u/Cyanu_Viridian

I have always struggled to color myself as it's possible to make a case of why i could and couldn't be any of them.

At work i am Orzhov, politically i'm very black, in my hobbies izzet, in my personal life + pets gruul, philosophically i admire green the most, yet the only reason i'd visit any green dominated culture is for vacations.

But this isn't a post about me - it's about a suspicion that came in the process of realising the above:

That we can essentially color almost anyone however we want depending on the framing. I say almost because there are certain individuals that focus too strongly in specific fields that make it simpler.

And i really hope this isn't the case because the color pie is pointless if that's true...

Were there really 0 Dimir liststs? i get it that the deck overlaps with Esper Goryo's in many ways and Esper also has Solitude + a gambreaking potential to drop a bomb on T3 but still...

Is the deck really worth 0 representation? i thought it was a tier 2 deck consistently for quite some time... am i missing anything?

I know it's early but the bans apart from being very badly timed (middle of season, no time for new cards to arrive) what was even the point of this bloodbath?

They banned Phlange seemingly without amy consideration for Jeskai Blink and Domain Zoo that relied on him. Yes boros energy will survive but the rest of the phlange decks won't.

Summary: they killed 2 decks to tone down boros energy, did it even need another meef in the first place? ...

And then Lotus Field .. titan is probably a low tier deck now... I know some people hated this deck and are happy about this, yet others loved it and spented temenderous amounts of effort to master it. People seem to think it has some infinite layers of brokeness and can recover from any amount of bans... It doesn't. Valakut wad good 3 years ago, not anymore. Even titans aren't that big nowadays.

My experience? Less attendance at the rcq, the domain, jeskai and amulet players didn't show at all, only half of boros players came.

As for the meta it seems that we lost 3 decks and replaced it with more prowess and affinity...