mention the mere existence of masterpiece cards in the standard rotation, which never was legal in paper magic.

I understand people being disappointed about not being able to play their standard decks for as long, and the rotation can be a bit much to keep up with, but putting 9 sets into Standard at any given time is too much. Remember Kaladesh only just left standard a couple weeks ago. Imagine still playing against all those cards, all the masterpieces in those sets, all the Amonkhet block cards, and everything since as standard right now.

This is why a more limited Standard makes sense here. We've already seen with the Guilds of Ravnica gallery that even knowing this many sets will be in Standard, that they can't keep from powering up the cards in the set, and this time adding in new cards that weren't even a part of the set to be pulled or purchased as exclusives.

If they're going to follow paper magic, then they need to follow paper magic, including the power level of the cards.