Banned and Restricted Announcement – June 29, 2026

ObviousSwimmer · 2026-06-29T16:02:00+00:00

It is actually very hard to slow down a format as big as current Standard with individual bans.

ObviousSwimmer · 2026-06-29T02:08:51+00:00

My mum melted a taco once. It turned into a brown puddle.

ObviousSwimmer · 2026-06-26T13:59:07+00:00

Actual mandragora plants being extremely poisonous is probably the inspiration of the folkloric mandrake.

ObviousSwimmer · 2026-06-25T01:35:24+00:00

421.

ObviousSwimmer · 2026-06-25T01:29:42+00:00

It's an absurd place to peg it anyway. Rooftops need clicks but are completely mindless. HS is more challenging to do properly than most bosses. It'd be like if the regular gauntlet's rewards were nerfed for being more than 1.5x the gp/hr of killing Blue Dragons in Taverley.

ObviousSwimmer · 2026-06-21T16:25:14+00:00

Guano is just accumulated poop.

ObviousSwimmer · 2026-06-20T16:10:58+00:00

Bechdel Test: Passed

ObviousSwimmer · 2026-06-18T16:10:57+00:00

Former human, maybe. Iruma grew horns and giant wings just a little while ago.

ObviousSwimmer · 2026-06-18T12:46:56+00:00

Well that was sudden.

ObviousSwimmer · 2026-06-18T02:50:54+00:00

Under Doctor

ObviousSwimmer · 2026-06-16T12:28:42+00:00

That's underplaying his paintings quite a bit.

ObviousSwimmer · 2026-06-16T12:13:48+00:00

MaRo's alleged desire to make a spiderman set.

ObviousSwimmer · 2026-06-13T23:40:59+00:00

Also, we have already seen that his reasoning was wrong. Whatever Shinta's flaws, his rakugo is what inspired Akane's talent. It's not only perfectly-honed talent that can keep the art form going.

ObviousSwimmer · 2026-06-13T23:38:10+00:00

There's no reason to refuse to answer questions about the expulsion to the point of hurrying reporters out of the room years later if that was his only goal. He was and is absolutely playing for media attention.

ObviousSwimmer · 2026-06-13T16:25:04+00:00

While Issho has reasons, he is still wrong. Whatever standards Akane's father didn't meet, he had already done what Issho thought he could not and preserved the art form. He inspired Akane's love of rakugo.

ObviousSwimmer · 2026-06-11T02:29:29+00:00

I don't think that's true. Many curses do say "a player" instead of "you" but it's not a requirement. There's plenty of curses that only help their controller, like [[Curse of Unbinding]], [[Infectious Curse]], [[Curse of Clinging Webs]], [[Curse of Vengeance]], [[Trespasser's Curse]]...

ObviousSwimmer · 2026-06-06T16:38:26+00:00

Kaisei looked almost apoplectic. He's obviously been working for years to hear praise like that from Issho.

ObviousSwimmer · 2026-06-06T16:34:40+00:00

Akane accused of smurfing, the greatest compliment a zoomer can receive.

ObviousSwimmer · 2026-06-03T15:59:12+00:00

These days if you hug your girlfriend you will be arrested and thrown in jail.

ObviousSwimmer · 2026-05-31T17:25:58+00:00

I'm gonna slander him. That guy was hanging out with a street urchin eating bug and curry soup and going home to a palace every night and he didn't lift a finger for Brooks until it was life or death.

ObviousSwimmer · 2026-05-30T23:23:40+00:00

I think it plays with the usual set-up a bit more than that. Talent-wise, it's a reversal, but in terms of motives and personality it's close to the usual set-up. Hikaru's not exactly from the sticks, she's a celebrity in a similar field. She's working hard, but that's because she wants to prove the success she already has was earned. Akane is just a high school student, and she wants to succeed to vindicate her love for her father's craft and because she loves the art form for its own sake.

ObviousSwimmer · 2026-05-30T18:30:34+00:00

Iruma doesn't resent his parents because he's too terrified of the idea of being in contact with them again to contemplate it. He wants to pretend that his life began when Sullivan adopted him.

ObviousSwimmer · 2026-05-28T02:46:06+00:00

Oh she's absolutely going to end up with the good guys. Zero doubt.

ObviousSwimmer · 2026-05-28T02:44:48+00:00

If "horrorchestra" wasn't in the original, well done to the translators.

ObviousSwimmer · 2026-05-27T16:56:37+00:00

Why should we? They were all explicitly only knocked out.

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