![]() ![]() The Pixie makes two of our three colors, and getting a 2/2 with evasion for just two mana is a great deal. There's also another poor, forlorn mana dork who's been ignored up until now in Standard but may have the best body of them all: Maraleaf Pixie. It's pretty normal to be tapping the Elder for three mana of different colors, and depending on the planeswalker package we include, four is a distinct possibility. And, as I'm going to keep screaming to the heavens, Faeburrow Elder in the right deck is one of the best mana dorks in the format. If Gilded Goose or Nissa, Who Shakes The World is one of the casualties, you're going to need a different way to ramp your mana. So here's Bant Faeburrow! 3 Maraleaf Pixie Plus, I'll admit that I love Faeburrow Elder and it's great that the last color shard I haven't tried with him gives us the answer. A different sort of ramp/planeswalkers/big creature deck that can hop into among your remaining cards and give you a really good game. The rise of Oko has caused the price of any of the parts of the deck to skyrocket, and losing the strongest cards in the deck combined with the tanking trade value of everything else in the deck is a killer one-two punch.īut a deck that I referenced in passing a couple of columns ago might provide an idea for a direction to develop a new deck. Losing a Standard deck isn't suddenly a cheap thing. But the second card banned could be a lot of candidates in the deck, from Hydroid Krasis to (less likely) Gilded Goose.Īs I was considering what Standard might look like in this post-ban meta, I turned my attention to the large number of people who may have bought into one of the Oko varieties and will be facing the dilemma of what to do with those cards. Because of this, my actual prediction is that Wizards will ban Oko and Nissa, Who Shakes The World since it's an older card that will affect sales less. If selling packs were no object I'd suggest banning Oko and Once Upon a Time, but I also doubt this would happen since both cards are in the current booster packs. My actual prediction is that multiple cards are going to be banned from the Oko/Food deck. I doubt this will happen, but a man can dream. Yes, it would cost some money, but I have to believe that the good will created by simply telling the truth about an error might be worth it. It's game-warping in a bad way and we're sorry." And maybe even offer an exchange program where anyone who wants can send in their Okos for a free booster or a different rare or something. If I were the Vice President of Common Sense at Wizards of the Coast (every company should have one), I'd take the opportunity on Monday to ban Oko in every format. ![]() He's too difficult to remove in combat, leaves too much of a presence behind if you do somehow kill him, and there are too many cards in Standard that synergize too well with him. It is incredibly broken, and there's no amount of "let's ban something on the periphery" that's going to fix it. To summarize my longer argument re rant in my last article, Oko, Thief of Crowns is a mistake that can't be worked around. After the past couple of weeks of high-level tournament results where the Oko Food decks completely wrecked everything in their path and brought with them marathon mirror matches that made Sensei's Divining Top say, "This might be out of control", we finally get the announcement that frees us from the Six-Pack Menace and returns something resembling creativity and diversity to Standard. On Monday, November 18th, the next B&R announcement comes down and changes everything in Standard (hopefully starting with Making Standard Fun Again).
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