Frontier Fetch Land Ban?
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Posted on Jan. 29, 2017, 12:14 p.m. by vbfabled
I've heard a lot of talk about how frontier should ban fetch lands (Polluted Delta, Windswept Heath, Flooded Strand, etc.) because they provide perfect mana and limit the variety of decks. This can be seen, as most of the decks in frontier are hardly different than the decks that were in standard with Khans block (Abzan, Jeskai Black, etc.).
Anyone have any thoughts or opinions on this? Would banning the lands help or hurt the format?
Sim_Will_CMcantfindmehopefully says... #3
I have my reservations about the format but I feel like if it is to thrive it will need to do a few things Ban prohibitively costed Modern cards Carefully monitor what decks have sufficient answers Have an identifiable meta, distinct from recent Standard
smackjack Not a sanctioned format, but a popularish one, I will suspect ans hope it will go the way of Tiny Leaders eventually.
January 29, 2017 12:24 p.m.
Frontier has a lot going for it, but i suspect it can't truly be a thing until a few years later. The cardpool is too small and the khans plus origins era forms too much a core for the format.
Do fetches need to be banned? Well, i think is pretty likely we will get zen fetches in standard in some time. Same problem would arise again.
January 29, 2017 12:44 p.m.
TheDevicer I'm not so sure we will see them, new sets seem to be getting less and less powerful. Kaladesh block has a few exceptions with some cards seeing modern play like Fatal Push, but I don't know if that will last in future sets.
January 29, 2017 6:32 p.m.
Aether Revolt is large though of as being incredibly pushed. In addition, if Wizards has any desire to impact Zen land prices, they need to reprint the fetches in the first set of a new block. Printing fetches in standard isn't OP if you just have basics to get. Khans was proof before BFZ came out.
smackjack says... #2
is it even a format yet?
January 29, 2017 12:19 p.m.