Mburn7 said:Besides, the combos enabled now involve Mythic or Masterpiece cards and some very specific deck setups. I say let them be.
BATMAN1 said: I don’t think blue needs a nerf I think all the other colors need a buff. What happen to green?
starfall said: All the cards you've listed there are banned in Standard, Modern, and Legacy, and restricted in Vintage, the only format you can play them in.
Brakkis said: - Blue should not have access to direct damage. It can have some access to direct creature damage but hitting the player directly is not its wheelhouse. -- Beacon Bolt shouldn't be able to target the Planeswalker.<snip>- Red's direct damage spells need to be increased. They are absolutely pitiful. You increase the P/T of creatures and you vastly increase player health in the transition from paper to PQ and yet, red's spell remain at the same value, completely undermining their effectiveness.
Stormcrow said: Brakkis said: - Blue should not have access to direct damage. It can have some access to direct creature damage but hitting the player directly is not its wheelhouse. -- Beacon Bolt shouldn't be able to target the Planeswalker.<snip>- Red's direct damage spells need to be increased. They are absolutely pitiful. You increase the P/T of creatures and you vastly increase player health in the transition from paper to PQ and yet, red's spell remain at the same value, completely undermining their effectiveness. I get where you're coming from, but the elephant in the room in at least this part of the discussion is the dual-colored nature of the Ravnica cards and how that intersects with the way PQ Planeswalkers work. Beacon Bolt isn't just blue, it's blue/red. Should blue have access to burn that strong? No, probably not, but as you point out, Red desperately needs burn that strong. Or what about Assassin's Trophy? Green shouldn't have kill spells, Black shouldn't have support removal; seems pretty clear though that Assassin's Trophy is deliberately designed to sit in that black/green intersection and do both things, on purpose. So what do you about these multicolored cards that muddy the color pie? Just remove a color from them, regardless of what colors they are in paper? Turning Beacon Bolt into a pure red card would make very little difference, since most of the time it's showing up in Bolas or Ral decks that would still have access to it. Whichever color you removed from Assassin's Trophy, it'd still break the color pie for the color it stayed.