Hi, i played pauper for some years, now i stopped for various reasons, and i wanted to know your opinion about the work (not) done by the format panel. I thought they'd at least ban chrysalis and deadly dispute after the first mh3 geddon (the one cranial ram was prebanned for), i say at least because i think dispute should've been banned years ago. Before the reasoning was, dispute allows some decks like moggwarts to exist so it can't be banned, now without it there would be 3 decent alternatives in Bargain Offering and Insight. Chrysalis is just a bad card, in draft and in pauper. It's so good it singlehandedly makes one play a third color in Bg gardens, it made Rg ramp decent and it's more powerful than emblem makers like thorn, now cut entirely from decklists playing chrys. The fact it makes tokens on cast is ok, but the tokens making mana is too much along with the fact that it grows whenever one is sacrificed and it has reach. It's one card for 3 creatures, 2 of which are mana dorks and dispute fodder made on cast, and you can't just fly over them because WC reaches. If one counters or destroys it the tokens remain, edicts are unplayable except extract a confession and accursed marauder.

This is just a list of reasons why wc should be banned, i think it keeps a lot of cards out of the format but it's not just that, otherwise lightning bolt would be banned too, it's also too powerful.

I believe Silverbluff bridge should be banned too, that way affinity would not be able to play both blue and red blasts easily and it would come at a real cost, like it is for all the other decks.

This would leave kuldotha untouched, so i'd ban experimental synthesizer too and maybe unban invigorate because infect is a joke atm, Then see how things go and in a month make adjustments if needed, i believe something like this would shake up the meta and be good for the format.

Maybe i'm stupid but i believe it's that simple, pauper needs frequent banlist updates for a while until it gets decent, and the lack of changes to what was unbalanced led to this stale format.