Mtg-Peasant

Banned Announcement Dec 22, 2016, 12:05 PM
GalacticPresident	Effective Date: January 1, 2017 Demonic Tutor is banned Peregrine Drake is banned Explanation of changes: Since the last bans which happened on august 1st 2015, the peasant metagame makes the impression of being more open than ever. If we look at the statistics available for this so-called E2 season, there is one deck thatâ??s overshadowing the rest regarding popularity and results combined: Devotion. By examining the google doc one can see that a couple of decks have a POWER of more than 60% but Ghostly Devotion + MBC Devotion cover more than 6,8% of the field. This is clearly more than the next contenders Faeries + Ninja Bear and Affinity Control + Wellspring Grid which both cover roughly 4% but not worrisome in a format restricting way. Nevertheless, a big part of the community has raised the issue to address that marginal dominance, since Demonic Tutor and Hymn to Tourach are tough cards to be playing against because of their individual powerlevel and the fact that Devotion was represented a lot at the biggest peasant tournament of the year, the French Cup. Demonic Tutor is the card the committee has chosen to ban. The popularity of Devotion is only one reason for that decision though. Demonic Tutor is one of the most powerful cards available at below-Rare rarity. In Peasant we can only fetch for a small number of Uncommons and elsewise commons which is the reason why the card was legal in the past. During the last months, Demonic Tutor has gained plenty popularity as players slowly recognised that it is still powerful enough to gain a significant edge in a lot of matchups. Costing only two mana enables to search for a land during the early turns, play more than one spell in the midgame and being the best topdeck in the lategame. It is now the card played in the highest number of decks in the format (more than 28%) and the most played Uncommon by far. This trend is not expected to stop anytime soon since a tutor effect only becomes stronger with the printing of new cards in an eternal format. Banning Demonic Tutor weakens many of the strongest decks in the format: Devotion, Affinity Control/Wellspring, the Rock, Familiars and the Rack. The goal of the ban is to keep the format as open as it is now and not let Demonic Tutor become a deckbuilding restriction (because the tutor is almost always the best Uncommon for any Control deck.) Peregrine Drake is only available at Common rarity since June 2016 and players havenâ??t yet adapted to the new build-around card. It was very successful at the French Cup with the 2nd place and further tests have shown that the card is too powerful in combination with Ghostly Flicker and Mnemonic Wall. As a pre-emptive measure to prevent the format of becoming one-sided until the next banning announcement, Peregrine Drake is banned. We took a long time to discuss and test the changes we think are best for the future of peasant. We know we can't meet all player's expectations and are sorry for that but we assure you we didn't take it lightly!

Banned Announcement Dec 22, 2016, 12:05 PM

Effective Date: January 1, 2017
Demonic Tutor is banned
Peregrine Drake is banned

Explanation of changes:
Since the last bans which happened on august 1st 2015, the peasant metagame makes the impression of being more open than ever. If we look at the statistics available for this so-called E2 season, there is one deck thatâ??s overshadowing the rest regarding popularity and results combined: Devotion. By examining the google doc one can see that a couple of decks have a POWER of more than 60% but Ghostly Devotion + MBC Devotion cover more than 6,8% of the field. This is clearly more than the next contenders Faeries + Ninja Bear and Affinity Control + Wellspring Grid which both cover roughly 4% but not worrisome in a format restricting way. Nevertheless, a big part of the community has raised the issue to address that marginal dominance, since Demonic Tutor and Hymn to Tourach are tough cards to be playing against because of their individual powerlevel and the fact that Devotion was represented a lot at the biggest peasant tournament of the year, the French Cup. Demonic Tutor is the card the committee has chosen to ban. The popularity of Devotion is only one reason for that decision though. Demonic Tutor is one of the most powerful cards available at below-Rare rarity. In Peasant we can only fetch for a small number of Uncommons and elsewise commons which is the reason why the card was legal in the past. During the last months, Demonic Tutor has gained plenty popularity as players slowly recognised that it is still powerful enough to gain a significant edge in a lot of matchups. Costing only two mana enables to search for a land during the early turns, play more than one spell in the midgame and being the best topdeck in the lategame. It is now the card played in the highest number of decks in the format (more than 28%) and the most played Uncommon by far. This trend is not expected to stop anytime soon since a tutor effect only becomes stronger with the printing of new cards in an eternal format.

Banning Demonic Tutor weakens many of the strongest decks in the format: Devotion, Affinity Control/Wellspring, the Rock, Familiars and the Rack. The goal of the ban is to keep the format as open as it is now and not let Demonic Tutor become a deckbuilding restriction (because the tutor is almost always the best Uncommon for any Control deck.)

Peregrine Drake is only available at Common rarity since June 2016 and players havenâ??t yet adapted to the new build-around card. It was very successful at the French Cup with the 2nd place and further tests have shown that the card is too powerful in combination with Ghostly Flicker and Mnemonic Wall. As a pre-emptive measure to prevent the format of becoming one-sided until the next banning announcement, Peregrine Drake is banned.

We took a long time to discuss and test the changes we think are best for the future of peasant. We know we can't meet all player's expectations and are sorry for that but we assure you we didn't take it lightly!

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Lorebroker	Dec 23, 2016, 6:07 PM Thumbs up! I like it!
sister_morphine	Dec 26, 2016, 8:41 AM Good choices for sure - and a reasonable explanation, too. Besides its keyrole in all sorts of control-decks (even some urzatron-builds profit of dt), it also is one of the few 'moneyUCs' that are left in the format (sinkhole ofc still in the game). And the old, non-peregrine familiardeck used dt, too - so banning peregrine might not lead automatically to a reviveval of ub(w)-familiars. For Peregrine it is, as u said, a bit early to say how powerfull it really is in peasant. Based on pauper experiences it should have been simply the dominating card which it wasn't in peasant (yet?). Still, banning it and the combodeck it represents seems 'fair enough'. So, nasty Hymn still in the game... that's the only thing that I really would have wanted to be gone in year 2017. Well, w.o. tutor it is at least not fetchable anymore, but that was never the real problem with it. Still wishing htt to be gone.
AbyssalEasley	Dec 26, 2016, 3:34 PM Stop borring about price of cards please ! The price of the cards must NEVER be a cause of ban, only the power of the card must be. Ban a card for is price is not serious and give to peasant format an image of poor and bemused communists guy's format. And stop borring too with Hymn, it is a good card with a power degressive during the game. It don't break games and playing HTT never assure to win the game. It's a good card, that's all. Bans of this year are goods bans. I was depited by the disapearing of Demonic Tutor but in hindsight it's not a bad thing.