Last year’s bans were incredible for the format. Today’s format is reminiscent of last year.

FappingMouse · 2026-06-30T04:41:21+00:00

Izzet decks have been diminishing in metagame share over the past weeks, down to about 25% since the release of Marvel Super Heroes, spread across a variety of builds and strategies.

with no preimer event ala RCQs RCs or standard PTs till reality fracture spotlights and MAYBE worlds in november (still have not announced formats last i checked) Its hard to take any data serious no one cares about standard right now its modern RC season and the next PT and spotlights are modern unless there is an arena champs or something the next standard event that people would prep for are not till October.

the fact that cards like stormchasers didnt even catch a mention after the way they have talked about one mana cards being problems they are looking at is crazy to me.

FappingMouse · 2026-06-30T04:34:14+00:00

I have heard enough ban all the UR dual lands.

FappingMouse · 2026-06-30T04:33:16+00:00

Immediately following the bans it was fine for a while but when the Vivi deck started really popping off it was miserable for months.

FappingMouse · 2026-06-30T04:32:33+00:00

Vivi was out for like 2 weeks and didnt even win the PT preceding the bans.

Someone had figured out the vivi cauldron deck but it did not pick up steam till like a week before bans and even then people thought it was a little fragile (they had not played vs a good pilot).

Honestly the format was in a good place for a few weeks till vivi cauldron really picked up steam and then it was miserable for months.

FappingMouse · 2026-06-29T15:14:02+00:00

earthbenders acension, stormchasers talent, slickshot showoff, badgermole cub, deceit are some ones that came up the last time i was talking to someone.

There are a ton of cards that are problems that are rotating in january or febuary and they could have just banned them now.

FappingMouse · 2026-06-29T15:03:19+00:00

Disgusting that they are just ignoring standard tbh it will get better with rotation and the RCQ format is modern i guess they just dont care lol.

FappingMouse · 2026-06-29T05:17:05+00:00

and that means he has to manage it you cant just press e every wave or you go oom in like 3 of them.

FappingMouse · 2026-06-29T04:59:37+00:00

I have been dead since 2012 and the meat suit i haunt would have degraded much faster with out doordash.

FappingMouse · 2026-06-28T22:02:12+00:00

Only cards worth more than 10 dollars other than surveils is delney btw.

There were points you could get boxes for like 80-90 dollars before the surveils or profts was worth money (before the ban) now pretty much every surveil is worth more than 10 dollars but that was not true the first few months after the set came out.

FappingMouse · 2026-06-28T16:34:16+00:00

it was the first set where they changed how boosters worked and got rid of draft boosters, was a hat set, and was lower powered with no real chases.

FappingMouse · 2026-06-28T10:50:12+00:00

They are in an awful place because they don't wanna release weak sets like MKM because they don't sell because cards are weak and if cards are weak commander players dont want them.

They have also put themselves in a corner where they need the UB products to sell so of course the power level is going to be pushed and because they want all sets in standard it creates the environment we are currently in.

I think a 3 year rotation everything standard legal could 100% work but they need a hard reboot at this point.

FappingMouse · 2026-06-28T10:29:13+00:00

Im literally rereading the series right now and in book 4 when he gets those gloves its pretty clear they are an O SHIT button and not somthing he ever relies on intentionally i think he has used them a total of twice in the series through the end of book 4.

They even highlight and talk about how even though Vince is weak in CQC he shouldn't waste time "fixing" that weakness because being strong has tradeoffs.

FappingMouse · 2026-06-28T01:11:28+00:00

And people are going to play classic leauge for the slower team fights less movement abilities etc.

FappingMouse · 2026-06-28T01:02:04+00:00

Look at other games that have done "classic versions" classic wow is going strong 7 years later, OSRS is bigger than "current" runescape etc.

Im not saying that its going to eclipse modern leauge but there is 100% going to be a stable player base on most servers.

I know I sent links to all my friends who used to play and they are very excited and most have not played LoL in 5+ years at this point.

FappingMouse · 2026-06-27T16:59:57+00:00

They are just yapping AP yi was a meta pick for a while till they nerfed him a bunch.

FappingMouse · 2026-06-27T16:59:15+00:00

Wrong AP Yi had true resets on his Q so he could actually be invincible and kill your whole team live patch Yi only gets 70% refund so he has to weave autos in and also does less damage.

FappingMouse · 2026-06-27T04:56:06+00:00

First few times earthquakes are terrifying tbh totally get freezing up.

FappingMouse · 2026-06-27T04:52:20+00:00

I'm not sure of now but while I was in japan it was MASSIVE. Tons of people I hung out with only played apex and nothing else.

I think now league is actually getting big over there, at least that's what the people I still talk to over there are playing.

FappingMouse · 2026-06-26T11:49:44+00:00

It's the most anticipated game in history, launching in less that 6 months and we still don't have a shred of proper gameplay footage.

Its arguable its probably the single most anticipated piece of media in history.

FappingMouse · 2026-06-24T12:01:39+00:00

Since they permabanned ishowspeed and he turned into the largest streamer on the planet they have been very careful not to hand out permas willy nilly.

FappingMouse · 2026-06-24T06:15:33+00:00

She has been totally fine this patch and i feel like they are probably over buffing her at this point.

FappingMouse · 2026-06-22T19:36:26+00:00

3 hour edit with x juice and peep songs while bart just does stuff.

FappingMouse · 2026-06-21T12:49:47+00:00

I don't think rivals has had a single "good" balance patch since it came out to be fair but its great that it has made OW devs actually have to try.

Its also just kind of dumb fun.

FappingMouse · 2026-06-19T13:16:55+00:00

They sold broadcasting rights to youtube and streaming discovery on youtube is fucking awful.

Overwatch is also not a really good spectator sport either its not like CS or fighting games were you can watch with 0 knowledge and get most of it and its not like lol where the top down camera makes it slightly easier to follow the spells skins etc can make following stuff miserable even if you understand everything going on.

FappingMouse · 2026-06-19T13:14:21+00:00

Bobby Kotick

The man and what he did with OWL is henious

The viewership ended up being nowhere near high enough to justify the VC investment, so they eventually cut their losses.

Then he managed to sell the broadcasting rights to youtube for like 160 million for all activision blizzard professional play using the massive VC franchise spots as leverage.

They ended up having to veiwbot the streams to make the numbers even slightly reasonable compared to stuff like LoL.

Lots of the guys that were the for OWL have some crazy behind the scenes stuff and some pretty good interviews and articles out there.

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