"We shouldn't ban it because players invested money"
Fuck that shit. Ban what needs to be banned, and feast on their tears while everyone else enjoys a better world.
The idea that they've "just been banning the best deck" is based on idiots not understanding the rationale behind the decisions. Pod didn't get hit until it became a legit issue, and Twin was a matter of them being unable/unwilling to see the true depths of its problems until ripping the bandaid was going to be incredibly painful.
Whoa there tiger. Take a chill pill.
First of all, that's not at all what I said. Bans are painful for a multitude of reasons - player investment is just one of them. You shouldn't put the player base through that unless absolutely necessary. My argument continues to be that Splinter Twin didn't need to be banned based on empirical evidence, and that it was only banned because the powers that be wanted to reshape the format into something else. You clearly agree with the move they were trying to make - I dislike it because not only do I believe that Twin wasn't a "problem," it was also a fixture of the format and didn't break a single "rule" that had been applied to previous bannings. It was such an obviously safe investment (which I also believe contributed to its reputation as the go-to deck). So banning it incurred a huge penalty from a player confidence standpoint, in addition to the usual pain.
I agree that the majority of the bans in the past 3-5 years were predictable and understandable, but reputation is important, and that's the reputation Modern has. By timing major shakeups to the PT (including postponing the incredibly necessary hit to the Amulet Bloom decks), that reputation wasn't even all that far off from the truth. In that regard, killing the Modern PT was huge for restoring confidence.
