Comments on: 100 Card Singleton Banned List Survey

By: spacs9913

spacs9913 — Sat, 05 Feb 2011 22:01:13 +0000

I took this survey a while back. I was actually quite satisfied with the choices that were made for the December 2010 bannings. They have improved the game for me. The removal of Sensei’s Top and Survival where especially wonderful as they save humongous amounts of time wasted, waiting for the opponent to dig through the deck/ or top 3 every single turn in whatever case may be. All that waiting was very frustrating prior to the bannings. Mind Twist is a fantastic card that I had in every single deck, but I’m very happy it’s gone. The Twist was just simply unfair.

As of now February 2011 , I would not mind at all the banning of other problematic cards that I feel reduce the quality of the format. To me these are (and the reasoning):

Scapeshift (pushes everyone to counterspells),
Emrakul (principal problem with Oath and a few other cards),
Scroll Rack (not overpowered but ridiculously time consuming)

These are still ok but would not mind at all seeing them go:

Grindstone.
Time Vault and/or Voltaic Key
Sword of The Meek

Yes I strongly dislike combos, and might be biased accordingly. So be it!

By: CSeraph

CSeraph — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 17:14:54 +0000

That’s very unlikely. Scapeshift and Bant variants are both competitive midrange and neither runs Survival.

I personally think pure control is the weakest format archetype by far. It can T8, but it very rarely wins.

By: Mitch

Mitch — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 21:05:53 +0000

I’ve been playing for a while. I’d consider myself competitive even though I’ve never played a major event. I mostly just play the heads-up two ticket matches. The banning of Survival has really saddened me. I’ve been working with a number of mid-range decks and survival really helped to make them competitive again the entire field. My fear is that the meta will now shift to Control vs. Arrgo with little representation in the midrange. Survival gave these types of decks a solid chance in any match-up. It far from straight up won matches. I’ve invested so much time in building my deck that I feel like giving up the format all together.

By: z-jay123

z-jay123 — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 21:28:54 +0000

Filled out. It was verry dificult to decide on some cards. It might help me and others though.

By: Zimbardo

Zimbardo — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 14:20:26 +0000

Over 50 people have responded so far. That includes a bunch of really competitive players and a bunch of really casual players and some in between. The data set is shaping up nicely, and I would guess that we already have enough information to get Wizards to strongly consider a few changes. Still, more data is better. For one thing, a high response rate makes a statement that lots of people care about this issue enough to take the time to fill out the survey. Also, a larger sample also makes it easier to trust the findings of the survey and to make comparisons between casual and competitive groups. Thanks for all of the responses so far! I really appreciate the time that people have taken to help out with this effort.

By: StewardUlk

StewardUlk — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 11:26:52 +0000

filled out. how many ppl did allrdy send you their data and how many do you think you need to make the this survey count?

By: Zimbardo

Zimbardo — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 05:51:25 +0000

I’m just going to concede the point. The fact that Oath (and Polymorph) needs to be built around to a very high degree is an important point, and I’m glad that some people think about that when evaluating cards for the banned list.