With the announcement of the March 1st Banned and Restricted List we have one very important change upon us. For reference:
“Announcement Date: March 1, 2008
Magic Online Effective Date: Wednesday, March 26, 2008
(After the regularly scheduled Wednesday downtime)
DCI Floor Rule Change Announcement: Extended Rotation
The scheduled October 2008 rotation of the Extended format, as listed in the Magic Floor Rules, has changed. Following the release of the set codenamed "Rock", the following sets will be leaving the Extended format: Invasion, Planeshift, Apocalypse, Odyssey, Torment, Judgment, and Seventh Edition. The rotation previously listed in the floor rules also included Onslaught, Legions™, and Scourge. These three sets are now scheduled to leave Extended in 2009. One years' worth of blocks will leave Extended with every fall Magic release, syncing up Extended rotation with Standard rotation.
For more information about this change and the reasoning behind it, see Devin Low's Latest Developments article for Friday, March 7 on magicthegathering.com.
There are no changes to the Extended banned list.
Standard, Vintage, Legacy, Lorwyn Block Constructed, Two-Headed Giant Constructed
No changes”
Formats are healthy, but let’s look at what decks will die in October 2008 and what decks will continue to flourish as it were.
Dredge: loses Breakthrough, Careful Study, Ichorid, Cephalid Sage, Cabal Therapy, Tolarian Winds, Cephalid Coliseum...basically their whole deck. See you in Hell dredge!
Rock variants: loses Pernicious Deed (this is huge), Vindicate (same), Destructive Flow, Cabal Therapy, Duress, Spiritmonger, Living Wish, Collective Restraint…they lose a lot of key cards but they aren’t quite dead, especially Doran.
Goblins: loses Goblin Ringleader, Goblin matron, Cabal Therapy
Blue Control Decks: loses Counterspell (a big hit), Force Spike, Psychatog (Tarmogoyf killed him anyway)…not too much of a hit. I expect blue decks will still be fine post rotation.
Combo: loses Cabal Ritual, Solitary Confinement, Invasion Sac .lands, Draco, Erratic Explosion, Burning Wish, Fire/Ice, Vindicate, Pernicious Deed…It has been nice knowing you combo!
Red Decks/Domain Aggro: loses Grim Lavamancer, Vindicate, Barbarian Ring, Terminate, Gaea’s Might, Armadillo Cloak, Firebolt, Lava Dart…nothing devastating, at least not for RDW, Domain took the biggest hit
Tron: loses Moment’s Peace…laughable.
Storm combo and Ideal both took big hits, Dredge will stay in its grave, Goblins loses its tutors and draw enigine, Rock decks and Blue decks took a hit but we will have to see what the future brings us (we have 2 sets yet to replace that which was lost), Red Decks will continue to Win, but Domain is no more.
What we will see:
I expect Tooth and Nail to come back, Death Cloud will still be around and kickin’, Affinity loses absolutely nothing! Doran/Junk and “The Rock”, Blue has Rune Snag or Mana leak to replace Counterspell, U/G or U/W Tron will still see play.
I think Glittering Wish will replace Living Wish, Mortify and Putrefy will try to fill the void left by the loss of Pernicious Deed and Vindicate.
The question is whether or not we will see some new “fetchlands” perhaps some enemy fetches that require 2 life instead of 1 life.
Also Just a reminder, The ICBM Open #2 has be rescheduled to Tomorrow at 10 AM, same location. Still 20 Proxy, still 20 dollars, come on out a sling some vintage cards if you're free.
6 comments:
Gobs is not dead, remember onslaught block doesn't rotate in oct. I see glittering wish spiking in oct when doran becomes the deck (still has thoughtseize) and they can tutor for mort/put.
One deck loses nothing.
He conquered fear and he conquered shame ... He turned dark night into day! He rode a Blazing Saddle ... with hope to light the way!
Skirk Prospector
Goblin Warchief
Goblin Ringleader
Goblin Matron
Gempalm Incinerator
Tell me how good this Goblin deck is going to be without their Tutors, Draw Engine, or Speed that they once had?
Sure they have Piledriver and Siege-Gang Commander Hope they are good at topdecking.
Glad I already own a set of Glittering Wish
Prospector, incinerator, and warchief are in onslaught block. And memory serves, the goblin decks of the time were pretty strong.
yeah, I'm an idiot
I can't believe you guys let me post on here, lol
Awesome.
The deck ain't dead until Warchief is. But I do think losing Ringleader will hurt a bit. Matron for Piledriver is pretty brutal, but I think the deck can live without it.
--CBG
What is the collateral damage of trying to replace Ringleader with Sensation Gorger? Obviously there's better turn 3 plays, but they serve the same purpse for recovering; seems like it helps more against control and hurts more against combos.
Now we have Vexing Shusher and have you seen the new goblin bitterblossom spoiled?
Hard to replace matron, but goblins was varying a great deal by the end of the last season anyway.
Magus of the Moon looks good still, as does the Earwig Squad...
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