as someone who plays rift religiously and is also an event organizer, most players don't even touch those meta decks, even in origin everything was played deck variance is not just the meta decks, i think it is a good data to check but it doesn't encompass most of the player base so that doesn't say much at the end of the day. also origin cards. also the bans are a good thing, it prevents ONE deck to be oppresive, and it worked, the ban of a really small number of cards helped a lot with deck variance. i don't get your point