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jayhoegh wrote:

Unrestrict Ponder?

Works for me!

And I would be disappointed if something from Elves found itself under the banhammer. I think there are options for dealing with the situation and that the community will sort it out.

Besides B&R it could also possibly be an announcement about something that is being discussed in General at the moment.

Tom LaPille in Latest Developments]The end result of this is that given the data we have right now, it would be difficult to decide that something should be banned in Extended. The next scheduled announcement concerning changes to the Banned and Restricted lists is December 1, and those changes would take effect on December 20. This is bad timing for two reasons. First, there will be six rounds of Extended at the World Championships the second weekend in December that we would not be able to take into account when making our decision prior to the announcement on December 1. Worse, if it turns out that something does need to be banned in the wake of Worlds so that Extended remains healthy, the first time we would be able to do that is March 1, and this would take effect on March 20— wrote:

The end result of this is that given the data we have right now, it would be difficult to decide that something should be banned in Extended. The next scheduled announcement concerning changes to the Banned and Restricted lists is December 1, and those changes would take effect on December 20. This is bad timing for two reasons. First, there will be six rounds of Extended at the World Championships the second weekend in December that we would not be able to take into account when making our decision prior to the announcement on December 1. Worse, if it turns out that something does need to be banned in the wake of Worlds so that Extended remains healthy, the first time we would be able to do that is March 1, and this would take effect on March 20—well into the Extended Qualifier season for Pro Tour–Honolulu.

We are not willing to ban cards unless we believe it is absolutely necessary, but we are also not willing to sacrifice the health of a format for the first half of a Qualifier season just to stick to a schedule. We anticipate that our December 1 Banned and Restricted announcement will not change the Extended banned list. However, we reserve the right to announce an unscheduled change to the banned list between the World Championships and the upcoming Extended qualifier tournaments if such a change is necessary.