Monday, December 4, 2023

mtg arena's new joke format: timeless

wizards just announced another new format on arena as if we don't have enough already. seriously we have:

standard
explorer
historic
standard brawl
historic brawl
draft
sealed

anyway this new format is called timeless and is basically arena vintage. it allows all cards ever put on arena and uses the pre errata versions of paper cards like omnath. here's a list of all the currently banned cards on arena that will be legal to use:

agent of treachery
blood moon
brainstorm
channel
counterspell
dark ritual
demonic tutor
field of the dead
intruder alarm
land tax
lightning bolt
memory lapse
mishra's bauble
natural order
necropotence
nexus of fate
oko thief of crowns
once upon a time
ragavan nimble pilferer
sneak attack
spreading seas
swords to plowshares
thassa's oracle
tibalt's trickery
time warp
uro titan of nature's wrath
veil of summer
wilderness reclamation

on launch demonic tutor, channel, and tibalt's trickery will be restricted to one.

this format is going to be busted. out the gates we have:

channel + banefire
intruder alarm + fable of the mirror breaker + mana dork
sneak attack + pick your poison
natural order + pick your poison
nexus of fate
dark ritual + necropotence
brainstorm + fetchlands

you read that last one right. fetchlands. khans of tarkir comes to arena on dec 12 just like timeless. this format is going to be a beautiful disaster. there's going to be bo1 and bo3 ranked. on feb 2 there's going to be a metagame challenge.

i don't really know what to think about it. guess i don't really have an opinion since i'm priced out anyway. my tinfoil hat senses say this is wizards trying to get people to burn wildcards. guess we'll see what happens.

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