Glad they didn't nuke Titan like they did with Opal decks. OuaT banning was a step in the right direction, but I don't know why on earth they didn't ban
Veil of Summer as well and just be done with it. Oh well. Hope it gets nixed in the next update. If Titan keeps being prevalent, I would look at
Field of the Dead as a way to get it back to previous levels before the whole 2019 debacle rather than delete it from the game entirely.
As for unbans, the most pressing ones for me are:
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Punishing Fire: I literally don't know what this is doing in the banlist anymore. The only explanation I can conjure up is that they know it won't see any play a la
Bitterblossom /
Ancestral Vision and thus just don't care, but irrelevance shouldn't preclude it from being unbanned. Rather, I think it's an argument
for unbanning it and not against, since if it's irrelevant it has no place on the banlist. This card will be probably picked up by Jund for 2-3 weeks and then be dropped off, like they always do with new toys.
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Preordain: Yeah, yeah, Storm, blah blah blah. Honestly, who cares? Storm hasn't been relevant for a long time, and even if the few percentage points gained from swapping
Sleight of Hand /
Opt for this were enough to propel it to tier 1, what's the problem? It preys on big mana / ramp / do nothing durdle, polices the format, and can be easily interacted with spot removal. Weren't those the arguments for unbanning the enchantment that should not be named? It also will have two eternal tier 1-1,5 predators in Burn and Humans, as those decks won't go away any time soon and have very good matchup against Storm. The upside of course is propping up blue based control and tempo decks like GDS, allowing them to find their tools in time. And who knows, perhaps some flavor of Delver might start to prop up.
After we're done with those, which are the most pressing ones, we could also discuss
Green Sun's Zenith and maybe Pod and Twin.
As for answers in MH2, I'm hoping for
Daze, some fixed version of
Wasteland that's cheaper than
Field of Ruin,
Swords to Plowshares,
Counterspell, and, as a personal wish,
Shardless Agent.