About what I expected. Wouldn't have minded Bowmasters, Grief or Ring biting the big one but that's probably expecting too much
Yeah agreed on all accounts, would’ve loved to see those too.
I didn’t think Up the Beanstalk would get banned so soon but I think it’s a good hit to the 4c decks that are just a slog to play against.
Everything I've seen from Beans has just been absurd. There's just so many high MV cards you can cast for 0-2 mana these days it's a super easy value engine. Plus it cantrips before you even cast anything and I think that really pushes it over the edge
Can't say I expected the Swifty ban. Glad to see Modern get a bit healthier, though.
Is it just me, or is "we'll be changing the rate at which we update the B&R list from now on" a regular part of B&R announcements?
However, it is rare for a player to pay anywhere close to five mana to cast the cards they are using with Up the Beanstalk .
Yeah. I think Up the Beanstalk would be a pretty fair card if Magic were a game where you had to pay five mana to cast a five-mana spell.
Overall -- a reasonable set of announcements which I think will probably have the expected outcomes.
Even if you're not that interested in Pauper, Gavin Verhey's separate article about the Swiftspear ban goes into a lot of detail about the thought process behind bannings & unbannings.
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